SOFÍA QUIRNO

Bringing together concrete and metaphorical images, Sofía Quirno´s work proposes an experience of everyday associations. Influenced by the Argentine tradition of Feminism, Surrealism, and Psychoanalysis, Quirno sets to play with exiting schemas using humor to evidence vulnerability.s in New York.

Her paintings and installations reinterpret landscapes of life to enhance the perception of the strange and often funny experience that it is to be in the world. Using collage as her underlying processes, she experiments with montage, overlapping images and perspectives to capture the randomness of thoughts and the multiple relationships between meanings and forms.

Quirno was born in 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives and works in New York.

She graduated from Torcuato Di Tella University and has a degree in International Studies (2002). She is also a graduate of a Masters in Visual Arts from Parsons The New School (2015).

She was part of the Paint School fellowship, Shandaken Projects (2020) and the Viewing Program 20/21 at The Drawing Center in New York. She received the Deans Merit Scholarship Award (2013) and Student Senate Grant (2015) at Parsons The New School of Design and the Sterling Clark Scholarship as artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center (in 2012). Quirno was also an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2013) and Triangle Arts Workshop (2010).

She has presented the following solo exhibitions: I Went there, Praxis NY, New York (2022); Heads and Tails, Praxis NY, New York (2019); Importa un pepino, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2017); After Noon, M E N Gallery, New York (2017); Calendar Day, Praxis Art NY, New York (2016); Sunny Side Up, Sleep Center, New York (2015); Entre líneas, Central de Proyectos – Arte BA, Buenos Aires (2013); Serendipia, Galería Cobra, Buenos Aires (2012); Tapeando, Pantocrator Gallery La Pan, Barcelona (2012); Un día sin lluvia, Paseo Cultural Carlos Nuñez, Buenos Aires (2011).

Among her two-person exhibitions are: A su lado. Brenner & Quirno, Galería VASARI, Buenos Aires (2019); For Starters, Sofía Quirno and Jonathon Haffner, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Casa robada, Quirno- Ignatti, Urbana, Buenos Aires (2017).

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions: Landscapes of Care, The Clemente, New York (2022); Lo que queda, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2020); House- Hold, MARQ, Buenos Aires; House- Hold, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York (2019); Coffey Street show, Brooklyn, USA (2018); Lo firme en el centro encuentra correspondencia, Galería Hache, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); Bosquejar, proyectar, dibujar, Galeria Quimera, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016 ); Has llorado en silencio, Hache Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); Dialogando con Cortázar, The Clemente, New York, USA (2016); INstall/ DEinstall, Hunter College, New York, USA (2016); Off Pink, Parsons 2015 MFA Thesis Show, The Kitchen, New York, USA (2015); Proyecto Bonzo, Casa Uno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); Videosnack, Regina Rex, New York, USA (2015); Do you see the Picture?, Praxis Art Gallery, New York, USA (2014); Videorover: Season 8, Nurture Art, New York, USA (2014); The Set, 25 East Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA (2014); Riña de gallos, Galeria Rusia, Tucumán, Argentina (2013), Artist in residence at Online Morning Drawing Residency (2013); Secret Admirer,  2971 24th St, San Francisco, USA (2013); Colorama, Vermont Studio Arts Center, Vermont, USA (2012); Mil hojas,  Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011); Trusput, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011); 2010 Segundo Video Encuentro Proyectista Colombia- Argentina, Oficina Proyectista, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Galería Bisagra, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Triangle Arts open Studio, DUMBO Arts Festival, New York, USA (2010); La memoria de las cosas, Central de proyectos, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010) Estado Civil, Perón 3432, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), La Fugaz 3, CEC – Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas, Rosario, Argentina (2009); 54-11, Perón 3432, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009); Moving Targets, Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008); Embajada Argentina, Islamabaad, Pakistan (2007); Argentine Painting, Lahore Museum, Lahore, Pakistan (2007).

She has recently participated in the projects Videorover, Nurture Art Non-Profit (2014) and Video Snack (2015).