Her video Accent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
In 2016 Katchadourian created Dust Gathering, an audio tour on the subject of dust, for MoMA's "Artists Experiment" program.
Major solo museum shows include at the All Forms of Attraction at the Tang Museum in 2006; Works Made in Finland by Nina Katchadourian at Turku Art Museum in 2008; the retrospective Curiouser, which opened in March 2017 at the Blanton Museum of Art and subsequently traveled, and Uncommon Denominator at The Morgan Library & Museum in 2023. Her work has been included in group shows at Serpentine Gallery, Turner Contemporary, de Appel, Palais de Tokyo, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Grey Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ICA Philadelphia, Brooklyn Museum, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA PS1.
Katchadourian has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Grönqvistska Foundation, and the Nancy Graves Foundation.
Katchadourian's work is in public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, Margulies Collection, Saatchi Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Katchadourian is Clinical Professor on the faculty of the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery and lives between Berlin and Brooklyn.