Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (b. 1990, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) seeks to expand viewers’ understanding of identity and place-making by forging material connections between pre-Hispanic Central American cultures and contemporary Los Angeles, often through innovative large-scale sculptural creations. Aparicio earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 2012 and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2016. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2020); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2018); and Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico (2019). His awards include the Nancy Graves Foundation Award (2022); the California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016); the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2014); and the Elizabeth Murray and Sol LeWitt Studio Arts Award from Bard College (2012).

Ewan Atkinson

Ewan Atkinson (b. 1975, Barbados; lives and works in Barbados) is an artist, educator, and ephemerist. He is currently the coordinator of the Studio Art BFA program at Barbados Community College and a co-founder of Punch Creative Arena, an independent curatorial initiative. For many years Atkinson has been engaged in the study of a relatively unknown community called ​“The Neighbourhood,” seeking to understand its history, social structure, and inhabitants. The Neighbourhood Project is an archive of ongoing study. Activating the storytelling capacity of collected documents and ephemera, Atkinson uncovers and presents fractured narratives that explore the production of meaning, tensions between communal and individual identity formation, and the existential desire to belong.

He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1998 and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies in 2013. He participated in the Liverpool Biennial 2010 and the 12^th Havana Biennial (2015). His work has been exhibited by international galleries, museums and institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland.

Teresa Baker

Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials, Teresa Baker (b. 1985, Watford City, North Dakota; lives and works in Los Angeles) creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see, and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker’s Mandan/​Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects. 

Baker received a BA from Fordham University in 2008 and an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2013. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Broadway Gallery, New York, NY; The Arts Club of Chicago, IL; de boer, Los Angeles, CA; The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; and Pied-à-terre, San Francisco, CA. She has participated in group exhibitions hosted by institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; Ballroom Marfa, TX; and Marin MOCA, CA. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland in 2022. She was the 2020 Native American fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY, and was a Tournesol Award artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. 

Andrea Carlson

Andrea Carlson (b. 1979, USA; lives and works in Grand Marais, Minnesota) is a visual artist who works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her practice addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film. 

Carlson earned a BA from the University of Minnesota in 2003, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2005. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. She participated in the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art, and is the recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellowship, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, and a 2024 Creative Capital Award. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago, an art space dedicated to the work of Native artists.

Bethany Collins

Bethany Collins (b. 1984, Montgomery, Alabama; lives and works in Chicago) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice examines the relationship between race and language. Centering language — its biases, contradictions, and ability to simultaneously forge connections and foster violence — her works illuminate America’s past and offer insight into the development of racial and national identities. Drawing on a wide variety of documents, ranging from nineteenth-century musical scores to US Department of Justice reports, she erases, obscures, excerpts, and rewrites portions of text to bring to the fore issues revolving around race, power, and histories of violence.

Collins earned a BA from the University of Alabama in 2007, and an MFA from Georgia State University in 2012. Her artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationwide, including at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL. Collins has been recognized as an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2013 – 14, was awarded the Hudgens Prize in 2015, and received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2022.

Thomas Deaton

Thomas Deaton (b. 1988, Lafayette, Louisiana; lives and works in New Orleans) is a Louisiana native with a background in printmaking and drawing. In his most recent works, he explores hidden stories of beauty set against the backdrop of forgotten neighborhoods. He draws inspiration from his personal memories, history, and life in New Orleans, and constructs a mesmerizing perspective of life in the southern coastal urban landscape. In his narrative cityscapes, Deaton captures snapshots of neighborhoods on the brink of decay, contrasted by vivid sunsets and lush vegetation. These areas, perpetually submerged in a metaphorical flood, symbolize the overlooked and neglected aspects of urban life. 

Deaton earned a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2011, and an MA and MFA at the University of Iowa in 2014 and 2015 respectively. His work has garnered recognition, including notable achievements such as the second-place award at the Louisiana Contemporary 2019 exhibition in New Orleans and a feature in New American Paintings, South Issue in 2020. He has exhibited locally at Lemieux Galleries, Good Children Gallery, The Building, Old #77 Hotel, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA.

Christian Việt Đinh

Christian Việt Đinh’s (b. 1992, St. Petersburg, Florida; lives and works in New Orleans) body of work centers on his experience as a second-generation Vietnamese-American citizen and the Vietnamese culture that developed in the United States subsequent to the Vietnam War. His artwork redirects stigma and celebrates Vietnamese-American identity by confronting racism, stereotypes, and underrepresentation. 

