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Nina Chanel Abney was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in New York. Abney is known for her bold use of colours to represent a more violent every day consciousness that people of colour endure due to acts of racial abuse.Her work is included in collections around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubell Family Collection, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Burger Collection, Hong Kong. Abney's first solo museum exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, curated by Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, was presented in 2017 at the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina. It traveled to the Chicago Cultural Center and has been jointly presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, and the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, State University of New York.