Turiya Adkins (b. 1998, New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2020. Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions including Manifold, 2022, London, UK; Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent, 2023, Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY; Manifold Deluxe, 2023, Frieze, London, UK; Experience 49: blue/s, 2021, El Segundo Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Parallels and Rupture, 2023, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA.
Celia Álvarez Muñoz (b. 1937, El Paso, TX) is a Mexican American conceptual multimedia artist. Her work has been exhibited widely in group exhibitions, such as the Whitney Biennial (1991), and in solo presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1991); Dallas Museum of Art (1991); Capp Street Project, San Francisco (1994); and University of Texas at Arlington (2002). Her work is in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Muñoz’s work was included in the invitational traveling exhibition Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement by the Smithsonian Institution and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other exhibits.
Noboyushi Araki (b. 1940, Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer. One of the most prolific artists of Japan, he has published more than 500 photobooks to date, and his work has been widely exhibited internationally, including major retrospectives at the Museum of Sex, New York, and the Musée Guimet, Paris. His work is included in the permanent collections of international institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Tate Modern, London.
Sheila Forde (b. 1967, Kitchener, ON, Canada) lives and works in Montreal. After a year studying art, Forde switched her degree to Psychology, whereafter she worked in advertising through her twenties, becoming a stay-at-home mother in her thirties. She started making art after leaving her marriage in 2016. Forde pursues connections in the work and with her community with her excellent Instagram account @aslowdancer. The first significant exhibition of her work was recently held at F, Houston.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation, b. 1954, Wichita, KS) is an indigenous artist living on Native Land in Oklahoma City, OK. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; the Berkeley Art Museum, California; the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York; and the Association For Visual Arts Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Heap of Birds has been included in numerous group exhibitions at museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, The Peabody Essex Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York; and in international biennials such as SITE Santa Fe, La Biennale di Venezia, and Documenta. He has also created major commissions for the Walker Art Center and Public Art Fund, and been the recipient of awards from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Rockefeller Foundation, among others.
Marilyn Jolly is an artist and educator based in Dallas, TX. She received her MFA in painting in 1983 at The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma and her BA in 1972 at University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, Oklahoma. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in galleries and institutions internationally as well as regionally. From 1999-2018 she was the associate professor of painting at University of Texas, Arlington.
Rachel Hecker (b. 1958, Providence, RI) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Houston, TX. After receiving her MFA in painting at The Rhode Island School of Design she moved to Houston to launch the CORE program at the MFAH, where she was associate director for many years. Solo exhibitions of the artists work have taken place at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art and has been included in group shows at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Menil Collection, ArtPace among others. In 2013, she was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League Houston and in 2006 was awarded an Artadia grant. Her work is curently included in the group show He Said/ She said at the Dallas Museum of Art, curated by Katherine Brodbeck.
Sonya Kelliher-Combs (b. 1969, Alaska) is an Iñupiaq and Athabascan multidisciplinary artist based in Anchorage, Alaska. She has a BFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an MFA from Arizona State University. Her work is currently featured in The Visceral Trilogy exhibitions at Alaska State Museum and the traveling exhibition Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity currently on view at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and previously The Power Plant, Toronto. A forthcoming monograph of her work will be published by Hirmer Verlag in spring 2024, edited by Julie Decker, Ph.D. Her solo exhibitions include Yukon Arts Center, Canada (2019); Minus Space, Brooklyn (2019); Carrie McLain Museum, Nome, AK (2016, 1994, 1990); International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK (2015); Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2014); UC Davis, CA (2012); Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM (2011); National Museum of Indian Art, New York, NY (2010); and Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK (2005). She’s been featured in the important group exhibitions Heart of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (2019); Art for a New Understanding, Crystal Bridges, AK (2018); SITELINES: Much Wider Than a Line, SITE Santa Fe, NM (2016); Changing Hands 2: Art without Reservation, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2005). She is a recipient of the United States Arts Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Rasmuson Fellowship, Anchorage Mayor’s Arts Award and Alaska Governor’s Individual Artist Award. Her work is included in the collections of Anchorage Museum, Alaska State Museum, Denver Art Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Forge Project, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, National Museum of the American Indian, University of Alaska Museum of the North, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at Tureen (2023) STARS (2023) and Andrew Kreps.
Ineke Knudsen (b.1996), is a painter from Morgantown, WV, currently living and working in Providence, RI. Her work wrestles with themes of American Purity Culture, sexuality within conservative religious contexts, and the Biblical Apocalypse (but honestly, she just likes to paint weird deer). She received her MFA from RISD in 2022 and her BFA from WVU in 2020.
Adam Marnie (b.1977) is an artist, gallerist and publisher based in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in 2012 from Milton Avery Graduate School, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY and his BFA in 2001 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. His work has been exhibited in galleries such as Derek Eller, Halsey McKay and Magenta Plains among others. He has been the editor of F magazine since 2014 and has published books and artist editions with luminaries such as Mark Flood, Barbara Ess and John Miller. A new exhibtion Collaborations and Bootlegs: 10 Years of F Magazine opens this summer at Pazda Butler, Houston.
Łukasz Stokłosa (b.1986 in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland) is a painter based in Krakow, Poland. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Tureen (2024), Wawel Castle (2024) and Amity, Brooklyn (2023) recent group shows include Cabin Berlin (2024) and Company (2023). He is the recent subject of a profile in Interview Magazine.