Đinh received a BFA from the University of West Florida, Pensacola in 2017 and an MFA from Tulane University in 2022. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including Focus Spotlight: Nail Salon and Knowing Who We Are: The Contemporary Dialogue at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Delta Triennial Exhibition at Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Little Rock, AR; Legacy Traces: Recent Additions to the Museum Collection at the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; and Trường Ca Mươi Ngàn Năm at the Ohr‑O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS. Furthermore, he was a recipient of the 2023 Take Notice Fund from the National Performance Network. Đinh’s work has been featured in PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Ceramic Monthly, The Times Picayune, Frieze Magazine, and Burnaway.

Jeannette Ehlers

Jeannette Ehlers (b. 1973, Holstebro, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Her work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions reminding us that history is not in the past. Ehlers insists on the possibility for empowerment and healing in her art, honoring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora. 

Ehlers graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. She has exhibited at international institutions including at the Momenta Biennale, Montréal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, among others. Ehlers is the co-creator of the public sculpture project I Am Queen Mary, 2018, in Copenhagen, Denmark and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station in 2022. She is a member of The Lockward Collective who was selected to do The Decolonial Monument in Global Village Berlin, 2024.

L. Kasimu Harris

L. Kasimu Harris (b. 1978, New Orleans; lives and works in New Orleans) is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice deposits a number of different strategic and conceptual devices in order to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond. 

Harris earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004 and an MA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi in 2008. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US and internationally. His ongoing series Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges (2018 – ) has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, and at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA. Harris’s writing and photographs were featured in ​“A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times. His work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada; Center of Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY; the NoVo Foundation, New York, NY; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA; and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.

Blas Isasi

Blas Isasi (b. 1981, Lima, Peru; lives and works in New Orleans and Saint Louis) attempts to restore the intrinsic qualities and properties of raw materials (wood, metal, fabric, etc.) in his work through a trial-and-error-like methodology, allowing materials to have an active role in the art-making process, and breaking them free of the spell of objecthood. 

Isasi received a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2005 and an MFA from Tulane University in 2020. He is also an alumnus of the post-academic program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands. His most recent solo exhibition, An idea is just the shape of a flower, was presented at The Front, New Orleans, LA (2022). Isasi is also the 2024 – 25 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, a fellowship that will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, his first institutional solo show in the US​.In 2015, Isasi was a recipient of the Braunschweig PROJECTS Scholarship awarded by HBK (Brunswick University of the Arts) and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2021, he was an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen (b. 1970, Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in Treaty 8 territory, British Columbia, Canada) is an artist and retired rancher living in the traditional territory of the Dane-Zaa Nation within Treaty 8 in northern British Columbia. He has been exhibiting his artwork internationally since 1998. His work has challenged the definition of what indigenous art can be through his exploration of various methods and themes including: human’s relationship to animals through architecture, hunting, revisiting the formal qualities of modernist sculpture, and the fusion of indigenous and popular culture by repurposing found objects. 

Jungen received a BFA from Emily Carr College of Art + Design in 1992. His awards and residencies include the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2010), Capp Street Project (2004), Sobey Art Award (2002), and Banff Centre for the Arts residency (1998). Jungen has had exhibitions at Hannover Kunstverein, Germany; Bonner Kunstverein, Germany; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; documenta (13); the 9^th Shanghai Biennial; National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; the 16^th Biennale of Sydney; the 9^th Lyon Biennial; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada; Tate Modern, London, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; New Museum, New York, NY; among others. 

Cathy Lu

Cathy Lu (b. 1984, Miami, Florida; lives and works in Richmond, California) creates ceramic sculptures and installations that manipulate traditional Chinese imagery and presentation as a way to deconstruct assumptions about Chinese diasporic identity and cultural authenticity. Unpacking how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity is central to her work.

Lu received a BA and BFA from SMFA at Tufts University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs at Kohler Arts Center, Bemis Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, Greenwich House Pottery NYC, and the Archie Bray Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at The Armory Show, New York, NY; Art Basel Hong Kong; SFMOMA, Chinese Culture Center, Jessica Silverman Gallery, and Root Division all in San Francisco, CA; A‑B Projects and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles, CA; and Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong. Lu was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/​Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow, and is a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner. Lu’s work has recently been included in the collection of the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, SFMOMA, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

Tessa Mars

Tessa Mars (b. 1985, Port-au-Prince; lives and works in Port-au-Prince and San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Haitian visual artist who explores gender, landscape, migration, and spirituality in relation to Haitian history. Working primarily in painting and papier maché, the artist takes distance from colonial narratives to reconnect to a Haitian perspective of the world and embrace other forms of collective belonging.

