Baeza is a painter and printmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His recent solo exhibitions include Through the Flesh to Elsewhere at the Mistake Room, Los Angeles; La Emergencia de Hacer Memoria at Fortnight Institute, New York; and Felipe Baeza at Maureen Paley, London.

His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Art Institute, and The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C. His work will be included in the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans, Yesterday we said tomorrow, in the fall of 2021. He received a MFA from Yale University and a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

http://www.felipebaeza.com

Born 1982, Bogotá, Colombia Lives and works in New York, NY

Maria Berrio’s large collaged works—comprised of diversely sourced papers, depict surrealist narratives that blur biographical memory with South American mythology. Her work explores themes such as intercultural connectivity, migration and humankind’s relationship to nature. Maria Berrio received her BFA at Parsons School of Design and MFA at the School for Visual Arts. Maria’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Musuem of American Art in New York, The Nasher Museum in North Carolina, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas and the Ford Foundation in New York. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, participating in exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio in New York and The Nasher Museum in North Carolina, among others. Most recently, Berrio’s work was included in Prospect 4 Triennial in New Orleans and this year her permanent public art will be installed in a New York City subway station, commissioned by the MTA Arts and Design program.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.kohngallery.com/berrio

Chromati has garnered critical and institutional attention for figurative paintings that are shaped by fragmented forms of desire and constant motion. Bursts of complex color, sensual protrusions, and texture deploy abstraction to explore various contemporary realities of black woman. These bodies are at once imaginative, bordering on grotesque, and celebratory as they convey a variety of emotional and spiritual states of being. Chromati was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, attended the Pratt Institute, and is now based in New York City. Recently, her work was on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and The Delaware Contemporary. She has been featured in The New York Times, i-D, Interview Magazine, Juxtapoz, Architectural Digest, and Vogue.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.theresachromati.black

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in 2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA GA.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.byaridannielle.com

Ebinama has had recent exhibitions at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; Fortnight Institute, New York; Boys’ Quarters Project Space, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; and The Breeder, Athens, Greece. Her work has been included in group shows at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; Dak’Art Biennial Off-Site, Dakar, Senegal; 303 Gallery, New York; and La Salita, New York. She is currently illustrating a children’s book written by Kevin Young. Ebinama received her BFA from Boston College and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.chiomaebinama.com

Jahmal’s recent solo exhibitions include Double Down at Almine Rech, New York; GUMBO at CAC Passerelle Brest, France; and Solid Ghosts at Almine Rech, Brussels, as well as shows at Canada Gallery and FiveMyles in New York. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles; and The Journal, New York, among others.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.marcusjahmal.com

Christopher Myers’s recent solo exhibitions include Drapetomania at Fort Gansevoort, Los Angeles; The Red Plague Rid You for Learning Me Your Language at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Nobody Is My Name, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles; and Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me at Fort Gansevoort, New York. Alongside his work as a visual artist, Myers is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and heads an imprint at Random House.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://www.kalyban.com/home

Naudline Pierre’s work has been included in exhibitions at the The Armory Show, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest; Perrotin, Seoul; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London among others. Pierre’s works are in the permanent collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami; CC Foundation, Shanghai; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Pierre was a 2019–2020 artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and an exhibition featuring the work of the resident artists, This Longing Vessel, recently opened at MoMA PS1, Queens, New York. In the fall of 2021 her work will be included in the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans, Yesterday we said tomorrow, and she will have a solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Pierre holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Andrews University.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://naudline.com

Ilana Savdie has had solo exhibitions at Deli Gallery, New York; ltd Los Angeles; and Stream Gallery, New York, and has been included in group shows at Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium; and Casstle, Antwerp, Belgium among others. Savdie is currently an artist in residence at NXTHVN in New Haven, Connecticut.

