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Quinn Antonio Briceño
August 7 - September 19, 2026
Opening Reception August 7, 5-8pm
As a Nicaraguan-American artist, Quinn Antonio Briceño’s work navigates the complexities of a mixed identity shaped by cultural dissonance and belonging. Briceño creates paintings that merge the visual languages of Americana and Latinx to construct new environments where people who exist between worlds can see themselves belong.
Through a practice that blends painting with collage, Briceño incorporates found materials tied to his life in the United States alongside imagery rooted in Nicaraguan landscapes, history, and memory. These layered surfaces become sites of cultural collision and reconciliation, transforming society’s scraps and in the process celebrates the working class of his family’s personal experiences.
At its core, Briceño’s work is a search for acceptance from both the places he calls home and the exploration of how that tension has molded the identity of who he is today.
About the Artist
Quinn Antonio Briceño, a Nicaraguan-American artist based in St. Louis, Missouri, earned his bachelor's degree in fine art from the San Francisco Art Institute (2017) and a master's degree from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art (2022). Notable achievements include winning the Ann Metzger National Biennial in 2019 and being a finalist for the AXA Art Prize in 2021. Featured in publications such as All the Art, Friend of the Artist (Issue 10), St. Louis Magazine, Design St. Louis, and New American Paintings (No. 155, 165, 167), Briceño's works grace private collections nationwide.
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