Quinn Hoerner is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Queens, New York. She earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2024. Her work consists of printmaking, collecting, assemblage/installations that address the malleability of language and it’s relationship to queer identities and class. Quinn is interested in exploring the duality of visibility: as it is expressed through both vulnerability as well as violence. Her work seeks to subvert and manipulate the language that is used to police our identities: she uses language as a material that can be cut up and reassigned new meanings. Quinn’s creative practice is deeply informed by the queer coded vernacular that decorated her upbringing and has always been used as a tool for survival. Utilizing found objects and things bought from the dollar store, she creates works that speak toward kitsch and working class aesthetics.
Outside of working a full time job as an art technician, Quinn participates in three different arts and activist coalitions, one that addresses renters rights in Queens, and one that she leads and organizes around prison abolitionism. Apart from this, she also organizes and operates a grassroots gallery out of her apartment in Flushing, Queens called the Living Space which exhibits working class artists from underrepresented communities, born and raised in NYC.