Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a pioneer of conceptual art and performance. Associated with Fluxus, she was a major figure in the New York avant-garde art scene as a filmmaker, experimental music composer, and vocalist. Together with La Monte Young she organized a seminal series of performances in her Chambers Street loft. [...]

Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid

Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid were born in Moscow, Komar on September 11, 1943 and Melamid on July 14, 1945. Both artists attended the Moscow Art School from 1958 to 1960, and the Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow, from 1962 to 1967. Their collaborative work started in 1965, [...]

Virginia de Medeiros

Virginia de Medeiros’ work centers on documentary strategies, as a means to transgress mainstream accounts and question the boundaries between reality and fiction. The artist deals with three themes within the field of art and documentary: dislocation, participation, and fabulation. Adapting documentary images and lived accounts, she employs the latter [...]

Vanessa German 

Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. Homewood is the community that is the driving force behind German’s powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics form the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. As a citizen artist, German explores the power of art and love as a [...]

Todd Bartel

Todd Bartel received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design concluding his studies at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, between 1984-1985. In 1990, he was a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. He earned an MFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993. Bartel was awarded [...]

Thalia Gatzouli

Thalia Gatzouli Born in 1966, in Drama, Greece. Graduated from the Medical School, Aristotle University,Thessaloniki, GR(1989), from the Fellowship in Research, Yale University, New Haven,US(1990), completed the Nuclear Medicine specialty at Theagenion Hospital Thessaloniki(1995) and her didactorship thesis in Neurosciences at AristotleUniversity(2005). Graduated with honors from the Fine Arts School,Aristotle [...]

Terry Boddie

Terry Boddie’s work as a photographer and multi-disciplinary artist explores the historical and contemporary aspects of memory, migration, and globalization. The images often blur the distinctions between photography, drawing, and painting. He received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1989 and an MFA from Hunter College [...]

Tanya Aguiñiga

Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts [...]

Suzanne Lacy

Suzanne Lacy is an internationally renowned pioneer of social practice and feminist art. Her performances, video and photographic installations, critical writing, and public practice, address sexual violence, gender, poverty, incarceration, labor, and aging. One of the Los Angeles performance artists who shaped art of social engagement in the 1970s, she [...]

Sung Ho Choi

Born in Seoul, Korea, Sung Ho Choi has lived and worked in New York City andBergen County of New Jersey since 1981. He completed BFA at Hong IK University inSeoul in 1980 and received MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 1984. Nearly 40 years, His works have been shown [...]

Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. Using critical wit and collaborative co-creation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order [...]

Stephanie Hightower

Stephanie Hightower published URBAN ARCADIA, in February 2015, with Dorothea Hokema.  The limited edition book documents paintings, drawings, photography and scientific survey made for two site specific exhibitions in New York.  Works were on view in 2014 at The Flatiron Art Space, and the New York Public Library.  Currently on [...]

Sonya Kelliher-Combs

An artist of mixed decent: Iñupiaq from the North Slope of Alaska, Athabascan from the Interior, German and Irish, Sonya Kelliher-Combs uses imagery and symbols that speak about culture and the life of her ancestors, and marginalization and the struggles of Indigenous peoples. She participated in numerous group exhibitions, including [...]

Sonia Andrade

A pioneer of video art in the 1970s, Sonia Andrade’s career spans mail art, drawing, photography and installation. Her work exists outside the rules of the market and the prevailing system of Brazilian art from that period. Her experimental videos place the body at the center of the action, constructed [...]

Sherrill Roland

Sherrill Roland was born in Asheville, NC, received both his BFA in Design and MFA in StudioArt from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Sherrill is an interdisciplinary artist and the founder of The Jumpsuit Project. His Socially Engaged Art project has been presented at Open EngagementChicago, Oakland City [...]

Senga Nengudi

Senga Nengudi was part of the avant-garde black art scene in Los Angeles and New York during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1975 she combined the simplicity of Japanese Minimalism with African ritual, African-American improvisation, and Western vernacular to create a new visual language in respondez s’il vous plait (R.S.V.P.) [...]

