Bio
Quinn Antonio Briceño, a Nicaraguan-American artist in St. Louis, earned his BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (2017) and his MFA in Visual Art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University (2022). He won the Ann Metzger Memorial Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the AXA Art Prize in 2021. His work has appeared in New American Paintings (Nos. 155, 165 and 167), St. Louis Magazine, Friend of the Artist and All the Art, and is held in private collections across the country.
Statement
As an artist, I examine both my struggle with identity and how I came to be the person I am today. As I am both Nicaraguan and American it is important that my paintings reflect those two worlds and create a new space where people like me can belong.
Blending Americana with Latinx, my work gives dignity to the working class while expressing my own longing for acceptance from both worlds from which I feel excluded.
Through the act of collaging found materials connecting to my life in the United States colliding with the painted imagery of Nicaragua, my work takes society’s scraps and the personal stories and histories of my family to create a new environment: one that celebrates my identity and how I came to be the person I am today.