Photo credit: Jesper Damsgaard Lund
Ep.204 Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Harvey, IL) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2022; traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019–21); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); and the Contemporary Dayton, Ohio (2021). Additionally, her solo exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2017), toured to the Chicago Cultural Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
Abney was recently commissioned to transform Lincoln Center’s new David Geffen Hall façade in New York, drawing from the cultural heritage of the neighborhood previously known as San Juan hill that comprised African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican families. Abney’s recent public mural at the Miami World Center was similarly inspired by Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami. Abney’s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Bronx Museum, New York; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Rubell Family Collection, Florida; the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; amongst others.
Artist https://ninachanel.com/
Blockonomi https://blockonomi.com/super-punk-world-nfts-face-backlash-over-focus-on-race-and-gender/
Cultured Mag https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/05/16/nina-chanel-abney-jack-shainman-upstate-show
Air Jordan 3 Collaboration https://ninachanel.com/news/10-closer-look-at-nina-chanel-abney-s-air-jordan/
nft now https://nftnow.com/art/cryptopunks-debut-artist-residency-program-with-nina-chanel-abney/
The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/where-nina-chanel-abney-gets-her-custom-hats.html
Surface Magazine https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/scad-museum-of-art-life-affirming-power-of-personhood-fall-2023-exhibitions/
W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/nina-chanel-abney-exhibition-big-butch-energy-artist-interview
Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/767955/nina-chanel-abney-jacolby-satterwhite-david-geffen-hall-lincoln-center/
“Tok”, 2024
Painted Aluminum
116.6 x 71.7 x 36.1 in.
2961 x 1820 x 917 mm
© Nina Chanel Abney.
Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Installation View
LIE DOGGO
The School | Jack Shainman Gallery
© Nina Chanel Abney.
Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
