Vito Acconci

Artist, Writer, Designer, Principal, Acconci Studio

Education

BA, College of the Holy Cross; MFA, University of Iowa

One Person Exhibitions Include

Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Venice Biennale; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Documentas 5, 6, and 7, Kassel, Germany; Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibitions, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

Publications Include

New Observations; October; Artforum

Awards Include

American Academy in Rome; Berlin Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst; Guggenheim Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts

Suzanne Anker

Chair, BFA Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts; Artist, Theorist

Education

BA, Brooklyn College; MFA, University of Colorado, Boulder

One Person Exhibitions Include

Mediznhistorisches Museum der Charite, Berlin, Center for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Universal Concepts Unlimited, NYC; Greenberg Wilson Gallery, NYC; Richard Gray Gallery; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Group exhibitions Include

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Collections Include 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Oakland Art Museum, New York Public Library, St Louis Art Museum

Publications Include 

Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, The New York Times, Art Journal, Newsweek, The Economist, Nature

Awards Include 

New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Space, Zentrum fur Literatur-und Kultursching, Berlin

Cory Arcangel

Artist

Education

BM, Oberlin Conservatory

One Person Exhibitions Include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Montevideo: The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam; Team Gallery, New York; Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions Include

Christine König Galerie, Vienna; Lisson Gallery, London; Kiasma, Helsinki; New Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alice Aycock

Artist

Education

BA, Douglass College; MA, Hunter College

One Person Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art; John Weber Gallery; Serpentine Gallery, London; Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Group Exhibitions Include

Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Berlin; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Sculpture Center; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; State Museum of Contemporay Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Genova Palazzo Ducale, Italy; Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Public Works Include

Parco di Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy; Sacramento Convention Center; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; San Francisco Public Library; JFK International Airport; Philadelphia International Airport; East River Roundabout; University of South Florida at Tampa; Fallon Building (GSA), Baltimore; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kansas City International Airport; Central Broward Regional Park, FL; Western Connecticut State University, Danbury; Dulles International Airport

Collections Include

Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Basel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation

Awards Include

National Endowment for the Arts, City of New York Art Commission Award

Website

www.aaycock.com

Beth B

Artist and Filmmaker

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Exhibitions include

Chelsea Art Museum; Deitch Projects; P.P.O.W. Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Film Projects include

The Falsetti Project; Family Secrets; The Black Widower; Breathe In/Breathe Out; Pattern of Deception; producer, Crime Scenes Uncovered; producer, director, Voices Unheard

Screenings include

National Film Theater, London; Montreal Film Festival; Danish Film Institute; Toronto Film Festival; Berlin Film Festival

Collections include

Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art

Awards and Grants include

New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman, Lannan Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts

Website

www.bethbproductions.com

Huma Bhabha

Artist

Education

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Columbia University

Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; MOMA PS1; Whitney Museum of American Art; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Royal Academy, London; Salon 94, New York

Awards Include

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Emerging Artist Award

Dara Birnbaum

Visual artist

Education

BS, Carnegie Institute; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute

Represented by

Marian Goodman Gallery

One-person Exhibitions include

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Museum of Modern Art

Group Exhibitions include

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Museum of Malmö, Sweden; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Whitney Museum of American Art

Kathy Brew

Producer, video maker, media arts curator. Formerly, co-director, Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History; director, Thundergulch/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; senior associate producer, City Arts, WNET

Education

BA, cum laude, Middlebury College

Video projects include

ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century; Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution; Penetration and Transparency: Morphed; Mixed Messages; Regret to Inform

Curatorial consultant

Scanners: The New York Video Festival; "Engaging Characters," Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA; Reel New York, WNET; ReFrame; Tribeca Film Institute;

Publications include

Women, Art, and Technology; Shift; Documentary; Civilization; High Performance; San Francisco Bay Guardian; San Francisco Focus; Artcoast

Awards and honors include

Emmy, CEC ArtsLink

AA Bronson

Artist, Director of Printed Matter, Co-founder, General Idea

One Person Exhibitions Include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Vienna Secession, Vienna; The Power Plant, Toronto;

Group Exhibitions Include

Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropole, Toronto; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Deitch Project, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; White Columns, New York

Curatorial Projects Include

Learn to Read, Basel Art Fair; Intermedia, Metropole;

