Justin Quinn b. 1972
Professor of Art, St Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
education
2001
MA in Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
2000
Graduate Book Certificate, Center for the Book, University of Iowa
MFA in Printmaking, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
1995
BFA in Studio Art, University of Wisconsin-Superior
solo exhibitions
2025
From the Last Timeline, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas (upcoming)
2024
As Deep as the Mountains, with sound collaboration by JP Perrotte, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada
2018
King of Cardboard, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
I think of the Future more than I did in the Past, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
2016
Flat Earth Society, TuckUnder Projects, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2015
Supernothing, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota
2014
Not Everything Means Something, University of Nevada, Reno
Some Things are Not Possible, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Tales of Space and Time, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Lacrosse, Wisconsin
2012
Deeper Wonders than the Waves, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2010
This Spanish Ounce of Gold, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
New Work, Kendall College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2009
Keep Out This Frost, Kit Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SCOPE Art Show, Miami, Florida (Cain Schulte)
2008
Breathe He Must, or Die He Will, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007
Why E? New Chapters by Justin Quinn, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005
Chapter 44 or 78,774 times E, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003
Moby Dick, or EEEE EEEE, A Ramona Studio, New York, New York
Hangings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002
Marfa Vacation, Shane Campbell, Oak Park, Illinois
group exhibitions
2025
Double Double with Peter Happel-Christian, Pablo Center, Eau Claire, Wisconsin (upcoming)
Other Otherworldly, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2022
Through the Winter, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2021
Hot Damn! Summer Show, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020
Justin Quinn and Jenny Schmid — McKnight Foundation Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Exquisite Corpse, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
A Moment in Time, Kit Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2018
How time was place to wonder ... selections from the Collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey, Colorado Mountain College Research Library, Vail, Colorado
Per Diem, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017
Word Dance : Selections from the Collection of the JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
2016
Of Whales in Paint, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine
2015
The Farthest Plane, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University
New American Paintings - Midwest Edition, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois
Samuel Johnson and Justin Quinn, Paramount Gallery, St. Cloud, Minnesota
2014
The Haptic Image, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Longitude / Latitude Part II : Conduit Gallery's 30th Anniversary, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Drawn In / Drawn Out, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Weird Neighbor, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Editions / Artists' Books Fair, New York, New York (Manneken Press)
Select Fair, New York, New York (Manneken Press)
2013
The End of Language, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Non-Text, University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Works on Paper : 7 Artists, Burnet Gallery at the Méridien Chambers, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Object Object!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, California
Miami Project Art Fair, Miami, Florida(Conduit)
The 15th Annual Boston Print Fair, The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (Manneken Press)
2012
Uncharted, Marina Cain Gallery, San Francisco, California
Drawing Now 2 – Staphorst, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, Netherlands
Possessed by the Line, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Miami Project Art Fair, Miami, Florida(Conduit)
Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Baltimore, Maryland (Manneken Press)
2011
Mark Fox and Justin Quinn : the Ghost and the Whale, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, California
Magna Carta : Art on Paper, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2010
Drawing from Ideas – Zwischen Lesen und Sehen (with Werner Linster), Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
SCOPE Art Show, Basel, Switzerland (Cain Schulte)
NEXT – The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago, Illinois (Cain Schulte)
2009
Rich Text, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Graphica Creativa '09, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2008
Aqua Winwood Art Fair, Miami, Florida (Conduit)
Red Dot Art Fair, New York, New York (Cain Schulte)
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, Florida (Cain Schulte)
Two by Two by Ten for AIDS in Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas
2007
International Print Triennial, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Boston Printmakers 60th Anniversary Show, 808 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, Florida (Conduit)
A Way with Words, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
2006
Looking at Words : The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois (Rudolph Projects)
2005
Frieze Art Fair, London, England (Andrea Rosen)
NADA Art Fair, Miami, Florida (Shane Campbell)
The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2004
New Prints Autumn 2004, International Print Center New York
Le Locle Print Triennial, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
13th Tallinn Print Triennial, Rotermann Salt Storage Arts Centre,Tallinn, Estonia.
Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Berlin Kupfrerstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany.
City Of Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland.
Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, Miami, Florida.
University of Minnesota-Duluth, Tweed Gallery, Duluth, Minnesota.
Bibliography
Louden, Sharon, ed. 2013. Living and Sustaining a Creative Life : Essays by 40 Working Artists, Intellect, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, 97-100.
Kent, Jane. 2013. Prix de Print number 1, Art in Print volume 3 number 3 (September and October 2013) : 34-35.
Douglass, Stephanie. 2013. Seeing Language. Ann Arbor Observer, 1 December, 2013.
Burns, Sarah and Oakley Tapola, eds. 2013. WOPOZI, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2.
Abbe, Mary. 2012. “Odd Shows at the Institute of Arts”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 16 August, E16.
Review, 2012. New American Paintings, 101, Summer, 133-136.
Quinn, Justin. 2012. “2,157 words On or About Buzz Spector” in Buzzwords : Interviews with Buzz Spector, Sara Ranchouse Publishing, Chicago, Illinois.
Leaverton, Michael. 2009. [EEEE] E EEEEE EEE. SF Weekly, 8-25 November, 25.
Young, Spencer. 2009. Picks. San Francisco Bay Guardian, 18-24 November, 18.
Fallon, Roberta. 2009. See and Spell. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 February, F4.
Granberry, Michael, Scott Cantrell and Charles Dee Mitchell. 2008. Year in review : top 10art happenings in 2008, Dallas Morning News, 28 December, E9.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. 2008. Review. Art in America 10 (November) : 200.
Terranova, Charissa. 2008. From “e” to Sie, Dallas Morning News, 23 April, E1.
Baker, Kenneth. 2007. Deaf, illiterate and self-trained and with a perspective all his own. San Francisco Chronicle, 24 March, E1.
Huston, Johnny Ray. 2007. E for Exile. San Francisco Guardian, 7-13 March, 26.
Quinn, Justin. 2005. "Anselm Kiefer : Heaven and Hell" in Artlies, volume 48, Fall, 10ro