Born 1977, Chicago, IL, US
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US
Education
2002
M.F.A., New York University, New York, NY, US
2000
B.A., Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, US
Solo Exhibitions
2026
'A Love Letter to My Mother', National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, IL, US
2025
Gagosian, New York, NY, US
2023
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Split Face', Museo Novecento / Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy
Gagosian, Paris, France
2022
'SCENES', Almine Rech, London, UK
Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
2021
'In The Valley', Almine Rech, Aspen, CO, US
Gagosian, New York, NY, US
2020
Gagosian, London, UK
2019
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US (honoring Nathaniel Mary Quinn)
'Hollow and Cut', Gagosian, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Always Felt, Rarely Seen', Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: This is Life', Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), Madison, WI, US
Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, US
2018
'The Land', Salon 94 Bowery and Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY, US
'Soundtrack', M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2017
'Nothing's Funny', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
'On that Faithful Day', Half Gallery, New York, NY, US
2016
'St. Marks', Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
'Highlights', M+B, Los Angeles, CA, US
2015
'Back and Forth', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2014
'Past/Present', Pace London Gallery, London, UK
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Species', Bunker 259 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2013
'The MoCADA Windows', Museum of Contemporary and African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, US
'Artist Salon', Brooklyn, NY, US
2011
'Glamour and Doom', Synergy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2008
'Deception, Animals, Blood, Pain', Harriet's Alter Ego Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2007
'The Majic Stick', Rush Arts Gallery, curated by Derrick Adams, New York, NY, US
'The Boomerang Series', The Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, US
2006
'Urban Portraits / Exalt Fundraiser Benefit', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Couture-Hustle', Steele Life Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2004
'The Great Lovely: From the Ghetto to the Sunshine', Five Myles Gallery, New York, NY, US
Duo Exhibitions
2025
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn and Gregory Huebner: The Hand That Guides', Arts + Public Life, Chicago, IL, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
'70'', Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2025
'The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure', North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, US
2024
'Day for Night: New American Realism', Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
'The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
'Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, US
'A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now', The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, US
'50——90: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum', Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2023
'The Echo of Picasso', Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2022
'Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', Aishti Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon
'Fire Figure Fantasy', Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL, US
'Growing Out? Growing Up? Contemporary Art Collecting in the Baltics', Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
'In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection', Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, US
2021
'The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time', Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, US
'Evidence: Selections from the Collection', MOCA Grand, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Invisible Sun', The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, US
2020
'Person of Interest', Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, US
'L'Almanach', Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
'100 Drawings from Now', The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US
2019
'Dreamweavers', UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA, US
'Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection', The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Visions of The Self: Rembrandt and Now', Gagosian, London, UK
2018
'For Opacity: Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn', The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US
'Reclamation! Pan-African works from Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection', Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, US
'Echoes: Identity and Politics in Contemporary Collage', Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, US
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts, Charleston, SC, US
'Cliché', Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY, US
2017
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, US
'Color People', curated by Rashid Johnson, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
'Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros', curated by Eric Fischl, Hall Art Foundation, New York, NY, US
'Engender', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Berlin Art Weekend', Arndt Art Agency, Berlin, Germany
'Armory Art Fair', Luce Gallery, New York, NY, US
'ADAA Art Fair', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, US
2016
'Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art from the DeWoody Collection', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, US
'Like·Ness', Albertz Benda, New York, NY, US
'ADAA Art Fair', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Armory Art Fair', M+B Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Chicago Expo Art Fair', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
'Rhona Hoffman 40 years part 2', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2015
'Unrealism', organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Miami, FL, US
'Russian Doll', M+B, Los Angeles, CA, US
'5 x 5: Other Voices', Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
'American Survey Pt. I', Papillon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Here He Come: Black Jesus', Rawson Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US
'Secret Identities: Superheroes and Selfhood', Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Art Basel Art Fair', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, US
2014
'Look At Me: Portraits from Manet to the Present', Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Frieze London Art Fair', Pace London Gallery, London, UK
2013
'American Beauty', Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Corpus Americus', Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Doin' It In The Park', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2012
SITE Project, The Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, US
2011
Alumni Group Exhibition, Wabash College Contemporary Art Gallery, Crawfordsville, IN, US
2010
'Gold Rush Awards Benefit Auction', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2009
'Luck of the Draw', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2008
'Macro-Micro', Gallery Satori, New York, NY, US
'The Mythic Female', Gallery Satori, New York, NY, US
2007
'Rush For Life Benefit Exhibition', Rush Arts Gallery / Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York, NY, US
2006
'Fragmentations of the Self: Smeared, Smudged, Marked, Drawn', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
2004
'Phat Farm Show', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
'The National African American Arts Exhibition', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
Group Exhibition of Recent Charcoal Drawings, The Wooster Arts Space, New York, NY, US
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, US
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, US
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, US
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, US
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, US
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, US
ICA Miami, Miami, FL, US
Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Michael Buxton Collection, Australia
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, US
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, US
Pamela Joyner Foundation
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, US
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, US
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, US
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, US
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, US
The Obama Foundation
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, US
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
