Education
Born in Pasadena, California, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD).
Born in Pasadena, California, 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. She started painting at the same time and, from 1985 to 1989, joined the street artist collective Les Frères Ripoulin. 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.
In 2013, the Palais de Tokyo commissioned her Green Curtain: a large in-situ installation for the entrance of the museum. She teaches painting at the École nationale supérieure d’art (ENSA) in Nancy, France.
Savons, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, 1993
Nina Childress, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, 1996
Blurriness, Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris, 2001
Mes longs cheveux…, Galerie Artra, Genoa (Italy), 2004
Nina Childress, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2007
Tableaux / Bilder, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, 2009
Louisiana haine de la peinture, Fonds régional d"art contemporain (FRAC), Limoges, 2009
Détail et destin, Museum d"art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, 2009
Die Grüne Kammer, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Karlsruhe, 2010
L’enterrement, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, 2011
L’effet Sissi, Museum d"art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, 2012
Umriss, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, 2012
Der Grüne Vorhang, Heinz Martin Gallery, Berlin, 2013.