NiNi DONGNIER

Originating from Inner Mongolia and based in New York, choreographer and artist NiNi DONGNIER delves deeply into questions about form, faith, permanence, indigeneity, migration, and life experience through explorations of movement, visual art, garment, and technological interventions. She produces choreographic performance, moving image, and painting.

DONGNIER has had performances and exhibitions at The Watermill Center; Movement Research at the Judson Church; New York Live Arts; La MaMa| CultureHub; Mana Contemporary; Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation; Media Art Xploration; International Conference on Movement and Computing; Bangkok Art & Culture Centre; Estonian Academy of Arts VENT Space; Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum; Aranya Art Center; G Museum; A4 Art Museum; OCAT; China National Centre for the Performing Arts; Shanghai International Dance Center Theater; and Inner Mongolia Art Theatre, among others.

Residencies and awards include Monira Foundation Performance Residency; La MaMa| Culturehub AiR; The Watermill Center AiR; China Dance Lotus Award Nominations; Shanghai International Dance Center Theater Incubation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Media Arts Grant and Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Research Awards (NUUM Collective). 

DONGNIER received her MFA from New York University after graduating from the Beijing Dance Academy. She was an assistant professor at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and the Beijing Dance Academy. She is a guest artist in the Barnard College Dance Department. Since 2024, she has been curating programs for the Movement Lab of Barnard College, Columbia University.