Mars received a BFA from Rennes 2 University in France in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions at Casa del Lago in Mexico City, Mexico; Le Centre d’Art as well as the French Institute, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and has participated in collective exhibitions at Tiwani Gallery, London, UK; Denver Art Museum, CO; Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel, Switzerland; the 10^th Berlin Biennale, Germany; the Ateliers ​’89, Oranjestad, Aruba; Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 30^th International Symposium of Contemporary Art of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada; and the Haitian pavilion at the 54^th Venice Biennale. Mars is an alumna of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Francistown, Botswana; lives and works in Wellesley, Massachusetts) is an artist, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art, and the co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. His large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works engage history painting and cinematic tropes to investigate historiography, democracy, and liberation movements across Africa and the diaspora. 

Mokgosi received his BA from Williams College in 2007 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program that same year. He received his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at UCLA in 2011, and was an artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011 through 2012. His work has been exhibited internationally, with exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Botswana National Museum, Gaborone, Botswana; The Fowler Museum at UCLA, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; among many others. His work is included in public collections such as Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (b. 1976, Saigon; lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is an artist whose work utilizes strategies of remembrance to highlight unofficial and suppressed histories. Interweaving the factual and the speculative and often employing mythologies of otherworldly realms, Nguyễn’s films, installations, and sculptural practice re-work dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of addressing the intergenerational traumas of colonialism, war, and displacement. 

Nguyễn received a BFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in 2004. He is a founding member of The Propeller Group, an entity that positions itself between an advertising company and an art collective. He recently had a solo exhibition at the New Museum, NY and his work has been included in major international festivals, biennials, and exhibitions including at the 12^th Berlin Biennale; Manifesta 14; Aichi Triennale; Biennale de Dakar; Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; 2019 Sharjah Biennial; 2017 Whitney Biennial; among many others. Nguyễn is the recipient of the 2023 Joan Miró Prize. His work is included in the permanent collections of institutions including Philadelphia Museum of Art, MoMA, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Brooke Pickett

Brooke Pickett (b. 1980, Shreveport, Louisiana; lives and works in New Orleans) is an artist whose paintings explore the relationship women have to the home — to the domestic environment, to the promise of safety, and the home as a failed utopia. Underneath the carefully placed colors and recognizable household items is the relentless pursuit to playfully/​urgently rearrange our lives, our memories, our homes in spite of or precisely because our world is crumbling— the infrastructure of our democracy, nation, cities, homes.

Pickett earned a BA in both Painting and Literature from Louisiana State University in 2002, and an MFA in Painting from the State University of New York at Albany in 2005. She has exhibited at institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; BravinLee, New York, NY; MASS Gallery, Austin, TX; Feral, Mexico City, Mexico; and BOX13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX; among others. Pickett was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at Middlebury College, VT, a member of artist-run gallery The Front, and her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974, Manila; lives and works in Oakland, California) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. 

Syjuco received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and a Tiffany Foundation Award. Her work is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Metropolitan Museum, NY; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; among others. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC in 2019 – 20, and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. A long-time educator, she is an Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ashley Teamer

Ashley Teamer’s (b. 1991, New Orleans; lives and works in New Orleans and New York) collages explore the relationships between the body, nature, space, and time. These themes are represented by original snapshots and found materials that are sewn and glued together. As a visual artist and DJ, she uses sound to creatively intervene with indoor and outdoor architecture, revealing the malleability of our built environment. Teamer’s current work explores land and body as inseparable. Levees and seawalls create an illusion of separation and safety between civilization and the sea. Similarly, skin is perceived as a protective barrier that completely separates our internal organs from nature. However, consistent flooding and the ubiquity of cancer reveal that both structures are porous. Her work imagines a future where we live more harmoniously with water. 

Teamer received her MFA from Yale University in 2022. She has had solo exhibitions at Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI and 4^th Ward Project Space, Chicago, IL. Teamer’s work has also been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA; among others. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ACRE, and Ox-Bow School of Art.