Jake Berthot
Painter

Education: New School for Social Research; Pratt Institute

Represented by: Betty Cuningham Gallery; Nielsen Gallery, Boston

One-person exhibitions include: Betty Cuningham Gallery; McKee Gallery; Nielsen Gallery, Boston; Galleri Gunner Olsson, Stockholm; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; Storrer Gallery, Zurich; Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco; Cava Gallery, Philadelphia; Cunningham Ward Gallery; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Locksley-Shea Gallery, Minneapolis; Betty Cuningham Gallery
Group exhibitions include: Victoria Munroe Fine Art; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; Great Wall Gallery, Toronto; Japan Arts Gallery, Tokyo; Galerie Denise Cade-Art Prospect Inc.; Venice Biennale; Cork Gallery

Collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Moderna Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden; Museum of Modern Art; Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts, National Academy of Design, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation, American Academy of and Institute of Arts and Letters

Sharon Fleischmann Aquavita
Computer/fine artist, corporate trainer, consultant.

Education: BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts.

Clients include: Evergreen Media; Home Aid, Inc.; Home Box Office; Jehan Kamal Enterprises; Kids Cuts, Inc.; Leapfrog; Manhattan Marketing; New York Post; The New York Times; New York Typographical Union; Sony; WNEW-FM.

Group exhibitions incude: 20/20 Gallery, Felitti, The Edge Lounge, Visual Arts Gallery.

Kenji Fujita
Visual artist
www.kenjifujita.com

Education: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; MFA, Queens College; BA, Bennington College.

One-person exhibitions include: Incident Report, Hudson, NY; Luhring Augustine Gallery; Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis; Jean Bernier, Athens; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; Cable Gallery.

Group exhibitions include:Jack Tilton Gallery; Jablonka Galerie, Cologne; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Venice Biennale; Luhring Augustine Gallery; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo.

Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Johan Grimonprez
Video and mixed-media artist
www.zapomatik.com

Represented by: Deitch Projects, Sean Kelly Gallery, Gallerie Mennour, Paris.

Education: BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent; MFA, School of Visual Arts; Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Post-Graduate at Jan Van Ecyk Academy, Maastricht.

One-person exhibitions include: Pinokethek Der Moderne, Munchen, Mnam, Paris; Gallerie Mennour, Paris And Erna Hecey Gallery, BrusselsDeitch Projects; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Biennale São Paulo, Brasil; Kunstverein, Munich; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art; Galerie Riis, Oslo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Yvon Lambert Gallery; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Acquisitions: Tate Modern, London; National Gallerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijke Museum, Amsterdam; Kanazawa Art Museum (Japan); Goetz Collection; Munchen; Le Magasin, Stockholm.

Screenings/broadcasts include: Nbc-Universal; Arte Tv Channel, Channel 4, Zdf, Sat3; San Francisco Film Festival; Worldexpo, Lisbon; Image Forum Festival, Tokyo; Telluride Film Festival; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York Film Festival; Documenta X, Kassel, Germany.

Distribution: Other Cinema (San Francisco), Facets/Multimedia (Chicago), Imageforum (Tokyo); Argos (Brussels)

Awards include: Spirit Award, Daad, European Media Award, Grand Prix de Ville de Geneve, Golden Gate Award, DAAD, Edith Russ New Media Grant, Toronto Film Society, ZKM International Media Award.

Ken Landauer
Public Artist

Education: BA, Colgate University, cum laude; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design; Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Public projects include: Art Omi, Ghent, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY;  Red Hook Piers, Brooklyn, NY; City Hall Park, NYC; Avenue of the Arts, Kansas City; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY; Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI.

Solo exhibitions and installations include: Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Collaborative Concepts Gallery, Beacon, NY; AH Gallery, Los Angeles; Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI; Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO.

Publications include: New York Magazine, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Time Out NY, Newsday, Sculpture Magazine, World Journal, Travel and Leisure, Kansas City Star, WCBS-TV, KMBC-TV, WDAF-FOX 4, KSHB-NBC 41, NY1 TV, WABC-TV.

Commissions include: The Public Art Fund, NYC; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Kansas City Municipal Arts Fund; Providence Parks Department and the State of Rhode Island.

Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt
Fine artist

Represented by: Pavel Zoubok Gallery.

Education: School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute.

