Juan Carlos Quintana was born (1964) in Lutcher, LA. He has been working and living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 30 years, most recently Oakland, CA. Infused with a sense of irony and satire, his work often speaks of current events, ideological conundrums, and lost idealism. He has exhibited in many venues internationally including solo exhibitions at the Freies Museum in Berlin, Germany; the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Cuba; and various group shows in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Nationally, he has shown in many San Francisco Bay Area venues as well as venues in Los Angeles, New York, and New Orleans. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant award and recently was awarded an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.