Juan Carlos QVINTANA
1946, USA
Juan Carlos Quintana is a San Francisco Bay Area- based artist and social worker, born in Louisiana of Cuban lineage.
He has shown actively in the San Francisco Bay Area, including a solo show at the John Berggruen Gallery and most recently was included in a show at the Galeria De La Raza.
He has also shown internationally including an exhibition in conjunction with the 2006 Havana Biennial, and a solo show at the Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Cuba. He was the recipient of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship in 2006. He is in the collection of the San Jose Museum as well as numerous private collections.
With his work, Quintana addresses a never-ending quest to come to terms with cultural and political contradictions and conflicts. By using disparate found imagery, he explores the dichotomy and absurdity of growing up in two cultures that have been at political odds with each other for almost 5 decades, the United States and Cuba. Quintana's paintings offer us insight into a world rich with narrative and satire, and punctuated with a strong current of historic and cultural criticality.
EDUCATION
1983-89 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1985-86 St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Taylor Bercier Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA (Forthcoming)
2004 Blinded By Omnipotence, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA CA
2003 Choque Cultural, Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
Misadventures of a Side-Stepping Idealist, Babalonia 1808, Berkeley, CA
2001 Gozar Con La Patria, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 Ahi Na' Ma, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Alienated Mass Historia, Root Division, San Francisco,CA
Pistolitas de Azucar: Cultura, Pop, and Whimsy, Galeria De La Raza,
San Francisco, CA
Drawn From New Orleans, 20th Century Works From Private Collections,
Newcomb College, Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, American Lullaby Series Open House,
Woodside, CA
Outside- Inside –Out, Space 301, Mobile AL
sin miramiento alguno (arte iberoamericano actual), in conjunction with
Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba
Cuentos Caseros , Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland , CA
Virus Show, Lobat Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Comercielo, Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco. CA
Latin Spirit, SFMOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
it’s not rocket science, Bayennale, Oakland, CA
2004 Rogue Nations” Cuban And Chinese Artist, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2003 Cuba on My Mind, Art Gallery Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco
State University
Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 Is the Medium in the Message?, Contemporary Art from the Permanent
Collection, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, CA
2000 Laney Press Collection, California Pacific College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Small is Beautiful, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Laney College Print Studio, Metro. Transportation Commission, Oakland, CA
1999 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Muestra Latinoamericana, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San
Francisco, CA
3rd Janet Turner National Print Competition, California State Univ., Chico, CA
Vestige, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
Havana-San Francisco 99, Biblioteca Provincial, Havana, Cuba
Interior Habitat, Gallery Luscombe, San Francisco, CA (2 person show with
Michele Muennig)
Escape Art, Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Saints, Icons and Alteregos: Redefining The Art of Devotion, MACLA,
San Jose, CA
Juried Annual, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Havana - San Francisco 98, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San
Francisco, CA
Amnesty International Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
New Artist New Space, Outside the Lines, Glen Ellen, CA
1997 Dia, The Bare Bones, Gallery Luscombe, San Francisco, CA
1996 Regional Canvas, Pro Arts Juried Show, Oakland, CA
1993 Windows to the World, Lorin Park Windows Phase 1, Berkeley, CA
1992 Juan Carlos Quintana /Michele Muennig, Icons Gallery, New Orleans, LA
CURATORIAL AND OTHER PROJECTS
2006 Cuentos Caseros , Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland , CA
2005 Bayennale, Bay Area International Arts Festival, Oakland, CA ,
Co-organized event.
LECTURES
2006 Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2003 Babalonia 1808 Emerging Arist Program with Jenifer Wofford, Berkeley, CA
2003 El Centro de Desarollo de Las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
1998 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2006 Djerassi Resident Program, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship ,
Woodside, CA
2002 ValParaiso Artist Residency, Mojacar, Spain
1998 Amsterdam Art Logan Graphics Award of Excellence in Printmaking,
Berkeley, CA
1996 Best of Show, Pro Arts Annual Juried Show, Oakland, CA
1991 First Prize for Sculpture, Newcomb Spring Art Show, New Orleans, LA
COLLECTIONS
San Jose Museum Of Art
REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS
Pterodactilo Illustrations published for Literary Journal, University of Texas, (forthcoming)
Shotgun Review, Online review, Alienated Mass Historia, by Lean Ladia, Aug. 4, 2007
Stretcher, False Notes, Emily Kuenstler (June 2004)
Radio 2050 Latino Art & Culture KPFA interview with DJ Aztec Parrot, 2004
“Rogue Nations” Cuban And Chinese Artist , Exhibition Essay, Anjee Helstrup, Curator, Macla, San Jose, CA 2004
Dedalo, Revista De Arte y Literature, No. 5, Havana, Cuba: Juan Carlos Quintana, Without Sugar There Is No Country, essay by Antonio Eligio Fernandez (Tonel), written for the exhibition Choque Cultural, in Havana, Cuba (2004)
New American Paintings, number 49, Pacific Coast, 2003
Noticias de Arte Cubano El Plano de la Memoria, by Yamel Perez Tasca, No. 9/10, (Sept. 2003)
La Jiribilla, Entre dos Mundos, by Iris Cepero, (Oct. 2003)
Golden Gate [X] press, Issue 3 volume XXVI Exhibit Given Two Views Of Cuba, Stephanie Mannle, Sept. 2003
Artweek, Cuba on my mind, David Buuck (Nov. 2003)
La Prensa, Galleries Bring Latin Flair to New Orleans, Katherine Hart, (Oct. 2001)
The Gambit, Identifying Signs, New Orleans, LA (October 2001)
Arts Papers, Juan Carlos Quintana / Michele Muennig ,Eric Bookhardt (July/Aug. 1992)
The Gambit, New Orleans, LA (April 1992)
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