bio
Vic Barquin is an artist, printmaker, and arts administrator from Cranbury, NJ. In 2016, she received a BFA in Printmaking with honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After graduation she moved to Chicago, Illinois where she established Halftone Projects—a collaborative publishing program which she ran out of her second bedroom turned screenprinting studio. Her work has been exhibited at ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL) Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR), Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Kaleidoscope Collective (Rogers, AR), University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), and Indiana University Northwest (Gary, IN), among others. She has been a recipient of the Windgate Accelerator Grant, Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Traveling Fellowship, and was listed as a Semi-Finalist in The Print Center’s 98th ANNUAL International Competition. She has participated in residencies at the Can Serrat International Art Centre (El Bruc, Catalonia) and The Medium (Springdale, AR). Recently, she completed her MFA in Studio Art at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and had writing published in The Lemon Car Lot and Sixty Inches from Center. Barquin is currently based in Chicago, IL.