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Quinha Faria works across painting, sculpture, and installation
transforming natural and synthetic materials
through carving, weaving, and layering.
Drawing from human physiology, critical care nursing, and environmental processes,
her practice considers artworks as porous, relational systems
to explore how bodies and materials interact.
The works are responsive structures that shift through material interaction,
spatial arrangement, and viewer engagement.
Querida, 2024. Acrylic, gesso on carved birch plywood. 60x60. Carnation Contemporary, Portland OR.
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Detail of Inner Forest, 2025. Sisal twine, plumbing tubing, rock.
transforming natural and synthetic materials
through carving, weaving, and layering.
Drawing from human physiology, critical care nursing, and environmental processes,
her practice considers artworks as porous, relational systems
to explore how bodies and materials interact.
The works are responsive structures that shift through material interaction,
spatial arrangement, and viewer engagement.
Querida, 2024. Acrylic, gesso on carved birch plywood. 60x60. Carnation Contemporary, Portland OR.
Detail of Inner Forest, 2025. Sisal twine, plumbing tubing, rock.
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Installation views of Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition, July 2025.
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Detail images of Heroes, 2025. Hospital scrub pants, drawstring, sisal twine. Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR.
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Artist’s hospital-issued scrub uniform, sisal twine. State of Nursing, 2025. IV medication vial caps, sisal twine, hospital scrub fabric, artists chair, suspended on a single nail. Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR.
Felt Suit, 2025. Raw hand-felted wool, dyed with brazilwood, patterned from artist’s hospital-issued scrub uniform. Carved cedar hanger. Bard MFA Thesis Exhibit.
Installation view of “Receptors”. Solo exhibition at Kiang Malingue NY, March/April 2026.
Detail images of Canal, 2026. Sisal twine, chemical dye, zippers, masking paper, plumbing tubing, brass connector. 70x36x32.
Khorâ, 2026. pigment, fabric dye, marble dust, acrylic and rayon on carved mahogany. 48x60.Receptors
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Kiang Malingue, New York
Receptors brings together carved paintings, woven textile works, and suspended sculptures that function as a constellation of “receptive fields.”
Through processes of carving, embedding, and weaving, the works operate as porous systems responsive to material, spatial, and perceptual conditions.
Drawing from cellular biology, receptors are understood as selective and relational structures shaped by context. This framework extends to the viewer, who becomes implicated through movement, proximity, and perception.
Installed across the gallery, the works form an environment of distributed attention, where materials absorb, transmit, and transform energy across surfaces and space.
Press Release.
Brooklyn Rail conversation with Pepón Osorio.
Civil Dawn, 2026. Brazilwood and sumac dued solk, ink, rayon, adhesive compound. 72x72. 
Hester, 2026. Sisal twine, chemical dye, hospital curtain beads, plumbing tubing, brass connector. 60x54x26.
Vira vira vira (Turn turn turn), 2025. Oil pastel and wood stain on carved luan plywood. 48x192.
Diatom 1, 2026. Turmeric, cooking string, hose, brass connector. 12x14x9.
Growing like a Tree in All Directions, 2025. Sisal twine, plumbing tubing, brass connector. 70x78x36.
Sisal, 2022. Sisal twine. 120x120x120. Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA.
Left to Right: Around, 2026.
In, 2026.
Out, 2026.
Tempera and marble dust on carved birch plywood.
Contact
For exhibitions, commissions, and inquiries, please email:
quinhastudio@gmail.com
Bio:
Quinha Mukai Faria (b. 1988, Campinas, Brazil) is an artist working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her years at the hospital bedside inform an ongoing inquiry into the connections that emerge among bodily, material, and social systems. Drawing on backgrounds in human physiology, emergency medical care, and custom tailoring, Faria works with expired medical supplies, provisional building materials, and natural fibers to examine processes of care, maintenance, and adaptation. Faria received an MFA from Bard College in 2025 and holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a BS in Human Physiology from the University of Oregon. Her work has been exhibited at Kiang Malingue (New York), Art Basel (Hong Kong), Asian Arts Initiative, Vox Populi, Mural Arts (Philadelphia), and Carnation Contemporary (Portland).