One-person exhibitions include: Galerie Krief-Raymond, Paris; Holly Solomon Gallery.

Installations include: Whitney Museum of American Art; Venice Biennale; Snug Harbor Cultural Center; University of Massachusetts; Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; Chicago International Art Exhibition; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis.

Collections include: Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne.

Awards and honors include: Executive Committee, Board of Governors, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; CAPS.

Represented by: Simon Preston Gallery.

Education: BA, Barnard College, Columbia University. MFA, School of Visual Arts..

One-person Exhibitions Include: Simon Preston Gallery, NY; LA><Art, LA; Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Deitch Projects, NY; Feature Inc., NY.

Group Exhibitions Include: Public Art Fund Metrotech Installation; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Brooklyn Museum, Artist’s Space; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; California Biennial, OCMA, Los Angeles.

Publications Include: Artforum, Art in America, Time Out New York, The New York Times, The Village Voice.

Awards and Honors Include: Best Public Art, Art in America; NYFA 9/11 Grant; UC Berkeley Research Faculty Grants.

Artist Residencies and Fellowships Include: Banff Centre, Alberta; MacDowell Colony; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Stephen Maine
Painter, Critic
www.stephenmaine.com

Education: BFA, Indiana University.

Member: American Abstract Artists; International Association of Art Critics (US Section)

Exhibitions Include: Metaphor Contemporary Art; The Drawing Center; Sideshow Gallery; Momenta Art; Jersey City Museum; Kentler International Drawing Space; R.C. Erpf Gallery; Riverside Art Museum.

Awards Include: New York Foundation for the Arts

Curator: "The Photograph as Canvas," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; “Echo, Implant, Imprint, Reverb,” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York; “Beauty Marks and Body Parts,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY.

Publications include: Art in America, Art on Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Sun, artnet Magazine, Artecontexto

Represented by: Sue Scott Gallery, NYC; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago,  Larissa Goldston Gallery/ULAE, NYC; Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich

Education: BFA, University of Michigan; MFA, School of Visual Arts.

One-person exhibitions include: David Krut Projects; Locks Gallery; Paul Kasmin Gallery; LA Louver; Whitney Museum of Art at Altria: Weatherspoon Art Gallery; 303 Gallery; Orlando Museum of Art; University of Virginia Museum of Art.

Group exhibitions include: Fisher Landau Center for Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of Art, Biennial 1993; PS1 Museum.

Collections include: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Walker Art Center.

Awards include: AWAW, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, AXA Artist Award, Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, American Academy of Arts and Letters Hassam/Speicher/Betts/Symons Purchase Prize.

Publications include; BOMB Magazine; The New Yorker; The New York Times; Art in America; Art Forum; Los Angeles Times; Time Out New York.

Marilyn Minter 
Fine artist
www.salon94.com

Represented by: Salon 94; Andrehn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm; Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Education: BFA, University of Florida, Gainesville; MFA, Syracuse University.

One-person exhibitions include: Salon 94; Andrehn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm; Regen Projects in LA, Paris; Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO; Max Protetch Gallery; Postmasters Gallery; Fredericks Freiser Gallery; Meyers Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles; White Columns.

Collections include: Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Deutsche Bank; Chase Manhattan Bank; Neuberger Berman; Denver Art Museum.

Awards include: National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

David Row
Painter

Represented by: Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas; Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich; Von Lintel Gallery, New York, Munich

Education: BA, MFA, Yale University

One-person exhibitions include: Von Lintel Gallery, New York, Munich; Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich; Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas; Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich; Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; Pamela Auchincloss Gallery; John Good Gallery; Gallerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg; Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago

Group exhibitions include: Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles; Stark Gallery; Bernier/Tanit, Brussels; Rare Art; Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC; Salvatore Ala Gallery

Collections include: Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Cleveland Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Awards and honors include: National Endowment for the Arts

James Siena
Fine artist

Represented by: PaceWildenstein, New York and Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles.

Education: BFA, Cornell University

One-person exhibitions include: PaceWildenstein; Gorney Bravin + Lee; The University of Akron, OH; San Francisco Art Institute; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; Cristinerose Gallery; Pierogi 2000; J. Noblett Gallery, Sonoma, CA.

