Juan Carlos Quintana is a San Francisco Bay Area- based artist and social worker, born in Louisiana of Cuban lineage.
He has shown actively in the San Francisco Bay Area, including a solo show at the John Berggruen Gallery and most recently was included in a show at the Galeria De La Raza.
He has also shown internationally including an exhibition in conjunction with the 2006 Havana Biennial, and a solo show at the Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Cuba. He was the recipient of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation Fellowship in 2006. He is in the collection of the San Jose Museum as well as numerous private collections.
With his work, Quintana addresses a never-ending quest to come to terms with cultural and political contradictions and conflicts. By using disparate found imagery, he explores the dichotomy and absurdity of growing up in two cultures that have been at political odds with each other for almost 5 decades, the United States and Cuba. Quintana's paintings offer us insight into a world rich with narrative and satire, and punctuated with a strong current of historic and cultural criticality.
