About Quinn Koeneman

Quinn Koeneman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Champaign-Urbana, working across comics, illustration, 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 aesthetics to examine storytelling frameworks through speculative and contemplative approaches. Using narrative expectations, Koeneman seeks 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 narrative modes of representation, positioning comics and animation as tools for reclaiming narratives and destabilizing hierarchies of meaning. Koeneman has exhibited locally, in Chicago, and at The Museum of The Moving Image in New York City.