Quinlan Maggio is an artist and tech worker based in New York. Through an artistic process of reimagining our relationship to work, Quinlan creates spaces for collective conversations about labor and technology through solo performance, immersive installations, and socially engaged art.
Projects include a coworking experiment where participants are compensated for creative time (Wages for Art(work), 2023 - present) as well as a series of free, community-ideated vending machines (Vending Futures, 2021-2023). Performances include a design lesson performed as a chair dance (skillshare, 2019), a rogue karaoke performance for former coworkers after a mass employee walkout (Solidarity Karaoke, 2019), interviewing at corporations like Google, Meta, Amazon, Raytheon, and Palantir in order to refuse job offers (Withholding labor, closing doors, 2019 - present), and walking around Times Square in office drag (Layoff, 2019).
Quinlan is an MFA graduate of Hunter College, Social Practice CUNY Actionist, and has exhibited at Clive Davis Gallery, 205 Hudson Gallery, fort gondo, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. As a Post-Graduate Fellow at NYU’s ITP department, Quinlan recently taught seminar Your Day Job: The Realities and Ethics of Working in Tech. Quinlan was a 2024 resident at the Wassaic Project and will attend a fully funded residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2026.