Les Beaux-Arts de Paris extends its warmest and most sincere congratulations to Nina Childress, who has been elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section. An outstanding artist, she has been head of the studio at Les Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019.
Born in Pasadena (USA), Nina Childress is a Franco-American artist. She began her career in the Parisian alternative punk music scene, before devoting herself exclusively to painting and joining the "Ripoulin Brothers" collective. Her work borrows its subjects from popular and academic culture, as well as from her own personal history. In particular, she uses photographs that she collects from magazines and the internet, or takes hold of iconic images. Her pictorial practice is constantly renewing itself and borrowing from all modes of representation: pop art, abstraction or hyperrealism, everyday objects or self-portraits. She uses a vivid palette as well as fluorescent and phosphorescent paint. In 2007 she joined the Bernard Jordan gallery, and in 2009 she presented a retrospective at the MAMCO in Geneva.
She has exhibited in a number of French institutions, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2013 and 2019), the CRAC in Sète (2015), the Parvis, scène nationale de Tarbes-Pyrénées (2016), and the Printemps de Septembre festival in Toulouse (2018).
In 2019, Nina Childress was appointed head of studio at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2020 she will present the exhibition "Lobody noves me" at the Fondation Ricard in Paris. A major retrospective will be dedicated to her in 2021 at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA in Bordeaux. In 2022, Nina Childress presented the exhibition "Nina Childress. Cils Poils Cheveux" at the Musée de la Chaux de Fonds (Switzerland). Nina Childress's paintings can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Musées de Lausanne, the MAMCO (Geneva), the MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), the Fonds National d'art Contemporain and numerous FRAC and private collections in France and abroad. Since 2022, Nina Childress has been represented by Galerie Art : Concept, Paris and Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York.
Books published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions
NINA CHILDRESS 1081 Peintures In the form of a catalogue raisonné, this monograph lists all the works of Nina Childress, painter and head of the studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris - from her first painting in 1980 to those of 2020. A veritable objet d'art, the book is accompanied by an autobiography by Nina Childress written by Fabienne Radi. Published to coincide with the Nina Childress retrospective, Body Body at FRAC - Nouvelle Aquitaine, MÉCA BORDEAUX from December 2021 to August 2022.
NINA CHILDRESS album de coloriage based on twenty-four paintings by Nina Childress, a teacher at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
With the support of the Centre national des Arts Plastiques.
Photo credit: © Gaby Esenste