Initiatives involved in:
Walls for a Cause NYC

https://ilanasavdie.format.com

Jenny Holzer is an American Conceptual artist best known for her text-based public art projects. Exploring how language is used both as a form of communication and as a means of concealment and control, Holzer has employed a variety of media throughout her career, including large-scale projections, LED displays, T-shirts, and posters. “I used language because I wanted to offer content that people—not necessarily art people—could understand,” she explained. Born on July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, OH, Holzer received her BFA from Ohio University in 1972 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. Her popular series Truisms began in 1977, when she started pasting ambiguous quotes such as “ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE” and “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT” throughout New York, while enrolled in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

https://projects.jennyholzer.com

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and people suspended or in motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both visceral and literary, individual and collective, animate and inanimate, silent and spoken. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. Whether inhabiting a building four stories high or confined to the surface of a thimble, the genesis of Hamilton’s art extends outwards from the primary projections of the hand and mouth. Her attention to the uttering of a sound or the shaping of a word with the hand places language and text at the tactile and metaphoric center of her installations. To enter their liminality is to be drawn equally into the sensory and linguistic capacities of comprehension that construct our faculties of memory, reason and imagination.

https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com

Genevieve Gaignard (b. 1981, Orange, Massachusetts; lives and works in Los Angeles) received her MFA in Photography at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and her BFA in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She had a major solo project, Smell the Roses, at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles in 2016, and more recently a solo exhibition, I’m Sorry I Never Told You That You’re Beautiful, at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery in 2019. She has participated in group exhibitions throughout the United States, including shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the California African American Museum, and the Houston Center for Photography. A newly commissioned work of Gaignard’s was included in the Prospect.4 Triennial, The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, in New Orleans in 2017. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, W Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Artforum, among others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem; California African American Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Seattle Museum of Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Initiatives involved in:
Arts & Entertainment Atlanta District

http://www.genevievegaignard.com

Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Determined as ever to enter the picture—both literally and metaphorically—Weems has sustained an on-going dialogue within contemporary discourse for over thirty years. During this time, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a complex body of art employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. In a New York Times review of her retrospective, Holland Cotter wrote, “Ms. Weems is what she has always been, a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible. “Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain.

http://carriemaeweems.net

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson merging traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to create a new hybrid visual vocabulary. Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is forging a multifarious practice that redresses the exclusion and erasure of indigenous art traditions from the history of Western art as it explores the complexity and fluidity of identity.

Initiatives involved in:
Art for Action

https://www.jeffreygibson.net

Tomashi Jackson was born in Houston, Texas in 1980 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She was included in the Whitney Biennial 2019, and her first solo museum exhibition, Interstate Love Song, took place at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia in 2018. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at MoCA Los Angeles, MASS MoCA, and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans. Jackson was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She will have a solo exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum during the summer of 2020. Her work is included in the collection of MOCA Los Angeles. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; and Cooper Union, NY, and she has been a visiting artist at New York University. Jackson lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City.

Initiatives involved in:
Art for Action

https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/tomashi-jackson/about

Nari Ward (b. 1963, Saint Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in New York) received a BA from City University of New York, Hunter College in 1989, and an MFA from City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 1992. His work has been the subject of two major retrospectives: Sun Splashed, which originated at Pérez Art Museum Miami and travelled to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the ICA Boston; and We the People, which was organized by the New Museum in New York and traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. He has had additional solo exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Georgia; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

https://www.nariwardstudio.com

Initiatives involved in:
For Freedoms: 2020 Awakening

https://forfreedoms.org/

Hank (b. 1976 Plainfield, NJ) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY as a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the International Center of Photography, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Musée du quai Branly, Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.

His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), The Writing on the Wall, and For Freedoms. In 2017, For Freedoms was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), The Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), Aperture West Book Prize (2008), Renew Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2007), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (2006). He is also a member of the Public Design Commission for the City of New York.

Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Patrick Martinez’s L.A. suburban upbringing and his diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican and Native American), provided him with a unique lens through which he interprets his surroundings. Influenced by the Hip Hop movement, Martinez cultivated his art practice through graffiti, which later led him to the Art Center College of Design, where he earned a BFA with honors in 2005. Through his facility with a wide variety of media(painting, neon, ceramic and sculpture), Martinez colorfully scrutinizes otherwise everyday realities of suburban and urban life in L.A. with humor, sensitivity and wit. Patrick Martinez, (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005.

http://patrickmartinez.com

Gerald Lovell is an Atlanta-based artist who has gained nationwide recognition for his distinctive style of figurative painting. Lovell’s artistic practice focuses on his own life as a means of self-discovery and self-articulation. The subjects of his vivid portraits are moments from his own life, captured in semi-candid photographs and then memorialized on canvas. Each portrait thoughtfully reflects details and expressions that create an intimate view into the lives of his subjects and Lovell’s own urban millennial experience. One of the elements that defines Lovell’s unique aesthetic style is his bold, expressive layering of paint. Background elements rendered in exaggerated flatness contrast with focal points are emphasized through thick and mottled paint. Lovell’s heavy application of the impasto painting style translates his subjects into three-dimensional figures within a flat canvas.

https://www.ppowgallery.com/artist/gerald-lovell/work

Devan Shimoyama works in portraiture, creating works that draw inspiration from the narratives of classical mythology and drama, as well as from pop culture imagery. Shimoyama often focuses on the Black, queer male figure, reframing and reimagining terms of representation. While his primary medium is painting, Shimoyama also works in collage, photography, and installation––sometimes all together––using bold, ecstatic aesthetics to imbue images of himself and others with a kind of surreal and otherworldly magic. Shimoyama often bases his compositions on photographs or on major works of Western art history, imbuing them with a bright, saturated palette and a dynamic, contemporary energy. He uses different materials to add texture and luminosity to his canvases––including glitter, rhinestones, sequins, costume jewelry, and metallic paint––which also allude to camp, drag, and club aesthetics.

https://debuckgallery.com/artist/devan-shimoyama

Sadie Barnette is an important emerging voice within the American arts landscape. Based in Oakland, Barnette mines the everyday to create works across mediums, including drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation that can make the mundane appear transcendent and reveal hidden and obscured histories. Barnette is becoming best known for her immersive installations that reimagine domestic and public spaces into spectacular, vibrant places for people to gather –– living rooms and bars conjured from metallic vinyl, shades of pink, gold finishes, and sparkling surfaces. Using pop aesthetics, the artist offers a reprieve from our day – to – day lives, literalizing and constructing an imaginative space of escape. In her two – and three – dimensional works, the artist employs found objects and often sources material from family archives –– including the 500 – page FBI surveillance file kept on her father, who founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968.

https://sadiebarnette.com/homes

Barbara Kruger is an American Conceptual artist known for her combination of type and image that conveys a direct feminist cultural critique. Her works examine stereotypes and the behaviors of consumerism with text layered over mass-media images. Rendered with black-and-white, red accented, Futura Bold Oblique font, inspired by the Constructivist Alexander Rodechenko, her works offer up short phrases such as “Thinking of You,” “You are a captive audience,” and “I shop therefore I am.” Like multimedia artist Jenny Holzer, Kruger uses language to broadcast her ideas in a myriad of ways, including prints, T-shirts, posters, photographs, electronic signs, and billboards. “I’m fascinated with the difference between supposedly private and supposedly public and I try to engage the issue of what it means to live in a society that’s seemingly shock-proof, yet still is compelled to exercise secrecy,” she explained of her work.

https://www.moma.org/artists/3266

Devon Tsuno is an artist and fourth generation Angeleno. His recent spray paint and acrylic paintings, installations, and public art focus on Japanese American history. Tsuno’s interests have been central to his work with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Topaz Museum, Utah; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Candlewood Arts Festival, Borrego Springs, California; LA Metro; and Gallery Lara, Tokyo. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, KCET, Artillery Magazine, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. Tsuno is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee, and was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. He is a member of J-TOWN Action と Solidarity and is an Associate Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills.

Initiatives involved in:
Shikata Ga Nai 2022

https://www.instagram.com/devontsunostudio/?hl=en

Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.

http://jihamoon.com/

Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, is an American contemporary artist, best known for his dynamic, vivid and colorful abstract paintings and monumental wall pieces. He utilizes unique color and composition in his installations to evoke a bold presence in the varied spaces they inhabit. Brewer, a native of Atlanta, Georgia began his career painting and writing on the walls around the city at a young age. He discovered his love for creating art in public spaces through graffiti in the 1990’s. He produces numerous public works worldwide through a combination of techniques learned through graffiti writing and the formal language of abstract painting.

https://hensethename.com/

From a young age, Atlanta-based Ash Hayner has been a visual artist. Hayner, who goes by the moniker Wolfdog, began his career as a graphic designer, and has progressively distilled his visual language to the bare necessities of color, line, form, value and texture, crafting images that merge the fundamental characteristics of expressionism with his personal interpretation of technological layering. An accomplished designer, Hayner has exhibited works in both public and private settings across the United States.

Initiatives involved in:
Arts & Entertainment Atlanta District

Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts, serving students who reflect the diversity of Boston’s neighborhoods. Boston Arts Academy serves as a laboratory and a beacon for artistic and academic innovation, preparing a diverse community of aspiring artist scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society.

Initiatives involved in:
Boston Arts Academy

Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he serves as Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. In 2022, he was the subject of a major survey jointly organized by the Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein in Munich. Other recent solo exhibitions include De Balie, Amsterdam (2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2022, 2018); Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester (2021); MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome (2021); CIRCA, London (2021); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2020); ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels (2020); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020); BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Luma Westbau, Zurich (2019); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2019); The Shed, New York (2019); Kunsthall Bergen, Norway (2018); and REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012).His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunsthallen, Copenhagen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

Mikael Owunna is a Nigerian American multimedia artist, filmmaker, engineer. He is the Director of Mikael Owunna Studios, LLC., a full service art production company, and the co-founder of Rainbow Serpent, Inc., a Black LGBTQ art nonprofit organization. Exploring the intersections of technology, art, and African cosmologies, his work seeks to elucidate an emancipatory vision of possibility that revives traditional African knowledge systems and pushes people beyond all boundaries, restrictions, and frontiers.

Owunna’s work has been exhibited across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America and has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nasher Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Middlebury College Museum of Art; Equal Justice Initiative; Duke University Pratt School of Engineering; and National Taiwan Museum. His work has also been featured in media ranging from The New York Times to CNN, NPR, VICE, and The Guardian. He has lectured at venues including Harvard Law School, World Press Photo (Netherlands), Tate Modern (UK), and TEDx. Owunna has published two monographs: Limitless Africans (FotoEvidence, 2019) and Cosmologies (ClampArt, 2021). Owunna’s multimedia practice includes film, and in 2021 he directed the dance film Obi Mbu (The Primordial House) with Marques Redd. Owunna’s work has been commissioned for major public art installations by organizations including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Foundation, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Pittsburgh International Airport, and Orange Barrel Media.

Mikael Owunna Studios, LLC. is a minority and LGBT-owned business and is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and LGBT Business Enterprise (LGBTBE).

Kenneth Alexander is a painter, motion artist, and curator based in Memphis, TN. He fuses anime and digital art with his traditional style to create a new vision often drawn from his dreams. Growing up in South Memphis, Kenneth was in constant pursuit of an art community. After being accepted into a local performing arts high school, he never looked back.

Alexander’s artwork has been shown in over two dozen exhibitions, including “Surreal Kingdoms” at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, garnering him national attention. Being a juror for the 2016 and 2021 Mid-South Scholastic Art Competition — and being the keynote speaker in the former — he has changed lives of young aspiring artists by awarding them scholarships for their hard work and dedication. After curating “Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” an ArtsMemphis exhibition for the Bicentennial of Memphis, he has spread influence and inspiration to working artists all around the city. This has, is turn, landed him more curatorial work for outside projects.

Alexander is also well known for his work as a set designer and art director on networks like NBC, Apple TV, and BET. He draws inspiration from some of the great surrealists, namely Salvador Dali, but he is ultimately pioneering the way in a new age of digital art.

Known for her exuberant abstractions, Sarah Cain (b.1979) often extends her practice beyond the canvas into immersive architecture interventions, stained glass, intimate works on paper and furniture.

Cain’s muscular, gestural painting embraces a strategically intuitive power that both undermines and expands our expectations of what has been historically considered “serious” abstract painting. Her color-soaked palette often mixes with a wide range of found objects that in turn complement her titles, which range in reference from the sweet to the erotic, from the mystical to the political. Cain redefines abstraction in feminist terms as an architecture for transformative, embodied, emotive experience. Her work emphatically insists on the value of feminine, queer, and other “othered” aesthetics, intentionally subverting male-dominated art historical traditions.

