bio
Vic Barquin is an artist, printmaker, and arts administrator from Cranbury, New Jersey. 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 a second bedroom turned screenprinting studio. Barquin has been a recipient of the Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Traveling Fellowship and partaken in residencies at the Can Serrat International Art Centre (El Bruc, Catalonia) and The Medium (Springdale, AR). Her work has been exhibited at Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Kaleidoscope Collective (Rogers, AR), University of Mississippi, Cleveland Institute of Art, Indiana University Northwest, among others. Recently, she was listed as Semi-Finalist in The Print Center’s 98th ANNUAL International Competition and had writing published in The Lemon Car Lot and Sixty Inches from Center.
For the past five years, Barquin has provided administrative support to Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, where she is currently the Education Coordinator. This spring, she will graduate with an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and move back to Chicago.