Australia Artist
Samuel Quinteros

ARTIST BIO

Samuel Quinteros graduated with honors from Sydney College of the Arts in 2013. He was awarded the Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship in 2011, and the Australia Council Visual Arts Travel Fund in 2013. The first monograph on his work, Quinteros, was published in 2012 by AFAAAR Publications. Quinteros was selected for Hatched 2013, the annual exhibition of work by the best of the country’s art school graduates, at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and in 2014 he exhibited in the Australia Platform at Art Stage Singapore, curated by Aaron Seeto (then Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art). In 2013, Quinteros was selected for the 12 month artist-in-residence program at Curwood’s Lawyers, Sydney, culminating in a solo exhibition in the foyer of Australia Square Tower. In 2015 Quinteros was awarded a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, which enabled him to undertake a 3 month artist residency at 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo. In 2017 Quinteros was a finalist in both the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, at Juniper Hall, Paddington, and The Shirl - National Youth Portrait Prize, at Bega Valley Regional Gallery, followed by Samuel Quinteros, at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, and Flame Seed, at Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, both in 2018. He has shown extensively with Galerie pompom, Sydney, having had solo exhibitions there in 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2020.


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