Colleen Quigley

Bio

Colleen Quigley is a Japanese-American visual artist based in Tucson, Arizona. Her practice encompasses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, painting, encaustic, and digital fabrication. Colleen Quigley’s research interests include postmodern strategies of making in relation to themes of materiality, perception, memory and place, and the transcultural flow of objects. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Japan, Singapore, the United States,
and the U.A.E.

Education

1999.2001 New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, USA
Graduate studies in Figurative Painting
1987.1989 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking
Recipient of Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation Scholarship
1986.1987 Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Recipient of a Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbusho) to research traditional and contemporary Japanese woodblock techniques.
1979.1983 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Upcoming – Solo Exhibition Mesa Art Museum, SRP Gallery, Mesa, AZ, USA
2018  XVA, Solo Exhibition, The Remarkable Resilience of Symbols, Dubai, UAE
2015 XVA Gallery, Searching for Optical Wonder, Dubai, UAE
2007 MORE 2, Dubai, UAE
2006 MORE, Subjects, Dubai, UAE,
1995 CLAY GALLERY, Objects of Desire, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1992 BRENDA HALL GALLERY, East Meets West, San Francisco, Calif., USA
1991 GALLERY MIHARAYA, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1989 GALLERY ARIES, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1988 TAMURA GALLERY, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
1987 GALLERY BENI, Kyoto, Japan

Selected Public Collections

LA SERRE BISTRO, VIDA HOTEL, Downtown Dubai, UAE
XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE
TASHKEEL, Dubai, UAE
MORE CAFÉ, Dubai, UAE
MONSANTO CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan
AOYAMA COSMOS CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan
I.M.I. CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan
TOWN JUKU, INC., Tokyo, Japan
URAWA BUDDHIST TEMPLE, Urawa, Tokyo, Japan
WOZEN RESTAURANT, Tokyo, Japan
SAINOHIRA SENBEI, INC., Tokyo, Japan
BRENDA HALL GALLERY, San Francisco, Calif., USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Summer Allegory, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 Yun Gee Park Gallery, Stage(s)(ing), (three person exhibition)Tucson, AZ, USA
2021 XVA Gallery, A Summer Solstice, Dubai, UAE
2021 FOUND:RE Contemporary Gallery, XSCAPE, Landscapes, Cityscapes, Mindscapes, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2020 Mesa Contemporary Art Center 41st Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Mesa, AZ
2019 Tohono Chul Gallery, Dia de Los Muertos, Tucson, AZ, USA
2018  Al Fonoun Gallery, A Place to be, A Place to See, A Place to Spend the day, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2017  Bennetton Art Project, Imago Mundi, Salo, Italy
2016   Art Dubai and Al Serkal Avenue, RCA Secret, Dubai, UAE
2015 Tashkeel, Sustaining Identity, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE
2015 Sikka Art Fair Engaged Territories, Al Fahidi District, Dubai, UAE
2015 RCA Secret Dubai, Dubai Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
2014 Cuadro Gallery – Streaming Pool, International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) Dubai, UAE
2014 ISEA 2014, Nomadic Doll Exhibition, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
2014 ISEA 2014, Tables of Curiosities, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
2014 XVA Gallery – Curiouser and Curiouser, Dubai, UAE
2013 Al Fonoun Gallery, Zayed University, Desert Pop, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2013 XVA Art Hotel, The Infusion of Impossible Things, Al Fahidi District, Dubai, UAE
2012 FN Gallery, Crossing the Emirates II, Dubai, UAE
2012 XVA, To the Moon, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
2011 JAMJAR, Muqtanayati II– One Hundred Treasures, Dubai, UAE
2011 INDEX 2011, JAM JAR, Dubai, UAE
2011 TASHKEEL, Made in Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
2011 ZAYED UNIVERSITY ATRIUM – Crossing the Emirates, Dubai, UAE
2011 TASHKEEL, As the Saying Goes, Dubai, UAE
2010 JAMJAR, Muqtanayati – One Hundred Treasures, Dubai, UAE
2010 XVA Summer Collection, Dubai, UAE
2010 TASHKEEL, Portrait of a Generation, Dubai, UAE
2010 BASTAKIYA ART FAIR, Nishan, Dubai, UAE
2010 BASTAKIYA ART FAIR, Plush Doll curatorial project, Dubai, UAE
2009 XVA Summer Show, Dubai, UAE
2009 Emerge – Ways of Worldmaking, San Servolo Palazzina 11, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy
2009 BASTAKIYA ART FAIR, Dubai, UAE
2009 TASHKEEL, Silent Conversations, Dubai, UAE
2008 JAM JAR, In Situ, Dubai, UAE
2008 XVA Creek Art Fair, In the Mix, Dubai, UAE
2008 JAM JAR, Creek Art Fair, Constructing the Constructor, Dubai, UAE
2008 TASHKEEL, Vibrations Within, Dubai, UAE
2007 ART ATTACK, Minus-Reality, Dubai, UAE
2007 MEEM GALLERY, Rtoosh, Dubai, UAE
2003 THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ART MUSEUM, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, Ohio
2000 NATIONAL ARTS CLUB, New York Academy of Art Group Show, New York, USA
1995 LITHUANIA ARTISTS PALACE, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Women Step East to West – Traveling exhibition featuring women’s art in Japan, sponsored by the Japan Foundation in coordination with Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Japan
1991 SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN’S ART GALLERY, San Francisco, Ca., USA
1989 TOKYO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS & MUSIC GALLERY, Foreign Artists Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
1988 MACHIDA MUSEUM, Student Printmaking Show, Tokyo, Japan.