Cherry Nin

Writer, Director, Editor

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​​Cherry Nin is a New York City-based artist primarily making films. The eerie, the uncanny and the taboo are central to their work which explores queer ecologies and the practice of post-industrial alchemy. Driven by an ongoing investigation of the potential of video to transmute violence, and a devout commitment to art making as spiritual endeavor, Nin’s projects situate the hyper-real, the underground, the unseen, and the in-between as sites of play, possibility, and refuge for gendered and sexualized people. Positioning video as a tool for charting underground networks where technology, surveillance, labor and desire intersect, Nin’s films both expose apocalypse as current reality, and are in themselves spells for coping with such conditions.​

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Nin is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation's Art & Change Grant (2020) and the Philadelphia Independent Media Fund (2021). Past residencies include KAJE, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Outpost Artist Resources. Their work has recently been presented at Time & Space Limited, re:assemblage collective's Diffusion Film Festival, The Kitchen's online streaming room, Millennium Film Workshop, and Vox Populi. They are the founder of Krissy Talking Pictures, a video art collective creating opportunities for queer artists. Nin holds an MFA in Moving Image from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.​