EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts 1981
Bachelor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts 1979


GRANTS/AWARDS

1980 Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship
1981 Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship


CURATORIAL PRACTICE

2017 Terrain Biennial 2017 – JJU Collective, Altadena, CA


ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS

1979/2006 -The Italian Way to Alleviate Obnoxiating Things. Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Archive. Series IX. Women’s Building Videos., ca 1970 to 2000. Collection acquired by the Getty Institute of Research in 2006.
1979/2006 -Piece Meal. Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Archive. Series IX. Women’s Building Videos., ca
1970 to 2000 -Collection acquired by the Getty Institute of Research in 2006.
1979/2006 -God Created Man as Man not a Blob. Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Archive. Series IX. Women’s Building Videos, ca 1970 to 2000. Collection acquired by the Getty Institute of Research in 2006.
1979/2006 Darwin Was Right: Survival of the Fittest. Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Archive.
Series IX. Women’s Building Videos., ca 1970 to 2000. Collection acquired by the Getty Institute of Research in 2006.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2018 “FRESH START” – LAVA Projects – Alhambra, CA
2017 “Tiptoe Through the Garland Untitled 1” – Video Installation – Narrow Gallery, Altadena, CA
2017 “Americana amor, or no more” – Performance Collective -Terrain Biennial 2017 – Altadena, CA
2017 “Women’s Work” – Carrington Arts, Sandusky, Ohio
2016 “Familiar Strangers” – Carrington Arts, Sandusky, OH. (See Michelle Pletcher’s article “Perfect Rejects Stories of Sandusky.” Sandusky Register, Art and Culture Section. (See also related video)
2016 “BERNIE ART SHOW” – Facha Patoto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “Art Bern 2: Portraits and Art Inspired by Bernie Sanders” Future Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “DOLLMINATION” – The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014   “Fruit is a Gift!—Pop-up exhibition curated by Fallen Fruit. 
2014 “Meet FEDOR”- Window Installation Sponsored by H Majd Design Group, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “California Video”- Screening Series, J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Northwest Passages: Armory Northwest Celebration” , Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2007 “Lust 4 LACE 2007” – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1987 “2001” – Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Media Shelter, an on-going project of artist artwork in bus shelter boxes
Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA
1986 Benefit for FAR, auction of donated artwork – Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA
1986 Benefit for FAR, A Night of Film and Video – Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA
1985 “LA Recent Designs in Fashion and Furniture” –
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984 “Video: A Retrospective/Long Beach Museum of Art, 1974-1984” –
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1984 Video Night – PVTV 3, Los Angeles, CA
1984 “California Video Festival 1984” – Image Forum Tokyo, A Collection, Ashiya (travelled)
1983 “Headhunters” – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1983 “and his normal reaction of saying oh this is so great, you don’t miss me, oh this is great, and that
laugh!!!”- The Lhasa Club, Los Angeles, CA, Artist Space, New York, NY
1983 “Video Los Angeles” – CNA, San Francisco, CA
1982 Arc – Toronto, Canada
1982 “The American Dream: Mediated” – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1982 “LA Uncensored” – Danceteria, New York, NY
1982 “LBMA VIDEO” – The American Center, Paris, France (travelled)
1982 “Not Just For Laughs” – The New Museum, New York, NY
1981 “Video Night”, A circulating video screening series
Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1981 “La Xle Biennale de Paris a Lisbonne”, selected video works from
the Xle Biennale, Palais de Belem Lisbon,Portugssl
1980 “California Video” – Biennale de Paris (traveled)
1979 “Video Tapes by Woman”, Australian and New Zealand Tour
La Women’s Video Center, Los Angeles, CA (traveled)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARTIST BOOKS
2014 Salerno, Nina R. “Mindful Journeys with Aldo: Aldo’s Lessons of Happiness, Love and Wisdom From Buddha through Lao Tzu to Zen“.
2011 Salerno, Nina R. “Tiptoe Through the Garland“. Lulu Publisher.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2008 “California Video.” J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Curated by Glenn Phillips.
1983 “Headhunters,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) essay by Timothy Martin and Patti Podesta.
1982 “Not Just For Laughs.” The New Museum, essay by Marcia Tucker.
1981 Xle Biennale de Paris, essay by Louise Lewis.
1980 “California Video,” Long Beach Museum of Art, essay by Louise Lewis.
1979 “Video Tapes by Woman from the LA Women’s Center.” The Women Center, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to Australia and New Zealand. Essay by Candace Compton.
ARTICLES
2016 Pletcher, Michelle. “Perfect Rejects Stories of Sandusky,” front page of Art and Culture Section, Sandusky Register. (See also related video by Jilly Burns)

1989 Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art. Ed. Carl E. Loeffler, Darlene Tong. Last Gasp Press and Contemporary Arts Press, San Francisco.
1980 Hugunin, James, “Nina Salerno: Meaning, Use and Placement.” Obscura. November-December issue. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, LA, CA, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 22-28.