Collections Include

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston

Awards Include

Governor General Visual Arts and Media Award; the Bell Award in Video Art; Chalmers Fellowship

Luca Buvoli

Artist

Education

BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice; MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-Person Exhibitions include

Austin Museum of Art, TX; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Queens Museum of Art; Acme, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London; Kaaitheater, Brussels; Susan Inglett Gallery

Group Exhibitions Include

Johannesburg Bienniale; Venice Biennale; Museum of Modern Art; Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; MoMA PS1; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Awards and Honors include

Fulbright Scholarship; New York State Council on the Arts; Jerome Foundation; Barnett Newman Foundation; Creative Capital Foundation; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Residencies include

Yaddo; Harvestworks; MacDowell Colony

Website

www.lucabuvoli.com

Denise Carvalho

Theorist, writer, curator

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MA, Hunter College; PhD, University of California, Davis

Publications Include

Art Nexus; Art in America; Sculpture Magazine; Flash Art; New York Arts; Art Papers

Published Essays in Journals or Books Include

“Lost in Translation: The Clay Art of Peter Jones,” Ceramics, Art and Perception, Issue 83, 2011; Biographies on Cildo Meireles, Lygia Clark, Sebastião Salgado, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Ernesto Neto for Grove Contemporary Art, published by Oxford University Press, December 2009

Catalogue Essays Include

“Trans,” catalogue of the exhibition of Adriana Varella, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; “Upstream: The Dérive within the Immersion” catalogue essay, exhibition of artists Oyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu at the Hordaland Kunstsenter; “Minimal Differences” catalogue essay, exhibition and panel discussion at White Box, Ltd., New York; “A Part of No-Part” catalogue essay, exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York; “Preemptive Resistances: Critical Pointers in Latin American Art,” catalogue of exhibition at the Westport Arts Center

Curatorial Projects Include

"Lumen," Staten Island Pier; “Minimal Differences,” White Box, Ltd, New York; “Intangible Interferences," Momenta Art, Brooklyn; “Bodies of Dispersion: Mechanisms of Distention,” Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok; “Holy Holes, Absolute Stalls,”Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn; “Infinitu et Contini,” Smack Mellon, Brooklyn

Website

www.denisecarvalho.com

Eric and Heather ChanSchatz

Mixed-media artists

Education

BFA University of California, Berkeley, MFA Columbia University

Exhibitions Include

Lever House, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Saatchi Gallery, London; Albion, London; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga; Swiss Institute, New York; Apex Art, New York

Holland Cotter

Critic, writer, NY Times Art Critic

Education

AB, Harvard University; MA, City University of New York; M Phil, Columbia University

Publications Include

New York Times; New york Arts Journal; Art in America; Art News

Awards Include

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry

Performance artists, founders, The Glasshouse

Education

Lital Dotan: BFA, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Eyal Perry: BFA, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem; MFA, Pratt Institute

Exhibitions Include

Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia; Marina Abramovic Institute West, San Francisco; Beit Hatfutsot Museum, Tel Aviv; Artneuland Gallery, Berlin; Figge von Rosen Galerie, Koln; MoBy Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

Performances Include

brot.unspiele Gallery, Berlin; Tiergarten Park, Berlin; Puszcza Niepopmicka Forest, Kracow

Awards and Residencies Include

Louis and Bessy Stein Fellowship; The Marina Abramovic Institute West Residency Program

Website

dotan-perry.com

Aniko Erdosi

Curator, Critic, Art Historian

Education

MA, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

Exhibitions Include

Jamaica Flux 2007; "Agnes Denes," Ludwig Museum Budapest; "Re_dis_trans Voltage of Relocation and Displacement," apexart

Awards Include

Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship; Rutgers University CGSD Fellow; Kállai Erno Fellowship for Art Criticism

Laura F. Gibellini

Artist, critical theorist

Education

BA, Complutense University, Madrid Kunsthochschule, Universität, Kassel; PhD, Complutense University, Madrid

One-Person Exhibitions include

asm28 Gallery, Madrid; AC Institute [Direct Chapel], New York; Photoespaña, Madrid; Künstlerhaus Glogauer, Berlin

Group Exhibitions Include

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, New York; Art For Change, New York; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing; Marmara University, Istanbul; ARCO, Madrid

