Mircea Cantor (Romania, 1977) lives and works between Paris, Berlin and Cluj, his hometown. Cantor developed his body of work through a diverse choice of media: video, animation, sculpture, drawing, painting and installation. The work of Mircea Cantor has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, the Salzburger Kunstverein, the Rodin Museum, Kunsthaus Zurich, Modern Art Oxford, Arnolfini, Mucasmok in Budapest, Center Camden Arts in London, the Pompidou Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, among others. It has also been included in group exhibitions at the Tate Modern (2011), MASS MoCA (2011), the Walker Art Center (2010), the Pompidou (2010), MoMA (2008) and the 28th Bienal de São Paulo in 2008, the 4th Berlin Biennale in 2006 and the Yokohama Triennale in 2011.
Eglè Budvytytè (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1981) lives between Brussels and Amsterdam. She’s a graduate of Photography from the Vilnius Academy of Arts and of Audiovisual Studies from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, with an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. She has recently exhibited her work at 11th Performance Project by LISTE, Art Fair Basel (2015); STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2015); Sculpture International Rotterdam (2015); Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden (2014); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); Contemporary Art Centre, Ohio, USA (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Baltic Triennial of Contemporary Art, Vilnius (2012), and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2010).
Bart Groenendaal (Amsterdam, 1975) He studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and then switched to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where he majored in Audiovisual and Time-Based Arts. He has been artist in residency at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2007-2008); Nida Art Colony, Lithuania (2011), and BijlmAIR residency, Amsterdam (2012). His work has been exhibited in The Nederlands, Lithuania, Sweden and Belgium, and is part of the Moderna Museet Malmö (Sweden) collection.
Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966) lives and works in Madrid. After graduating in Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University, Santiago Sierra completed his artistic training in Hamburg, where he studied under professors F. E. Walter, S. Brown and B. J. Blume. His beginnings are linked to alternative art circuits in Madrid—El Ojo Atómico, Espacio P—although he would go on to develop much of his career in Mexico (1995–2006) and Italy (2006–10), and his work has always exerted a great influence on artistic literatura and criticism. His work has been exhibited in Italy, Australia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Poland, Colombia, Japan, etc.
Jorge Galindo (Madrid, 1965) currently lives and works in London. His works have been widely exhibited in Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal, Switzerland, Mexico, USA, Germany, Dominican Republic, Israel, Austria, Japan, The Nederlands and Russia, in institutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2014); Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2014); FRIEZE Art Fair London (2013); Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía, Madrid (2013); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid (2013); Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011), and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (1999).
Galindo and Santiago Sierra have teamed up since the 80s, when they formed a graffiti duo called Comando Madrid.
Matthew Weinstein (New York, 1964) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Weinstein has assembled a 3D computer animation production community. He is now collaborating with Cornell Tech in an investigation of identity based interactivity and working on an animated film inspired by the writings of the British writer, Anna Kavan. Weinstein also contributes regularly to ARTnews and other publications. His works have been shown in dozens of solo and group exhibitions around the USA, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Nederlands, Italy, France, China, Mexico and Brazil. In Venezuela, he was part of the celebrated Transatlantic exhibition at the Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero (Caracas, 1995), curated by Ruth Auerbach and Jacobo Karpio.
Nina Pereg (1969, Israel) Lives and works in Tel Aviv. After receiving an B.F.A from Cooper Union, New York, USA, Pereg returned to Israel where she graduated from the Bezalel M.F.A Studio program in Jerusalem. She has been teaching internationally ever since. Pereg’s works have been exhibited at PS 1 New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, DC, USA; HDK, Berlin; KW, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Haus Der Kunst, Munchen; Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Kusntahlle Dusseldorf; The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv and at various festival and galleries around the world. She is the recipient of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize for a young artist, and was recently presented at the AICHI Triennale, Shanghai Biennial and Sao Paulo.
Miguel Angel Rios (Argentina, 1943) lives and works between Mexico City and New York. After studying at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, he won numerous awards, including the John Guggenheim Fellowship. Ríos has created an extensive body of artistic work using diverse media: painting, sculpture, drawing, projects on paper, installations, video and radio projects.Since early 2000, Ríos has used the medium of video.His recent solo exhibitions include White Box, New York, USA (2003), Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela (2002), John Weber Gallery, New York, USA (1999), Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico (1999), Gallery Ruth Benzecar, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998), Gallery Oddi Baglioni, Rome (1996), Wohn Maschine Galerie, Berlin, Germany (1995). Among his group exhibitions include: The Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2002), Art Basel / Miami (2002), Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City (2002), PS1 Contemporary Arts, New York, USA ( 2001), Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba (2000), City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
Federico Solmi (Bologna, 1973) lives and works in New York. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is currently Visiting Professor at Yale University. The artist’s extraordinary video-animations have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Frankfurt B3 Biennial of Moving Images, Site Santa Fe Biennial and at museums including MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Drawing Center (New York), Haifa Museum of Art (Israel), Centro Cultural Matucana 100, (Santiago), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (Shanghai), Victoria Memorial Museum (Kolkata, India), Contemporary Art Center of Rouboix, Palazzo Delle Arti (Naples) and Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome).
Cited on the Artforum 2015 «Critics Picks,» Solmi has also had works featured in expositions including Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, London International Animation Festival, Loop in Barcelona and Utrecht’s Impakt Film and Video Festival, and this fall, at Beijing Media Art Biennale.
The artist’s disquieting works begin with his conceptualization of imaginary scenarios, sometimes historical in origin and sometimes in reference to contemporary personalities, events or issues. Solmi’s process unfolds through exuberant freehand drawings. These are developed into series of densely painted works, put into motion with 3D imaging software.
Artist’s website: federicosolmi.com
Héctor Zamora (Mexico DF, 1974) currently lives and works in Lisbon. Although his academic training was in graphic arts, his current practice spans performance, video, sculpture and outdoor installations. Internationally renown, his best known works involve interventions in public settings, environments devised with structures, and actions or assemblages that call attention to patterns of use and perception in public spaces.
The artist’s video, sculptural and architectural work has been featured in two Venice Biennales, at the Triennial in Nagoya, Japan, and biennials in Cairo, São Paulo, Istanbul, Shenzhen, Liverpool, Lyon and Havana. He participated in the BMW Guggenheim Labs in Mumbai. He has been part of several group exhibitions worldwide. Zamora’s recent solo exhibitions were Ordre et Progrès, Palais de Tokyo, París (2016); La réalité et autres tromperies, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (2015); Héctor Zamora [documentary videos], Kunststation Delden/ Het-Loket, Holanda (2014). He is currently working on comissiones projects for Fundación RAC (Pontevedra), Raiffeisen Bank (Geneva), and Kista Äng (Stockholm).
Ivan Muniz Reed will provide a study of Zamora’s works for Civic Actions: Artist’s Practices Beyond the Museum, a book commissioned by the MCA of Australia, drawn from proceedings at a 2015 conference on socially engaged art, published July 2016.
Artist’s website: lsd.com.mx
Jonathan Monaghan (New York, 1986) is a digital artist with a BA in Computer Graphics from the New York Institute of Technology and an MFA from the University of Maryland. With a fluidity of mediums and meanings, the artist uses computer animation software and digital fabrication methods to create thought-provoking works that convey collective fears surrounding wealth, power and technology, while exploring the blurry boundaries between reality, imagination and virtuality.
His works have been displayed at the Sundance Film Festival, British Film Institute, Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (Brooklyn), Bitforms gallery (New York), Curator’s Office (Washington DC), and Queens Museum of Art (New York).
His work has also been featured in The Washington Post, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and The Village Voice.
Artist’s website: jonmonaghan.com
