Artists David Quady
SPRING 2026 RESIDENT · MAR – MAY
David Quady
Figurative & landscape painting · Midwest
David P. Quady is a figurative painter based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working primarily in oil on linen and panel. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Spring 2026 session.
Background
Born in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1981, Quady moved to Minneapolis in 2001 and has lived there since. He earned his MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2025.
About the work
Quady’s paintings find poetry in ordinary places and candid moments: a figure at rest, an alley, a creek bank, a winter river. The human form is the heart of his practice, a vessel for storytelling and emotional resonance. He draws on Spanish Baroque painting, Delacroix’s theories of color and the observational rigor of the Madrid Realists, using light and surface as narrative tools.
Selected highlights
MFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2025)
Work published in Apricity Magazine and the Rappahannock Review (Fall 2025)
