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Caleb Hahne Quintana

1993 Born in Denver, CO
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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Caleb Hahne Quintana AURORA, 2022, Anat Ebgi, Installation view

About

Caleb Hahne Quintana is a documenter of light. Across portraiture, landscape, and still life paintings his work reveals that our environments can encapsulate specific states of mind through meditative, nuanced observation. His approach to these familiar subjects is tender, showing a sense of care in capturing the familiar. His process begins with drawing—a step he describes as “liberating” and will often repeat subjects across media including, colored pencil, ink, and gouache before moving to “the more arduous act of painting.” Hahne Quintana elevates the mundane to the profound, the overlooked to the monumental through his emotional responses to place and memory.

Caleb Hahne Quintana (b. 1993, Denver, CO) received a BFA in Fine Arts from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work widely in group and solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Lyles & King, New York, NY; albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA; Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Carlye Packer, Palm Springs, CA; Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany; PM/AM, London, UK; and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY. His residencies include 1969 Gallery Residency, The Cabin LA, ShowPen, RedLine Contemporary Art Center and Adventure Painting. His work was recently acquired by the Denver Art Museum, High Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami where his work is currently on view in their collection exhibition Fire Figure Fantasy. Hahne Quintana currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Images

This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Garden Spot (Berthoud)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 60" x 120" [HxW] (152.4 x 304.8 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Garden Spot (Berthoud), 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Garden Spot (Berthoud)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 60" x 120" [HxW] (152.4 x 304.8 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Garden Spot (Berthoud), 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Casemiros Return." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 76" x 48" [HxW] (193.04 x 121.92 cm). Its medium is Oil and flashe on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Casemiros Return, 2023
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Third Bridge." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 72" x 96" [HxW] (182.88 x 243.84 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Third Bridge, 2022
Caleb Hahne Quintana AURORA, 2022
Anat Ebgi, Installation view
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Rogelio." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 10" x 8" [HxW] (25.4 x 20.32 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Rogelio, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "These Hills Keep Burning." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 72" x 55" [HxW] (182.88 x 139.7 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
These Hills Keep Burning, 2022
Caleb Hahne Quintana AURORA, 2022
Anat Ebgi, Installation view
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Talons Reach." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 30" x 40" [HxW] (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Talons Reach, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Study for I Am The Salt Of Two Seas." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 17" x 14" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (43.18 x 35.56 x 3.81 cm); Unframed 14" x 11" [HxW] (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Its medium is Gouache and colored pencil on paper.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Study for I Am The Salt Of Two Seas, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Wave." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 17" x 14" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (43.18 x 35.56 x 3.81 cm); Unframed 14" x 11" [HxW] (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Its medium is India ink on paper.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Wave, 2022
Caleb Hahne Quintana AURORA, 2022
Anat Ebgi, Installation view
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "I Am the Salt of Two Seas." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 72" x 55" [HxW] (182.88 x 139.7 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
I Am the Salt of Two Seas, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Brushing My Mother's Hair." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 10" x 8" [HxW] (25.4 x 20.32 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Brushing My Mother's Hair, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Alexander." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 10" x 8" [HxW] (25.4 x 20.32 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Alexander, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "10,845 Days (Self Portrait with Full Moon)." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 18" x 14" [HxW] (45.72 x 35.56 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
10,845 Days (Self Portrait with Full Moon), 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Max." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 10" x 8" [HxW] (25.4 x 20.32 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Max, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Gate." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 15" x 12" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (38.1 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm); Unframed 12" x 9" [HxW] (30.48 x 22.86 cm). Its medium is Gouache and colored pencil on paper.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Gate, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Black Beauty." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 17" x 14" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (43.18 x 35.56 x 3.81 cm); Unframed 14" x 11" [HxW] (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Its medium is Gouache and colored pencil on paper.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Black Beauty, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "A Place For Rest." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 12" x 15" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (30.48 x 38.1 x 3.81 cm); Unframed 9" x 12" [HxW] (22.86 x 30.48 cm). Its medium is Gouache and colored pencil on paper.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
A Place For Rest, 2022
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne titled "Sun Song." This artwork was created in 2021 and measures 19" x 30" [HxW] (48.26 x 76.2 cm). Its medium is Oil, acrylic, flashe and wax on canvas.
Caleb Hahne
Sun Song, 2021
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne titled "Silent Spring." This artwork was created in 2021 and measures 30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm). Its medium is Oil, acrylic, flashe and wax on canvas.
Caleb Hahne
Silent Spring, 2021
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne titled "Study for Wake Me Before You Leave." This artwork was created in 2020 and measures 13 ¹⁄₂" x 17" [HxW] (34.29 x 43.18 cm); 10 ¹⁄₂" x 14" [HxW] (26.67 x 35.56 cm). Its medium is Colored pencil on paper, framed.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Study for Wake Me Before You Leave, 2020
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne titled "Six Feet (March 2020)." This artwork was created in 2020 and measures 17" x 14" [HxW] (43.18 x 35.56 cm); 14" x 11" [HxW] (35.56 x 27.94 cm). Its medium is Color pencil on paper, framed.
Caleb Hahne
Six Feet (March 2020), 2020
This image depicts an artwork by Caleb Hahne Quintana titled "Dos Futuros." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 72" x 55" [HxW] (182.88 x 139.7 cm). Its medium is Oil and flashe on canvas.
Caleb Hahne Quintana
Dos Futuros, 2022

