Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s fragmented compositions filter the aesthetics of collage through a painterly lens, exploring emotional complexities and relationships between perception and memory. Quinn sources reference images from family photographs, fashion magazines, and the internet, then renders disparate elements in paint, pastels, charcoal, and gouache. His resulting canvases take inspiration from Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, and the work of Francis Bacon, yet Quinn focuses on Black subjects, which Western art history has often elided. The artist has exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles, Turin, and Chicago. His work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo Jumex, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.