// Magazine & Editorial //
I am the editor of the magazine Expedition, a journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
I have written about art for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vice, Hyperallergic, and Humble Arts Foundation. In previous staff jobs, I have been a digital editor, a staff writer, and a web journalist.
I have a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Washington and an M.A. in Art History from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University.
\\ Arts \\
I work primarily with photography, drawing, and painting.
My work is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and has been featured in American Photography and Communication Arts.
My images have appeared in or been commissioned by:
WIRED, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Vice, Thrillist, Axios, The New York Post, the ACLU, Microsoft, ICON, Hyperallergic, Think:Act Magazine, Seattle Met, NPR affiliates, Scholastic Magazines, Culture Type, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, GQ Spain, and other places that I forgot about or that used my images without paying me.
On television, my images have appeared on ABC’s The View, NBC’s Today, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Showtime’s Ziwe, CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, and NBC’s American Song Contest.
I can be reached for inquiry at quinnrussellbrown @ gmail.com
On ABC’s “The View,” during a feature of Dominique Perez
Album cover art on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 12/09/2019
Portrait used for “Anna Faris is Unqualified” podcast, a perennial player on the iTunes podcast charts
Portrait promotion for NBC’s show “American Song Contest”
On set with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor before an event.
On set with Dan Rather, who jokingly referred to me as a dictator early in the shoot and later shook my hand firmly and said, “Very professional.”
On set with Valerie Biden Owens, sister and best friend to President Joe Biden—and one of the first women in the United States to manage a modern U.S. senatorial campaign and presidential campaign.
My portrait of DeRay Mckesson displayed at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Group Shows
Featured artist showing work, PhEST: Festival International di fotografia e arte, 09/2022–01/2023 (Monopoli, Italy)
“The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” – Kemper Art Museum, 2021-22 (St. Louis, MO)
“The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” – Springfield Museums, 2020-21 (Springfield, MA)
“American Portraiture Today” – National Portrait Gallery, 2019-20 (Washington, D.C.)
“Distinction” – Photographic Center Northwest, 2020 (Seattle, WA)
Allegany National Photography Competition Exhibition – 2020 (Cumberland, MD)
“Photography: People” – BlackBox Gallery, 2018 (Portland, OR)
“Environmental Portraits,” Online – PhotoPlace Gallery, 2018 (Middlebury, VT)
Recognition
• Communication Arts 61 (2020)
• American Photography 36 (2020)
• PDN Faces Portrait Contest, Grand Prize (2019)
• Communication Arts 60 (2019)
• American Photography 35 (2019)
• PDN Photo Annual (2019)
• Eddie Adams XXXII (2019)
• Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (2019)
• Communication Arts 59 (2018)
Press Clippings
• As We Were: Quinn Russell Brown captures the lost innocence of yesterday's technology that today has become a museum exhibit (ICON Magazine, in Italian)
• The upcoming edition of PhEST reflects on our future (Vogue)
• “DeRay Mckesson” by Quinn Russell Brown (Google Arts & Culture)
• A Conversation on Portrait Photography with Quinn Russell Brown (Rangefinder)
• ‘The Outwin: American Portraiture Today’ Kemper Art Museum hosts fifth triennial Smithsonian portrait competition (Kemper Art Museum)
• Pride and Prestige: On Display in the National Portrait Gallery (UPAA.org)
• African Americans and Racial Justice are Popular Subjects at Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (Culture Type)
• “Distinction” at Photo Center Northwest (Lenscratch)
• Activist DeRay Mckesson was added to the National Portrait Gallery (Baltimore Sun)
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Celebrates the Modern Portrait (Hyperallergic)
• The Best Work I Saw at Photolucida: Part 4 (A Photo Editor)
• Young artists harness the power of Bruce Lee, fight racism through poetry (Northwest Asian Weekly)
Film Festivals
• Seattle International Film Festival, 1 Reel Film • Oregon Short Film Festival • Tacoma Film Festival • Asian Film Festival of Dallas • Seattle Asian American Film Festival (opening night) • DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon • Asians on Film Festival • Seattle College and University Film Festival
Various projects have also been recognized by: Creative Quarterly, The International Photography Awards, International Color Awards, the University Photographers’ Association of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the C.B. Blethen Awards for Distinguished Newspaper Reporting.
Researching portraiture in Rome, with a 4th-century bronze statue of Emperor Constantine