Exhibitions

This image illustrates the link to the exhibition titled Caleb Hahne Quintana: AURORA

Caleb Hahne Quintana: AURORA

November 5 — December 17, 2022, Wilshire
This image illustrates the link to the exhibition titled Good Company: The Remix

Good Company: The Remix

February 6 — March 6, 2021, Wilshire

News

New York Art Week: The Armory Show

Greeting visitors to The Armory Show is a stunning painting by Caleb Hahne Quintana in Anat Ebgi’s booth. Featuring a boxer who has just been knocked out, the work is in a long, horizontal format that pulls the viewer in and places the athlete’s prostrate body at eye height. —Annabel Keenan

artillery, September 2023

See Works by Eric Fischl, Carrie Mae Weems, and More in a Knockout Show on the Surprising Links Between Art and Boxing

Artists Caleb Hahne Quintana and Cheryl Pope, who were both amateur boxers, address the physicality inherent to the sport from their own experiences... —Eileen Kinsella

Artnet News, August 2023

The artist Caleb Hahne Quintana envisions new releases by Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Eleanor Catton and more.

—The New York Times Style Magazine

The New York Times, February 2023

Caleb Hahne Quintana Goes Home To Aurora

Often in his paintings, especially in AURORA, Caleb is creating paintings places he knows with the faces and memories he can't quite confirm is fantasy or fact. It's as if he is letting the memories ebb and flow like the tides, entering into his mind and then allowing them to overtake the story in the work. — Evan Pricco

Juxtapoz, December 2022

Caleb Hahne Quintana’s Idiosyncratic Nostalgia

AURORA at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles invokes and subverts a sense of late Americana through pictures that are ‘of’ something identifiable but elude easy paraphrase. — Jonathan T.D. Neil

Art Review, December 2022

Caleb Hahne Quintana: A Permission of Otherness

"My great-great-grandfather used to steal horses with Pancho Villa for the Mexican Revolution. All of that history disappears when I keep [only] Hahne. I'm sure that my great-great-grandfather didn't expect a half-Mexican, white kid painter to paint pictures about him in Brooklyn a hundred years later. But I just love that I can continue that legacy." —Caleb Hahne Quintana

Juxtapose, November 2022

Caleb Hahne Quintana: Artist in ‘Who tells a tale adds a tail’ at the Denver Art Museum

Watch Denver-area native Caleb Hahne Quintana discuss his artistic process, resulting in works that tell the stories of himself and his forebears. —Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum, August 2022

Contemporary Artists Do Their Own Thing at Rule, Havu Galleries

Hahne’s drafting of the human form in characterful stances has a lyric quality and lends his paintings a kind of elegance. —Michael Paglia

Westword, January 2020

One Sun: Caleb Hahne’s Solo @ Rule Gallery, Denver

Focusing on ambiance rather than content, Hahne constructs a coherent body of intimate work in which the sun, as the metaphor of time, is subtly portrayed through a captivating shine on human skin. Combining such visual language with unusual formatting, Hahne places the viewer right beside his subjects, allowing him to share these special moments together and potentially identify with them. —Sasha Bogojev

Juxtapoz, January 2020

Caleb Hahne’s Remixes

"My current body of work involves the material engagement of found paper and objects, graphite, ballpoint pen, oil paint, and acetone along with other mixed medias." —Caleb Hahne Quintana

Juxtapoz, June 2014

CV

Caleb Hahne Quintana

1993
Born in Denver, CO
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

2014
BFA Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2022
AURORA, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Caleb Hahne Quintana and Peter Dreher, albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA
2021
The Earth, It Held Me, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2020
The Path From Sea to Sky, The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA
One Sun, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
2019
Here I am With You, Understudy, Denver, CO
2017
Where You Are Not, RULE Gallery, Marfa, TX
2016
Conversations with Strangers, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
Beyond the Veil, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
2014
Close is Too Far, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
The Range, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX
Levity, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (forthcoming)
The Artist is a Beast, On The Inside, Amsterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming)
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Lyles & King, New York, NY
2022
Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
High Voltage Three, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
Who Tells a Tale, Adds a Tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Leave A Light On, The Valley, Taos, NM
The Natural World: Part II, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2021
The Scenic Route, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
HOUSE PARTÉ, curated by Carlye Packer, Palm Springs, CA
This Is America, curated by Mike Gessner, KUNSTRAUM POTSDAM, Germany
10, PM/AM, London, UK
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Twisted Dream, organized by John Wolf, Los Angeles, CA
Good Company: The Remix, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
Just As I Am, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Ma' Was Heavy, NewChild, Antwerp, Belgium
Tell Them About Me, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Futurism, Resident Group Show, curated by RedLine, Denver, CO 2020
Adventure Painting, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2019
pt.2: LA, Pt. 2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pre-Text No. 2, JuiceBox, Denver, CO Summer Camp, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
A Little Tenderness, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
2018
Calico Sunset, Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
10x -10th Anniversary Retrospective Resident Artist Exhibition, RedLine, Denver, CO 2017
Drive In: Personal Space, Black Cube Nomadic Museum, Denver, CO
Spectators, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland, CA
Damaged Goods, Leisure Gallery, Denver, CO
2015
A Tubular Project in Collaboration with Adidas, New Museum, New York City, NY
Flat File, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Nothing Belongs to Us, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
House Warming, Athen B. Gallery, Oakland, CA
Short Notice, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
Scope Art Show, Galerie C.O.A. New York City, NY
DeCo SlUt , Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
Platinum Blend, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014
Dashing and Crashing, Hyperlink Gallery, Chicago, IL
Play, Galerie C.O.A. Montreal, QC
Dashing and Crashing, Hyperlink Gallery, Chicago, IL
You Look How I Used To, Dateline Gallery, Denver, CO
COLD, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
Magic Gardens, One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR
Direct Connect, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013
Like All Other, Like Some Other, Like None Other, RedLine, Denver, CO
Young Gunz, Curated by Xi Zhang, ShowPen, Denver, CO

Residencies

2021
1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2020
La Brea Studio Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Resident Artist, RedLine, Denver, CO
2019
Resident Artist, Southwest American Bullet, Traveling Art Residency
2013-2014
Resident Artist, ShowPen, Denver, CO

Public Collections

X Museum, Beijing, China
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Denver Art Museum, CO
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL

Selected Press

Hingley, Olivia, "In his soulful paintings, Caleb Hahne Quintana navigates his “blurred” family history", It's Nice That, March 16, 2023 (Link)
Guadagnino, Kate. "What happens on Page 76 of This Season's Books?", The New York Times Style Magazine, February 9, 2023 (Link)
Benzine, Vittoria, "LOS ANGELES FRIEZE OUT: BROOKLYN ARTISTS DESCEND ON CALI", February 17, 2023 (Link)
"Caleb Hahne Quintana Goes Home to "AURORA", Juxtapoz, November 2, 2022 (Link)
Neil, Jonathan T.D., "Caleb Hahne Quintana’s Idiosyncratic Nostalgia", Art Review, December 7, 2022 (Link)
"Caleb Hahne: The Earth, It Held Me @ 1969 Gallery, NYC", Juxtapoz, November 17, 2021 (Link)
Donoghue, Katy, "Artist Caleb Hahne, Just as He Is", Whitewall, Februrary 10, 2021
Paglia, Michael, "Contemporary Artists Do Their Own Thing at Rule, Havu Galleries", Westword, January 30, 2020

 

Videos

Caleb Hahne Quintana: AURORA

Caleb Hahne Quintana discusses his recent works and exhibition AURORA.

November 2022