2013

Erin Shirreff was born in 1975 in Kelowna, British Columbia and now lives and works in New York City. Her long-duration videos extend and explore the act of looking. Constructed from hundreds of individual photographs captured in her studio, these works collapse time and place as they fluctuate between natural and artificial effects, stillness and motion. Projected onto ad hoc structures, the works have a spatial dimension that underscores the materiality of Shirreff’s source photographs. 

Recently she has presented her work in solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.; White Cube, London, U.K.; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ont.; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Calif.; and Lisa Cooley, New York, N.Y. Recent group exhibitions include Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France; The Camera's Blind Spot, Museo d'Arte di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy; Remainder, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Okla.; Lost Line, LACMA, Los Angeles, Calif.; Voice of Images, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy; Science on the back end, Hauser & Wirth, New York, N.Y.; and Le Silence. Une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.

Edgardo Aragón (born 1985) received his B.A. in Fine Arts from the ENPEG la Esmeralda, Mexico City. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. His work has also been included in group exhibitions including Resisting the Present, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2012; Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show, San Francisco Art Institute, 2011; Historias Fugaces, Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, 2011; and El horizonte del topo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2010. His work was also included in the 3rd Moscow Biennial of Young Artists, the 12th Istanbul Biennial, and the 8th Mercosur Biennial. His films have been screened in film festivals in Werkletiz, Marseille, and Mexico City. He lives and works in Oaxaca.

Edgardo Aragón, Boat from the series Message/Warning, 2007 -2011, digital photograph, 63.5 x 91.44 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Monclova.

LaToya Ruby Frazier was born and raised in Braddock, Pennsylvania. She earned a B.F.A. in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2004, and an M.F.A. in art photography from Syracuse University in 2007. She completed the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2011. Her work is informed by late 19th- and early 20th-century modes of representation in documentary practice. With an emphasis on postmodern conditions, class, and capitalism, Frazier investigates issues of propaganda, politics, and the importance of subjectivity.Her work has been shown in museums and galleries in New York City including the Whitney Museum of American Art: 2012 Whitney Biennial, P.S.1 MoMA 2010 Greater New York, the New Museum of Contemporary Art 2009 triennial Younger Than Jesus, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Living and Dreaming, the Museum of the City of New York, Moveable Feast and at the Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh Biennial, Gertrude's /Lot. Her first solo-museum show Mother May I was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2010. Her upcoming 2013 solo-projects include, A Haunted Capital at the Brooklyn Museum and Witness at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Frazier's work has been exhibited internationally at the 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu Korea, the 2011 Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon Korea, in Commercial Break, Garage Projects Venice, Italy and with Galerie Michel Rein in Paris. Currently LaToya is a featured artist in the Art 21 documentary series New York Close Up. Since 2007 she has been the Associate Curator for the Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, where she has also taught photography in the Mason Gross School of the Arts. In 2012 Frazier was appointed critic in photography at Yale University.

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Momme, from the series Notion of Family 2002-present, 2008, 50.8 x 60.96 cm

Chino Otsuka was born in Tokyo, Japan and came to UK to be educated at Summerhill School, the progressive co-educational boarding school, at the age of 10. She studied photography at University of Westminster and received MA in Fine Art Photography at Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in UK, Europe and Asia. Recently she had a major solo show at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam. Group shows include Helsinki Photogrphy Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK, LACMA, US, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, South Korea and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India. She has also published four books in Japan as a writer and published her first autobiographical book at the age of 15 to much acclaim. Her works are found in public collections including National Media Museum, UK, Wilson Centre for Photography, UK, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. The series Imagine Finding Me has become her most exhibited work showing over 14 countries

Chino Otsuka,1976 and 2005 Kamakura, Japan from the series Imagine Finding Me, 2005, Chromogenic Print, 305x406mm

Kader Attia spent his childhood between France and Algeria, between the Christian Occident and the Islamic Maghreb. The more he grew up, the more he felt that being 'in between' was at the root of his identities. Using his own background that has been defined by several cultures simultaneously, Attia explores the impact of Western cultural and political capitalism on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as how this residual strain of struggle and resistance to colonization impacts the mind of any immigrant as a territory. While each new series employs different materials, symbols and scale, Attia's practice continually returns to a sustained look at the poetic dimensions and complexities of contemporary life.

Elizabeth Smith Executive Director, Curatorial Affairs, at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 2010 to July 2013, and joined the New York-based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation as Executive Director in September 2013. Previously, she held the position of Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and was Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. An internationally recognized art historian and museum professional, her curatorial work and writings have ranged broadly across visual art, public art, and architecture from mid-20th century to today. She has curated major monographic exhibitions of artists including Jenny Holzer, Lee Bontecou, Kerry James Marshall, Roberto Matta, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman and Donald Moffett, as well as numerous group exhibitions.

Urs Stahel is currently the curator, editor, and author of numerous exhibitions and publications. He was previously the director of Fotomuseum Winterthur. Between 1982-1992, Mr. Stahel was a freelance curator and art critic, editor of art magazine du, and lecturer in history of art and photography at the School of Art and Design in Zürich. His numerous exhibition and publication projects include: Lewis Baltz: Regel ohne Ausnahme, Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1993; Axel Hütte – Theorea, Winterthur, 1997; Remake Berlin, Göttingen, 2000; Boris Mikhailov – A Retrospective, Zürich, 2003; Zoe Leonard, Winterthur-Göttingen, 2007; and Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Winterthur, 2008; Darkside II – Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Winterthur-Göttingen, 2009; Ai Weiwei – Interlacing, Winterthur-Göttingen, 2011.