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Farihah Aliyah Shah (BFA, BHRM) is a contemporary lens-based artist originally from Edmonton, Alberta now based in Bradford, Ontario, Canada. Exploring issues of racial identity, land, and collective memory, Shah seeks to challenge the lack of representation of disenfranchised bodies in the photographic cannon and representational art, encouraging others to take agency of their image. She currently serves as a Board Member at Gallery 44, Centre of Contemporary Photography, and a member of Women Photograph an organization that advocates for Female Identified and Non-Binary photojournalists. Shah has exhibited internationally in Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and South Korea.
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Jenny Rafalson (b. 1986, USSR grow up in Israel) is a photographer and a video artist, based in Chicago. Rafalson question the meaning of belonging in a modern society, detachment and yearningfor home, post-colonization, cultural mythology, and hierarchical power structures in many
contemporary cultures, often through the use of plants. Rafalson is the recipient of the James
Weinstein Memorial Fellowship for 2019-2020 and Arts, Science + Culture Initiative grant, funded by the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute. Among her exhibitions areTransplanting, at 062 gallery,Chicago, 2020, Weary afternoon sun,The sixth Israel Photography
Festival, Tel- Aviv, 2018.
Rafalson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, BFA Hadassah
College Bachelor program 2013.
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Danielle Hatch is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the female body’s relationship to the built environment, notions of artificiality, and power structures, through site specific installations, sculptures and performances. She has a BA in architecture from Wellesley College and an MFA in Spatial Studies from UC-Santa Barbara. Danielle currently resides in NW Arkansas with her partner and three children and works as an Art Educator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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Hal Baum is a multi-media artist, musician, writer and performer from the South Side of Chicago, who recently moved to Los Angeles.
He has performed in theaters around Chicago including The Neo-Futurists, The Annoyance, The Hideout, and Adventure Stage. In 2019 he released his debut album "Love Songs For The Moon" on Preserve Records.
One time Hal was at a party and someone bought the shirt off of his back. It was a T-shirt he had made that said "SALT" on it. Hal loved that shirt, and didn't want to give it up, but the person offered him 23 dollars for it. How could Hal resist that kind of offer? He made the transaction, and still brags about it to this day. But secretly... he misses that shirt.
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Sophia Munic (she/they) is a multimedia artist who works prodemedanty with fibers. Sophia creates objects that allow adults to reconnect to their inner child. Through interactive sculpture, she invites participants to investigate her objects in a hands on way.
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Sophia Munic website :www.sophiamunic.com
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Cynthia Post Hunt is a curator and artist based in Northwest Arkansas. Through a fluid practice of connection and collaboration, Post Hunt explores commonalities within the shared human experience. Practice as research, she creates rituals, games and gestures surrounding the self, loss, and death. Time, memory, and the body are integral materials in her work. Post Hunt is the programmer of dance and theater at the Momentary and the co-founder of INVERSE performance art festival. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently pursuing her MA in curating from Aarhus University.
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Erin Peisert’s work explores interdependence, consciousness, and power by using perforative gesture to reorganize relationships to/in public places. Her work has been shown at Duo Museum of Modern Art (China), Power Station of Art (China), Defibrillator, and Inverse Performance Art Festival, among others. After repatriating from China to the US, she received her MFA from School of Visual Arts, NYC
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Juuso Kuivila mostly works with still and moving image, with works commonly featuring a wistful, dreamlike atmosphere aided by original music.
Kuivila has a degree in culture and art and currently studies games and play at Tampere University.
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Amanda Assaley lives and works in Chicago, IL. Assaley received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and completed the Norfolk Program at Yale School of Art in 2017. She has exhibited with the Chicago Cultural Center, IL; 6018North, IL; ACRE Projects, IL; the Soo Visual Art Center, MN; Michigan State University Union Art Gallery, MI; and The Lubeznik Center for the Arts, IN among others. Her work is included in the Textile Resource Center Object Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2021, Assaley will be an artist in residence with the Serlachius Museums in Mänttä, FI; White Leaves Artist Residency in El Rito, NM; and Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN.
