Nina Childress

Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France.
Life and work
Born in Pasadena, California, United States, 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. She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin.
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. In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her Green Curtain: a large in-situ installation for the entrance of the museum.
Childress teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts since 2019. She was teaching before at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France.
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
Détail et destin, MAMCO, Geneva, 2009
Die Grüne Kammer, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Karlsruhe, 2010
L’enterrement, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2011
L’effet Sissi, MAMCO, Geneva, 2012
Umriss, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, 2012
Der Grüne Vorhang, Heinz Martin Gallery, Berlin, 2013
Les nudistes, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2014
Jazy, Hedy et Sissi, La Halle aux Bouchers, Vienne, 2014
Magenta, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sète, 2015
Peindre et acheter, Le Parvis, Tarbes, 2016
Le requiem du string, Le Carré, Château Gontier, 2016
Elle aurait dû rester au lit, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2016
Le hibou aussi trouve ses petits jolis, Musée Paul Dupuy pour le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, 2018
Lobody Noves Me, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
Cils poils cheveux, Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2022
Collective exhibitions (selection)
2008
Modern young people, galerie agnès b., Paris
2009
Modern young people, galerie agnès b., Hong Kong
A painting exhibition, Zoo galerie, Nantes
2010
Brune/blonde, Cinémathèque française, Paris
Big Ben's Chime, Centre d'art d'Ivry, Ivry
2018
Slalom, ancien musée de Peinture, Grenoble
Christmas Show, collection 100%, galerie des Multiples, Paris
Natural not natural, musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio
2021
Inventory, MAMCO, Genève
Unexpected Encounters, Les Plateaux Sauvages, Fabrique artistique et culturelle, Paris
Acquisitions collections permanentes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
2022
With bare hands, Mac Val, Vitry
A rose is a petunia is a mimosa, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
References
External links
Nina Childress website
Nina Childress work at Heinz Martin Gallery, Berlin
Nina Childress work at Gallery Bernard Jordan Zurich (de)
1961 births
American contemporary artists
French contemporary artists
Living people
Women punk rock singers
French artists
French women painters
20th-century French painters
21st-century French painters
20th-century French women artists
21st-century French women artists