Quashie was born in London, England, (1963) and raised in the West Indies. At age six, his parents emigrated to the States and settled in Daytona Beach. The artist briefly attended the University of Florida on a full academic scholarship, but felt ill at ease in academia and left, eventually joining the Navy as a submarine sonarman. It was there that his lifelong love for art re-emerged. After his discharge in 1987, he made the decision to pursue an art career. Showing steady growth, his art career ended abruptly in 1995 after an exhibition was censored. Frustrated with the art world, he abandoned art, moved West and landed a job as a comedy sketch writer on Mad-TV. His love for art re-emerged two years later and since then, in between writing gigs (he has written for two other comedy series and in 2001 received an Emmy award for documentary writing), he continues to produce his unique brand of art. Quashie uses his artwork to raise questions that involve scrutinizing the power bases of our social system and causing us to examine our collective political perceptions. The Quashie point of view makes its mark by challenging us to be more thoughtful, more expressive, and more aware. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where he paints while developing screenplays.