Gregory Amenoff (b. 1948) is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He serves on the Board of Directors of the CUE Art Foundation and as the Foundation's Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last fifteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts.

Gareth James is a British artist and writer based in New York who has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. Recent exhibitions of his work have been held at Kunst Werke (Berlin), P.S. 1 (New York), The Sculpture Center (New York), The ICA (London), The Wolfsonian (Miami), and American Fine Arts, Co. (New York). He is a frequent collaborator with Storm van Helsing. His writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst (Berlin), Artforum (New York), Made in USA (New York), and Purple (Paris). His publications include an anthology of essays, I said I love. That is the promise: the tvideo politics of Jean-Luc Godard (2004) produced in connection to the retrospective exhibition of Godard's work for television and video he curated under the same title. He has also taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. Current projects include Orchard, a new collectively organized gallery in New York, and he is the co-editor of "Scorched Earth" a forthcoming journal devoted to drawing.

Jon Kessler received a B.F.A. from SUNY at Purchase and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has exhibited his work widely in Europe, Japan, and the United States. He has sculptures in the permanent collection of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, and MoCA. He has received several NEA grants, the St. Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Foundation for the Performing Arts grant. There are three major publications on his work, Jon Kessler's Asia (Kestner-Gesellschaft,) Jon Kessler (Puerto de Santander,) and The Palace at 4.M. (Charta).

For his solo exhibition, "Global Village Idiot" at Deitch Projects in 2004 he began a new series of video sculptures which led to his first New York museum exhibition, "The Palace at 4 AM," at PS1 in 2005. This show traveled to the Phoenix Kulturstiftung / Sammlung Falckenberg in Hamburg, the House of World Cultures in Berlin and will continue to the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. This fall he showed his drawings and collages at the Drawing Center in New York.

Blake Rayne graduated from Cal Arts in 1992 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a recipient of the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. Recent Exhibitions include his participation in "Make Your Own Life", ICA Philadelphia (2006). "Conditions of Display", Moore Space in Miami (2006). "Local Transit", Artspace Auckland NZ (2007). He co-curated "For the People of Paris", Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot Paris (2007). Recent Solo Exhibitions include "Untitled Painting (Union Square)" at Reena Spaulings NY (2005), "Wallace Nutting and Julia Hill (gold version)" at Sutton Lane London (2006), "Wallace Nutting and Julia Hill (blue version)" at Miguel Abreu NY (2006). May of 2007 He exhibited "The Appearance and Disappearance of Red Pistachio Shells and the Emergence of the California Nut Industry (1979)" Sutton Lane Paris.

Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the International Center of Photography, New York. His books include: Enduring Justice, Sanctuary, Come Sunday, Found in Brooklyn, Old and On Their Own (with Dr. Robert Coles), Sunset Park, Higher Ground and Show and Tell Sanctuary. He taught for more than 15 years at Yale University, Fordham University, Cooper Union, and the School of Visual Arts before coming to Columbia University. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. He is also the founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake magazine.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2005 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, his exhibition there consisted of a pirate radio (with instructions on how to make one for yourself.) Tiravanija was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award. He has had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam that then was presented in Paris and London. Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also President of an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of a collective alternative space located in Bangkok-- where he maintains his primary residence and studio.

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Her recent and upcoming solo museum shows include "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love," The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 18 - May 13, 2007; ARC/ Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 20 - September 9, 2007, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 11, 2007 - February 3, 2008; Hammer Museum, February 17 - May 11, 2008. She also participated in the 53nd Venice Biennale, in June of 2007. She was the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Prize and the American representative to the São Paulo Biennial. Her work is included in numerous museums and public collections including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Tate Gallery, London, the Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, and Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt. She lives and works in New York City.

Paula Wilson received a MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Selected exhibitions include the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Sikkema Jenkins Co. (New York), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Suzy Shammah (Milan) and Spellman College Museum of Fine Art (Atlanta). Paula is a recent recipient of the Art Production Fund's Giverny Residency (France) and has published a series of prints at the Leroy Neiman Print Center (New York).

Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the more heterogeneous bodies of work in the field of experimental media with techniques including; narrative and docu-drama styles, improvised performance, found footage, digital animation, and low-tech Pixelvision video. The work is primarily an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject, in various genres. Ahwesh work with subversively amateur forms, in a discourse that reworks traditionally female-gendered themes like home and family, relationships and confessions.

