
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, CO
Denver Art Museum, CO
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
los desaparecidos (the arbiter of time), 2018
Wax, pattern paper, and gold leaf on muslin
50 x 62 in (127 x 157.5 cm)
Collection of the Denver Art Museum
Installation view: no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime, Queens Museum, NY, 2017
luna descansa, 2021
Wax and silver leaf on muslin on panel
12 x 16 in (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Installation view: Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2021
quipu after Edouard Glissant, 2019
Pattern paper, wax, and gold leaf on paper
22 x 13 in (55.9 x 33 cm)
every measure of zero (quipu for Cecilia Vicuña), 2018
Carbon and wax on dress pattern wax paper
13 x 10 in (33 x 25.4 cm)
every measure of zero (Nazca beyond the plain), 2017
Silver leaf and wax on paper
9 ¾ x 13 in (24.8 x 33 cm)
The History of Rules and Measures #2, 2012
Mixed media
48 x 96 in (121.9 x 243.8 cm)
every measure of zero (wari textile), 2017
Gold leaf on dress maker wax paper
13 x 10 in (33 x 25.4 cm)
Wiphala in the paint, 2014
Mixed media
38 x 38 in (96.52 x 96.52 cm)
Installation view: Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2018. Photo: Ron Amstutz
Nazca half-time, 2018
Silver leaf and wax on paper
26 x 18 in (66 x 45.7 cm)
Installation view: Ronny Quevedo: at the line, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 2021. Photo by Emma Powell. Post-production by Argenis Apolinario
Installation view: Ronny Quevedo: offside, University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY, 2022.
Image courtesy of the University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY
upon twilight, horizons, 2019
Gold leaf on dress maker paper
39 x 52 in (99 x 132 cm)
el sur arriba (for Joaquin Torres Garcia), 2019
Dress maker wax paper
26 x 19 ½ in (66 x 49.5 cm)
every measure of zero (periphery), 2017
Gold leaf on dress maker wax paper
9 ¾ x 13 in (24.8 x 33 cm)
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
P-O-T-O-S-1, 2018
Silver leaf on carbon paper
11 ½ x 16 ⅜ in (29.21 x 41.59 cm)
Pacha Llaqta Wasichay, 2018
Gold leaf and spray paint on paper
10 x 13 in (25.4 x 33.02 cm)
migration lines, 2019
Gold leaf on carbon paper
35 x 25 ½ in (89 x 65 cm)
errantry (the benefit of being offsides), 2019
Cement and metal leaf on linoleum tiles
Dimensions variable
beneath the underdog, 2018
Gold leaf and wax on carbon paper
11 ⅛ x 16 in (28.3 x 40.6 cm)
un contandor de latitudes (a keeper of latitudes), 2019
Pattern paper, wax, silver, and gold leaf on muslin
38 ¼ x 61 in (97.16 x 154.94 cm)
Collection of Museum of New and Old Art Tasmania
Ronny Quevedo, 2021. Photo: Ross Collab
Ronny Quevedo (b.1981) incorporates and subverts aspects of abstraction, painting, collage, cartography, and sports imagery in a practice spanning installation, drawings, and prints. Deeply engaged with notions of identity and the intersection of mainstream and historically marginalized cultures, Quevedo reenvisions pre- and post-colonial iconographies, offering nuanced examinations of personal and social histories. This recuperation of indigenous languages of abstraction, the revalorization of their associated labor, and the centering of a living connection between contemporary and centuries-old cultural markers remain key to Quevedo’s ongoing practice.
From the materials he uses to the themes he explores, Ronny Quevedo’s work is rooted in an exploration of his own history and identity, initially using his art as a way to understand the lives and experiences of his parents. Quevedo’s father was a professional soccer player in Ecuador and the artist often incorporates the reconstructed and reorganized lines of athletic fields in his work. Similarly, the influence of Quevedo’s mother’s work as a dressmaker is evidenced in his incorporation of mediums like muslin and wax tracing paper. “To me,” says Quevedo, “there is no division of significance; these humble technical materials can be imaginatively and resourcefully transformed. My family history, which contained lots of adaptation, embodies this capacity for transformation.” By contextualizing these materials with ostensibly precious materials like gold and silver leaf, Quevedo invites the viewer to interrogate the simultaneous valuation of certain luxuries and erasure of the artisans who create them.
