Joey Quiñones

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I create mixed-media sculptures using textiles, ceramics, and found objects to highlight the constructed nature of racial, gender, and class identity, particularly in an Afro-Puerto Rican context. I use techniques such as quilting, sculpting, mold making, and embroidery specifically because they are time- and labor-intensive practices. I draw inspiration from objects such as tableware, paintings, clothing, and furniture to reimagine and fill in the gaps of Puerto Rican and African diasporic history. By transforming these objects associated with the home, I highlight the human cost involved, and how the past still lives on with us in the present.

Joey Quiñones is a mixed-media sculptor, fiber artist, and ceramicist. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo, Manifest Gallery, the Akron Art Museum, the Crocker Museum, the Shepherd, the Winterthur Museum, and The Sculpture Center. They have an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. They are currently the Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI.