Colleen Quigley

Colleen Quigley is Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University in Dubai. She received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. and MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, in Tokyo, Japan where she focused on contemporary Japanese printmaking. Her interests include subjectivity and the body, migration, representation, popular culture and cultural identity. Her work includes painting, sculpture/installation and encaustic collage. She has exhibited in Italy, Japan, the United States and the U.A.E. Her current research interests include post modern strategies of art-making in relation to themes of originality, art history, and memory.