Ahwesh was the subject of a midcareer retrospective, Girls Beware! at the Whitney Museum (1997). Other retrospectives include: Filmmuseum, Brussels, Belgium; Carpenter Center at Harvard University; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Cinematexas 6, Austin, Texas. She has screened work in the Whitney Biennial (1991, 1995, 2002); New York Film Festival (1998, 2007); Flaherty Film Seminar (2003) and The Pompidou Center (2002, 2004). Certain Women (2004) was an official selection at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the open night film at the New York Underground Film Festival. Ahwesh was featured in: Brides of Frankenstein, San Jose Museum of Art; Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, MoMA; Animations, PS1, IAMNOWHERE, CCS, Bard College; Festival of Contemporary Arts: City of Women; Ljubljana, Slovenia and Lookalike: Barbie Lolita Lara Croft, at the Nederlands Fotomuseum; Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her films Martina's Playhouse, The Deadman (made with Keith Sanborn), Strange Weather and Nocturne are in the permanent collection of the MoMA. Ahwesh has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, NYSCA and Creative Capital. She won the Alpert Award in the Arts for filmmaking in 2000.

Janine Antoni is an artist from Freeport, Bahamas. She received her B.A. in 1986 from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. She received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, at venues including: Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the 1999 American Century exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the 2000 Open Ends exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her work was included in the 1993 Venice Biennale, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the 1995 Johannesburg Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial, and the 2000 Kwangju Biennal, Kwangju, Korea.

Jan Avgikos studied art history at Columbia University before becoming contributing editor at Artforum. Her essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum, Parkett, and Flash Art, among other international publications. She has written numbers of catalog essays, most recently for Ashley Bickerton's retrospective. She lectures widely and has been a member of the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design,Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts.

Jackie Battenfield is a painter and printmaker, living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University and her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently represented by the Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award, the Warren Tanner Award, and fiscal sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is in the collections of The New York Public Library, New York; The Zimmerli Art Museum and Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania; Museum of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and the United States Embassy Collections, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru. Battenfield is currently working on a book, The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love to be published by Da Capo Press, Spring 2009 based on the professional skills classes she has taught for over fifteen years for the Creative Capital Foundation, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as Columbia University.

Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born conceptual artist based in New York City. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate the public space. Bozhkov enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel Bozhkov is a recipient of 2007 Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. He has shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Belin, Germany; Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin, Texas, and the Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been presented in international exhibitions such as the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, 9th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia and the 9th Baltic Triennale in Vilnius, Lithuania. Daniel Bozhkov is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.

Laura Cottingham is a graduate of The University of Chicago (B.S., Anthropology, 1981); and was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in The Whitney Independent Study Program (1981-82). As a critic, curator and artist she has lectured, taught and exhibited in Europe and the United States. Her video works include two features: Not For Sale, 1998, a history of the Feminist Art Movement; and The Anita Pallenberg Story, 2000, starring Cottingham as Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. She is author of Fear Eats the Soul (London, 2005); Seeing Through the Seventies (London, 2002); Lesbians are so chic (London, 1996); Cherchez Claude Cahun (Lyon, 2002); and Combien de "sales" féministes faut-il pour changer une ampule (Lyon, 2000). During 1994-96 she served as a guest curator to The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; in 1997, at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France; and in 2006 co-curated Sweden's Vårsalongen for the Liljevalchs Konsthalle, Stockholm. She has been artist in residence at the Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France and The Villa Arson, Nice. Awarded a Rema Hort Mann Cultural Support Grant in 1997, she has twice been the recipient of grants from The Peter Norton Family Foundation. She lives in the East Village.

Mark Dion is an American artist who metamorphoses into an ecologist, biochemist, detective, and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the 1980s, Dion has constructed the laboratories, experiments, and museum caches of the great historical naturalists -following in their footsteps in his own adventurous, eco-inspired journeys to the tropics. Dion crosses Darwin, Disney, and Hitchcock in work ranging from hundreds of photographic "specimens" documenting all the insect life in a single meter of meadow, to the meticulous gathering and labeling of the rubbish tossed out over hundreds of years from a sixteenth-century Italian castle. His research and magical collections are presented in installational stilllifes, which combine taxidermic animals, lab equipment, and artifacts-like walkthrough wunderkammers, life-sized cabinets of curiosity. The artist is creating a permanent garden in Britain, an orchard of fruits facing extinction planted in the form of a tree of life-a sculptural gene pool for the future.

Liam Gillick was born in 1964 in Aylesbury (U.K.) He attended Goldsmiths College in London between 1984 and 1987 and has been teaching at Columbia University in New York since 1997. Numerous solo exhibitions since 1989 include Literally, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003; communes, bar and greenrooms, The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 2003; Exterior Days, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2003; The Wood Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2002; A short text on the possibility of creating an economy of equivalence, Palais de Tokyo, 2005. Selected group exhibitions include Singular Forms, Guggenheim Museum, 2004; 50th Venice Biennale, 2003; What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2000 and documenta X, 1997. Numerous public projects and interventions include Ft. Lauderdale Airport in 2002 and the new Home Office government building in London in 2005.

