Sharon S. (grosse tête), 2021 huile sur toile / oil on canvas 260 x 210 cmPaul, 2021, pigments phosphorescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm Harehoeven, 2021, pigments iridescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm Verhoeven, 2021, huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm Vue de l’exposition / Installation view Body Body, 2021-2022, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux. Photos : Jean-Christophe Garcia Blurriness (Adrienne), 2000
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
195 × 114 cmVue 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 collectionVue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Lobody noves me, Fondation Ricard, Paris, 2020 Agent double (Lee Remick), 2021
pigments phosphorescents et huile sur toile / phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 61 X 50 cmBush, bottes rouges, 2020
acrylique phosphorescente et huile sur toile / phosphorescent acrylic and oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm. Collection MAC VAL / FRGilet bleu, 2019
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 24 x 41 cmJane (grosse tête),2019
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm, collection Musée d’Art Moderne, ParisHedy, 2012
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm, collection CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiquesVue 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, ParisGrande chambre verte, 2007
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 195 x 390 cm, triptyque, collection MAMCO, GenevaLes 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 de l’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.
In 2021, Nina Childress was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in France for her service to culture. A major retrospective will be 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.