Nathalie Melikian lives and works in Vancouver. Since the late 1990s, she has been creating videos in which she calls into question and analyses the narrative structures of various film genres. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium and the Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden, in 2002, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, the Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland, and the IASPIS, Sweden, in 1999. She has also participated in a number of group shows in Canada and in Europe, including Shadows of Productions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2004, Thriller at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 2004, and Melodarama at the Centro José Guerrero in Grenada and at the MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, in 2003.