Born 1977, Chicago, IL, US
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US
Education
2002
New York University, New York, M.F.A., US
2000
Wabash College, B.A., US
Solo Exhibitions
2023
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Split Face', Museo Novecento, Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy
2022
'SCENES', Almine Rech, London, UK
Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
2021
'In The Valley', Almine Rech, Aspen CO, US
2020
Gagosian, London, UK
2019
The Drawing Center, New York, 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
2018
'The Land,' Salon 94 Bowery and Salon 94 Freemans, NY, US
'Soundtrack,' M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2017
'Nothing's Funny', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US
'On that Faithful Day', Half Gallery, NY, US
2016
'St. Marks', Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
'Highlights', M+B, Los Angeles, US
2015
'Back and Forth', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US
2014
'Past/Present', Pace London Gallery, London , UK
'Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Species', Bunker 259 Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, US
2013
'The MoCADA Windows', Museum of Contemporary and African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, US
'Artist Salon', Private art gathering and opening, Brooklyn, US
2011
'Glamour and Doom', Synergy Gallery, Brooklyn, US
2008
'Deception, Animals, Blood, Pain', Harriet’s Alter Ego Gallery, Brooklyn, US
2007
'The Majic Stick', Rush Arts Gallery, Curator Derrick Adams, NY, US
'The Boomerang Series', Colored Illustrations/One Person Exhibition: “The Sharing Secret” Children’s Book, written by author LaShell Wooten, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, NY, US
2006
'Urban Portraits/ Exalt Fundraiser Benefit', Rush Arts Gallery, NY, US
'Couture-Hustle', Steele Life Gallery, Chicago, US
2004
'The Great Lovely: From the Ghetto to the Sunshine', Five Myles Gallery, NY, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
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, Washington DC, WA, 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 Malaga, Spain
2022
‘Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths’, Aishti Foundation, 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, Rīga, Latvia
'In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection', Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, US
2021
'The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time', Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
'Evidence: Selections from the Collection', MOCA Grand, Los Angeles, US
'Invisible Sun', The Broad, Los Angeles, US
2020
‘Person of Interest’, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, US
'L'Almanach', Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
'100 Drawings from Now', The Drawing Center, New-York, US
2019
‘Dreamweavers’, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, US
‘Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection’, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 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, US
'Reclamation! Pan African works from Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection', Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, US
'Echoes: Identity and Politics in Contemporary Collage', Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, US
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts, Charleston, US
'For Opacity', The Drawing Center, NY, US
'Cliché', Almine Rech Gallery, 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, NY, US
'Engender', Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Berlin Art Weekend', Arndt Art Agency, Berlin, Germany
Armory Art Fair, Luce Gallery, NY, US
ADAA Art Fair, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, NY, US
2016
'Still/Moving: Photographs and Video Art from the DeWoody Collection', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
'Like·Ness', Albertz Benda, NY, US
ADAA Art Fair, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, NY, US
Armory Art Fair, M+B Gallery, 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, US
'Russian Doll', M+B, Los Angeles, US
'5 x 5: Other Voices', Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
'M+B', Los Angeles, US
'American Survey Pt: I', Papillon Gallery, Los Angeles, US
'Here He Come: Black Jesus', Rawson Projects, Brooklyn, US
'Secret Identities: Superheroes and Selfhood', Driscoll Babcock Gallery, NY, US
Art Basel Art Fair, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, US
'A Process Series | Here He Come: Black Jesus', Rawson Projects, NY, US
2014
'Ballroom Marfa Benefit Gala', Prince George Ballroom, November 10, New York, US
Whitney Museum of American Art | Art Auction Party, Highline Stages, New York, US
'Look At Me: Portraits from Manet to the Present', Leila Heller Gallery, New York, US
New 43 West 57th Street Gallery, NY, US
Frieze London Art Fair, Pace London Gallery, London, UK
2013
'American Beauty', Susan-Inglett Gallery, New York, US
'Corpus Americus', Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York, US
'Doin’ It In The Park', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
2012
SITE Project, The Humanities Gallery; Long Island University; Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, US
2011
Alumni Group Exhibition, Wabash College Contemporary Art Gallery, Crawfordsville, US
2010
Gold Rush Awards Benefit Auction, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
2009
Children’s Museum of the Arts Art Auction, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, US
'Luck of the Draw', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
2008
'Macro-Micro', Gallery Satori, New York, US
'The Mythic Female', Gallery Satori, New York, US
2007
Rush For Life Benefit Exhibition, Rush Arts Gallery; Rush Philanthropic & Arts Foundation, New York, US
BOMB’s Magazine 26th Anniversary Gala honoring Kara Walker & Irving Sandler; Silent Art Auction; Livet Reichard | The Park, New York, US
2006
'Fragmentations of the Self: Smeared, Smudged, Marked, Drawn', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
2004
'Phat Farm Show', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
'The National African American Arts Exhibition', Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
Group Exhibition, Exhibition of Recent Charcoal Drawings, The Wooster Arts Space, NY, US
Public Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, US
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, US
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, US
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, US
Hall Art Foundation, VT, US
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, US
ICA Miami, FL, US
Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Le Consortium, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, US
Michael Buxton Collection, Australia
Milwaukee Art Museum, 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
Perez Art Museum Miami, FL, US
Pizzuti Collection, OH, US
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, US
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada,
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, US
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, US
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, US
The Obama Foundation
The Studio Museum, New York, NY, US
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, US
Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia