About Quinn Koeneman

Quinn Koeneman is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Midwest, working across comics, animation, and installation. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and his MFA from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2025. His practice explores the intersections of narrative, memory, and place, drawing from neurodivergent and neuroqueer aesthetics to examine their fluidity. Through speculative and contemplative approaches, Koeneman reconfigures storytelling frameworks to center lived experience and embodied knowledge.

Koeneman’s artistic inquiry is guided by a philosophy of unmasking: embracing imperfection, obsession, and autodidacticism as generative forces. His work critiques the flattening effects of traditional modes of representation, positioning comics and animation as tools for reclaiming narratives and destabilizing hierarchies of meaning. These concepts are deeply embedded into his materiality and process, with risograph printing (a hallmark of comix and zine communities) providing a platform for examining neurodivergence in community.