Jeanne Quinn creates theatrical installations that attempt to remind us that everything is ephemeral. She studied art history and baroque music performance at Oberlin College, and earned her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Washington. She has exhibited widely, including the Denver Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale (Korea), Foundation Bernadeaud (France), and Art Basel/Design Miami. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the European Ceramic Work Centre, Zentrum für Keramik Berlin, and many others; she has also lectured widely at institutions such as UCLA, Columbia University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado.