Artist Talk | Ronny Quevedo in Conversation with Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura

Name: Artist Talk | Ronny Quevedo in Conversation with Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura
Start: 2025-09-11T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-11T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Krannert Art Museum

Schedule

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Krannert Art Museum | Champaign, IL

New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo will discuss themes in his work currently on view at Krannert Art Museum in the solo exhibition "Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s" (on view through December 6, 2025). This expansive new project includes drawings from several lenders across the United States and a site-driven monumental sculpture titled a mother’s hand that the artist has placed in conversation with objects from the museum’s pre-Hispanic Andean art collection. He will be joined in conversation by museum curators Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ronny Quevedo (b.1981) was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and lives and works in New York, New York. Quevedo’s practice spans installation, drawings, and prints, incorporating and subverting aspects of abstraction, painting, collage, cartography, and sports imagery. Deeply engaged with notions of identity, Quevedo reenvisions pre- and post-colonial iconographies. The recuperation of Indigenous languages of abstraction, revalorization of their associated labor, and centering of a living connection between contemporary and centuries-old cultural markers are foundational to Quevedo’s ongoing practice. Navigating nuanced relationships between the personal and the cultural, Quevedo’s work is rooted in his own family history. Quevedo’s father was a professional soccer player in Ecuador and the artist often incorporates the reconstructed and reorganized lines of athletic fields in his work. Similarly, the influence of Quevedo’s mother’s work as a dressmaker is evidenced in his incorporation of materials like muslin and wax tracing paper. By contextualizing these technical materials with ostensibly precious substances like gold and silver leaf, ubiquitous within Andean history, he invites the viewer to interrogate the simultaneous valuation of certain luxuries and erasure of the artisans who create them.
Quevedo’s work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations, including Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2025); Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2024); Ronny Quevedo: ule ole allez, Locust Projects, Miami, FL (2022); Ronny Quevedo: offside, University Art Museum, University of Albany, NY (2022); and no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime, Queens Museum, NY (2017), traveled to Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA (2019), among others. In 2022, he was commissioned by Delta Air Lines in partnership with the Queens Museum to create a large-scale permanent installation at LaGuardia Airport, Queens, NY. Quevedo has participated in many group exhibitions, including Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2024); Movements Toward Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (2024); Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (2022), traveled to Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (2023), and Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (2024); and Pacha, Llacta, Wasichay; Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018). Quevedo’s work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, CO; Denver Art Museum, CO; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. He is the recipient of many awards and grants, including the Trellis Art Fund Award (2024); Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021); Jerome Hill Artists Fellowship (2019); Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Fellowship (2017); and Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2016), among others.
About the exhibition:
kam.illinois.edu/RonnyQuevedo
Photo of Ronny Quevedo by Taylor Miller.
Artwork: Ronny Quevedo, "Nazca half-time," 2018. Silver leaf and wax on paper. 30-1/2 x 24 inches (framed). Courtesy of John and Sandy Fox. © Ronny Quevedo.
Supported by the School of Art & Design Visitors Series and the Francis P. Rohlen Fund.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
2025 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
AUGUST
9 · In the Studio: Printmaking Workshop, 1-3 pm · For adults
26 · KAM Fest 2025, 12–3:30 pm · For U of I students
28 · Grand Reopening Celebration! 4–7 pm · Ribbon-cutting, mini tours, new exhibitions on view, and a performance by Peruvian Quechua rapper Liberato Kani · For everyone!
28 · Opening Day | New Exhibitions:
• Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s
• Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600
• Reinstallation of the Historical Europoean and American Collection
29 · Liberato Kani in Concert Gallery Art Bar, Urbana, 6–8:30 pm
29 · Conversation & Reception with Liberato Kani | Encanto Restaurant, Urbana, 9 pm
SEPTEMBER
5 · Live Broadcast | Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams, 12 pm · via Zoom
6 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
11 · Artist Visit | Ronny Quevedo in Conversation with Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura, 5:30 pm
20 · Art Workshop for Adults, 1–3 pm
25 · Opening Day | Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1495–1800
OCTOBER
2 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
3 · MFA Dance Thesis Performance: Juli Brandano, 6 pm
4 · Kids at KAM: Artmaking and More! 10:30 am–12:30 pm
11 · Opening Day | Rest Lab 8: Greenspace
17 · Symposium | Envisioning Gender and Sexuality in Premodern European Prints, 10 am–4 pm
18 · Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location, 1–3 pm
23 · Visiting Artist Talk: Althea Murphy-Price, 5:30 pm
30 · Visiting Artist Talk: Bernard Williams, 5:30 pm
NOVEMBER
6 · Visiting Artist Talk: vanessa german, 5:30 pm
6 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
22 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
DECEMBER
Dec 2–6 · Last Week on View | "Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s"
4 · Day With(out) Art: Film Screening and Discussion for World AIDS Day, 5:30 pm
11 · FAA Finals Fest, 1–3 pm · For U of I students
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For event updates:
kam.illinois.edu/events