Nina’s Studio

Nina lives with her family in Williamsburg but makes all her collages and water tower sculptures at her art studio near McCarren Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her studio is not open to the public or for studio visits.

Nina’s background

Nina first moved to the U.S. from Germany in 2001. In 2016, after long-term stints at Pentagram Design New York and Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Nina joined the renown NYC experience design firm Local Projects. As a UX design director, Nina feels extremely lucky to be working with the brightest, most experienced and talented people in the industry. She is proud to have been involved in game-changing interactive experiences for clients such as IBM, Norton Museum of Art, Pace Gallery, Futures Without Violence, Planet Word and the National Urban League to just name a few. Nina does not maintain an online UX design portfolio but if you’re curious about her work, make sure to check out Local Projects at www.LocalProjects.com.

Nina is the proud mom of an artist in training named Reyner, born in 2018. His hobbies include pencil drawings, origami and making collages from discarded paper trash. Yes, he goes after his mommy.

Nina holds a BFA with honors in graphic design from RISD. Her collages have been exhibited in group and solo exhibits in the U.S. and Germany and her work has been recognized in publications such as The Daily News, Huffington Post, Business Insider, NY Post, UK Mirror, News Australia, and others.

Nina's design work has won awards from the most prestigious design organizations in the world, including the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the AIGA, Adobe, and others.

How she started her subway ticket art venture

In 2001, after being introduced to the New York City subway system, Nina became inspired by the thousands of disposed MetroCards laying around in the subway stations. Having been raised in Germany—a country that strictly enforces trash recycling—she began to rid the platforms of the disposed subway tickets and bring new life to this everyday object most consider trash.

Nina started repurposing the old, disposed tickets and turned them into art. After exhibiting her collages in coffee shops and a residential lobby in the West Village, Nina's work has quickly grown in popularity. Since then, she has earned a global following of art collectors and her work has been exhibited in various galleries across the U.S. and Germany.