Suyapa Quinn expresses her ideas through objects in oil paintings.

After graduating with a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Madrid, Spain, and another degree in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute, New York, she continued her graduate studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York, specializing in Computer Animation.

She started as a tour guide for the Metropolitan Museum of Art/the Cloisters before working as an Animator, Package Designer, Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director at various times.
She paid her dues as a Graphic Designer in New York specializing in silk screening, animation, airbrush and the reproduction of paintings. She taught art in New York public high schools in Queens, New York, and art therapy at the Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY.
Additionally, Suyapa has published cartoons and illustrations worldwide through the Image Bank and Shutterstock JCA, Inc.

She was the owner and Art Director of her own company, Image Perfect, from 2000 - 2008, providing advertising ideas and style for graphic products, communication materials, letterhead, corporate presentations, etc. She hired and supervised employees, onboarded vendors and facilitated interfacing between clients, vendors, and artist staff. Clients included: Time Magazine, Inc, Isabella Christina, Inc, Children Television Workshop, TheMental Block, Avon Books, the United Nations Children's Fund.

Suyapa’s art has been exhibited (as solo shows) at the Galeria Ten, Barcelona, Spain, Edward Williams Art Gallery, NJ, and Museum of Temporary Art in Washington, D.C.

Her art was included in further exhibitions at:
• Society of Illustrators Museum, New York, NY
• The I Miller Gallery, New York, NY
• The Artist’s Cooperative, Washington, DC.
• The Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY

Her paintings are included in permanent collections at The Carrol Reece Museum in Tennessee, and The Charles Dickens Museum, London, UK

Other achievements:
First Prize for Design - Central Park Conservancy - 1983
Certification of Excellence from the Art Student’s League of New York

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I have lived most of my life in New York City and my mission has been to create art that astounds and moves people.
I graduated from Complutense University in Madrid Spain and have have a further degree in graphic design from The Pratt Institute in New York.

I am inspired by objects we coexist with and find beauty in discarded objects.
I use oil paints to disrupt the purity of the blank canvas.
Life is so fragile and beautiful, and I compare it with the objects I paint and what they mean to me.