Sallisa Rosa

Sallisa Rosa, from Goiânia, has a Master’s in Journalism and Audiovisual Production from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Rosa’s practice is committed to contemporary investigations of images and themes that are important to her, such as her own identity, the female universe, future, fiction, and decolonization. Her work [...]

Roya Amigh

Roya Amigh earned MFA degrees from the Central Azad University in Tehran, 2010, and Boston University, 2012. She had solo shows at Babson College, MA, 2018; FiveMyles gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Iron Tail Gallery, Lincoln, NE, 2017. Group shows include Yangpyeong Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2018; the Museum of Contemporary [...]

Robert Zott

For over 25 years, Robert Zott has taken photographs of tombstones bearing single last names that are common English words. The New York Times has said“Robert Zott’s surveying of graveyards to find tombstones with startlingly appropriate names on them is a fascinating and increasingly well-known obsession.” His work has appeared [...]

Regina Vater

Regina Vater was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1943. She studied painting and drawing with Frank Schaeffer (1917–2008) between 1958 and 1962 and with Iberê Camargo (1914–1994) between 1962 and 1965. Vater studied architecture at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. Her production explores a [...]

Regina Parra

Regina Parra has an MFA in Art History from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a BFA in Fine Arts from FAAP. She also studied theater and worked in the field with Antunes Filho (1929-2019) for many years. The connection between the performing arts—especially Greek tragedy—is present in her production as a [...]

Rafael Pagatini

Rafael Pagatini (b.1985 in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, lives and works in Vitória, Brazil) is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual Arts at State University of Campinas, São Paulo. Pagatini draws on printmaking, photography and installation to investigate the relations between art, memory, and politics. The investigation starts from the [...]

Rafael BQueer

Rafael BQueer lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. BQueer graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). His work transits through different languages ​​such as performance, video, photography, among other practices and from investigations on the body, decoloniality, gender, and sexuality. He participated [...]

Paul Rucker

Rucker is a composer, musician, visual artist who often combines media, integrating live performance, sound, video, animation, original compositions, storytelling and visual art. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impact, human rights issues, historical research, and basic human emotions surrounding particular [...]

Nino Cais

Nino Cais studied art at Santa Marcelina University (FASM) in São Paulo. Since he graduated in 2001, he has participated in several exhibitions in Brazil, such as the 30th International São Paulo Biennial (2012) and the 3rd Bahia Biennial (2014), as well as in Mexico, France, USA, China, Portugal and [...]

Nicholas Moore

Nicholas Moore‘s art is campy, surprising, lucid, fussy, symbolistic, and sincere. At times impulsive, sometimes reactive, British native Moore manages all of the above by letting his instincts guide him. Moore’s one-person exhibition at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York (located at 13th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues) [...]

Natalie Frank

Natalie Frank explores contemporary discourse on feminism, sexuality, and violence. Recent drawings and books The Story of O and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice use literature as inspiration. Her gouache and chalk pastel drawings of the unsanitized Brothers Grimm tales, bring back, with Jack Zipes’ translations, aspects of incest, rape and physical [...]

Naima Ramos-Chapman

Naima Ramos-Chapman is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. She tells stories of transformation and understated bravery that stem from true accounts, incorporate magical realism and use choreographed gestural movement to render psycho-spiritual realities we cannot see. She trained at The Alvin Ailey School for Dance, The Barrow Group for Acting, [...]

Moises Patricio

Moises Patricio is a visual artist and educator. He works with photography, video, performance, rituals and installations in works that deal with elements of Latin and Afro-Brazilian culture. Amongst the main exhibitions in which he participated are 12th Biennale of Dakar of Contemporary African Art, Museum Of African Arts (Senegal, [...]

Mia Brownell

Mia Brownell was born in Chicago, Illinois to a sculptor and biophysicist. She uses the conventions of the painted food still life as a means to comment on contemporary issues surrounding food and culture. Her paintings simultaneously reference 17th century Dutch Realism and the coiling configurations of molecular imaging. Mia [...]

Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles

Mark Strandquist and Courtney Bowles have spent years using art as a vehicle for connecting diverse communities to amplify, celebrate, and power social justice movements.The media campaigns and immersive exhibitions they direct have helped advocates close prisons, pass laws, train an entire police force and connect the dreams and demands [...]

