Christina Quarles

Christina Quarles was born in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois. She now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She attended the Yale School of Art and received her M.F.A. and then attended Hampshire College to receive her B.A.
She focuses on painting contorted bodies using acrylic on canvas. The figures torsos, limbs, and faces collide
with other objects and figures. As a queer cisgender women with black and white parentage, she is interested in contradictions of appearance and actuality. She explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as
well as the ways race, gender, and sexuality intersect to form complex identities.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Frye Art Museum, ‘Christina Quarles’, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
2021
South London Gallery, ‘In Likeness’, London, UK X Museum, ‘Christina Quarles: Dance by tha Light of tha Moon’, Beijing, China MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Christina Quarles’, Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
2020
Pilar Corrias, ‘I Won’t Fear Tumbling or Falling/If We’ll Be Joined in Another World’, London, UK
2019
Pond Society, ‘Christina Quarles: Every Silver Lining Has Its Cloud’, Shanghai, China The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, ‘In Likeness’, Wakefield, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Regen Projects, ‘But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same’, Los Angeles CA Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, ‘Yew Jumped too Deep, Yew Buried the Lead’, Kalamazoo MI
2018
BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, ‘MATRIX 271/Christina Quarles’, Berkeley CA Pilar Corrias, ‘Always Brightest Before Tha Dusk’, London, UK
2017
David Castillo Gallery, ‘Baby, I Want Yew To Know All Tha Folks I Am’, Miami FL Skibum MacArthur, ‘It’s Gunna Be All Right, Cause Baby, There Ain’t Nuthin’ Left’, Los Angeles CA

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2019
Pérez Prize, Pérez Art Museum, Miami FL
2017
Fountainhead Residency, Miami FL
Emerging Artist Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York NY
2015
Robert Schoelkopf Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven CT