Born in Chicago, Illinois (b. 1985)

Christina Quarles

Meet in tha Middle, 2018

Acrylic on canvas
© Christina Quarles; courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

Christina Quarles in her studio in front of New Moon, 2021. Photo by Damien Maloney.

“I try to separate out the ideas of the 'vague' and the 'ambiguous'… The 'vague' lacks comprehension because it lacks information and with the 'ambiguous', there's so much information that it starts to contradict itself and fall apart.”

—Christina Quarles