Huile et pigments iridescents (colorstream) sur toile / Oil and iridescent pigments (colorstream) on canvas, 150 × 120 cm (59 × 47 ¼ inches). Photo Romain Darnaud
Oil, interference oil and adhesive mirror on silver leather,
50 × 60 cm (19 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ inches). Photo Romain Darnaud
Huile et pigments iridescents (colorstream) sur toile / Oil and iridescent pigments (colorstream) on canvas, 150 × 120 cm (59 × 47 ¼ inches). Photo Romain Darnaud
Acrylic, phosphorescent acrylic, oil, iridescent oil, 1-shot, mirror fabric, adhesive mirror and blue tape, on silver canvas and holographic fabric,
135 × 170 cm (53 ⅛ × 66 ⅞ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud. Collection MASC, MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN ABBAYE SAINTE-CROIX – LES SABLES D’OLONNE
Acrylique, pigments iridescents (colorstream) et huile sur toile / Acrylic, iridescent pigments (colorstream) and oil on canvas,
81 × 60 cm (31 ⅞ × 23 ⅝ inches). Photo Romain Darnaud
Oil, oil interference, glitter, rhinestones on canvas
100 × 80 cm (39 ⅜ × 31 ½ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Oil, oil interference, sequins, medal, chain, thread, on silver canvas 65 × 60 cm (25 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
oil, oil interference, fabric, thread, on silver canvas, 65 × 60 cm (25 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud
Sharon S. (grosse tête), 2021 huile sur toile / oil on canvas 260 x 210 cm
L’enterrement, 2011
huile et peinture aérosol sur toile / oil and spray paint on canvas, 300 x 600 cm, triptyque. Collection privée / private collection
acrylique phosphorescente et huile sur toile / phosphorescent acrylic and oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm. Collection MAC VAL / FR
phosphorescent pigments and oil on canvas, 100 × 81 cm (39 ⅜ × 31 ⅞ inches). Collection privée
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm, collection Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 250 x 200 cm, collection CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques
huile sur toile / oil on canvas, 24 x 41 cm
oil on canvas,
81 × 130 cm (31 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ inches)
Biography
Nina Childress is a painter born in 1961 in Pasadena (California, USA). She lives and works 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.
Recently, her work has been shown in several institutions such as Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris and Centre Pompidou Metz (2023/2024); FRAC Ile-de-France, Romainville (2023); La Cinémathèque française, Paris and MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2022); MAMCO, Geneva (2021); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2020). The Musée des Beaux-Arts de La-Chaux-de-Fond devoted a major exhibition to her work in 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA. 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.
At the gallery
- Unisexe, 2023
Links
Catalogues
Nina Childress, 1081 peintures et Une Autobiographie de Nina Childress par Fabienne Radi, 2021
Co-éditeurs : Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine Méca, Galerie Bernard Jordan éditions, Paris
Monographie de 750 pages avec plus de 1 400 illustrations.
Biographie de 246 pages avec 150 petites photos noir et blanc.
Ces deux livres séparés de même format (17 x 24 cm) sont réunis par un élastique en silicone vert.
998 pages
ISBN : 978-2-84056-829-2
Nina Childress. Tableaux fluo – 2013-2016, 2016
Textes de Vanina Géré et Ramon Tio Bellido
Edition Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, Les Presses du Réel, Dijon
Publié par la Galerie Bernard Jordan, avec Le Parvis et le Carré
16,5 x 24,5 cm (broché), 104 pages (ill. coul. et n&b)
ISBN : 978-2-917120-06-4
Nina Childress, Tableaux, 2008
Textes de Carole Boulbès, Vincent Labaume, Yannick Miloux, Véronique Pittolo
Co-éditeurs : Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Frac Limousin et galerie Bernard Jordan.
Distribution Sémiose éditions
Bilingue français / allemand
16.4 x 1 x 24.6 cm, 127 pages
ISBN : 978-2915199338