Les Beaux-Arts de Paris extends its warmest and most sincere congratulations to Nina Childress, who joins the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She has been head of studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019.
Nina Childress was officially installed as a member of the painting section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on June 25, 2025 by her colleague Catherine Meurisse, member of the engraving and drawing section.
Born in Pasadena (USA), Nina Childress is a Franco-American artist. Starting out in the Parisian alternative punk music scene, she later devoted herself exclusively to painting, joining the “Les Frères Ripoulin” collective. Her work borrows its subjects from popular and scholarly culture, as well as from her own personal history. In particular, she uses photographs she collects from magazines and the Internet, or appropriates iconic images. Her pictorial practice has never ceased to renew itself, 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 2019, Nina Childress is appointed head of studio at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2020, she presents the exhibition “Lobody noves me” at the Fondation Ricard in Paris. A major retrospective is dedicated to her in 2021 at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA in Bordeaux. In 2022, Nina Childress presents 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 in 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.
Books published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions
NINA CHILDRESS 1081 Peintures
In the form of a catalog raisonné, this monograph lists all the works by Nina Childress, painter and studio head at the Beaux-Arts de Paris - from her first painting in 1980 to those of 2020. A true objet d'art, the book is accompanied by an autobiography by Nina Childress, written by Fabienne Radi. Published on the occasion of the Nina Childress retrospective, Body Body at FRAC - Nouvelle Aquitaine, MÉCA BORDEAUX (Dec. 2021-Aug. 2022).
NINA CHILDRESS - album de coloriage
Coloring album based on twenty-four paintings by Nina Childress, head of studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Crédit photo : © Edouard Brane
