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Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Chicago) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, N.Y.; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Contemporary Dayton, Ohio. Her solo exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, N.C., toured to the Chicago Cultural Center; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; 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 was composed of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican families. Her recent public mural at the Miami Worldcenter was similarly inspired by the historic Black neighborhood Overtown. 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; the Rubell Family Collection, Fla.; the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; the Nasher Museum of Art; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among others.