Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Quinn Bryant has found that representation inspires, gives one hope, and leads to diversity and inclusion. Bryant creates large-scale oil paintings that use the human figure to encapsulate personal narratives of identities to foster a sense of cultural diversity and the complexities of human emotion. History plays a critical role in Bryant’s work. She has fostered the teachings of Zora Neale Hurston by studying Anthropology and Global Studies to understand how we biologically and socially interact as a species rather than as separate entities. Bryant has found herself mesmerized by the impeccable skill of the Baroque and Renaissance masters, such as Caravaggio and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. However, the depiction of the Eurocentric hierarchy and the Victorian beauty standards make her feel disconnected from the work. She pushes to analyze the classical technique and give it the power of representation it desperately lacks. The primary purpose of her art is and will always be to celebrate progression, culture, and empowerment.

Bryant received her high school diploma from the Baltimore School for the Arts as a fine arts major. She is double majoring in fine arts and global studies at Carnegie Mellon University and will graduate in 2027. Bryant made the dean’s List for the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, 2023-2024. She received the Carnegie Mellon University Regina Gouger Miller Art Scholarship and the Women’s Caucus of Art D.C, Maryland & Virginia Visual Art Scholarship Award. She won 2nd place in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum Black Futures, Black Imaginings 18th Annual High School Juried Art Show, and 1st in the Women’s Caucus of Art Scholarship/Gallery Exhibition. Bryant’s work has appeared in the Carnegie Mellon School of Art Ellis Gallery 2024; Reginald F Lewis Museum 18th Annual High School Juried Art Show, Summer 2023; Women’s Caucus for Art Gallery Exhibition, June 2023; Baltimore School for the Arts Senior Exhibition, May 2023; Baltimore Penn Station Billboard, March 2021.