Professor Omar Kholeif
Omar Kholeif is an artist, author, curator, cultural historian and professor of global art theory and practice at the Glasgow School of Art and Program Leader of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice with the University of Glasgow.
They work and operate under numerous guises, including as the avatar of Doctor O—The World’s Leading Pop Physician (TM).
Born in Cairo, Egypt, they were raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere. An author of over two dozen volumes on art, a curator of over 100 exhibitions, they are the co-founding director of artPost21, a not-for-profit publishing and broadcast platform for artists and their dreamwork.
Their recent books include, Nil Yalter: Circular Tension (2024), Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams (2024) and Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (2023).
In 2025 their long-awaited critical biography on Huguette Caland was published as part of imagine/otherwise. Forthcoming in 2026 is Luísa Correia Pereira: World Child, published by Sternberg Press. Forthcoming projects include the curated group exhibition, Fellow Travelers at Tabari Art Space, Dubaiand a survey exhibition of their creative practice at The Third Line curated by Sofia Victorino.
Jazmin Lopez
Jazmín López (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She is a filmmaker, a visual artist, and a professor. She graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She has also an MFA in Visual Arts from NYU and MFA in Visual Arts from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She...
Gracelee Lawrence
Gracelee has attended twenty residencies in the US and abroad and opened her second solo show in New York at Postmasters in June 2022, her third at Heroes Gallery in September 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Albany,...
Jeff Gibson
Jeff Gibson is an Australian-born artist and occasional critic who has worked in a variety of media and contexts—photography, collage, video, prints, posters, banners, and books for galleries and public spaces. Gibson moved to New York in 1998 to work for Artforum...
Vusi Beauchamp
Vusi Beauchamp (b. 1979) studied printmaking and painting at the Tshwane University of Technology and Graphic Design at Damelin in Pretoria, South Africa. Beauchamp’s provocative iconography employs popular culture, satire and stereotypes in service of a visual...
Lucia Buricelli
Lucia Buricelli is a photographer from Venice, Italy, based between New York City and Milan. In her work, Buricelli is interested in exploring everyday life in all its forms: interactions between people, animals that live in urban environments, objects that have...
Dave Bopp
Photo by Helmut Spudich, Vienna, 2022 Dave Bopp (b. 1988, Basel, Switzerland) is an ultra contemporary artist based in Berlin. His paintings have been featured in gallery and museum shows throughout Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, South Korea, and the US and...
Peter Frederiksen
Peter Frederiksen champions the art of embroidery. Throughout his exploration of the medium, the artist has developed a free-motion machine technique, commonly working on a standard sewing machine that has been altered by removing the presser foot andlowering the feed...
Monia Ben Hamouda
Portrait of Monia, photo credit: Michele Gabriele Monia Ben Hamouda (b. 1991, Milan) lives and works between al-Qayrawan and Milan. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Previous positions include a visiting professorship at...
Paula Wilson
Portrait by Gabriella Marks Paula Wilson received an MFA from Columbia and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Alongside her current exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, she is currently exhibiting within a group exhibition Plein Air at MOCA Tucson and...
Takuji Hamanaka
In Takuji Hamanaka’s mosaic-inspired works on paper, multiple sections of monochrome color interlock within dimensional, polychrome compositions. Adapting the ‘Bokashi’ technique of woodblock printing to a contemporary practice, Hamanaka prints multiple papers in...