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N.c. christopher couch
Writer, art historian. Formerly, editor-in-chief, Kitchen
Sink Press
educAtion: BA, MA, PhD, Columbia University
Books Authored or co-Authored: Pre-Columbian Art
from the Ernst Erickson Collection at the American Museum
of Natural History; The Festival Cycle of the Aztec Codex; The
Will Eisner Companion; Faces of Eternity: Masks of the Pre-
Columbian Americas
fellowships: Harvard University; Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton University; D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian
and Indigenous Studies; Dumbarton Oaks
Darren cox
Art director, SpotCo. Formerly, senior designer,
MTV Networks
educAtion: AA, Art Institute of Philadelphia
clients include: Art Directors Club; HarperCollins; Xerox;
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
AwArds include: Gold Award, Society of Illustrators; gold and
silver awards, Creativity; gold, silver and bronze awards, Broadcast
Design Association; AIGA; I.D. Annual Design Review; 100 Show
weBsite: www.spotnyc.com
Petah coyne
Visual artist
represented By: Galerie Lelong
one-person exhiBitions include: Galerie Lelong; Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center;
Sculpture Center; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; High Museum
of Art, Atlanta; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Joslyn
Art Museum, Omaha; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
AZ; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO;
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Cincinnati Art Museum,
OH; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, NC; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; San
Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma; Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary
Art, North Miami; MIT List Visual Arts Center; Corcoran Gallery
of Art
AwArds And honors include: National Endowment for the Arts;
Rockefeller Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Joan Mitchell
Foundation; Asian Cultural Council; New York Foundation for the
Arts; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship;
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Art
Matters Inc.; International Association of Art Critics; Anonymous
Was a Woman; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art;
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; Civitella
Ranieri Center, Visual Arts Fellow, Umbertide, Italy
Jessica craig-Martin
Photographer
one-person exhiBitions include: Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center;
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; Galerie 64bis, Paris; Christian Dam
Galleries, Copenhagen, Oslo; Galleria Maze, Turin
group exhiBitions include:International Center of Photography;
White Columns; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; David Nolan Gallery;
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin; Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna; Brooklyn
Academy of Music; National Arts Club; Space 15 Twenty, Los
Angeles; Bortolami Gallery
clients include: VH1, Piaget, Kate Spade, Target, Judith Leiber,
Old Navy, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ian Schrager hotels, Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft, Schweppes, Rémy Martin, H&M
collections include: Saatchi Collection; New Museum of
Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston; Farnsworth Art Museum
puBlicAtions include: Vogue; Self Service; Hommes; Details;
GQ; The New York Times Magazine; New York magazine; Vanity
Fair; Numero; L’Officiel; Elle; Vogue W; InStyle; I.D.; Dear Dave;
Paper, Departures; Wall Street Journal; Tatler; The New Yorker;
Interview; New York: A Photographer’s City; Nowness; Bald Ego
Doug crane
Animator, animation director
educAtion: School of Visual Arts
television series include: Fat Albert, Flintstones, Spy Groove,
The Gnomes, Scooby-Doo, Really Rosie, He-Man and the Masters
of the Universe, Downtown. Animated more than 450 television
commercials for clients, including IBM, Texaco, Campbell’s, Burger
King, 3M, Wall Street Journal, Sears
theAtricAl AnimAtion projects include: Nutcracker Suite,
Beavis & Butt-Head Do America, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Alvin
and the Chipmunks, Heavy Metal
Gregory crane
Painter
educAtion: BFA, University of Utah; Art Students League
one-person exhiBitions include: Southern Vermont Art Center,
Manchester; Daedalus Fine Art, Minneapolis; East 7th Street Gallery;
Edward Thorp Gallery; Swarthmore College, PA; Hirschl & Adler
Modern; Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art
group exhiBitions include: P.P.O.W. Gallery; Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts, Richmond; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago; Holly Solomon Gallery; Museum of
Fine Art, Boston; Fay Gould Gallery, Atlanta; Indianapolis Museum
of Art; Westport Arts Center, CT; Southeast Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Whitney Museum of
American Art; Greenville County Museum of Art, SC; Arts Club of
Chicago; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Fitchburg Art
Museum, MA; Museum of the City of New York; Beverly Arts
Center, Chicago; Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
puBlicAtions include: ARTnews, The New York Times,
Art in America, Bomb
fellowship: MacDowell Colony
weBsite: www.gregoryacrane.com
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