Since 1995 Liam Gillick has published a number of books that function in parallel to his artwork including Literally No Place (Book Works, London, 2002); Five or Six (Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 1999); Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre (Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, and Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1997) and Erasmus is Late (Book Works, London, 1995). Underground (Fragments of Future Histories), (Les maitres des formes, Brussels and les presses du reel, Dijon, 2004) has just been published and Construcción de Uno a text addressing post-industrial developments within a revised ecological framework will be published in early 2006. In addition, Liam Gillick has contributed to many art magazines and journals including Parkett, Frieze, Art Monthly and a regular column for Metropolis M in Amsterdam.

Dana Hoey is a photographer known for her staged work of female relations. She also makes videos and digital collage. Her work has been shown in a solo show at the Hirshorn Museum in Washington D.C. and at various commercial galleries in the United States and Europe. She is represented by the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City and her current projects include completely digital photography to be presented in New York January 2009.

John Kelsey is an artist whose multifarious practice also includes the roles of dealer and critic. He has been a member of the artist-collective Bernadette Corporation since 1999. In 2003 he co-founded Reena Spaulings Fine Art, an art gallery on New York's Lower East Side. He has been a Contributing Editor at Artforum since 2005. With Bernadette Corporation, Kelsey has recently presented solo exhibitions at the Witte de With, the Hamburger Kunstverien and the Kunsthalle Zurich. The artist Reena Spaulings has shown at the Kunsthalle Zurich, Sutton Lane gallery in London and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, and was included in the exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night and Uncertain States of America. Bernadette Corporation published the novel Reena Spaulings (Semiotext(e), 2004) and a screenplay called Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte (Sternberg Press, 2007). John Kelsey has also published catalogue essays on the artists Josephine Meckseper, Christopher Williams, Rachel Harrison, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Michael Krebber, Charline von Heyl and Albert Oehlen.

Jutta Koether composes with images, texts, and music. Born in Cologne, Germany, Ms. Koether lives and works in New York. She received her M.A. from the University of Cologne in art and philosophy and took part in the Whitney Independent Studies Program in New York City. During the 80s and 90s, Ms. Koether performed and showed her paintings and installations internationally, regularly showing in New York with the Pat Hearn Gallery. She is currently represented by Daniel Buchholz Galerie, Cologne, and is working on a book project and a visual project in relation to Alain Badious's "Ethics (on the understanding of evil)." Her most recent publication is "The Outer Sound Project," a CD she created in collaboration with Jess Holzworth on the Ecstatic Peace label. Since the mid-90s, Ms. Koether has taught: at the School of Visual Arts undergraduate program, New York; as a professor at the Academy of Arts in Berlin; and as guest professor at the School of Arts at Yale University.

John Miller received a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977 and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. He has exhibited in North America, Europe, and Japan. He is represented by Metro Pictures in New York, Richard Telles Fine Arts in Los Angeles, Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, and Galerie Meyer Riegger in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva feature his work in their collections. His awards include National Endowment for the Arts and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grants, a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Berliner Künstlerprogramm fellowship, and a residency at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Kitakyushu, Japan. In 1999, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble and the Kunstverein in Hamburg both held a retrospective exhibitions of his work titled "Parallel Economies." In fall 2000, JRP Editions in Geneva and the Consortium in Dijon jointly published a collection of his criticism, The Price Club: Selected Writings 1977-1998.

Matt Mullican was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1951. He received his B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, in 1974. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including IVAM, Valencia, Spain; the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle,Warsaw; the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the Netherlands; Lace, Los Angeles, California; and the List Art Center at MIT, Boston, Massachusetts. A retrospective of his work is currently traveling through Europe at the Fundação Serralves, Portugal; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain; St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; and Museion, Bolzano, Italy. He has taught and lectured at, among others, Columbia University; UCLA; the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam; the London Institute and Chelsea College of Art and Design, England; and the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is currently working on several public commissions as well as preparing for four solo exhibitions in Europe this fall.

Amy Sillman is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, NY and in Tivoli, NY. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US and Europe, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Tiffany, Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundations. In 2007 she had solo shows at Carlier Gebauer Gallery in Berlin, and at The Blaffer Gallery of the University of Houston, and an upcoming solo show of her work will be held in the spring of 2008 at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, travelling afterwards to The Tang Museum at Skidmore College. A book about her drawings entitled Amy Sillman - Works on Paper was published by Gregory R. Miller, NYC, in 2006. Sillman's work has been written about frequently and she has also published her writings on other painters in journals and catalogs. Her work is held in many public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum, NYC.