MYRNA QUIÑONEZ
Since moving to Bristol at the start of the pandemic in 2020 Quiñonez has created a unique language altogether of her own, wherein more traditional conventions of British landscape paintings seem to have been filtered through some sort of digital codex: transformed via syntax error or destroyed through a printer error and repurposed for our viewing.
Her bucolic scenes have become riotous and anarchic, imbued with a complexity of symbols that - be they random or intentional - seem to provoke profound questions into the nature of (landscape) painting, image creation, and yes, even the vast terrain of AI and random computer generation. These so-called 'politics of perception' are equally charged with Quiñonez's understanding of space and her unique relationship to place, which striated with layers of cultural meaning related to her sense of displacement and confusion.
MYRNA QUIÑONEZ (b. 1987, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) currently lives and works in Bristol. Quiñonez graduated from Guanajuato University in 2011.
Solo exhibitions include: The Picturesque, Pound Arts, Corsham, UK (2023); Landscape Synthesis, Cass Art, Bristol, UK (2020); Site, Don Quixote Iconographic Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico (2019); Síntesis de un Trayecto, Galería Dos Topos, Leon, Mexico (2019); El Cine Mexicano de la Época de Oro, Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico (2018) and Distance, Gene Byron Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico (2018).
Group exhibitions include: South by South West, Burr Johns International, London, UK (2024); Más allá de la Imagen II, Trapo Galería, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2023); A Quiet Place, Galería Jesús Gallardo, Teatro Manuel Doblado, Leon, Mexico (2020); Intersections, The Painting Center, New York, USA (2019); Nueve de Guanajuato, Casa Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico (2019); Maker Heights Collective, The Old Ship, Cornwall, UK (2019); A Quiet Place, Trap Galería, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (2019); Esto es Ahora, Contemporary Art Auction, Morton Subastas, Mexico City (2019) and Lotería de la Apariencia, Galería Dos Topos, Leon, Mexico (2019).
Fairs include: Contemporary Art Fair, Queretaro, Mexico (2019).