Publications include

Construyendo un Lugar/ Constucting a Place, Complutense University Press, Madrid

Awards and Honors include

Spanish Ministry of Culture; Research Fellowship, MoMA, New York; Artistic Creation Awards, Madrid; Research Fellowship, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut

Website

www.laurafgibellini.com

Liam Gillick

Artist

Education

BA, Goldsmiths College

One-Person Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Karsten Schubert Ltd, London; Air de Paris, Nice; Basilico Fine Arts, New York; Casey Kaplan, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen; United Nations Plaza, Berlin; Creativetime, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Awards

Turner Prize Nomination; Vincent Award Nomination; Paul Casslrer Kunstprels

George Gittoes

Painter, Filmmaker, Photographer

Films Include

Soundtrack to War; Rampage; The Miscreants of Tallwood

One Person Exhibitions Include

Central Academy, Beijing; Exhibition UN, New York; White Box, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery, Australia;

Awards

Centenary Medal; Blake Painting Prize; Wynne Prize

James Gleick

Writer

Education

BA, Harvard University

Books Include

The Information; Chaos: Making a New Science; Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman; Isaac Newton; Faster, the Acceleration of Just About Everything

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Critic, writer. Formerly, research associate, Whitney Museum of American Art

Education

BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MA, New York University; PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications include

How Like A Leaf; The Monster's Progress: The Art of James Barsness; When Pain Strikes; The American Art Book; "PUPPY," Guggenheim Magazine, Bilbao; Artforum; Parkett; Art in America; Artbyte; Guggenheim Magazine; The Village Voice; Camerawork

Catalogue essays include

Tony Oursler Retrospective, Hanover Gallery, Germany; "The Artist's Book: A Matter of self-reflection," for One of a Kind: The Unique Artist's Book, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge

Dan Graham

artist

One-person exhibitions include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Group exhibitions include

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy; Swiss Institute, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum; Venice Biennale

Honors and awards include

French Vermeil Medal; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award

Johan Grimonprez

Mixed-media artist

Education

BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent; MFA, School of Visual Arts; Whitney Museum Independent Study Program

One-person Exhibitions include

Deitch Projects; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles; Biennale São Paulo, Brazil; Magasin 3, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; Kunstverein, Munich; Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art; Galerie Riis, Oslo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Yvon Lambert Gallery; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Screenings and broadcasts include

San Francisco Film Festival; Worldexpo, Lisbon; Telluride Film Festival; Tate Modern, London; Image Forum Festival, Tokyo; New York Film Festival; Whitney Museum of American Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Documenta X, Kassel; Berlin International Film Festival

Public Collections include

Sammlung Goetz Collection; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Stedelijk Museum; Hamburger Bahnhof; Dakis Joannou Collection; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

Awards include

First Prize, International Media Award, ZKM Center for Art and Media; Grand Prix de Ville de Geneve; DAAD; Golden Gate Award; Toronto Film Society

Website

www.zapomatik.com

Susan Hefuna

Mixed-media artist

Education

Academy of Fine Art Karlsruhe; Städelschule, Academy of Fine Art, Frankfurt

One-person Exhibitions include

Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna; Rose Issa Projects, London; The Third Line Gallery, Dubai; Albion, London; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; National Gallery, Cape Town

Group Exhibitions include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Venice Biennale; V&A Museum, London; Seville Biennial; Sharjah Biennial; New Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Algere; House of World Cultures, Berlin

Public Collections include

British Museum, London; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Burger Collection, Zürich; Sharjah Art Museum; Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz

Awards include

Kunsttstiftung Baden-Württemberg; Schloss Solitude

Website

www.susanhefuna.com

Natalie Jeremijenko

Artist, designer, engineer

Education

BS, Griffith University, Queensland; BFA, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Queensland

Exhibitions include

MASS MoCA; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Museum für Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt; LUX Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Socrates Sculpture Garden, Long Island City; Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

Awards include

Rockefeller Fellowship

Joan Jonas

Video and performance artist

Education

BA, Mount Holyoke College; MFA, Columbia University, New York

One-person Exhibitions include

Queens Museum of Art; Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles; Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; DIA Beacon; Wilkinson Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions include

The Kitchen, New York; Documenta, Kassel;

Public Collections include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Reina Sofia National Museum Art Centre, Madrid; Vancouver Art Gallery; Centre Pompidou-Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris

Daniel Kunitz

Executive editor, Modern Painters; contributing editor, The Paris Review; Formerly, managing editor, The Paris Review; art critic, The Village Voice

