Nata Drachinskaya is a visual artist. She is a graduate of Institute of Contemporary Art (Russia, Moscow). She works with the themes of memory and relationships with a place. In her projects, she uses different mediums: sculpture, photography, collage, drawings. Some of her works are based on her personal story or the stories of her family members. It's important to her to visualise that the big story is woven from small personal stories.
Nata was born in Moscow, Russia and lived there until March 2022. Then she moved to Armenia, next to UAE. Since December 2022 she is based in Santa Clara, USA. During this relocation period she continued her art practices, took part in the Concrete Residency in Hungary, participated in art events in Dubai and was a part of a workshop «Photobook as an object» in Tokyo, Japan.
Her artworks have been exhibited in various galleries and museums, including Nick Gallery (Hungary), Art Kvartal (Armenia), Ren House (UAE), Tbilisi Multimedia Museum (Georgia), Street Sans Frontier (France), Center of Contemporary Art Winzavod (Russia), Multimedia Art Museum (Russia), Museum of Modern Art (Russia).
