Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago. Her practice encoumpasses wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, view, and sound. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Nina Katchadourian's work springs from observations of the colloquial and the everyday. She frequently uses misunderstandings or misinterpretations as a starting point, and often applies this approach to looking at the human relationship to the natural. Having once mistaken a bird in a remoste jungle for a car alarm, she redesigned the standard six-tone care alarm to use only bird sounds.