Laurel Nakadate,
2012
Laurel Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. She received a B.F.A. from Tufts University and The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. Her ten-year survey show, “Only the Lonely,” was on view at MoMA P.S.1 from January through August, 2011. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art gallery, the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Princeton University Art Museum, the Saatchi Collection and other private collections in the US and abroad. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, in New York City, where her show, “The Searchers” will open in May 2013.
James Richards,
2012
James Richards an artist based in London. His work takes material culled from home videos, books, records, CDs, combined with his personal archive to trace unlikely rhythmic or gestural connections between heterogeneous materials. Recent solo shows have been held at CCA Kitakyushu (2012); Chisenhale Gallery, London and RODEO, Istanbul (both 2011). He has curated screenings for numerous venues including Light Industry, New York and the ICA, London. Recent collaborative projects include An Echo Button, with Ed Atkins and Haroon Mirza for Performa 11 (2011) and DISAMBIGUATION with Steve Reinke, Trinity Square Video, Toronto (2010). Richards has been selected for the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2013 and Received the 2012 Jarman Award.
Kira O’Reilly,
2012
Kira O’Reilly is a UK based artist. Her practice, both willfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body.
Since graduating from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1998 her work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, China and Mexico. She has presented at conferences and symposia on both live art and science, art and technology interfaces. She has been a visiting lecturer in the UK and Australia and U.S.A in visual art, drama and dance. Most recent new works have seen her practice develop across several contexts from art, science and technology to performance, live art and movement work.
John Neff,
2012
John Neff produces artworks, organizes exhibitions, and works as a teaching artist. He currently serves as a curatorial board member at Chicago’s Iceberg Projects and as co-director of the Ravenswood Elementary School Curatorial Practice Program. Neff presented his photographic work in a 2013 solo exhibition at Chicago’s Renaissance Society and has participated in exhibitions at Donald Young Gallery, MCA Chicago, Night Club, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Clifford owens,
2012
Born and raised in Baltimore, Owens now lives and works in Queens, New York. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mason Gross School of Visual Arts at Rutgers University, attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has exhibited art at P.S.1/MoMA, NY; Queens Museum of Art, NY; List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA, and was featured in Performa: New Visual Art Performance in 2005.His fellowships and grants include the Rutgers University Ralph Bunche Graduate Fellowship, Art Matters, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Lambent Fellowship for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Pennies from Heaven Fund of the New York Community Trust, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Artists. He has been an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem and a Hanes Visiting Artist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Owens was visiting artist faculty at The Cooper Union, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He has also taught at New York University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Julia Fish,
2013
Julia Fish is Professor of Studio Arts in the School of Art and Art History, UIC. She completed studies for the BFA degree at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and MFA degree at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and has lived and worked in Chicago since 1985. Her work has been presented in twenty-two solo exhibitions since 1980, and was the subject of a ten-year survey exhibition, View, at The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago in 1996.
Paintings and drawings are included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and Illinois State Museum, Springfield. National/ international exhibitions include, among others: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MAK Center for Art and Architecture/Schindler House, Los Angeles; Galerie Remise, Bludenz, Austria, and 2010, the Whitney Biennial. Recent work is currently on view in Homebodies, curated by Naomi Beckwith for the MCA Chicago, through October 13, 2013.
Mark Dion,
2013
Since the early 1990s, Mark Dion has examined the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, the artist creates work that addresses the distinctions between objective scientific methods and subjective influences. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society.
Born in Massachusetts in 1961, Dion received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. Major recent exhibitions include his presentation at dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012 (group); The Macabre Treasury, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands, 2013 (solo); Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas, Musée Océanographique de Monaco and Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / Villa Paloma, Monaco, 2011 (solo); Den, a site-specific installation for the National Tourist Routes, Norway, 2012 (solo); The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, 2010-11 (solo). His newest work, The Curator's Office, is now on permanent display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and another large-scale installation, The Octagon Room, is on long-term view this year at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Dion currently lives in New York City.
Claire Pentecost,
2013
Claire Pentecost’s work engages diverse strategies—collaboration, research, teaching, field work, writing, lecturing, drawing, installation and photography—in an ongoing interrogation of the institutional structures that order knowledge. Her work has long addressed the contested boundary between natural and artificial, focusing the last fifteen years on food, agriculture and bio-engineering. Recently Pentecost has exhibited at dOCUMENTA(13), Whitechapel Gallery, and the 13th Istanbul Biennial. Represented by Higher Pictures in New York, she is a Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and often collaborates with Compass in the Midwest Radical Cultural Corridor.
Brian Holmes,
2013
Brian Holmes is an art and cultural critic with a PhD in Romance Languages. He has a longstanding interest in neoliberal globalization and a taste for on-the-ground intervention. From 1990 to 2009 he lived in Paris, collaborated with political art groups such as Ne Pas Plier, Bureau d'Etudes, Public Netbase, Hackitectura, Makrolab and others, and published in journals such as Multitudes, Springerin, and Brumaria. With Claire Pentecost and the 16 Beaver Group he co-organized the Continental Drift seminars from 2005 to 2009, with variations up to the present. His essays revolve around art, free cooperation, the network society, political economy and greassroots resistance (brianholmes.wordpress.com). In Chicago he is a member of the Compass group (midwestcompass.org), teaches a class a year at UIC, and is working with Rozalinda Borcila on a geographical investigation called "Foreign Trade Zone," opening at Three Walls on April 25.
Denise Markonish,
2013
Denise Markonish (BA, Brandeis University; MA, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College) is the curator at MASS MoCA, where exhibitions have included Life's Work: Tom Philips and Johnny Carrera); Oh, Canada (catalogue: MIT Press) Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum, Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (catalogue: Yale University Press); Inigo Manglano-Ovalle: Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With (Catalogue: DAP); These Days: Elegies for Modern Times and Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (catalogue: MIT Press). Markonish also co-edited with Susan Cross the publication Sol LeWitt: 100 Views (Yale University Press). Upcoming projects include: Teresita Fernandez: As Above So Below; Explode Everyday: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder co-curated with artist Sean Foley and a new commission with Nick Cave. Markonish recently taught at the Rhode Island School of Design; curated a project for the 2012 Luminato Festival in Toronto and will participate in 2014’s Nuit Blanche, Toronto.
