Artist Ronny Quevedo joins Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator, Menil Drawing Institute, for a discussion about Quevedo’s wall drawing, C A R A A C A R A, 2024. This drawing is the sixth in an ongoing series of ephemeral, site-specific installations at the Menil Drawing Institute.
About the artist:
Ronny Quevedo received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2003 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. From 2012 to 2014, he was a CORE Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Quevedo’s work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including Ronny Quevedo: ule ole allez, Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2022); Ronny Quevedo: at the line, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, CO (2021); 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), among others. Quevedo has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including El Dorado: Myths of Gold, Americas Society/Council of the Americans, New York, NY (2023); ReVisión, Denver Art Museum, CO (2021); Pacha, Llacta, Wasichay; Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018), among others. Quevedo’s work is in the collections of the 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; and 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); Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021); Harpo Foundation New Work Project Grant (2021); Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship (2019); A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2017); Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship (2017); Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2016); Eliza Long Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2014 & 2013); New American Paintings MFA Annual 99 (2012); BRIO Award, Bronx Council on the Arts (2011); Gloucester Landscape Painting Prize, Yale School of Art (2011); and PRINT Magazine Regional Design Annual (2008). He currently lives and works in New York, NY.