Jose Luis Quinones (b.1949, USA) 

joseluisquinones.artist@gmail.com     http://www.joseluisquinones.com       216.536.5219   216.536.5238
 

Education
Cooper School of Art, B.A. 1973
Cleveland Institute of Art, B.F.A. 1977
 

Exhibitions/ Competitions/ Awards/ 

2025          Zanesville Musuem of Art 79th Ohio Annual Exhibition

2024          Valley Arts Center 53rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition Nov 8-Dec 16

                      Chagrin Falls, Ohio (Best in Show)

2024          POP ART  Glendora, California

                      Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Feb thru April

2022          Medici Museum of Art Exhibition, Warren, Ohio

2021          Riffe Gallery 2022 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Columbus,, Ohio

2021          Lines, Shapes, and Objects Exhibition (Honorable Mention)

                      https://www.fushionartps.com/3rd-annual-lines-shapes-objects-

                      art-exhibition-june-2021

2020          Fusion Art Still Life Juried Competition

                      https://www.fusionarts.com/still-life-art-exhibition-june-15-

                      september-14-2020/                       

2019          POP Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

                       https://www.weismanfoundation.org/org/home/previous-exhibitions/

2019          15 Ohio Artists Win Awards, Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition

                       https://oac.ohio.gov/News-Events/ArtsOhio-Blog/Tag/jose-luis-quinones

2019           Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2019           POP Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman 

                       Art Foundation, California

2017           New York Expo, New York City, New York

2017           Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation

                       https://www.weismanfoundation.org/org/home/wp-content/uploads

                        /2017/09/Reading Pop-Synopis.pdf

2017           Reading Public Museum, Reading," Pennsylvania

2016           Miami Spectrum, Miami, Florida (December 2016) 

2015           Best Creatives International Digital Exhibition , Miami, Florida      

2014           Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
 

2013           Ohio State Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio (Best in Show and

                       Honorable Mention) Columbus, Ohio
 

2009          Ohio State Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio (Second Place )
 

2009          Independence Juried Exhibition, Independence, Oh Best in Show and 

                      Peoples Choice Award

2008          Art and Illusion: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

2007          Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2006         34th Pastel Society of America Exhibition, New York City, New York

2005          Eclectic Eye: Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California

2005          Solon  Fine Arts Center, Solon, Ohio 

2004          New Orleans Museum of Art: Eclectic Eye, New Orleans, Louisiana

2003          Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California

2003          Contemporary Arts Center of Virgina: Pop and Illusion, 

                      Virginia Beach, Virginia

2002          Spring Odyssey Invitational, Walton Hills, Ohio
 

2001          Art Metro Grand Opening Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio

2000          Artistes Del Hispanos, Art in the Powerhouse, Cleveland, Ohio

2000          FIDM Galleries, Los Angeles, Calafornia

2000          Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

1999          California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California

1998          Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Malibu, California

1997          Western Reserve Artists Association, Garfield Heights, Ohio

1997          Ohio State Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio Third Place
 

1996          City Lights Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio People's Choice Award, 

1996          Ohio State Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio  2000,  1995, 1993, 1989,

                     1988, 1987, 1980

1996          Grand Exposition, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

1996          J. V. W. Miller: "Akron Society of Artists Opens National 

                      Juried Art Show, 

1988          Ohio Selection Invitational, Dayton, Ohio  1981

1988          All Ohio Invitational, Canton, Ohio 1988, 1979, 1978, 1977

1987          Musee d'Art et Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland

1986          Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

1986          Center National des Artes Plastiques, Paris, France

1986          American Center, Paris France

1984          Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii, Hi, USA

1982         Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1981          Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Oh

                      Best in Show
 

1981          Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Oh

                      Third Place

1981         Ohio Selection Invitational, Dayton Ohio
 

1980         Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Oh 

                     Honorable Mention
 

1980          Ohio State Juried Exhibition Columbus, Ohio

                      Third Place

1980          Mainstreams National, Marietta, Ohio

1980          Two Person Exhibition, Willoughby School of Fine Arts, 

                      Willoughby, Ohio
 

1980          Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio  

                      Honorable Mention,  1980, 1975

1979          Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 60th May Show 

                      1978, 1977,1976, 1975
 

1979          BayCrafters 17th Annual Juried Art Show Honorable Mention

1979          All Ohio Invitational, Canton, Ohio 1979, 1978, 1977, 

1978          Southern Allegheny Museum Invitational, Loretta, Pennsylvania

                      Exhibition and Catalog inclusion  
 

1976          Garden Court Gallery Invitational at Bratenal Place, 

                      Cleveland, Ohio

1976          NOVA at Park Center 2nd Invitational, Cleveland, Ohio
 

1976          Mainstreams National, Marietta, Ohio Best in Show 

1975          Cleveland Realist Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio

1975          Wooster Exhibition, Wooster, Ohio
 

1974          Exhibition 280, Huntington, West Virginia 

                      Purchase Award 1975          
 

1973          Halliman Newman Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio

                      Honorable Mention

Newspaper Articles / OOn-LineArticles / Catalogs / Publications / Television Appearances / Interviews
 

1973        Dick Wooten: "May Show-a Big Kaleidoscope," Art Review and Photo, 

                    Harvey Wallbanger, The Cleveland Press, May 1973
 

1973        Dick Wooten: "37 Exhibit Religious Art," Art Review and Photo,  

                    Halliman Newman Exhibit, Cleveland Press, Cle. Oh.
 

