Quinn Hunter Solo Show
On view May 12 – June 24, 2023
Quinn Hunter contentends with erasure of Black bodies from historic and contemporary spaces throughout her work. Through performance and sculpture, she examines how the expunction of historic labor is connected to the contemporary and how it affects the space around us. This erasure of labor is commonly found in the work done by women of color, in particular, the labor done by African American women in contemporary and historic domestic spaces.
Quinn Alexandria Hunter is a sculptor and performance artist from North Carolina. She works primarily with hair and the African American female body as material. Hunter is interested in the erasure of history from spaces and how the contemporary uses of space impact the way we, as a culture, see the past. Her work negotiates between the self and the world. Hunter’s practice is contending with the false narratives of a romanticized past and interrupting them by laying a truth next to them. Quinn is a recipient of the I. Hollis Parry/Ann Parry Billman Award (2019), The International Sculpture Center’s 2019 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture (2019) and a 2020 Artist in Residence of the Chautauqua School of Visual Art. Hunter completed her MFA at Ohio University in 2020.
More about Quinn Hunter here.
Quinn Hunter is a recipient of The Sculpture Center’s Revealed Early Career Exhibition Series.