Education

DEUG, Université de Paris-Sorbonne; BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MFA, Columbia University

Publications include

Modern Painters; The Village Voice; The Paris Review; The Wall Street Journal; Art Review; Details; Vanity Fair; Harper's magazine; Art News; New York Magazine; Slate; salon.com

Catalogue essays include

Zhang Huan, Pace Wildenstein Galleries, New York; Kirstene Roepstorff, The Drawing Center, New York; John Dubrow, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York; Caio Fonseca, IVAM, Spain

Alix Lambert

Visual Artist and Filmmaker

Education

School of Visual Arts

One-person Exhibitions include

Anna Kustera Gallery; MOCA, Geneva; Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles; Galeria João Graça, Lisbon; ARTRA, Milan; Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Napoli

Group Exhibitions include

GDM Gallery, Paris; Basel Art Fair; The Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Sundance Salon, Los Angeles; Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn; The Parrish Museum of Art, Montauk; Team Gallery; Museum of Modern Art, New York

Films include

Mentor; He/She/He; Tiffany; Box of Birds, The Malloys in New Zealand; The Mark of Cain

Grants, Residencies and Awards include

MacDowell Fellowship; NEA Consortium Grant ; Headlands Residency, San Francisco; MAT Grant for individual artists; OBIE Award : The Civilians

Website

pinkghettoproductions.com

Mingwei Lee

Artist

Education

BA, California College of Arts & Crafts, MFA, Yale University

One Person Exhibitions Include

Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga; The Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Albion Gallery, London; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Group Exhibitions Include

Queens Museum of Art, New York; Liverpool Biennial, England; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, Califorinia; Fine Art Museum, Taipei; Wexner Center of Art, Cleveland; Bronx Museum of Art, New York; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago; Bard College, New York

Awards and Residencies

Acadia Summer Art Program; Montalvo Arts Center Residency; Joan Mitchell Grant Award

Steven Henry Madoff

Art critic, poet, curator; Formerly, executive editor, ARTnews

Education

BA, Columbia University; MA, Stanford University

Books and catalogues include

Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity; Modern Melancholia: Thoughts on Jan Hafstrom's Art; Marina Abramovic: Balkan Epic; James Drake; Y. Z. Kami; editor, Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century); editor, Pop Art: A Critical History; co-author, Rebecca Horn: Moon Mirror

Publications include

Time, The New York Times, Artforum, Art & Auction, Modern Painters, ARTnews, Vogue, the Christian Science Monitor, Tate Etc, The Nation

Awards include

National Endowment for the Arts Access to Excellence Grant; Association of American Publishers Best Scholarly Art Book of the Year Award

Maria Nordman

Artist

One Person Exhibitions Include

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Spain; Marian goodman Gallery, New York; Mamco, Switzerland; Dia Beacon, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Centre Pompidou, France; MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, California

Collections Include

Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, France; Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal; The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago

Tony Oursler

Artist

Education

BFA, California Institute of the Arts

Exhibitions Include

SITE Santa Fe; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Public Collections Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Tate Modern; Saatchi Gallery

Website

www.tonyoursler.com

Izhar Patkin

Artist

Collections Include

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Christopher Phillips

Curator, International Center for Photography (ICP)

Education

BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology

Books Include

Between Past and Future: New Photography and New Video from China; Modernist Photography: The Daniel Cowin Collection at ICP

Publications Include

October; Art in America; Guggenheim Magazine; Plaszm

Ernesto Pujol

Performance artist, social choreographer, founder and director, The Field School project and the UteHaus group

Education

BA, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan; MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

One-person Performances include

Salina Art Center, Kansas; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio

Group Performances include

The Menill Collection, Houston; MoMA PS1, New York; Spoleto Festival, Charleston; Exit Art, New York; Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa

Public Collections include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence

Awards and Honors

Art Matters, NY; New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship; Pollock Krasner Visual Arts Fellowship

Websites

www.ernestopujol.org, www.dreamingkansas.com, www.awaitinginsaltlakecity.com, www.utehaus.org, www.thefieldschoolproject.org

Tim Rollins

Artist

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Exhibitions Include

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Alabama; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs; National Academy of Sciences, New York; The Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse

Martha Rosler

Artist

Education

BA, Brooklyn College; MFA, University of California, San Diego

One Person Exhibitions and Screenings Include

Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York; Royal Academy, Copenhagen; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Electronic Arts Gallery, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Cornell Cinema, Ithaca

Group Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Kitchen, New York; List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Awards

Spectrum Prize; Oskar Kokoschka Prize; National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship; Line Artist’s Book Grant

David A. Ross, chair

Writer, curator. Formerly, director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art

Education

BS, Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Communications

Former curatorial positions

associate director, chief curator, University Art Museum, Berkeley; deputy director, curator of video art, Long Beach Museum of Art; curator of video art, Everson Museum of Art

Selected Exhibitions include

Co-curator, "Tomorrow," Kumho Museum, Artsonje Center, Seoul and Long March Space, Beijing; "Peter Campus: A Survey," Antico Collegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; "Lorna Simpson: 31," Claustro Sor Juana, Mexico City; "Quotidiana," Museum of Contemporary Art, Castello di Rivoli, Italy; "KoreAmericaKorea," Sonje Museum, Seoul; "Bill Viola: a 25 Year Survey," Whitney Museum of American Art, traveling exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum fr Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago

David Rothenberg, PhD

Composer, Musician, Educator

Education

BA, Harvard University; PhD, Boston University

Books Include

Thousand Mile Song; Why Birds Sing; Sudden Music; Blue Cliff Record; Hand’s End; Always the Mountains

Publications Include

Parabola, Orion, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, Kyoto Journal, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Sierra

Performing and Recorded Work

performed and recorded with Jan Bang, Scanner, Glen Velez, Karl Berger, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, and the Karnataka College of Percussion; One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, ECM Records, On the Cliffs of the Heart

Stefan Saffer

Artist

Education

Whitney ISP Program

Exhibitions Include

Rijswijk and CODA Museum, Apeldoorn; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Kate MacGarry Gallery, London; Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany; Delfina Studios, London

Website

www.stefansaffer.com

Carolee Schneemann

Artist

Education

BA, Bard College; MFA, University of Illinois

Exhibitions Include

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National Film Theatre, London

Publications Include

Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter (1976), Early and Recent Work (1983); More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979, 1997)

Awards Include

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Website

www.caroleeschneemann.com

Sarah Sharp

Artist, digital media and video consultant

Education

BA, The Evergreen State College, MA Purchase College, SUNY, MFA, Purchase College, SUNY

Exhibitions include

Gallery 1724;The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield; Real ArtWays, Hartford; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery; Frederieke Taylor Gallery; Broadway Gallery; Homestead Gallery

Awards and Honors

BRIC Media Arts Fellowship; The Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant; Kimmel Harding Nelson Award and Residency; Vermont Studio Center Residency; Alternate, Hayward/Soros Prize for Fine Art

Gary Simmons

Painter, sculptor, installation artist

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts; California Institute of Arts

Publications include

Catalogue essay for "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present", Museum of Modern Art, New York; Catalogue essay for "Forbidden Games: Marina Abramovic's 8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End," Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve; Artmargins

One-person Exhibitions include

Metro Pictures, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Group Exhibitions include

Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

Collections include

Portland Art Museum, OR; Saint Louis Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Walker Art Center; Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art

Awards and honors include

USA Gund Foundation Fellowship; Penny McCall Foundation Grant; Interarts Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

Lorna Simpson

Artist

Education

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, University of California, San Diego

Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Miami Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Documenta, Kassel

Awards Include

International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award in Art

Website

lsimpsonstudio.com

Jovana Stokic

Art historian, curator

Education

BA, Belgrade University; MA University of California, Riverside; PhD, New York University

Publications include

Catalogue essay for "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present", Museum of Modern Art, New York; Catalogue essay for "Forbidden Games: Marina Abramovic's 8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End," Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve; Artmargins

Curatorial Projects include

Center Montehermosa, Spain; "Off Center Feminities: Regards from Serbia and Montenegro," Else Gallery at the California State University, Sacramento; Kimmel Center Galleries at NYU, New York; "New York as an Open Market: Individual in Global Spectacle," Ozone Gallery, Belgrade; "46th Annual Belgrade Salon," Belgrade

Conferences and Panels include

College Art Conference, Los Angeles, Panel: "MySpace, Facebook, Second Life: What is Community Now?" Performance Studies International Conference 13, New York; Global Feminisms Symposium, Brooklyn Museum, New York; AAH Conference, Leeds, Panel: "Whither Feminist Art History"