Marianne Strapatsakis

Marianne Strapatsakis was born in Athens. Her first degree was from the Athens College of Technology in Interior Architecture.She continued her studies in Paris, with a five-yearGrand from the Academy of Athens, at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, at the Ecole du Louvre, and at theUniversity of Paris [...]

Maria Thereza Alves

Maria Thereza Alves has worked and exhibited internationally since the 1980s, creating a body of work that investigates the histories and circumstances of particular localities to give witness to silenced histories. [...]

Maria Karametou

Maria Karametou, (b. Athens, Greece) is a mixed media artist, writer and professor with an international exhibition record that includes: the Ludwig Museum for International Art, Aachen, Germany; the Vorres Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; The National Gallery of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Apartman Projesi, Istanbul, Turkey; Trito Mati Gallery, [...]

Maria Gaspar

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. Gaspar’s work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Her work spans formats and durations, including sound performances at a military [...]

Marcelo Amorim

Marcelo Amorim collects and re-appropriates images, using them as a starting point to produce drawings, paintings and videos. Taken from private collections, manuals, school books, social media, amongst others, the images come from various different sources and seem to have been produced in a distant past. Through montage and transpositions, [...]

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an artist and filmmaker acclaimed for the pioneering use of new technologies through which she addresses issues such as trauma, identity, and the relationship between the real and the virtual. Her work in media-based technology pioneered digital art forms. She also made some of the earliest [...]

Kirsten Stolle

Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, drawing, and installation.Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of corporate propaganda, food politics, and biotechnology. Her work is included in the collections of the SanJose Museum of Art, (San Jose, CA), Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA), and theMinneapolis Institute [...]

Kathleen Gilje

Kathleen Gilje holds BFA from the City College of New York; she later studied 16th & 17th c. Italian Art and Conservation at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, 1967-71. In her paintings, Gilje employs “a tour de force of technical bravura” (Linda Nochlin, Art in America, 2002) revisiting [...]

Karlito Miller Espinosa

Karlito Miller Espinosa (b. San José, Costa Rica, 1989) is a conceptual artist who creates objects and composes installations informed by the direct relationship between capitalism and the structuring role violence plays in its preservation. Through an interdisciplinary practice that employs the artist as researcher and material as witnessMiller Espinosa’s [...]

Karen Finley

Born in Chicago, Karen Finley received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, she has presented her work worldwide in various venues such asThe Bobino in [...]

Kara Walker

Kara Walker is best known for her investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted papercut figures. Her panoramic friezes of black figures against white wall, large scale drawings, video animation, shadow puppets, and “magic lantern” projections, reflect the history of American slavery and contemporary racism. In 2014, her [...]

Judy Haberl

Judy Haberl–Professor Emeritus of Sculpture, in Graduate and UndergraduatePrograms, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, received her MFA fromTufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.She is a Founder of the Claflin SchoolStudios; an Artist’s Residency in Newtonville, MA.She is known as a photographer, sculptor, print maker and installation artist, [...]

Jonathas de Andrade

Jonathas de Andrade was born in 1982 in Maceió, Brazil and lives and works in Recife. The artist uses photography, installation and video to traverse collective memory and history, making use of strategies that shuffle fiction and reality.  De Andrade collects and catalogues architecture, images, texts, life stories and recomposes [...]

João Bueno and Aretha Sadick

Founders of Plataforma Explode! is a platform that researches and experiments with notions of gender, race and class, based on socially perceived peripheral artistic and cultural practices, also crossing fields like pedagogy and social justice. It carries out immersive practices, which emphasize the coexistence and debate of important subjects for [...]

Jenny Holzer

For over forty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her medium, whether formulated as a T-shirt, [...]

Jennifer Karady

Jennifer Karady has worked with American veterans since 2006 to create staged narrative photographs that reveal how their experiences of war infiltrate their daily civilian lives. The series Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan was shown at such venues as the Palm Springs Art Museum, CA, 2014; Slusser Gallery, University [...]

Jaime Lauriano

Jaime Lauriano’s works synthesize the content of his research and formalization strategies, calling us to examine the structures of power involved in the production of history. In audiovisual pieces, objects and critical texts, Lauriano shows how violent relations maintained between the institutions of power and State control – such as [...]

