bio
| Quintan Ana Wikswo is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects traverse freely between fiction, poetry, printmaking, photography, installation, performance, video, and collaborative forms. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2010, she is Artist-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, and Artist-in-Residence at the Lynchburg Old City Cemetery in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Her work appears regularly in Conjunctions and Denver Quarterly, and is published or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Drunken Boat, New American Writing, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Folio, Confrontation and others. Her projects show in galleries, museums and performance venues including the University of Southern California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Beyond Baroque, 610 Isis, People in Electronics, the Deborah Martin Gallery, the Phyllis Stein Gallery, the Annex and DAC Gallery in Los Angeles. Wikswo is a core artist with CATALYSIS PROJECTS, and the Artistic Director of the Litvak Studies Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has taught and curated at arts institutions throughout California, including the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. Residencies include Ucross Foundation, Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Haut de Fee Centre in Serecourt, France. Since 1989, she has written extensively for human rights organizations throughout the world, specializing in the global concerns of women and girls. Quintan grew up in various places throughout the American South. Her studio is currently located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Her web-based project BUMBLEMOTH can be entered here. |
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