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Lorraine O’Grady is a conceptual artist and cultural critic whose work over four decades has employed the diptych, or at least the diptych idea, as its primary form. While she has consistently addressed issues of diaspora, hybridity and black female…

Lois Andison (she / her) is a sculptor / installation artist based in Tkarón:to (Toronto), Ontario. Her art practice ranges from kinetic sculpture where she uses movement to initiate an experience / exchange between the viewer and the work, through…

Karyn Olivier is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates public art, sculptures, installations and photography. Olivier alters familiar objects, spaces, and locations, often reinterpreting the role of monuments. Her work intersects histories and…

“The joke tells itself” is a phrase to describe the obvious. Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s work constantly twists this logic. It is never about the obvious, but about the perplexing. The remaining bunkers in our time precisely document the history of…

Oliver Ressler’s artistic and activist practice is based on the conviction that social conditions are not given but rather can be changed. For around three decades, Ressler has been focusing on urgent aspects of democracy, the economy, migration, and…

Martha Wilson (b. 1947) is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past five decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and…

Suzanne Treister (b. 1958) has been a pioneer in digital, new media, and web-based media art since the late-1980s. Utilizing various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolor, Treister has…

Through painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, Hew Locke OBE RA (b. 1959) explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different cultures assume and assert identity. Fusing historical…

Working in photography, film, and installation, Dinh Q. Lê (b. 1968) presents little-known narratives of war and migration from the perspective of Vietnam, America, and the global Vietnamese diaspora. Synthesizing his own memory and perception with…

David Wojnarowicz (1954 -1992) was among the most incisive and prolific American artists of the 1980s and 90s. Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in…