A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Wangechi Mutu received her MFA degree from Yale University in 2000 and her BFA at Cooper Union College, New York. She has a solo exhibition currently on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and will have a solo show opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia this coming May. Mutu recently participated in the Kochi-Muziris Biennial, the first in India, as well as the Paris Triennial: Intense Proximity, curated by Okwui Enwezor, and will be included in the International Center of Photography’s Triennial this May and the Moscow Bienniale this Fall. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Miami Art Museum; and ArtPace, San Antonio. Mutu’s work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Carroll Dunham is an American artist born in 1949. Dunham has had numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally, including: Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; Millesgarden in Stockholm, Sweden; Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA; Drammens Museum in Norway; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York launched a major retrospective of his work in 2002. Dunham received the Skowhegan Medal for Distinction in Painting in 2004. The artist currently lives and works in New York City and rural Connecticut.
Sarah Sze was born in Boston in 1969. She received a BA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. She has received critical acclaim for her public commissions and site-specific installations, including recent commissions for the New York City High Line, the Cartier Foundation, the Carnegie International and the São Paolo Biennial. A MacArthur Fellow and Louis Comfort Tiffany Award winner, she has challenged architectures and captivated viewers with her large-scale constructions that penetrate walls, suspend from ceilings, burrow into the ground and stretch across museums. Solo museum projects include at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Asia Society in New York, and The Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Sarah Sze is Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has been chosen to represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia in 2013. Her work will be presented by Holly Block and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in the 55th International Art Exhibition.
Charlie White is a Los Angeles-based artist and associate professor at the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. White’s work spans photography, film, animation, writing, and, most recently, experimental pop music. He has exhibited internationally since 1999, including shows at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PS1 New York, ICA Philadelphia, the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo Kunstforening (Norway), and Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca (Spain). White was selected for the 2011 Singapore Biennale, and his films have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. White’s most recent monographs include American Minor, (JPR Ringier, 2009), and Such Appetite (LBM, 2013). In addition to his studio work, White’s writing has been published in Artforum, and his essay “Minor Threat” was included in the publication Words Without Pictures (Aperture Press). Currently, White is completing his Music for Sleeping Children project, an free online experimental pop album, and working on a feature film project.
JONAH FREEMAN was born in 1975 in Santa Fe, NM and lives and works in New York City. He has a degree in Film Production and Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Since 1998 he has been exhibiting film/video, photo and environmental installations in galleries and museums worldwide. His several interconnected bodies of work have been primarily focused on the phantasmagoria of the constructed world. Recent solo exhibitions include Stray Light Grey, Marlborough Chelsea, NY (2012); Bright White Underground, Country Club, LA (2010); Black Acid Co-op, Deitch Projects, NYC (2009); In The Kaleidoscope Room, Mitterrand + Sanz, Zurich (2009); Hello Meth Lab In The Sun, Ballroom Marfa, (2008); The Long Goodbye, John Connelly Presents, NYC (2007); The Franklin Abraham, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC (2005); and In the Public Realm: Sixteen Scenarios, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2002). His films have screened in several film festivals that include The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Locarno International Film Festival and The Rome International Film Festival. His work has also been represented in the recent group shows: Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, NYC (2009); The Station, Miami, FL. (2008); The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, NYC (2008); Le Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland; Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, South Korea; Intouchable (l’ Idea transparence), Centre National d’Art Contemporain – Villa Arson, Nice, France (2006); Day Labor, PS1/MOMA, NYC, and Vanishing Point, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Wexner, OH (2005).
JUSTIN LOWE was born in 1976 Dayton, Ohio. In 2004 he received his MFA from Columbia University. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Since 2003 he has been exhibiting large scale, immersive, site-specific installations in galleries and museums worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include Stray Light Grey, Marlborough Chelsea, NY (2012); Hair of the Dog, Peppin Moore, LA (2011); Bright White Underground, Country Club LA (2010); Werewolf Karoke, Wadsworth Museum, Hartford CT (2010); The New War, Galleria Cesare Manzo (2010); Black Acid Co-op, Deitch Projects, NYC (2009); Freedom Time is Here Little Kittens, Fredric Giroux, Paris (2008); Hello Meth Lab In The Sun, Ballroom Marfa (2008); Helter Swelter, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery (2006); Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Frederic Giroux Paris (2006); Waterfall, The Wrong Gallery (2004); Passage, PS1 Special Project Room, NYC (2004); Collecting Pictures in the Brain, Hotel Sculpture Center (2005); .45 0n the 33, Galleria Cesare Manzo, Rome, Italy (2007). His work has also been represented in the such group shows as: Greater LA (2011); The Station, Miami, FL (2008); Fit To Print: Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery, NYC (2007); FUORI USO 2006 – ALTERED STATES, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania (2007); The Pantagruel Syndrome, Museum of Contemporary Art in the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2005); Greater New York, PS1/MOMA, NYC (2005).
Freeman/Lowe, Bright White Underground, 2010, Installation View, Los Angeles, California
