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

David Adjaye

Architect

Education

BA, London South Bank University; MA, Royal College of Art

Projects Include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Moscow School of Management; Elektra House, London; Idea Stores, Poplar and Whitechapel

One Person Exhibitions Include

Whitechapel Gallery, London; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Books Include

David Adjaye Houses: Recycling, Reconfiguring, Rebuilding, Thames & Hudson

Awards Include

RIBA First Prize Bronze Medal; OBE

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

John Baldessari

Artist

Education

BA, San Diego State College, MA, San Diego State College

One Person Exhibitions Include

Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles; Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, Paris; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Tracy Williams Ltd, New York

Group Exhibitions Include

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles; International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn; Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Awards Include

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement; BACA Laureate, BACA International; American Academy of Arts and Letters member

Lynda Benglis

Sculptor

Education

BFA, Newcomb College

One Person Exhibitions Include

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica; Cheim & Read, New York; Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; Paula Cooper, New York; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

Group Exhibitions Include

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Rutgers University Gallery, New Brunswick; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; White Columns, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Collections Include

Cranbrook Design Center, Detroit; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Maurice Berger

Cultural Historian, Author, Curator, Art Critic

Education

BA, Hunter College; PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Books Include

White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness; Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s; How Art Becomes History; Modern Art and Society; Constructing Masculinity; The Crisis of Criticism; Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion

Publications Include

Artforum; Art in America; The New York Times; The Village Voice; October; Wired; The Los Angeles Times

Curatorial Projects Include

For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Awards Include

Finalist, Horace Mann Bond Book Award of Harvard University

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

Roger Black

Designer, Co-Founder, Danilo Black, Inc.

Education

BA, University of Chicago

Clients Include

Rolling Stone; The New York Times Magazine; Newsweek;The Los Angeles Times; The Houston Chronicle; Nintendo; MIT; MSNBC; HBO; Barnes and Noble; Guinness; Schlumberger; Discovery Channel Online; MSNBC; USA Today; San Francisco Examiner; Reader's Digest

Books Include

Websites that Work; Contemporary Newspaper Design: Shaping the News in the Digital Age, Typography & Image on Modern Newsprint

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

Thomas Crow

Art Historian

Education

BA, Ponoma College, MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Books Include

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris; Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France; Modern Art in the Common Culture; The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Age of Dissent; The Intelligence of Art

Publications Include

Artforum

Martin von Haselberg (Harry Kipper)

Performance Artist, Photographer

Exhibitions Include

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Kitchen, New York; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; ACE Gallery, Los Angeles; ACME Gallery, London; Royal College of Art, London

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

Terence Koh

Artist

Education

BA, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

One Person Exhibitions Include

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle, Zurich; Asia Song Society, New York; Secession, Vienna; Peres Projects, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions Include

Standard, Oslo; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Deitch Projects, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo; Maureen Paley Interim Art, London; Deutsche Bank, Salzburg

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

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

Glenn Ligon

Artist

Education

BA, Wesleyan University

One Person Exhibitions Include

Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Group Exhibitions Include

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Collections Include

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Bohen Foundation, New York; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

Awards Include

Skowhegan Medal for Painting; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

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

Paul Mittleman

Designer; Creative director, Stussy

Education

MS, City University of New York, Hunter College

Collaborative Projects Include

T-shirt with Nas; Rockers Galore with Josh Cheuse; Sportswear with Nike; Sneakers with Vans

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

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

Adriano Pedrosa

Curator, Director Istanbul Biennial, founding director of Programa Independente da Escola São Paulo—PIESP

Publications Include

Artforum; Art Nexus; Art + Text; Frieze; Exit; Tate etc

Curatorial Projects Include

“F[r]icciones,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; 27th Bienal de São Paulo; “Belo Horizonte,” Museu de Arte da Pampulha; “InSite_05,” San Diego/Tijuana; “31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira,” Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

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

Robert Pincus-Witten

Art historian, Critic

Education

BA, The Cooper Union; MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Books Include

Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism; Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art 1966-1986; Robert Indiana: The Artist and His Work 1955-2005; American Works 1945-1975; Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art

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

Julia Scher

Artist

Education

BA, University of California, Los Angeles; MFA, University of Minnesota

Exhibitions Include

Venice Biennale; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; The Walker Art Center, Minnesota; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Awards

John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Installation Art; The Bunting Institute Fellowship for Surveillance Studies; National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Installation Art

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

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, Whitney Museum of American Art

Education

MA, PhD, Boston University

Books and Catalogues Include

Keith Haring; Nan Goldin: I’ll be Your Mirror; City of Ambition: Artists of New York; William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008; Eva Hesse: Sculpture

Awards

Rockefeller Foundation Residency

András Szántó

Arts educator, Writer

Education

BA, Budapest University of Economics; MA, PhD, Columbia University

Publications Include

The Art Newspaper; The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; ArtWorldSalon (co-founder)

Books Include

A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era; The New Gatekeepers: Emerging Challenges to Free Expression in the Arts; What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics.

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

The Port Huron Project, StarryNight

Exhibitions include

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Arlington Arts Center, VA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Park Avenue Armory; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

Publications include

Artscope, Now Toronto, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Art Papers, Frieze, The New York Times, Atopia, Artforum, Zing

Awards and honors include

Silver Award, I.D. Interactive Media Design Review; New York Foundation for the Arts; Elizabeth Foundation; Creative Capital; New York State Council on the Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Rockefeller Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; CEC ArtsLink

Web site

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)

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

Lawrence Weiner

Artist

One Person Exhibitions Include

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Power Plant, Toronto; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The National Maritime Museum, London

Group Exhibitions Include

Venice Biennale, Venice; Biennale, Sao Paolo; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Swiss Institute, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Frome, Somerset

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Skowhegan Medal for Painting/ Conceptual Art; Wolfgang Hahn Prize

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

Linda Yablonsky

Writer, art critic, columnist, Artforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, contributing editor, ARTnews

Education

BA, New York University

Author

The Story of Junk: A Novel. Co-author, Face Addict

Books include

Contributor, The Concert I Can't Forget; The Creative Time Book; Okay You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors; Curve: The Nude in Contemporary Art; Time Out Book of New York Walks: 23 Walks Around the Big Apple; Bomb! Speak Fiction and Poetry; Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from the Portable Lower East Side

Publications include

The New York Times, W magazine; New York Magazine; Bloomberg News, Time Out New York, Art & Auction, Elle Decor, Art on Paper, Art in America, The Village Voice, Art Newspaper

Awards and honors include

Peter S. Reed Foundation

Artist residencies include

Yaddo, MacDowell Colony