2010

USA
Leslie Hewitt graduated from The Cooper Union's School of Art in 2000 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 2004. From 2001-2003, she studied Africana Studies and Cultural Studies at New York University. Hewitt has held residencies at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, A Center for Contemporary Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among others. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Artists Space, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, D’Amelio Terras, New York; Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Dane, London, United Kingdom and The Kitchen, New York. Hewitt participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and is the recipient of the 2008 Art Matters research grant to the Netherlands. Her work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2009, Hewitt was represented in MoMA's New Photography 2009, a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. She has also been in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and was a recipient of the prestigious 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Individual Artist Grant.

Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (10 of 10), 2008 , chromogenic print, 102 x 76.2cm. Courtesy of the artist and D'Amelio Terras, New York. © 2010 Leslie Hewitt

USA
Josh Brand was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1980 and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA in 2002 from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied film and photography. Brand painstakingly manipulates photographic paper to render the subtlest gestures and effects in works that suggest representational elements while remaining emphatically abstract. He has had solo shows at White Columns in New York (2007) and Herald St. in London (2009) and was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Josh Brand, Untitled, 2009, unique chromogenic print, 24.4 x 20.3cm. Courtesy of the artist and Herald St. London, UK. © 2010 Josh Brand

Canada
Moyra Davey is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. In 2008, Davey was the subject of an expansive survey at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Long Life Cool White, curated by Helen Molesworth. Coinciding with this exhibition, Yale University Press published a monograph of her photographs and her writings on photography. Davey exhibited from 1994-2003 with Colin de Land's legendary gallery American Fine Arts, Co., and, from 2005-2008, she was a partner in the collaborative, artist-run gallery Orchard. Her works are in the collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2008-2009, Davey was a resident at the Canada Council studio at the Cité des Arts in Paris, where she produced the video My Necropolis. Books by Moyra Davey include Copperheads (Bywater Bros. Editions, 2010), Long Life Cool White (Yale University Press, 2008), and The Problem of Reading (Documents Books, 2003). She also conceived and edited a book of writings on motherhood, Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2001.) Along with her husband, Jason Simon, each year she hosts a one-minute film festival out of her home in Narrowsburg, New York. Moyra Davey is represented by Murray Guy, New York, and Goodwater Gallery, Toronto.

Moyra Davey (Canadian), Copperhead #77, 1990, chromogenic print, 51 x 61cm. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York. © 2010 Moyra Davey

Sophie Hackett is the Curator, Photography, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and adjunct faculty in Ryerson University’s master’s program in Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management. She continues to write for art magazines, international journals and artist monographs, including “Queer Looking: Joan E. Biren’s Slide Shows” in Aperture (spring 2015) and “Encounters in the Museum: The Experience of Photographic Objects” in the edited volume The “Public” Life of Photographs (Ryerson Image Centre and MIT Press, 2016). Hackett’s curatorial projects during her tenure at the AGO include Barbara Kruger: Untitled (It) (2010); Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today (2011); Max Dean: Album, A Public Project (2012); What It Means To be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility and Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography (2014); Introducing Suzy Lake (2014); and Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s (2016). In 2017, she was a Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She is the lead juror for the 2017 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, a role she also held in 2014, 2010 and 2012.

Dominic Molon is an associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, where he has curated the major thematic exhibitions Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out (2010) and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 (2007), as well as solo exhibitions of Liam Gillick (2009), Wolfgang Tillmans (2006), Gillian Wearing (2002), and Sharon Lockhart (2001). Molon has contributed to numerous publications, including: Art Review, Whitewall, Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing; Art on Paper; Contemporary Magazine; Trans; and Tate Etc., as well as exhibition catalogues for Karen Kilimnik, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Muntean & Rosenblum.

Dr. Kenneth Montague is an art collector and curator based in Toronto and the founder and director of Wedge Curatorial Projects. Since 1997, he has been investigating photo-based work that explores black identity and the African diaspora. FLAVA: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1977 – 2007, an art book published in 2007, documents the projects, exhibitions and community workshops produced during its first decade. The Wedge Collection has grown to encompass both historical and contemporary photography, as well as non-photo based works that challenge notions of representation and identity. Exhibitions curated by Dr. Montague include Becoming at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; head room at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto; CONTACT 2010 exhibition Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography from the Wedge Collection at Gallery 44, Toronto; and the upcoming Position As Desired / Exploring African-Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Fall 2010).

Karen Irvine is curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago. She has organized numerous one-person exhibitions including: Anthony Goicolea; Shirana Shahbazi: Goftare Nik/Good Words; Jason Salavon; Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy; and Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi. Thematic group exhibitions include Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography; The Furtive Gaze, works by artists who use the camera as an instrument of surveillance; Camera/Action: Performance and Photography; and Anticipation, exploring strategies of slowness and suspense in time-based art. She is a part-time instructor of photography at Columbia College, Chicago. She received her MFA in photography from FAMU, Prague, and a Masters of Arts degree in art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.