One of Detroit’s most acclaimed artists and educators, Charles McGee is known for his public murals and sculptures around the city, as well as for his large-scale mixed-media works that play with color, line, and patterns. A skilled draftsman, McGee often focused on depictions of everyday Black life, as in his early charcoal portraits. Inspired by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Jean Dubuffet, McGee began incorporating more abstract elements in his art in the 1960s and ’70s, creating paintings, sculptures, and assemblages with scavenged objects. His black-and-white sculpture “United We Stand” (2008), installed outside Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, exemplifies his ability to blend divergent styles and dynamic forms into harmonious compositions. Permanently installed at sites from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Henry Ford Hospital, McGee’s work is just one part of his legacy in his community, where he also founded numerous galleries and arts organizations to support emerging Black makers.

Initiatives involved in:
Charles McGee x Library Street Collective

For the last 20 years, Adam has worked as a professional artist. His paintings use flat, graphic lines and colors that are simultaneously familiar and unique to his style. His works have been featured widely in galleries, museums, publications, and exhibitions.

https://www.adambrouillette.com/

Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2023); FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, (2022); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2021); Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (2017); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017). He was awarded the United States Artist Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellowship in 2016. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Satterwhite has collaborated with several musicians, including Solange Knowles in 2019 on her visual album, “When I Get Home,” The 1975 in 2020 on the music video for “Having No Head,” and Perfume Genius in 2022 on his album, “Ugly Season.” He was awarded a public art commission in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Public Art Fund to inaugurate Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, which debuted in October 2022 in New York.

Jennifer West was born in 1966 in Topanga, California. She is a Los Angeles-based artist who has explored materialism in film for more than fifteen years. Significant commissions include works for LIAF Biennial, Norway (2022); Seattle Art Museum (2016); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016); The High Line, New York (2012); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2010); and Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London (2009). West has had solo exhibitions at JOAN Los Angeles (2020); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2018); Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Seattle Art Museum (2016); Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Sardinia (2017); Tramway, Glasgow (2016); S1 Artspace, Sheffield, United Kingdom (2012); Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (2010); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, (2010); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2008); White Columns, New York (2007). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum, New York; Drawing Center, New York; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Barbican, London; Kusthalle Schirn, Frankfurt; Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts, Bordeaux; and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, among others. West received an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Frieze, Mousse Magazine, and Mubi Notebook. West has produced fifteen ‘zine artist books in the Getty Museum collection. She has lectured widely on her ideas of the “Analogital” and is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Fine Arts at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design in California. In 2022, a significant monograph on her work, Media Archaeology, was published by Radius Books, funded by a grant from the Thoma Foundation.

Danielle Dean (b. 1982, Huntsville, Alabama) received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is a professor in the Art Department at UC San Diego. She has had solo exhibitions at 47 Canal, New York; Cubitt Gallery, London; ICA San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Performa 21, New York; Tate Britain, London; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. She was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial in New York.

Victoria Fu (b. 1978, Los Angeles) is based in San Diego, where she is Associate Professor of Art at University of San Diego. She received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan. She has had solo presentations of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Frieze Los Angeles; Katonah Museum of Art, New York; Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P), Columbus, Ohio; The Contemporary, Baltimore; and University Art Gallery at University California Irvine.

Jessica Taylor Bellamy (b. 1992, Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist working in oil painting, sculpture, and video to explore the relationship between the dichotomous themes of utopia and dystopia, human and nature, fantasy and reality, and the collapsing of time in Los Angeles.

Bellamy is based in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from the Roski School of Art at the University of Southern California in 2022 and a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California in 2014. A recent solo exhibition, Endnotes for Sunshine, marked her debut with representing gallery Anat Ebgi. Bellamy’s work has been featured in exhibitions with Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; GRIMM, New York; Lyles and King Gallery, New York; Make Room LA, Los Angeles; Superposition Gallery hosted at Ochi Aux, Los Angeles, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles.

