The Women's Work Issue Women's Work. Pen and Brush. 2019

pen + brush x of note artists 43 acknowledgments SAMA ALSHAIBI (B. 1973, IRAQ) Sama Alshaibi explores the body and spaces of conflict in the aftermath of war and exile. Her monograph, Sand Rushes In (New York: Aperture, 2015), presents her Silsila series, which probes the human dimensions of migration, borders, and environmental demise. It was exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale, Honolulu Biennial, Qalandiya International Biennial, American University Museum, Washington, DC; SMoCA Arizona; MARTa Herford Museum, Germany; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York. Alshaibi has been the recipient of an Artpace San Antonio residency, Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture Visual Arts Grant, and a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to Palestine. She is an 1885 Society Distinguished Scholar (2013) and Professor of Photography, Video and Imaging at the University of Arizona. MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS (B. 1959, CUBA) María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ autobiographical work evokes stories of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, indigo, and sugar plantations, Catholic and Santeria religious practices, and revolutionary uprisings. Before emigrating to Boston in 1991, she gained an international reputation as an exponent of the New Cuban Art movement that arose in opposition to Communist repression on the island. Campos-Pons’ works are in over 30 museum collections worldwide. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, among others. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale, Johannesburg Biennial, Documenta 14, Guangzhou Triennial, and is the Artist-Curator for the 2019 Havana Biennial. Currently, Campos-Pons is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. Pen + Brush would like to thank the following for their continous support of our work and exhibitions: Lise Curry Farrow & Ball David at Print Space Ed of ROOQ Fine Art and Framing Margot Steinberg SUCHITRA MATTAI (B. 1973, GUYANA) Suchitra Mattai explores how natural environments shape personal narratives, ancestral histories, and the creation of “home.” She received an MFA in drawing and painting and an MA in South Asian Art from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She has held solo exhibitions at Metropolitan State University of Denver; Center for Visual Art, Denver; K Contemporary, Denver; and grayDUCK Gallery, Austin. Group exhibitions include: Lancaster Museum of Art and History, California; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York; and a travelling exhibition with Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC. Recently, Mattai completed a residency at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and was nominated for a United States Artists Grant. She is featured in the 2019 Sharjah Biennial. Special thanks to Lise Curry and her support for the arts. MIORA RAJAONARY (B. 1984, MADAGASCAR) Miora Rajaonary is a documentary photographer currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work focuses on social issues and identities in contemporary Africa. In 2018, she was named one of four winners of the inaugural Getty Images ARRAY Grant and won First Prize in the Addis Foto Fest Portfolio Review. Recently, she was a World Press Photo Masterclass East Africa participant, one of the inaugural Women Photograph mentees, and a participant in the inaugural Native and Everyday Projects Mentorship Program. She was featured in Britain’s i-D Magazine in 2018 as one of 10 emerging photographers of color to watch. Part of the Lise Curry Art Collection will be on view in “Mirror Mirror on the Wall...” for the Fall of 2019 at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. MING SMITH (UNITED STATES) Ming Smith was the first female member of the influential Harlem-based photography collective Kamoinge Workshop, an association of several generations of black photographers. In 1973, she was the first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art where later, in 2010, she was included in their exhibition Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. Smith has had numerous solo exhibitions: Steven Kasher Gallery, New York; The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; June Kelly Gallery, New York; and the African American Museum, Philadelphia. Her work is included in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; AT&T Corporation, Bedminster; and the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, DC. Women’s Work St. Francis College 4305, 180 Remsen St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 Women’s Work

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