Beyond contributing to the formal, material, and conceptual elements of his practice, Quevedo’s family histories serve as prompts to consider the political and social implications of how bodies, or groups of bodies, exist and operate in space. “My visual language incorporates topographies that echo the strategies of pathfinding utilized by migrants. The movement of bodies, like those of constellations, posit geography and space as liminal positions, like players in space.” Through his employment of lines, grids, and diagrammatic visuals, Quevedo’s works take on a cartographic quality that not only explores the complex intersections between the personal and the cultural, but offers the possibility of reimagining and reconfiguring geographic and historical positions.
Central to Quevedo’s practice is the incorporation of and reverence for the cultural heritage of the Americas. For Quevedo, pre-Columbian history “is associated with having been conquered and, thus, a sense that its culture exists in a past that is extinct. . . . When I reference Inca or Wari culture in my work, I’m looking into a cultural space and approach whose legacy continues to be influential. This is a conscious decision to resist contemporary notions of minimalism and abstraction as apolitical and asymbolic. Indigenous South American cultures developed their own visual language of abstraction, one that points to a lineage of thought that exists outside of the figurative and the textual, in ways not traditionally acknowledged in the Western art-historical canon.”
Expanding on the histories and possibilities of textiles and papermaking, recent works such as myself when i am real - sin ti soy nadie (2021) are imbued with an added dimension: a sculptural approach that emphasizes the presence of the physical body. The result of a meticulous process that involves cutting slivers of pattern paper, reassembling them into abstract compositions, and fusing their surface together with gold leaf on muslin, myself when i am real. . . is designed to be doubled over and hung in the exhibition space, so that viewers can interact with both its aesthetically refined surface and its three-dimensional presence. The incorporation of muslin and the positioning as a draped object emphasize the work’s material and conceptual connection to the living legacy of South American textiles, indicating the artist’s increasingly complex and sophisticated elaboration on his core themes.
Ronny Quevedo was commissioned by Delta Air Lines in partnership with the Queens Museum to create a large-scale permanent installation at LaGuardia Airport, Queens, NY, for the newly-renovated Terminal C, which opened to the public in 2022. Quevedo’s work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions, including Ronny Quevedo: offside at the University Art Museum, University of Albany, NY (2022); Ronny Quevedo: at the line, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College, CO (2021); Space of Play, Play of Space, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (2019); no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime, Queens Museum, NY (2017), traveled to Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA (2019); and Home Field Advantage, Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education, the Bronx, NY (2015). Quevedo has also been included in a number of group exhibitions, including A New Way to Travel: Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport, Queens Museum, NY (2022); Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2022); ReVisión, Denver Art Museum, CO (2021); Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2021); Ace: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University Art Museum, University of Albany, NY (2019); Pacha, Llacta, Wasichay; Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2018); Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (2017), traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL (2018), Blue Star Contemporary and Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX (2018), and The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (2019); The Socrates Annual, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2017); Open Sessions: Drawings in Context / Field, Queens Museum, NY (2015); Moving, Not Moving, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX (2014); 2014 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2014); Reading Lists: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); 2013 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2013); Eyes Off the Flag, Motus Fort, Tokyo (2012); El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, El Museo del Barrio, New York (2011); and How Soon is Now?, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (2008).
Quevedo’s work is in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, CO; the Denver Art Museum, CO; the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. He is the recipient of many awards and grants, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant (2022), the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021), the Harpo Foundation New Work Project Grant (2021), the Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship (2019), A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2017), the Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship (2017), the Queens Museum / Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2016), the Eliza Long Prize, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2013, 2014), the New American Paintings MFA Annual 99 (2012), the BRIO Award, the Bronx Council on the Arts (2011), the Gloucester Landscape Painting Prize, Yale School of Art (2011), and the PRINT Magazine Regional Design Annual (2008). He currently lives and works in The Bronx, NY
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, CO
Denver Art Museum, CO
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ronny Quevedo's one person exhibition ule ole allez at Locust Projects in Miami, FL.
Ronny Quevedo included in the group exhibition Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
Ronny Quevedo included in group show A New Way to Travel: Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport at the Queens Museum, NY with corresponding works on view for permanent installation at LaGuardia Airport.
Ronny Quevedo's group exhibition Lux et Veritas curated by Bonnie Clearwater at Nova Southeastern University Art Museum Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
Ronny Quevedo in conversation with Rodrigo Valenzuela, another exhibiting artist at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, NY.
Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Ronny Quevedo (b.1981). Quevedo’s practice spans installation, drawings, and prints, incorporating and subverting aspects of abstraction, painting, collage, cartography, and sports imagery.
Ronny Quevedo included in the group exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, CO.