Nina Childress | |
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Born | 1961 |
Nationality | French-American |
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France.
Born in Pasadena, California, United States, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs ( ENSAD). At the end of the 1970s, she took an active part in the French punk movement with her group, Lucrate Milk. [1] She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin. [2]
Her work has been shown internationally in museums, art centers and galleries. In 2012, the Museum d'art moderne et contemporain ( Geneva) held a major exhibition of her paintings. [3] In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her Green Curtain: a large in-situ installation for the entrance of the museum. [4]
Childress teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts since 2019. [5] She was teaching before at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France. [6]
Nina Childress | |
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Born | 1961 |
Nationality | French-American |
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France.
Born in Pasadena, California, United States, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs ( ENSAD). At the end of the 1970s, she took an active part in the French punk movement with her group, Lucrate Milk. [1] She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin. [2]
Her work has been shown internationally in museums, art centers and galleries. In 2012, the Museum d'art moderne et contemporain ( Geneva) held a major exhibition of her paintings. [3] In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her Green Curtain: a large in-situ installation for the entrance of the museum. [4]
Childress teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts since 2019. [5] She was teaching before at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France. [6]