The anti-racist and ultra-contemporary art of Nina Chanel Abney

The American painter is characterized by dealing with topics in vogue such as #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo or homophobia from her particular style .

He would watch his mother paint and he knew that she wanted to paint. He watched the movies from the Disney factory and understood that he liked to paint. She met her biological father, a police officer, when her mother was stopped for a traffic violation and she no longer thought about it: she needed to paint.

Nina Chanel Abney , at 38 years old, is one of the most present artists on the international scene because of how her works exude reality in all its angles, because of how each topic of conversation, each hashtag , has already been present in her works. before it goes viral.

"Easy to swallow, hard to digest."

Nina Chanel Abney on her paintings and murals

The inspiration of Nina Chanel Abney

He was inspired for his own style by watching South Park and listening to hip-hop. A multicolored and non-stop information overload that brings together everything from contesting politics to non-regulatory naked bodies, and from LGTBI relations to the police violence of #BlackLivesMatter.

The unmistakable style of Nina Chanel Abney

Chanel Abney puts her art at the service of advocating the ultra-contemporary, the day-to-day life of a society "channeled through the speed of the Internet". For this very reason, his particular cubism of unique tones and collages does not come from absolute planning, but from total improvisation. An improvisation with which she has managed to be exhibited in galleries in Paris, Los Angeles or New York.