Amia Yokoyama (b. Illinois) is a multimedia artist who works with ceramics, experimental animation, video, sculpture, and installation. Throughout her practice, the artist creates with fragments from her current reality, traditional mythologies, and internet folklore, recombining them to amalgamate alternate universes within post-human landscapes.

Yokoyama has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at Sebastian Gladstone, In Lieu Gallery, and Jace Space. She has been included in group shows in the city at Craft Contemporary, Japanese American Cultural Center, Sow And Tailor, The Brand Library and Art Center, Murmurs Gallery, and Dread Lounge among others, and in New York at Border Project Space, Drawing Center, Flux Factory, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Most recently she was included in Clay Pop, a survey of contemporary ceramic practices, at Jeffrey Deitch in New York and Los Angeles. She received her BA from The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles, and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Rami George (b. 1989, Somerville, Massachusetts; they/their) is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. George’s works have been exhibited and screened at solo and group exhibitions in several galleries and other venues around the United States and United Kingdom, including the MIT List Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia; Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada; Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Portland, Oregon; Lightbox Film Center. Philadelphia; Anthology Film Archives, New York; and LUX in London. George earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California) is based in Berlin. She received her BS from the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and an MFA from both Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Kim’s work has been extensively exhibited and performed internationally. Her solo exhibition, Oh Me Oh My, is being presented at Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and was organized in collaboration between that institution, The Frances Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Additional solo exhibitions and performances have taken place at institutions including Somerset House, London; Secession, Vienna; Queens Museum, New York; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been included in recent group exhibitions including the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Smithsonian American Art, Washington, D.C.; The Drawing Center, New York; Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is represented by François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and White Space in Beijing.

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (they/them) an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives/works between Lisjan Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. With roots in storytelling, Branfman-Verissimo’s work is informed by their commitment to craft and community, engagement with society, and interests in preserving and broadcasting B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. stories. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at Konsthall C [Stockholm, Sweden], SEPTEMBER Gallery [Kinderhook, NY], EFA Project Space [New York City, NY], Leslie Lohman Museum [New York City, NY], Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [San Francisco, CA] and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [Berkeley, CA], amongst others. Their artist books and prints have been published by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Press Press, Sming Sming and Night Diver Press, and most recently with Printed Matter Inc.

https://lukazabranfmanverissimo.com/

David Hartt’s conceptual and research-based art is rooted in his interest in the intricacies of history and place. In his videos, photographs, tapestries and installations, he often hones in on a site or certain historical figures to generate works that illuminate uncanny congruences that run through the past and present. Hartt lives and works in Philadelphia. He received his BFA from the University of Ottawa in 1991 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut; Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Art Institute of Chicago; and David Nolan Gallery, New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Whitney Museum of American Art; Print Center, Philadelphia; and Art Gallery of Ontario.

Cedric Mizero is a Rwandan artist and filmmaker whose work is characterized by his investigation of personal and collective memories, design, and aesthetics. Mizero is the director of Umutima/The Heart (2022), Dreaming My Memory (2019), and New Life in the Village (2019). He is the production designer, costume designer and provided artistic direction to Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost (Rwanda / USA, 2021). Cedric Mizero’s work has previously been exhibited at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast; 180 Strand, London; and Kigali Fashion Week, and is currently on view at the Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh in collaboration with FashionAFRICANA. Mizero is currently participating in the inaugural Crenshaw Dairy Mart Gallery: OPEN STUDIO project in Inglewood, a series of ongoing intimate presentations of international artists’ works from the diaspora—Africa in particular—and their dialogue with local Inglewood and South Central-based artists.

Chris E. Vargas is an interdisciplinary artist and video maker. Born and raised in Los Angeles, his work deploys humor and performance to explore his identity as a Latinx transman. In video, collage, and installation, Vargas considers the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical and institutional memory and popular culture. He has shown at the New Museum, New York; the Henry Museum in Seattle; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the ONE Archives in Los Angeles. He earned his MFA in the department of Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011. From 2008–2013, he made, in collaboration with Greg Youmans, the web-based trans/ cisgender sitcom Falling In Love…with Chris and Greg. Episodes of the series have screened at numerous film festivals and art venues, including MIX NYC, SF Camerawork, and the Tate Modern. With Eric Stanley, Vargas co-directed the movie Homotopia (2006) and its feature-length sequel Criminal (2015) which have been screened at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, and the New Museum among other venues. Vargas is the Executive Director of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art.

Eve Fowler is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the problems, possibilities, and ethics of what it means to bear witness to the work, body, and life of another. Her practice is catalyzed by an urgency to turn attention towards what has been historically unseen, unheard, unmarked. Whether working through a camera’s lens or in paint, installation, sound, or public space, her practice moves in and with the margins: towards what has been unrepresented, ignored, struck from the record.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Fowler earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art. She is a recipient of a 2016 Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York and a 2018 Art Matters grant. She was a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2018-19). She is a 2021 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Fowler is a recipient of the 2022 Roy Lichtenstein Award from the Foundation Contemporary Art, New York.

Born in Phoenix, Andrea Marie Breiling lives in New York. She received her BFA in Studio Art and Gender Studies from UC Irvine in 2008 and her MFA in Studio Art from Claremont Graduate University in 2014. Breiling has had solo exhibitions with Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and Almine Rech in New York, London, and Brussels, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at spaces including Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Collaborations, Copenhagen; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Hesse Flatow, New York; Library Street Collective, Detroit; The Mass, Tokyo; Rachel Uffner, New York; Various Small Fires, Seoul; and Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles.

Tom Rees (b. 1988) is from England and lives in New York. He works in painting and printmaking, and is interested in storytelling, humor, and mythology in his figurative and landscape images. His works have a rough-hewn, graphic quality in which gestures and scenes border on the abstract. He obtained his BA in Fine art from Goldsmiths University of London. Recent exhibitions include a solo show in Athens, Greece, and a number of group shows in New York.

Olivia Taussig (b. 1986) is an artist who creates still and moving work. Her work is generated from graphite, gouache and ink as well as live action video, sculpture and natural elements such as wind and. Taussig incorporates traditional hand drawn animation, multi-plane animation techniques, along with 2D and 3D computer animation. Taussig works on independent projects and teaches animation at Pratt Institute and Parsons, New School in New York City. Their work has been screened at the Whitney Museum, New York; SXSW, Austin; Melbourne Film Festival; Afterglow LA; and other international festivals and galleries. Taussig obtained their BA in Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and their MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation.

Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending age of post-demography.

Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami, FL, where he received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts. Guerrier recently had a solo exhibition at Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL.  He has exhibited work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Harn Musem of Art, Gainesville, FL; and The Whitney Biennial 2008.  His works can be found in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times and ARTNews, among others.

Jesús Emmanuel Villarreal has been recognized for his artistic abilities since his early teen years in Miami, Florida, where he studied at the South Miami School of Arts while taking additional studio instruction with Abdon J. Romero. He earned his B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore in 2006, and then spent three years studying and graduating from The Florence Academy of Art. Upon returning to America, the artist started teaching at The Silvermine Arts Center, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and was a guest lecturer at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Later also teaching at the brand new branch of The Florence Academy of Art in New Jersey. Over his career, Villarreal has won numerous awards, scholarships, and honors, including the coveted Grand Prize in the 2011 Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, the Art Renewal Center’s Annual Scholarship Competition, and The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant among others. He has shown his work in several group and solo exhibitions in America and abroad. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and is currently showing at Forum Gallery in New York. He lives and works in Miami, where he serves as the Director of the Visual Arts Magnet Program at South Miami Middle School.

Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-born American artist who alternates between observational photography and studio practice. In 2024, her exhibition, ‘Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans,’ will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The exhibition coincides with the release of Samoylova’s career-to-date monograph, Adaptation, published by Thames & Hudson.

Upon relocating to Miami, Florida, in 2016, she pursued observational photographic practice, leading to her lyrical and incisive first major monograph, FloodZone, which formed a study on the visualization of environmental threats posed to flood-risked communities in Miami and beyond. In her Floridas project, she gestures toward the state of Florida itself, forming a kaleidoscopic and contradictory portrait of how the state’s unique cultural and political psyche manifests in visual form. In 2021, Samoylova began Image Cities, in which she trained her lens globally within some of the world’s most significant urban centers while examining the images that cover their surfaces.