Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYC

Nina Chanel Abney's paintings merge contemporary culture's frenetic pace with bold color and disjointed narratives spanning race, politics, celebrity, and art history.

Why go

Abney's work captures information overload through a distinctively bold style that compresses time and space, creating a new type of history painting grounded in everyday events and internet velocity. The LOVE NYC mural features reimagined icons from MoMA's collection including Frida Kahlo, Dalí, Duchamp, and Warhol.

What to expect

A site-specific mural visible from Spring Street that merges NYC's history with icons from MoMA's collection, marking the first iteration of the Modern Mural series in the renovated MoMA Design Store.

Things to know

• Nina Chanel Abney was born in 1982 in Chicago, Illinois and is based in New York.
• Her paintings combine representation and abstraction to express the overabundance of contemporary culture through layered spray paint and ac
• Abney has exhibited at major institutions including ICA Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and Palais de Tokyo Paris.
• She has collaborated with major brands including Air Jordan and created custom Jordan sneakers.
• The LOVE NYC mural celebrates the feeling of first arriving in New York City, inspired by Abney's own experience moving to the city in 2005.