Elisabeth Sussman

Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art

Books and Catalogues Include

Lisette Model; William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008; Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure; Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966-69; Keith Haring; Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror; City of Ambition: Artists of New York; Eva Hesse: Sculpture; Diane Arbus: Revelations; Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts; Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective

Publications Include

Art in America; Artforum

Lectures and Panels Include

Tate Gallery, London; L’école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris; College Art Association; Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Holland; Arts Council of Great Britain; Arts International, Barcelona; Seattle Arts Project; Art Dealers Association of America, New York; Sotheby’s, London

Awards

Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence; Vera List Center for Art and Politics; visiting scholar, Getty Research Institute; Rockefeller Foundation; Goethe Institute; French Ministry of Culture; Massachusetts Council for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts

Mickalene Thomas

Artist

Education

BFA, Pratt Institute; MFA, Yale University; Southern Cross University

Represented by

Lehmann Maupin

One Person Exhibitions Include

Santa Monica Museum of Art; Lehmann Maupin, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Dust Gallery, Las Vegas

Group Exhibitions Include

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Danziger Projects, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Bronx Museum; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Ringling Museum, Sarasota; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

Collections Include

Brooklyn Museum; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; New York Public Library; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University, New Haven; Baltimore Museum of Art

Website

www.mickalenethomas.com

Mark Tribe

Visual artist; founding director, Rhizome

Education

BA, Brown University; MFA, University of California, San Diego

Co-author

New Media Art

Projects include

Rare Earth, Dystopia Files, Port Huron Project, StarryNight

One-Person Exhibitions include

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; Optica Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal; San Diego Museum of Art; Wexner Center, Columbus

Group Exhibitions include

Aspen Art Museum; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Haifa Museum of Art; MUAC, Mexico City; Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York; SITE Santa Fe; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Yossi Milo Gallery, New York; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Awards and honors include

Nominee, Smithsonian Contemporary Artist Award; Silver Award, I.D. Interactive Media Design Review; New York Foundation for the Arts; Elizabeth Foundation; Creative Capital; CEC ArtsLink

Website

www.marktribe.net

Philippe Vergne

Director, Dia Center for the Arts

Education

BA, University of Paris; MA, DEA, University of Paris

Formerly

Director of the Musée d’art Contemporain (MAC), Marseille; Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; co-curator, Whitney Biennial

Curatorial Projects Include

2006 Whitney Biennial; Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (Walker Art Center); Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures (Walker Art Center); House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective (Walker Art Center)

Cecilia Vicuña

Artist, writer

Education

Universidad de Chile, Santiago; Slade School of Fine Arts, London

Exhibitions Include

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Drawing Center, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The Whitecahel Art Gallery, London; IVAM, Valencia

Publications Include

"Palabrarmas, RIL," 2005; "I Tu, Tse-tse," 2004; "Instan," Kelsey St Press, 2003; "Cloud-Net," Art in General, New York, l999; "UL, Four Mapuche Poets," edited by Cecilia Vicuna, LARP, l998; "The Art & Poetry of Cecilia Vicuna," edited by Catherine de Zegher, Wesleyan University Press, l997; "Unravelling Words & The Weaving of Water," edited by Eliot Weinberger, Graywolf Press, l992; "Samara," Ed. Museo Rayo, Colombia, l987; "La Wik’una," edited by Francisco Zegers, Chile, l990; "Palabrarmas, El Imaginero," Buenos Aires, l984; "Precario/Precarious," Tanam Press, New York, l983;

Website

www.ceciliavicuna.org

Carrie Mae Weems

Artist

Education

BA, California Institute of the Arts; MFA University of California, San Diego

Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University, New Orleans; the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia

Awards

Anonymous was a Woman; Skowhegan Medal for Photography; Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant; Rome Prize Fellowship

Robin Winters

Artist

One Person Exhibitions Include

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Mary Boone Gallery, New York; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago

Group Exhibitions Include

De Appel, Amsterdam; Dinter Fine Art, New York; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Collections Include

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo, Amsterdam

Terry Winters

Artist

Education

BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

One-Person Exhibitions Include

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Jablonka Gallery, Berlin; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich; The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Today Art Museum, Beijing; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami