Ronny Quevedo's first solo exhibition with Upfor features new works created using a mix of traditional and found materials and rigorous mark-making processes. They refer to both his experience moving to New York from Ecuador when he was a child, and histories of migration as they relate to our larger cultural moment. Quevedo derives patterns and marks from sources as diverse as his father's biography as a soccer player, his mother's profession as a seamstress, the geometric abstraction of Wari textiles, architecture of the Andes, and the Nazca lines (a group of ancient geoglyphs in southern Peru). This results in geometric abstractions that come from the artist's own questioning of "neutral" sites that ignore the contributions of colonized cultures.

Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2013) and BFA from The Cooper Union (2003). Quevedo's recent exhibitions include Upfor's presentation at Material Art Fair in Mexico City last month; Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum (2018) and no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime at the Queens Museum (2017). His many honors include a Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists and artist residencies such as the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He is currently artist in residence at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY.   READ MORE