Christina Quarles
b. 1985, United States
Christina Quarles (b. 1985 Chicago, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Quarles received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2016 and holds a BA from Hampshire College. She was a 2016 participant at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. She was the inaugural recipient of the 2019 Pérez Art Museum Miami Prize and in 2017 she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Selected solo exhibitions include: Collapsed Time, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2023); Christina Quarles, Frye Museum, Seattle (2022); In Likeness, South London Gallery, London (2021); Dance by tha Light of tha Moon, X Museum, Beijing (2021); Christina Quarles, MCA Chicago (2021); I Won’t Fear Tumbling or Falling/If We’ll be Joined in Another World, Pilar Corrias, London (2020); Every Silver Lining Has its Cloud, Pond Society, Shanghai (2019); In Likeness, Hepworth Wakefield (2019); But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2019); Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2018); Always Brightest Before Tha Dusk, Pilar Corrias, London (2018).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice (2022); manifesto of fragility, 16th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2022); Not me, Not that, Not nothing either, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2022); New Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2021); Stretching the Body, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2021); Journey Through A Body, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (2021); Don’t Let This Be Easy, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2020); Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millenium, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London (2019); Paint, also known as Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2019); The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019-20); Trigger: Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon, New Museum, New York (2017-18) among others. Her work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney, New York.