1974        Tom Green: "Lemme Out," Photo on the front page of The Cleveland Press,

                     May 1974
 

1975        Marjorie Alge: "Gathering at Superior Show," The Cleveland Plain Dealer,

                     Cleveland Museum of Art, May 1975
 

1975        1975 May Show has Two CIA Top Winners: The Cleveland Press, May 1975
 

1975         Catalog: 39th Annual Midyear Show, "Ten Cents a Bunch," June 29, 1975
 

1976         Helen Cullinan: 'Photo Realist Dislikes Labels," The Cleveland Press, 

                      February 1, 1976
 

1976         Helen Cullinan: "NOVA Scores a Triple Hit," The Cleveland Press, 

                      February 14, 1976
 

1976         Dick Wooten: "Banana Art," Sue McGee admires this eye-fooling

                      painting by Jose Luis Quinones  NOVA Exhibition, March 1976'
 

1976         Morning Exchange: "Green Peps, Oranges "Television Appearance with

                       paintings, Channel 5, Friday, 5:30
 

1976         Midwest Art Magazine: "Art Review and multiple Photos," 

                      Claudia Roberts Trevithick, April
 

1976         Bill Nehez: "Ten Cents a Buch" is an example of Photo Realism

                      2nd Annual NOVA, March 12
 

1977         Tom Green: "He's the Candy Man" Photograph, May 1977
 

1977         Jay Hoffman: "Quinones gave a lecture on his work at the 

                      57th Cleveland Museum of Art," Nov
 

1977         Dick Wooten: "57th May Show Abounds," The Cleveland Press, November 1977
 

1977         Garfield Leader NNewspaper "Ma Belle Wouldn't Believe it!” May 26, 1977
 

1977         Quinones: Lecture on his artwork," New Gallery, Bellflower, Cleveland, Ohio
 

1978          Akron Venue: "Paintings by Jose Luis Quinones,"
 

1978         The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art: 

                      "Artificial Color, Artificial Flavor" May 1978
 

1978          Southern Allegenies Museum of Art: Invitational 

                       Painting Catalog inclusion, May 27, 1978

1978          Terry William Harris: "Sign Language," The Plain Dealer, 

                       Cleveland, Ohio, May 24, 1978
 

1978          Tom Green: "Artificial Colors, Artificial Flavor," Photo  

                       59th May Show at C.M.A., May 1978
 

1979          Geraldine Wojno: "May Show Presents Variety," Nova News
 

1979          Dick Wooten: "Eerie works turn Art Museum into a fantasy eye-land,

                       May 1979
 

1979          Tom Green: "Sweeter than Candy," May 1979
 

1978          Terry William Harris: "Sign Language," The Plain Dealer, 

                       Cleveland, Ohio, May 24, 1978
 

1980          The Telegraph: "Jose Luis Quinones displays oil paintings," 

                       November 18, 1980
 

1980          Victoria Donohoe: Art Critic, "A Fine Pair of Corporate Collections," 

                       Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, July 27, 1980
 

1980          Eva Heisler:  Art Critic, quality apparent in Ohioans' compositions,

                      Columbus Dispatch,  August 1980             
 

1980          Quinones: "Open Studio," September 28, 1980
 

1980          Dick Wooten: "Here's Looking at You Babe," Photograph, May 1980
 

1980          Cleveland Live Magazine: November 17, 1980
 

1980          The Telegraph: Quinones transcends the two-dimensional surface…

                       November 18, 1980
 

1980          Doris E. Brown: "Corporate Art Collection of 70's lends itself to Ivy

                      Halls of Academia,"Princeton News, June 29, 1980
 

1980          Mary Laity: "Art as a Business," The Princeton Spectrum, July 16, 1980
 

1980          Press Release: “Marietta Mainstreams Invitational," February 28, 1980

1980          Eugenia Cook  Trenton Times: "Art Adorns Corporate Hallways," 

                     July 30, 1980 
 

1980          Press Release: "Evolving Collection of Contemporary Art," 

                      Princeton University Art Museum
 

1980          Ohio State Fine Arts Exhibition: Catalog. "Crushed Orange" 

                      Photo/Inclusion August 12.1980

1981          45th Annual Midyear Show: Butler Institute of American Art, 

                      “Panestaking Job" June 28, 1981
 

1981           Jambor: Personal VIsions dominate the 45th Midyear Show, July 9,
 

1981           Clyde Singer: "16 Artists Honored in Midyear, Youngstown Vindicator

                       "Panestaking Job," June 28, 1981
 

1981          The Dayton Institute of Art: "The Ohio Selection Invitational," "Marilyn" 1981
 

1981          Butler Institute of American Art: "Painstaking Job" 

                      Best in Show Midyear," Youngstown
 

