Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Nina Childress, Cils, Poils, Cheveux, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds, 2022. Courtesy the Artist; Nathalie Karg, New York; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Gaspard Gigon 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Nina Childress, Cils, Poils, Cheveux, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds, 2022. Courtesy the Artist; Nathalie Karg, New York; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Gaspard Gigon 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm. Courtesy the Artist; Art: Concept, Paris; Nathalie Karg, New York. Photo: Mick Vincenz, 2022 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Hey Lamarr – The Strange Women, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, 2022. Photos © Salim Santa Lucia 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Nina Childress, Le tombeau de Simone de Beauvoir, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, 2022 
Nina Childress, Blow, 2022. Huile et pigments iridescents sur toile argentée. 81 × 54 cm (31 ⅞ × 21 ¼ inches). Courtesy the artist; Nathalie Karg, New York; Art : Concept, Paris 
Nina Childress, Lower Level Exhibits, 2022. Acrylique, huile et pigments phosphorescents sur toile argentée. 113,5 × 135,5 cm (44 ⅝ × 53 ⅜ inches)Courtesy the artist; Nathalie Karg, New York; Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud 
Sharon S. (grosse tête), 2021 huile sur toile / oil on canvas 260 x 210 cm
Paul, 2021, pigments phosphorescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm 
Verhoeven, 2021, huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm 
Harehoeven, 2021, pigments iridescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm 
Blurriness (Adrienne), 2000
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
195 × 114 cm
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Body Body, FRAC MECA, 2022 
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Body Body, 2021-2022, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux. Photos : Jean-Christophe Garcia
L’enterrement, 2011
huile et peinture aérosol sur toile / oil and spray paint on canvas, 300 x 600 cm, triptyque. Collection privée / private collection
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020. Curator: Eric Troncy
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Eric Troncy
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020. Curator: Eric Troncy
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020. Curator: Eric Troncy 
Agent double (Lee Remick), 2021
pigments phosphorescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 61 X 50 cm
Bush, bottes rouges, 2020
acrylique phosphorescente et huile sur toile / phosphorescent acrylic and oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm. Collection MAC VAL / FR
Gilet bleu, 2019
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 24 x 41 cm
Jane (grosse tête),2019
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm, collection Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Hedy, 2012
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm, collection CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Le rideau vert, Nouvelles vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013 
The years of G.M., 2012
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 130 x 195 cm, collection Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Grande chambre verte, 2007
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 195 x 390 cm, triptyque, collection MAMCO, Geneva
Les couleurs éclatantes de la table et du bouquet étaient utiles pour égayer ce chevet que le tableau rendait austère. Vous devez renoncer à …la salle à manger. (Triptyque Onéguine), 2006 huile sur toile / oil on canvas 195 x 374 cm, triptyque, collection FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view La haine de la peinture, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, 2009
Biography
Nina Childress is a painter born in 1961 in Pasadena, USA, living and working in Paris.
Coming from the alternative punk scene and then the Frères Ripoulin (Ripoulin Brothers) collective, she has been painting since 1983. While obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in 2006, she decided to pursue her research by painting simultaneously in different styles. Offering a gritty revisiting of the history of portraiture in Western popular culture, her paintings increasingly captured the stereotypes of female representation. For some paintings, she creates several versions, oscillating between perfectionism and “badly done”, between realism and caricatures: between “Good” and “Bad”. In 2019-2020, Nina Childress started to paint with phosphorescent pigments. Today, her subjects focus more on portraits of glamorous female idols from the world of cinema and popular music, such as Sylvie Vartan, Kate Bush and Hedy Lamarr. In 2020, Hedy Lamarr is also the model for her first bronze statue.
Rencently, her works has been shown in the context of a solo show at La-Chaux-de-Fond (2022). In 2021, Nina Childress was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in France for her service to culture. A major retrospective has been dedicated to her in December 2021 in Bordeaux at the FRAC MÉCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine. On this occasion, her catalogue raisonné, from her first painting in 1980 to those of 2020, will be published along with an autobiography written by Fabienne Radi. Since 2019, she is Chairman at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Her work is represented by Nathalie Karg, New York and Art : Concept in Paris.
Her work is included in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Mamco in Geneva, the Mac-Val, the Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris and numerous Frac.