Artist Statement

Quinn Alexandria Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers the excavation and reimagining of erased or forgotten histories. Through object-making, performance, and spatial intervention, her work explores the complexities of visibility and absence and how the historical displacement of Black communities—through migration, urban development and cultural revision—continues to shape contemporary geographies, social structures and the way we understand the past. She examines narratives that have been lost, silenced, or distorted via time or erasure. Hunter’s work is primarily centered around the experiences of Black Americans, historical and contemporary, via the land they inhabited, worked or migrated through.  She centers the land as the keeper of this history and the witness to all that happens using this as a vehicle for place based narrative. using art as a means to re-inscribe presence, labor, and memory into landscapes that have historically excluded them.

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Hunter uses archival documents, oral histories, and forgotten records to construct nuanced, historically grounded narratives. Using textiles, archival imagery, hair, ceramics, and found materials, Hunter creates layered visual narratives that honor both historical truths and speculative imagination. These tactile surfaces often reference domesticity, labor, and craft, highlighting the foundational yet often unrecognized role of Black women’s hands and bodies in the shaping of both cultural and physical environments. By using materials tied to care, beauty, and everyday labor, she elevates forms of work traditionally marginalized or overlooked. Through this research-based practice, she challenges dominant historical frameworks and offers alternative ways of seeing, remembering, and valuing the past.