1993          Richard Coreno: "Pro Sports come Alive on Canvas," Art Review and Photo, 

                      Garfield-Maple Sun Newspaper, Garfield Heights, Ohio, March 4, 1993
 

1996          J.V.W.Miller: "Akron Society of Artists Opens National Juried Art Show,"

                       Art Review and Photo of "Basket of Eggs,Online" Akron Beacon Journal

1997          The Ohio State Fine Arts Exhibition: “Artificial Color, Artificial Flavor"
 

1997          Dorothy Shinn Beacon Journal: "Painting evokes urge to touch" 

                      Art Review & Photos of "Things
 

1997         The Bath Country Journal: "Jose Luis Quinones Featured in Local Exhibit,"
 

1997          Garfield/ Maple Sun: "Members Show set by Art Group," Garfield Hts., Ohio
 

1998           Karen Sandstorm, The Plain Dealer: Rousing Celebration of Pop Art's Legacy, 

                       "Green Peps and Cherikee Red,” March 10, 1998
 

1988          All Ohio 1988: Catalog Inclusion, The Canton Institute of Art, Canton, Oh
 

2000          Artistas Hispanos del 2000: Artistic Statement & Photo, Cleveland, Oh
 

2000          64th National Midyear Exhibition: "Butler Institute of American Art," 

                       Youngstown, Oh, June  
 

2000          Press Release: The Intuitive Eye, "80 Works of the Greatest Names 

                      in the 20th Century , Oct 2000...
 

2000          www.fidm.com/features/gallery/weisman/about.html  press release
 

2000         Bravo Magazine: "Cherikee Red Pop," Fall 2000,  

                     Cover Volume 3, Issue 13, Toledo, Ohio
 

2004         Frederick Weisman Foundation: "Eclectic Eye," Catalogue by 

                     Frederick R.Weisman Art Foundation  Art Review and Photo 

                     included. Los Angeles, California, 2004
 

2004         The Gambit: The Best of New Orleans, Art Review,

                     The Eclectic Eye,   http://bestofneworleans.com/gambit/    

                      electric-eclectic-inevitable/Content?oid=1243373
 

2005         Neo Show: "Real Pop Art," Catalog, Photo July 10, 2005
 

2005         Steven Litt: NEO Show put local works in the limelight,"
 

2008         David N. Dunkle: "View the Masters at Modern Art Exhibit,"

                      Art Review and Photo, The Patriot
                     News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2008
 

2011          Christopher Yates: Ohio State Art Exhibition, Columbus Dispatch, 

                      August 3, 2011               
 

2012          Press Release: Ohio State Art Exhibition Columbus Dispatch,

                     June 14, 2012
 

2012           Visual Art Source: "Pop Culture: Selections from the 

                       Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,"  August 25, 2012
                      Photo and Art Review, www.arts.pepperdine.edu/museum  
 

2013           Mana Contemporary: "Pop Culture," September 23, 2013
 

2013          Palm Beach Pulse:""Art Review, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, N.J.,
                     December 28, 2013
 

2013          Pepperdine Celebrates Weisman Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary 

                      with "Pop Culture."  www.pepperdine.edu/nr/releases  October 2, 2013      
                        

2013          Summer Dawn Hortillosa: Jersey City Independents Arts Blog: 

                      "Pop Art Legends, Monumental Sculpture 

                       Mana Contemporary, September 26, 2013
 

2014          PBPulse: "Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman

                      Art Foundation, www.pepperdine.edu/nr/release/...  2014 BOCA, FL
                     

2014          PBPulse: "Survey of leading pop artists on display at BOCA M ART

                      On-Line Art Review, Boca Raton, Fla., February 1, 2014                      
 

2014          Gretel Sarmiento: "Pop Culture gives us what we really are,"
                     Palm Beach Pulse 

                      http://pbpulse.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/

                      survey-of-leading-pop-artists...Boca
                     Museum of Art,  Boca Raton, Fla
 

2015           Best Creatives International Digital Exhibition      

2016           ART INFO Virtual Art Gallery, November 2016           

                       https://youtu.be/-inSoQvePys

2016           Miami Spectrum, Miami, Florida  December  2016    

                       https://youtu.be/1O6OttVxA-s

2017           New York Expo, New York City, New York

2021           Riffe Gallery Ohio Arts Biennel Exhibition  Columbus Dispatch 

                       Dec. 19,2021

2022           Medici Museum of Art    https://www.medicimuseum.art/2021-biennial