Ismael Monticelli

Ismael Monticelli’s works depart from the sensible observation of the day-by-day life in both the domestic and the institutional environments in order to resignify its spaces, objects and materials. His work develops through various media, such as installation, photography, video and object, without restricting itself to a single technique. He [...]

Igor Vidor

Igor Vidor was born in 1985, São Paulo. After a brief career as a professional athlete, the artist spent the last years driven by experiences on body and sport studies as a means of investigating the relationship between body, social and historical aspects. His work includes collections such as the [...]

Hwang Junghoo

Hwang Junghoo was born in Gwangju, Korea in 1973. In 1995, he stayed in France for 10 years, studying art in Saint-étienne Beaux-Arts, and living and working as a residency artist in Beijing for two years from 2015. Consistently talking about the nature of human beings, the various attributes of [...]

Hudinilson Jr.

Hudinilson Jr. was one of the most important Brazilian artists of his generation, influencing the entire Brazilian artistic scene, not only through his personal work – produced between the 70s and 2000s – but also because of his active role as a catalyzing personality of artist groups and experimental exhibitions. [...]

Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture. He received his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography, along with an MA in visual criticism, from California College of the Arts (CCA) [...]

Guerrilla Girls BroadBand

Guerrilla Girls BroadBand is a sister branch of the legendary activist collective Guerrilla Girls, Inc. After the 2001 ‘banana split,’ three separate groups formed: Guerrilla Girls, Inc., Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, and Guerrilla Girls on Tour, Inc. All wear gorilla masks and use the names of deceased women artists. As Guerrilla [...]

Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls is a group of anonymous feminist activist artists launched in 1985 in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, 1984, which included only 13 women among 165 artists. Since its formation, over 55 people have been members. Wearing gorilla [...]

Elizabeth Mobilia Serna

Elizabeth Mobilia Serna is a painter primarily focused on the simplicity of ordinary objects. Observing everyday mundanity and examining how it pertains to the world around us has been a consistent motif throughout her work. Beth has a BA/BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited [...]

Eirini Linardaki

Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens and studied art in France, where she lived for two decades. She lives and works between Heraklio, Paris and New York. She has exhibited in: Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam; Onassis Cultural Center, Athens; Salon de Montrouge, Paris; Fri-Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; Natural History Museum, Geneva; Macedonian [...]

Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac (Rio de Janeiro, 1962) began his artistic career at 18 with his Pornogram series, which merged poetry, photography, performance and body politics. He has since focused on telepresence and bio art. His works integrate robotics, biology and networking to explore the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital [...]

David C. Terry

David C. Terry is an artist, independent curator and cultural producer and is currently the Artistic Director and Curator for C24 Gallery in New York City. Terry, based in Berlin was previously a visiting faculty member at Bard College, Berlin. Prior to Bard, Terry was the Director and Curator of [...]

Dalton Paula

Dalton Paula was born in 1982 in Brasilia and lives in Goiânia.Paula works with painting, photography, and installation to explore the exigencies of the Black Atlantic, knowledge production in the long wake of racial violence, and the religious rites and rituals of the African diaspora. Of particular note are his [...]

CóleraAlegria

CóleraAlegria is a collaborative action of political character. The action’s interest is to express affections, ideas, shouts, suggestions, propositions, reactions (the list is long) about urgencies of the present time. Broadly, the action seeks to re-appropriate symbols, colors, shapes and words misrepresented by right-wing speeches, but also the creation of [...]

Clara Ianni

Clara Ianni (b.1987, São Paulo) is based in São Paulo. Her practice investigates the relationship between power, history and space in the current context of globalized capitalism. Her exhibitions include “Utopia/Distopia – part I”, MAAT Lisbon, Portugal (2017), Talking to Action / Hablar y Actuar, Los Angeles, EUA (2017), Jakarta [...]

Cildo Meireles

One of the most influential conceptual artists today, Cildo Meireles creates complex installations and sculptures that entice the viewer and challenge political, philosophical, and aesthetic precepts. Meireles’s artistic practice was shaped by the social and political conditions during the dictatorship of Brazil in the 1960s and ‘70s, and by the [...]

