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Edition 22/30
Relief print
59 ½ x 39 ¼ inches
Courtesy of Nina Chanel Abney & Pace Prints
Estimated Retail Value: $15,000
Starting Bid: $7,500
Nina Chanel Abney is one of the most prominent, multifaceted artists working today. In addition to collaborations with brands like Nike, Timberland, and Mattel, Abney creates paintings, works on paper, and large-scale murals that combine representation and abstraction to explore a broad range of topics such as pop culture, celebrity, religion, politics, race, sex, and art history. Using bold color and scale, Abney simplifies forms and combines them with text and shapes to create stirring portraits like the haloed figure in Magic. moCa mounted her recent solo show, Big Butch Synergy in 2023 and published a related catalog with ICA Miami, which premiered the series’ first half, Big Butch Energy, in 2022.
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Nina Chanel Abney
Abney (b.1982, Harvey, IL; lives and works in New York) has held major solo exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, moCa Cleveland, ICA Boston, ICA Miami, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and The School by Jack Shainman Gallery, among others. Her latest solo exhibition, The Pursuit of Happiness, will inaugurate the new Virginia MOCA building from April 18–August 16, 2026. Recent commissions include transforming Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall façade in New York and creating a public mural at Miami World Center; she also has a mural at Rocket Arena. Her work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Rubell Family Collection, the Dallas Museum of Art, and numerous other institutions.
