Joey Quiñones

Joey Quiñones is a fiber artist, ceramicist, and mixed media sculptor. Their figurative works explore the connections between history, race, gender, and sexual identity, with focuses on African American and Caribbean history, specifically queer, Afro-Puerto Rican identity. They were selected as an Emerging Artist of 2020 by Ceramics Monthly, an Augusta Savage Grant recipient by the National Sculpture Society, and an Annual Prize Finalist by Manifest Gallery. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo, Manifest Gallery, the Akron Art Museum, the Crocker Museum, the Shepherd, the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, the Winterthur Museum, and The Sculpture Center. They have an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. 

Seeing Lizzie

A series of nine pieces in response to the life of Elizabeth Breckenridge (1843-1910), a Black woman who lived with and worked as a paid domestic servant for the second Wylie family to occupy the home. 

Lizzie Lives Here

Myth of the Mammy

Jump: Broom: Swept

In Memory of Her Hands

As One of the Family

American Ibeyi

Topsy

Quiet As It's Kept

Lizzie Liked Stars

Images courtesy of the IU Office of the Provost (Ethan Gill).