Nina Mangalanayagam was born and grew up in Sweden with a Danish mother and a Tamil father. She uses her personal experience and family to explore the fluidity and unfixed nature of identities that are influenced from, but also impact on, societies, families and environments.
She recently graduated with a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London.
Academic Background
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Oct 07 – July 09Royal College of Art, MA Photography
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Sept 02 – June 05London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, BA (Honours) Photography
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2011Entanglement - the Ambivalence of Identity at Iniva, Rivington Place, London
- 2010Foto8 Summershow, Host Gallery, London
- Protected Characteristics, Royal College of Art, London
- International Departure - Gate 10, Fondazione Fotografia, Former Sant’Agostino Hospital, Modena, Italy
- CIR 10, Shortlist Showcase Hospital Club, London
- 2009Figures of Speech by Film and Video Umbrella, screened at artdepot, PM Gallery and House, Rivington Place and Shortwave Cinema, London
- Shadow of a Doubt, Galerie Michel Jourmiac, Universite Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris
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Nov 09Festival de Video Arte Camagüey, 2009, Camagüey, Cuba
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Oct – Dec 09Enter 09, Watermans, London
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Sept - Oct 09Figures of Speech, part of the Free to Air Festival, organised by Film and Video Umbrella and screened at artdepot, A foundation, Rivington Place and Shortwave Cinema, London
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Aug 09Simply Screen, The Bhavan, London
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July 09Simply Screen, TanzFabrik, Berlin
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July 09Surfacing, 12 Star Gallery, European Commission House, London
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May - June 09SHOW 1, The Royal College of Art, London
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Jan 09Start Your Collection at the London Art Fair, London
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July 08European Night, slideshow at Les Recontres D’Arles, France
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Aug – Sept 07Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
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Jan – Feb 07Winter Exhibition, Contemporary Art Projects, London
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Nov – Dec 06BAC!, Barcelona, Spain, Annual Contemporary Art Festival
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Nov – Dec 06Re-considered, Contemporary Art Projects, London
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Feb – April 06Jerwood Winners, The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
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Nov 05Jerwood Photography Award 2005, Jerwood Space, London
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Sept 05100% East, Truman Brewery, London
Awards
- 2010Winner – Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Flash Forward Photographers Award, Canada
- Shortlist – Deutsche Bank Awards – Sunny 16 Studio & Outreach Initiative
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Nov 08Shortlisted – Mangroup Photography Prize
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Nov 07Shortlisted – Mangroup Photography Prize
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May 07The Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers Competition
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April 07Shortlisted – BJP/Nikon Endframe Award 2007
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May 06Shortlisted - deciBel Visual Artist Award 2006
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Nov 05Jerwood Photography Awards 2005
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April 05Shortlisted - Deutsche Bank Pyramid Awards for Photography 2005
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June 05Photoworks Prize. Graduate Award
Publications
- 2010Teller Magazine, Germany and UK
- The Foto8 Summershow 2010, Foto8 Ltd
- Flash Forward 2010, Magenta Publishing for the Arts
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March 09New Light, Jerwood Photography Awards, Portfolio Magazine
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Oct 07Flash Forward 2007, Magenta Publishing for the Arts
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June 07Motiv, Swedish Photography Magazine
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Jan 07British Journal of Photography (31.01.07) Endframe, p 42-43
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Nov 06BAC! Festival Catalogue
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Feb – May 06Opendemocracy, web based global magazine
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Jan 06British Journal of Photography
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Dec 05Portfolio Magazine, Issue 42
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Aug 05HotShoe Magazine
Residencies
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July – Aug 09Summer Residency of Transart Institute, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
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Oct – Dec 08Cite Des Artes International, Paris
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Sept – Oct 08Focus on Monferrato, Italy