Nina Childress
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress; 1961) is a French - American visual artist based in Paris.
Life and work
Born in Pasadena, California, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD). At the end of the 1970s she took an active part in the French punk movement with her group Lucrate Milk.[1] She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin.[2]
Her work has been shown internationally in museums, art centers and galleries. In 2012, the Museum d'art moderne et contemporain (Geneva) held a major exhibition of her paintings.[3] In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her Green Curtain: a large in-situ installation for the entrance of the museum.[4]
She teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France.[5]
Solo exhibitions selection
- Savons, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, 1993
- Nina Childress, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, 1996
- Blurriness, Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris, 2001
- Mes longs cheveux…, Galerie Artra, Genoa (Italy), 2004
- Nina Childress, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2007
- Tableaux / Bilder, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, 2009
- La haine de la peinture, Fonds régional d'art contemporain (FRAC), Limoges, 2009[6]
- Détail et destin, Museum d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, 2009[7]
- Die Grüne Kammer, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Karlsruhe, 2010
- L’enterrement, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2011
- L’effet Sissi, Museum d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, 2012
- Umriss, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, 2012
- Der Grüne Vorhang, Heinz Martin Gallery, Berlin, 2013
References
- ↑ Lucrate Milk official website
- ↑ Susan Heller Anderson and David W. Dunlap, "Poster Time", New Tork Times, 6 February 1985
- ↑ Nina Childress' L’effet Sissi exhibition documentation on the MAMCO website
- ↑ Nina Childress' Green Curtain page on the Palais de Tokyo website
- ↑ Nina Childress page at ENSA website (fr)
- ↑ Nina Childress at the FRAC Limousin (fr)
- ↑ Nina Childress' Détail et destin exhibition documentation on the MAMCO website (fr)
External links
- Nina Childress website
- Nina Childress' Green Curtain at the Palais de Tokyo
- Nina Childress work at Heinz Martin Gallery, Berlin
- Nina Childress work at Gallery Bernard Jordan Zurich (de)