Cathy Nan Quinlan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown at Lesley Heller Workspace, Norte Maar, Storefront Gallery, Valentine Gallery, SRO Gallery, Parallel Art Space, Studio 10, Centotto, Storefront Gallery for Rent and the Sideshow Gallery. Her work is in the collection of Amy Sillman, Zoe Leonard, Dorothea Tanning, Jason Andrews, Hrag Vartanian, James Panero, Thomas Zummer and Daniel Simon, among others. Her work has been reviewed in The New Criterion, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, NY Arts, NAIA, and on Two Coats of Paint.

Quinlan is the creator and editor of the Talking Pictures blog (2016-present), featuring art reviews by Quinlan as well as regular contributions of fiction, poetry and drawings by Barbara Epler, Martina Siebert, Adam Simon, and others.

She has also written art criticism for The Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical and is the author of an essay on painting, The Platonic Solids. In 2011 she published an online essay called My Collection.

In 2017, Quinlan began curating Talking Pictures, which has included several group shows as well as a monthly series starting in 2018 entitled Six Pictures that features six works by one artist.

Quinlan also founded and curated The 'temporary Museum of Painting in Williamsburg in 2005, which ran for three years and had monthly shows of paintings and drawings as well as public artists’ talks and book- and CD-release parties. James Kalm/Loren Munk interviewed Quinlan in a video about the “Continuum” show at the museum.