Christina Quarles
Christina Quarles, Don’t let tha sun catch yew cryin’, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 243.8 cm (72 x 95.98 inches)
b. 1985 in Chicago, IL, US
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CV, USA
EDUCATION
2016
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US
MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, US
2007
BA in Studio Arts and Philosophy, Hampshire College, Amherst, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Christina Quarles, Frye Museum, Seattle, US (forthcoming)
2021
Dance by tha Light of tha Moon, X Museum, Beijing, CN
Christina Quarles, MCA Chicago, Chicago, US
Christina Quarles, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, US (forthcoming)
Christina Quarles: In Likeness, South London Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)
2020
Christina Quarles, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2019
Every Silver Lining Has its Cloud, Pond Society, Shanghai, CN Christina Quarles, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2018
Christina Quarles: Made in L.A, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, US
Always Brightest Before Tha Dusk, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2017
Christina Quarles: Baby, I want Yew To Know All Tha Folks I Am, David Castillo Gallery, Miami - US
It’s Gunna Be All Right, Cause Baby, There Ain’t Nuthin’ Left, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Fugitive Bodies, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US (forthcoming)
2021
Plural Possibilities & the Female Body, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
Journey Through a Body, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE
New Time: Art and Feminism in the 21st Century, Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, US (forthcoming)
Queer/Dialogue, Grinell College Museum of Art, Iowa, US (forthcoming)
Fugitive Bodies, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US (forthcoming)
2020
My Body My Rules, Perez Art Museum, Miami, US
Astrup Feanrley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO
A Possible Horizon, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, US
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, US
Alien vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
Don’t Let This Be Easy, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkley, US
Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
2019
Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Paint also known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL Stonewall 50, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US
Let Me Tell You a Story, The Arts Club, London, UK
2018
This Is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York, US
Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Demolition WoManhood, Skibum McArthur, Los Angeles, US
Terribly Vulnerable and Terribly Hard, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
Biomorphic Virtuosity: Christina Quarles, Isaac Julien & Aleksandra Domanović, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US
Slump Love, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
I am no bird, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York, US Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
Engender, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, US
No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, US
Women Painting, Miami Dade College Kendall Gallery, Miami, US Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, US
Appetitive Torque, Eastside International, Los Angeles, US
2016
Queering Space, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US
I’d Rather Be Here Than Almighty, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, US
Meatballs (Curated by Carl Ostendarp and Louis Cameron), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, US
Partners (Curated by Anoka Faruqee and Michael Queenland), Abrons Center for the Arts, New York, US
Double Dip: MFA Painting Thesis (Curated by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Sheila Pepe), Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US
Tight Squeeze (Curated by Barry Markowitz), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
2015
Second Coming, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
2014
First Things, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, US InsituWorks Pop Up, 215 Bowery, New York, US
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
2013
3! Actual Size, Los Angeles, US
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US