Debbie Hillyerd
Debbie joined Hauser & Wirth Somerset from Bath Spa University where, since 2004, she worked as an Associate Lecturer teaching Critical Studies, Fine Art and Curatorial Practice. This is the second interview, the first one with her can be heard by clicking here. Debbie also taught Visual Culture and Fine Art at the University of […]
Amado Alfadni
I am an Egyptian-born Sudanese artist. My childhood was composed of two environments: the Cairene street and the Sudanese home. The relationship, and sometimes tension, between the two, strongly influenced my view of both cultures. The need to express this dual perspective led me to make art initially and has informed my work since. My […]
Adam Marnie
Adam Marnie is an artist and editor living in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions of his work include New Constructions, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, One/Thinking Two/Willing, kijidome, Boston, Rongwrong, Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton, NY, and Construction/Destruction, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. He is publisher and editor-in-chief of F Magazine, a biannual self-published art magazine based […]
Reyna
Born in Pau, a town in southern France, Reyna is a visual artist, who has lived in Toulouse for many years. Reyna’s work gives breath to the art world, with a sensibility at once contemporary and ancient, reminding us of the importance of human touch in art and life. With her origins in the south […]
Leslie Wayne
Leslie Wayne was born in 1953 in Landstül, Germany to American parents and grew up in Southern California. She studied painting at the College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara for two years before moving to Paris for a year, followed by five years in Israel. In 1982 she moved to New York and received […]
Jill Freidberg
Jill Freidberg is a Seattle-based documentary filmmaker, oral historian, radio producer, and youth media educator. Her work reflects her belief that responsible, powerful storytelling builds understanding and solidarity across borders and across the street.In this interview she describers her current project, Shelf Life Stories. The book she mentions reading at the end is The Color of […]
Shawn Shafner
Shawn Shafner is an artist, educator and activist. Creator of The People’s Own Organic Power Project (www.thePOOPproject.org), he has catalyzed conversation about sustainable sanitation from NYC’s largest wastewater treatment plant to the United Nations. Shawn’s solo show An Inconvenient Poop was a Time Out NY Critic’s Pick and won him the 2015 NY International Fringe […]
Billie Tsien
Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, NY and received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. In 1986 she and Tod Williams founded their New York based architecture firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners. Located in New York City, their studio focuses on […]
Alice Sheppard
As an emerging, award-winning choreographer, Alice Sheppard creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging with disability arts, culture and history, Alice attends to the complex intersections of …
Chas Ray Krider
Chas Ray Krider’s photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. His photographs are about the forms employed in narrative based erotic art. Chas Ray’s work is widely exhibited and published, including three solo book, Motel Fetish by TASCHEN in 2002, 2nd edition 2012. […]