Art Studio Program Lecture Series

Jeanne Quinn

Jeanne Quinn was born in Lemoore, California. She received her BA cum laude in art history from Oberlin College and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. "In her work, she creates objects which are seemingly familiar, but displays them in a manner which abstracts the work formally and promotes ideas about gender, the structure of language and communication, the history of objects made for specific use, and autobiographical narrative."

She has exhibited widely, including such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Robischen Gallery (Denver). the Grimmerhus Museum (Denmark), Formargruppen Gallery (Malm, Sweden), Sculpturens Hus (Stockholm, Sweden) and the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan). She has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, the Archie Bray Foundation, the International Ceramic Center in Denmark, the Kahla Porcelain Factory (Germany) and the Ceramic Center Berlin (Berlin). Her work has also been included in the several books: Confrontational Ceramics by Judith Schwartz, The Artful Teapot by Garth Clark, Postmodern Ceramics by Mark Del Vecchio, Sex Pots by Paul Matthieu, A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence by Peter Held, and the forthcoming Cartography: Artists and Maps by Katherine Harmon. She has lectured widely at institutions such as UCLA, USC, Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, and many others. Quinn is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado and she lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, and Brooklyn, New York.

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