Luis Jacob
Luis Jacob (born Lima, Peru, 1971) lives in Toronto, Canada. He studied semiotics and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Working as artist, curator, and writer, his research-based practice addresses local memory and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience. Since his participation in Documenta12 in 2007, he has achieved an international reputation, with solo exhibitions including: […]
Mattin
Mattin is an artist from Bilbao -currently living in Berlin- working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental sonic artistic production through live performance, recordings and writing. Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the […]
Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury, England in 1965. She has been the recipient of various awards including the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009, and the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006. In 2014 she became artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute. She is a founding member of savefilm.org and is vigorously campaigning to […]
Molly Larkey
Molly Larkey is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a BA from Columbia College and an MFA from Rutgers University. She has had solo exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, New York; Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID; Human Resources, Los Angeles; and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, among others. Her work was featured in […]
Marion van Wijk
Marion van Wijk, was born the 25th of March, 1955, Woerden, The Netherlands. Marion van Wijk is a multidisciplinary artist. She was educated at the Kunstakademie Artibus in Utrecht and at the Theaterschool Amsterdam. From 1978 untill 1996 she worked as an actress (theatre and movie), performing artist and writer for theatre. The last performance she […]
Emilie Trice
Emilie Trice is a curator, writer and gallerist specializing in contemporary art. She is currently a Director of Artist Development and head curator for Twyla, an art/tech start-up based in Austin, Texas. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Emilie began her career at Gagosian Gallery in New York City before moving abroad in 2006 to […]
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls, both from Ecco/Harper Collins. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize from The PSA, a Creative Capital […]
John Roberts
John Roberts is a Professor of Art & Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and the author of a number of books including: The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (Verso 2007), The Necessity of Errors (Verso, 2011), Photography and Its Violations (Columbia University Press, 2014), and Revolutionary Time […]
David Liss
David Liss is Artistic Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, since December 2000. Arriving from Montreal with a vision to create a permanent museum for contemporary art in Canada’s largest city, Liss evolved MOCA from modest beginnings in the Toronto suburb of North York, re-locating the museum to Queen St. […]
Anne-Marie Creamer
Anne-Marie Creamer is a British artist whose work experiments with cinematic forms using video, drawing, literary texts, filmed staged scenarios, and live voice-over. For Anne-Marie stories are always complexly entangled in place. Her work develops from a tenacious attitude towards research, which coupled with chance, she develops highly scripted narratives featuring occluded histories that are melancholic but wry, […]