Nina Montejano is an artist from San Diego, California who works across the disciplines of drawing, photography, and print. She creates prints and drawings through labor-intensive processes in which she transform her photographs into hand-made pieces portraying ordinary subjects. Her favorite subjects are parts of our world that are overlooked, but highly specific to the locations in which they exist. Her most recent works are minimal, non-narrative, and non-figurative depictions of architectural material surfaces that exist in places we pass by, through, or over. 

She relies on minimalist strategies of isolating and re-presenting the subjects that she finds to elevate the experience that encountering them provides. She values accurate reproduction over personal expression in her work, often utilizing a 1:1 scale and neutral, above or frontal viewpoints. She believes that creating these highly detailed copies helps us reconsider their originals. 

Montejano earned her BA in Architecture and Visual Arts from the University of San Diego in 2019 and her MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2024.

To contact, please email ninaimontejano@gmail.com