KELANI ABASS is a Nigerian-born artist based in Lagos . He studied at the Yaba College of Technology , Lagos , graduating in painting with distinction in 2007 . He has won several awards including the Caterina De Medici / 3rd Black Heritage 1st Prize in painting in 2010 . Abass has taken part in numerous artist residencies including the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2018 . Recent solo exhibitions include if I could save time at the Centre for Contemporary Art , Lagos ( 2016 ), Aso Igba at Art Clip Africa , Lagos ( 2016 ), Asiko at the Centre for Contemporary Art , Lagos ( 2013 ), Man and Machine at Omenka Gallery , Lagos ( 2011 ) and Paradigm Shift at Mydrim Gallery , Lagos ( 2009 ).
MONA BOZORGI is an Iranian artist-scholar whose interdisciplinary research and artistic practice focus on identities in the age of post-humanism . Her work offers new ways of thinking about subjectivity , matter , and the process of materialization while exploring the intersections of bodies and technology . Bozorgi ’ s work provides alternative ways of understanding the contemporary self and its conversation with technology , simultaneously reflecting the importance of inclusive representation and questioning the idea that photography ’ s only function is to produce representation . Bozorgi received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in the United States . She is currently an Assistant Professor in Photography in the Department of Art at Florida State University and a doctoral candidate in Texas Tech University ’ s interdisciplinary Fine Arts program , where she is completing a dissertation titled “ Selfie-ing : Materialization of the Bodies via Apparatuses and Assemblages .”
HOLLY BYNOE is an artist , curator , writer , spiritualist and medicine woman from Bequia , St . Vincent and the Grenadines . She is currently living between the Caribbean and Scotland and helms several creative offshoots including Caribbean Linked , a regional residency program in Aruba , and Tilting Axis , an annual meeting charting connectivity and sustainability via the arts across the region . After serving five years as the Chief Curator at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas , Bynoe joined arts non-profit The Hub Collective Inc to build out their sustainable , regenerative , environmental and intergenerational pillars and co-founded Sour Grass , a curatorial agency supporting contemporary Caribbean art practice and industry .
PILAR CASTILLO is a Belizean-born artist and designer based in Los Angeles , California whose work represents her roots as part of the Caribbean diaspora . She has dedicated twenty years as an art practitioner and professional in the L . A . art community with a focus on Public Art . Castillo ’ s work is recognized for her intentional handmade processes to design work ranging from publication to product design . Castillo holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design , and a BA in World Arts and Cultures from UCLA ’ s School of Art & Architecture . She has completed field studies in Amsterdam , Belgium and Cuba . Her work has recently been featured in the Los Angeles Times , Hyperallergic , and Polymode ’ s BIPOC Design History .
ALBERT CHONG is a contemporary artist working in the mediums of photography , installation and sculpture . His works have dealt directly with personal mysticism , spirituality , race and identity and numerous other topics as well as celebrating the beauty of images and objects . Chong was born in Kingston , Jamaica , and is the last of eight children of merchant Chinese and Afro-Jamaican parents . He immigrated to the United States in 1977 and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City , where he received a BFA with Honors in 1981 . He received his MFA from UCSD in 1991 and in the same year accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Colorado at Boulder , where he is currently a Professor of Art .
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