bio
Quentin Patrick Fortney (Delaware, OH 1997) is an artist living in Lincoln Nebraska, who uses photography, poetry, installation and the book to study structure. He focuses on both the natural and built, utilizing abstraction and sequential reduction to study form, surface, and light. Creating multi-sensory exhibitions he combines elements to evoke spaces of visceral meditation on one's relation to their environment. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2019 with a BA and presently works as a Preparator at the Nebraska State Historical Society and the Sheldon Museum of Art. He has published 2 books and 2 zines under the moniker 7 7 7 Press. His most recent publication is a collection of poems and photos titled rodeo clown, which was published in December of last year. Quentin has shown his work in 13 solo exhibitions and 9 group shows across the US. Presently his work is in the collection of the April Sampson Cancer Center and the 6th Floor Project.
contact
qfortney@live.com
(531)739-6065
education
2019 BA in Art University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Photography emphasis, minors in Psychology and Music
2022 Jason Fulford: Ocean of Ambiguity, Fotofilmic workshop on Bowen Island, BC
2024 Ron Jude: Politics, poetics and personal narrative: landscape photography in the 21st C, Fotofilmic workshop
solo exhibitions
2025 rodeo clown, The Archive Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, NE
to be afraid of trees, ArtBank, McCook, NE
rodeo clown, Mirrorlab, Minneapolis, MN
23-24 saturation point, ArtBank McCook, NE
2022 saturation point, Fleabane Gallery Omaha, NE
saturation point, The Material Room Richmond, VA
2021 saturation point, South of Downtown Art Center Lincoln, NE
saturation point, Project Project Omaha, NE
2019 saturation point, The Redeye Gallery Lincoln, NE
the porch pigeon, Redeye Gallery Lincoln, NE
saturation point, Medici Gallery Lincoln, NE
compacted, Alien’s Gallery Lincoln, NE
láska nebeská, Alien’s Gallery Lincoln, NE
group exhibitions
2025 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2024 Come on, Come over, Elder Gallery Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, NE
Framed: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Senior Capstone Show, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery Lincoln, NE
Good Rubbish, South of Downtown Art Center Lincoln, NE
2019 Fresh!, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery Lincoln, NE
Lincoln on Film, The Bay, Lincoln
Senior Capstone Show, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln
Vreeland & Howard Awards, Richards Hall UNL, Lincoln
Juried Undergraduate Show, Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln
Emerging Vision, CPAC, Denver
16x16x16, UNL, Metro Community College, and University of Iowa
2018 Transience, Woods Hall, Lincoln
permanent collections
2025 6th Floor Project McCook, NE
2024 April Sampson Cancer Center Lincoln, NE
publications
2024 rodeo clown, 777 press edition of 200
2022 saturation point, self-published edition of 30
2019 the porch pigeon, self-published edition of 25
would it be wrong to smash a plate of grape jelly on every capitalist’s face? zine published by Ethan Kastner
2018 làska nebeskà, self-published edition of 20
job classifications
Exhibition Technician, History Nebraska
November 2022-
Exhibition/Collections Technician on-call, Sheldon Museum of Art
November 2023-
Security Guard on-call, Sheldon Museum of Art
March 2022-