Group exhibitions include: Whitney Museum of American Art; DC Moore Gallery; Danese; Triple Candie; OSP Gallery, Boston; National Academy of Design Museum; Locks Gallery, Phildelphia; Kent State University; University Art Museum, Kent, OH; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; American Academy of Arts and Letters; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Mario Diacono, Boston; Graham Gallery; Greene Naftali Gallery; Phyllis Kind Gallery.

Collections include: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Publications include: Art in America. The New York Times, The New Yorker, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, The Village Voice, New York Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Art on Paper.

Awards and honors include: Yaddo; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; New York Foundation of the Arts; Charles Goodwin Sands Medal, Cornell University; Edward Durrell Stone Award, Cornell University.

Amy Smith-Stewart
Curator; founder, director, Smith-Stewart. Formerly, curator, P.S.1/MoMA; curatorial advisor, Mary Boone Gallery; guest curator, Peter Norton Collection
www.smith-stewart.com

Education: BA, cum laude, New York University; MA, University of Manchester.

Curatorial works include: She has organized more than two-dozen exhibitions in museums and galleries. She was Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/The Museum of Modern Art, New York from January 2002-December 2005 where she mounted solo exhibitions including Adrian Paci, Ernesto Caivano, Katharina Sieverding, Aleksandra Mir, Mika Rottenberg, Phoebe Washburn, Christian Holstad, among others. She was also one of six curators of Greater New York 2005. In 2006, Smith-Stewart was a Curatorial Advisor for the Mary Boone Gallery, where she organized three group exhibitions and a solo exhibition of Aleksandra Mir. In addition, Smith-Stewart was the 2007-2008 Guest Curator for the Peter Norton Collection.

Publications include: Art Now!, Taschen; Katharina Sievering: Close Up (exhibition catalogue), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA; Greater New York 2005 (exhibition catalogue), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA; Adrian Paci (exhibition catalogue), Galleria Civica/Charta; Flash Art and Contemporary; Ylva Ogland: Tondo (exhibition catalogue), Smith-Stewart/ShugoArts/Brandstrom & Stene.

Julianne Swartz
Sculptor, installation artist, sound artist
www.julianneswartz.com

Represented by: Josée Bienvenu Gallery

Education: BA, University of Arizona, Tucson; MFA, Bard College

One-person exhibitions include: Finesilver Gallery, Houston; Josee Bienvenu Gallery; Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, U.K.; Turchin Center for the Arts, Appalachian State University; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; 123 Watts; Schroeder-Romero Gallery; Artists Space; Ricco/Maresca Gallery; Urban Glass; Jewish Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Colby College Museum of Art.

Group exhibitions include: Tate Liverpool, London; Whitney Museum of American Art; PMK Gallery, Beijing; Sculpture Center; Muller Dechiara Gallery, Berlin; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; New Museum of Contemporary Art; P.S.1/MoMA; Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; K.S. Art; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Aldrich museum , Ballroom Marfa, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Galerie im Taxispalais, Austria, Murray Guy Gallery.

Publications include: Frieze, Artforum, ARTnews, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times

Awards and honors include: New York Foundation for the Arts, Public Art Fund; Lower East Side Print Shop Special Editions Fellowship; Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Richard Kelly Foundation. Artist residencies include: Art Omi International Artists; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture.

Fred Wilson
Fine Artist

Education: BFA, State University of New York, Purchase

Represented by: Pace Wildenstein, New York

One-Person Exhibitions Include: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California; Metro Pictures, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana: Santa Monica Museum, California; United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy; Pace Wildenstein, New York: Museum of World Culture, Göteberg, Sweden; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York: White Columns, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions Include: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; New York; Museum for African Art, New York; Metro Pictures, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; 4th International Cairo Bienniale, Egypt; ABC NO Rio, New York; Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Thread Waxing Space, New York; Drawing Center, New York; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusettes; High Museaum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.

Collections Include: The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, New York: Jewish Museum, New York: Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Denver Art Museum, Colorado: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle Art Museum Washington.

Awards and honors Include: The MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant; National Endowment for the Arts; President, Board of Trustees, The Sculpture Center, New York; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture; New York State Council on the Arts; 10th; Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Jackie Winsor
Sculptor

Represented by: Paula Cooper; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Education: BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; MFA, Rutgers University

One-person exhibitions include: Milwaukee Art Museum; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.

Collections Include: Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Australia; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Awards and Honors include: Distinguished Artist-Teacher Award, School of Visual Arts; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Honorary Doctorate, National Endowment for the Arts; Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada.