Quintessa Matranga
17-24, 2019
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2cm
40.00 x 30.00 in
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2cm
40.00 x 30.00 in
Quintessa Matranga
B. 1989
EDUCATION
2013 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
EDUCATION
2013 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
Quintessa Matranga’s paintings elaborate a form of domestic surrealism in which decidedly mundane elements take on an existential significance. While she paints monsters, toilets, Christmas presents, spirits, houses, cars, people, trees, and snow, she draws on vernacular modes of expression—such as street wear, comic books, childhood fairy tales and cartoons. Her narrative, fantasy-like scenes are soft and strange. Her work hovers between providing a key to understand our current cultural moment, and radically unhinging it. The world that her practice brings into being is one populated by misfits, miscreants and signifiers of the disillusioned. But these figures aren’t to be taken directly as models for how to live your life, how to dress, or what politics to adopt. Rather, like a mood board, they illustrate the fine-tuned play of referentiality in any attempt to fashion oneself.
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
What Wind, New York
February 05 - March 02, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
rhetoric, Sandy Brown, Berlin, DE
Doctor, Garbage, Snow Car, The Loon, Toronto, CA
2017
Me at 3AM, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
VelvetAngelFire, Freddy Harris, New York, US
Mental, Goldie’s Gallery, New York, US
2015
Peasant, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, US
No Place, L’INCONNUE, Montreal, Canada
2018
The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
Condo, Queer Thoughts at Carlos Ishikawa, London, England
2017
Prick Up Your Ears, Karma International, Los Angeles, California
NADA Miami, Queer Thoughts and What Pipeline, Miami, Florida
Adult Swim, Pilar Corrias, London, England
Liste, Sandy Brown, Basel, Switzerland
The Mere Future, American Medium, New York, NY
Submerge, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
2021, Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2016
Marriage, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
100% Stupid, Et al, San Francisco, California
Everyday War, Ashes/ Ashes, Los Angeles, California
Dizzy World, Kimberly-Klark, Queens, NY
What Wind, New York
February 05 - March 02, 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
rhetoric, Sandy Brown, Berlin, DE
Doctor, Garbage, Snow Car, The Loon, Toronto, CA
2017
Me at 3AM, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
VelvetAngelFire, Freddy Harris, New York, US
Mental, Goldie’s Gallery, New York, US
2015
Peasant, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, US
No Place, L’INCONNUE, Montreal, Canada
2018
The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
Condo, Queer Thoughts at Carlos Ishikawa, London, England
2017
Prick Up Your Ears, Karma International, Los Angeles, California
NADA Miami, Queer Thoughts and What Pipeline, Miami, Florida
Adult Swim, Pilar Corrias, London, England
Liste, Sandy Brown, Basel, Switzerland
The Mere Future, American Medium, New York, NY
Submerge, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
2021, Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2016
Marriage, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY
100% Stupid, Et al, San Francisco, California
Everyday War, Ashes/ Ashes, Los Angeles, California
Dizzy World, Kimberly-Klark, Queens, NY