Taro Masushio is a Japanese artist and writer living in New York, NY. [1] [2] Masushio attended the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a BA and New York University where he earned an MFA. [3] [4]
Masushio has exhibited internationally [5] and participated in an artist residency at Denniston Hill in Glen Wild, NY. [6] He has written for ArtAsiaPacific, [7] Artforum, [8] and Shift [9]
Peter Voulkos was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. He established the ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute and at UC Berkeley.
The Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) is an art school of Willamette University and is located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1909, the art school grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and graduate degrees including the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees. It has an enrollment of about 500 students. The college merged with Willamette University in 2021.
Hitoshi Fugo is a Japanese photographer.
Peter Shelton is a contemporary American sculptor born in 1951 in Troy, Ohio.
Todd Hido is an American photographer. He has produced 17 books, had his work exhibited widely and included in various public collections. Hido is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
John Torreano is an American artist from Michigan. He is currently clinical professor of studio art at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Torreano is known for utilizing faceted gems in a variety of mediums in order to create "movement oriented perception" in his works. Artist Richard Artschwager described Torreano's works as "paintings that stand still and make you move."
Molly Springfield is an American artist whose work includes labor-intensive drawings of printed texts and visual explorations of the history of information and mediated representation.
Leslie Hewitt is an American contemporary visual artist.
Mariah Robertson is an American artist. She lives in New York City.
Ry Rocklen is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture. Rocklen's solo exhibitions often make use of found objects which he adorns or otherwise modifies. From 1996 to 1998, he attended the California Institute of the Arts. Rocklen earned his BFA in 2001 at UCLA, and his MFA in sculpture in 2006 at the University of Southern California. Rocklen's work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been included in several major survey exhibitions, including "Made in LA" at the Hammer Museum and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Honor Fraser gallery in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris/Los Angeles.
Arnold J. Kemp is an American artist who works in painting, print, sculpture, and poetry. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Kemp received a BA/BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and an MFA from Stanford University.
Sam McKinniss is an American abstract and figurative postmodern painter based in Brooklyn.
Kambui Olujimi is a New York-based visual artist working across disciplines using installation, photography, performance, tapestry, works on paper, video, large sculptures and painting. His artwork reflects on public discourse, mythology, historical narrative, social practices, exchange, mediated cultures, resilience and autonomy.
Tony Labat is a Cuban-born American multimedia artist, installation artist, and professor. He has exhibited internationally, developing a body of work in performance, video, sculpture and installation. Labat's work has dealt with investigations of the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media.
Emily Ginsburg is a conceptual artist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She was selected for the Portland2016 Biennial by curator Michelle Grabner. And her work was noted as a highlight of the Oregon Biennial in 2006. Jennifer Gately, the curator of that Biennial, noted that Ginsburg's work, "reveals a deep interest in the signs and symbols of communication, scientific illustration, architectural notation, electronics, and the human nervous system." Ginsburg's "work often functions as a map or code for understanding an aspect of an individual or collective consciousness."
Aliza Shvarts is an artist and writer who works in performance, video, and installation. Her art and writing explore queer and feminist understandings of reproduction and duration, and use these themes to affirm abjection, failure, and "decreation". Simone Weil's idea of decreation has been described as "a mystical passage from the created to the uncreated" and "a spiritual exercise of mystical passage: across a threshold, from created to uncreated".
Marlon Mullen is a painter who lives and works in Contra Costa County, California, maintaining a studio practice at NIAD Art Center.
Adrienne Edwards is a New York–based art curator, scholar, and writer. Edwards is currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Jason Hirata is an artist who has shown internationally. Hirata's work can be described as institutional critique. He lives and works in Princeton, New Jersey.
N. Dash is an American artist who works primarily in painting. Dash lives and works in New York. Born in 1980 in Miami, Dash studied at New York University, before earning a Master's in Fine Art from Columbia University.