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Jan avgikos
Art critic, historian, curator
educAtion: BA, Georgia State University; MA, Columbia University
puBlicAtions include: Flash Art; Parkett; Tate Etc.; Texte zur
Kunst; Contemporanea; contributing editor, Artforum. Essays in:
Still Water: Photographs by Roni Horn; Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao Collection
AwArds And honors include: Frank Jewett Mather Award,
College Art Association; Mellon Fellow, Columbia University
alice aycock
Fine artist
educAtion: BA, Douglass College; MA, Hunter College
one-person exhiBitions include: Museum of Modern Art; John
Weber Gallery; Serpentine Gallery, London; Storm King Art Center,
Mountainville, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Fredric
Snitzer Gallery, Miami; Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton,
NY; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati;
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
group exhiBitions include: Whitney Museum of American Art;
Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Berlin; Sculpture Center; Institute
of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Genova Palazzo Ducale, Italy;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC;
American Academy of Arts and Letters; Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
State Museum of Contemporay Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Musée
d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, France
puBlic works include: Parco di Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy; JFK
International Airport; Sacramento Convention Center; University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; San Francisco Public Library; Philadelphia
International Airport; East River Roundabout; University of South
Florida at Tampa; Fallon Building (GSA), Baltimore; University of
Tennessee, Knoxville; Kansas City International Airport; Central
Broward Regional Park, FL; Western Connecticut State University,
Danbury; Dulles International Airport
collections include: Whitney Museum of American Art, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Basel, Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation,
Museum of Modern Art
Book: Alice Aycock, Sculpture and Projects
AwArds include: National Endowment for the Arts, City of New
York Art Commission Award
Illya azaroff
Architect; director of design, Design Collective Studio
educAtion: B.Arch., M.Arch., with honors, Pratt Institute
clients include: Elaine Kaufman Center School for Musical
Education; Bi-Cultural Day School, Stamford, CT; Nassau
Community College; Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; Boca Loca
Restaurant; Living Room Night Club
puBlicAtions include: Oculus, Architext, The New York
Times, The Architect’s Newspaper
AwArd: Society of American Registered Architects
Josh azzarella
Photographer
educAtion: BFA, University of Akron; MFA, Rutgers University
one-person exhiBitions include: Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago;
DCKT Contemporary, Barcelona
group exhiBitions include: Lawrimore Project, Seattle;
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
puBlicAtions include: ARTnews, Time Out Chicago,
The Stranger
AwArds include: Fassbender Award of Excellence; Emerging Artist
Award, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Beth B
Fine artist, filmmaker
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
exhiBitions include: Deitch Projects; P.P.O.W. Gallery; Hayward
Gallery, London; International Film Festival Rotterdam, the
Netherlands; Chelsea Art Museum
film projects include: The Falsetti Project, Family Secrets, The
Black Widower, Breathe In/Breathe Out, Pattern of Deception; producer,
Crime Scenes Uncovered; producer, director, Voices Unheard
screenings include: National Film Theater, London; Montreal
Film Festival; Danish Film Institute; Toronto Film Festival; Berlin
Film Festival
collections include: Whitney Museum of American Art,
Museum of Modern Art
AwArds And grAnts include: National Endowment for the Arts,
New York State Council on the Arts, Lannan Foundation, Jerome
Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Anonymous Was
a Woman
Robert Babboni
Illustrator
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
clients include: Business Week, The New York Times, Forbes,
Time, Rolling Stone, Harvard Business Review, Crain’s, Reader’s
Digest, Money, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Men’s Health,
Fast Company, Runner’s World, LA Weekly, The Village Voice,
Penguin
group exhiBitions include: Society of Illustrators; Studio 1019,
Washington, DC; Art Directors Club; Visual Arts Museum
puBlicAtions include: American Illustration
AwArds include: Silver Medal, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators;
Maggie Award
Fia Backström
Fine artist
educAtion: MFA, Konstfack University College of Arts
one-person exhiBitions And projects include: White
Columns; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Wilkinson
Gallery, London; The Apartment, Vancouver; Murray Guy
group exhiBitions include: Museum of Modern Art; Whitney
Biennial; Venice Biennale; Serpentine Gallery, London; De Appel
Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm
puBlicAtions include: The New York Times, Art on Paper,
Artforum, Time Out New York, Cabinet, North Drive Press,
Pacemaker, New York magazine, Charley, Flash Art, Frieze, Art in
America
AwArd: Foundation for Contemporary Arts
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