Chronis Spanos

Chronis Spanos studied Photography in his hometown,Thessaloniki, Greece.  He has been exploring the world of photography for almost two decades. From day one he is seeking light and form in his work. He has a strong interest in architecture and food photography, fields where he works professionally. Artistically, his work [...]

Chris Bors

New York-based artist Chris Bors received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. He has had solo exhibitions at Randall Scott Projects in Washington, D.C. Group exhibitions include PS1 MoMA,Freight+Volume, Arts+Leisure, Kustera Projects, White Columns, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York,Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Bahnwarterhaus in [...]

Carolee Thea

Carolee Thea is an artist, writer, critic, and curator. Blurring formal conventions, her land art pieces, sculptures, video, photography, performance, and paintings mirrored political and social upheavals. Thea had solo exhibitions at the Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY; Queens Museum, NYC; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and Morristown Museum, NJ; [...]

Berna Reale

Berna Reale is one of the most important women in the current contemporary art scene in Brazil. Also a forensic expert, she has produced a body of artwork consisting of performances, photographs, videos and installations, marked by a critical approach to the material, the symbolic aspects of violence, and the [...]

Bang Geul Han

Bang Geul Han employs digital technologies to explore language, body politics and race, and blurs our understanding of private and public territories. She earned her BFA in Painting from the Seoul National University in Korea, 2002, and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from the Alfred University, NY, 2005. She [...]

Arjan Martins

Arjan Martins Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960, Arjan Martins began his artistic studies in the 1990s at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage where he developed the pictorial technique, through which he now addresses issues of the African diaspora and Afro-Atlantic migrations that occurred in the [...]

Antonio Manuel

Covertly political in nature, Antonio Manuel’s work often arises out of the restrictions imposed by military rule and censorship in the 1960s and 70s and constitute a denial of such restriction. Partly as a consequence of the socio-political environment, partly as a creative strategy, he has worked in the interstices [...]

Anna Parisi

Anna Parisi (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based Brazilian artist working predominantly with sculpture and performance. Her work investigates the traumatic experience of black, female-coded, and historically oppressed bodies in order to develop a cultural practice that dismantles and questions patriarchal, heteronormative and racial hegemonies. Through both her artistic and curatorial [...]

Anna Bella Geiger

Anna Bella Geiger studied Linguistics and Anglo-Germanic Language and Literature in Brazil and Sociology and Art History at NYU and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Geiger has taken part in numerous collective exhibitions such as Espai de Lectura 1: Brasil at MACBA, Barcelona in 2009; Modern Women Single Channel at [...]

Angela Fraleigh

Angela Fraleigh’s lavish figurative paintings draw on antique tales of pursuit and abduction to illustrate the charged complexity of wanting and explore narratives of women and marginalized female figures in art history. Fraleigh earned BFA from Boston University and MFA from Yale University. Her solo exhibitions include those at the [...]

Andrea Bowers

Andrea Bowers is a social practice artist who employs a variety of mediums including drawing, installation, and video. Focused on the convergence of art and activism, she addresses topics ranging from environmental activism to immigration and workers’ rights to AIDS, gender discrimination, and rape. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Hammer [...]

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was sent to the US as a child in 1961 as a result of her father’s political engagement. Her work is haunted by the exile’s sense of displacement. In her multidisciplinary art, Mendieta explored themes of feminism, ethnic identity, violence, life, death, place, and belonging. At its core [...]

Aleta Valente

Aleta Valente uses ambiguous strategies in her work, often reiterating the body score of advertising positions that we have all been exposed from an early age – whether by street advertising, magazine covers or on TV – and by which we mark the relationship with our body in the world. [...]

Ada Trillo

Ada Trillo is a photographer and painter, exploring cultural heritage of Mexico and Southwest where she was born. She has a BA in Fashion Design from Istituto Marangoni, Milan, Italy and BA in Marketing from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Trillo’s photographs have been reviewed in The Huffington Post, CBS Philly, [...]

From the industrial suburbs of his hometown to major cities, Randolpho Lamonier develops his visual research using many different media and processes. His work brings together an accumulation of elements and gestures which reflect upon the construction of individual and collective identities. The interweaving between intimacy and public matters articulates [...]