Quinn Briceño

Quinn Antonio Briceño is a Nicaraguan-American artist from St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017 and is currently pursuing his MFA in Visual Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Briceño won first prize in the Ann Metzger National Biennial in 2019 and is a finalist in the AXA Art Prize competition of 2021. He has been published in All the Art magazine, St. Louis Magazine, Design St. Louis, and Friend of the Artist, and will be included in New American Paintings #155.

Briceño’s work is an exploration of identity, alienation, and estrangement of the “other” in society. His work focuses on the working class of Nicaragua and Latin America and juxtaposes them with found materials that connect to his daily life in the United States. The work attempts to give dignity to those struggling and marginalized in society while expressing his own longing for acceptance by both worlds to which he belongs and yet from which he feels excluded.