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Qais Assali is an interdisciplinary artist/designer born in Palestine and raised in the UAE. He is currently a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Assali taught in visual communication at Al-Ummah College, Jerusalem, and at An-Najah National University, Nablus. He was a 2018-19 Artist/Designer-in-Residence for the Critical Race Studies Program at Michigan State University. Assali holds four degrees in visual arts from Palestine and the US, a BFA in Graphic Design from An-Najah National University 2009, and a BA in Contemporary Visual Art from the International Academy of Art Palestine 2017. He simultaneously completed an MFA in Photography from Bard College, New York 2019, and an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 2018.
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Bobby is an artist, friend, collaborator and curator of moments. They currently live in Chicago with family and create with friends and pen pals made through the internet. Their dream is to have a traveling art van that they can set up impromptu workshops in public parks across the country.
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- Kesha Lagniappe [they/them] was born in Helena, Arkansas in the heart of the Mississippi River Delta. Due to being raised in this conservative region also known as the ‘Bible Belt,’ their work focuses on queer, gendered and classed subjectivity, memory and relationships through and with unseen sensibilities such as soundscapes and alternative materialities such as fiber, performance and found objects. Recently, their work has utilized performance and their own body to convey and conceptualize the ephemeral, temporality, distance, vulnerability, community and longing. They have a BFA from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and an MA from the American University in Cairo in Gender and Women’s Studies. Lagniappe currently resides in Cairo.
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Jezabeth is a multidisciplinary maker and educator working with Video, Performance, Photography, Land
and Live Plants through Installation. Highly influenced by their hometown of Añasco Puerto Rico,
Interested in the fabrication of landscapes, tropical utopias and ownership. Jezabeth’s practice
re-examines an ongoing colonial relationship between the U. S. and Puerto Rico through pockets of
family, personal migration pleasure and exhaustion.
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Born 1996, Work and live in Anseong, South Korea.
Lin Jian’s works are mostly based on personal perceptions and ways of viewing the world. Use the common things in daily life to extracted and created in a personal way and the original objects are processed in different ways to get physical or spiritual transformation. Lin Jian has also been to exploring the boundaries of photography as contemporary art and the integration and affiliation of photography with other media.
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Alina Tofan (RO) is a multidisciplinary artist, member of the Time Based Arts group within Arts University Bucharest. Her area of practice explores unique ways of communicating with all the senses. Her goal is to express as many feelings as possible through the body.
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Plastic Collective website: https://plasticmemoriesirisipa.ro
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Georgiana Vlahbei (RO) has been engaged in visual documentation in ethnographic/cultural anthropology research for the past 10 years. Her photography journey began in 2014. In 2020, she had her first exhibition of conceptual photography.
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Plastic Collective website: https://plasticmemoriesirisipa.ro
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Alexandru Claudiu Maxim (RO) is a video artist from the new Romanian wave, interested in inter-disciplinarity. He works both as a visual artist and as a performer, regularly participating in exhibitions.
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Teo Rădulescu (RO) is an architect passionate about the relationship between sound and space. For him, sound determines the rhythm of the city life, influences emotions and thoughts. He questions through his art the missing sounds of a space.
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Plastic Collective website: https://plasticmemoriesirisipa.ro
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Millicent KennedyThu, 18 Mar, 13:05 (13 days ago)to me
Millicent Kennedy is a Chicago based artist, curator, and educator. Her art practice utilizes installation, fiber, print and performance to make work that quotes the troubled histories of materials and repetitive actions to enacts new rituals of mourning.
She received her Bachelor's Degree from Northeastern Illinois University and her MFA from Northern Illinois University where she was awarded the Helen Merritt Fellowship. She's received solo exhibitions from SXU Art Gallery, Roman Susan and Parlour and Ramp, as well as site specific installations with Terrain Exhibitions Biennial, and Purple Window Gallery. She has received artist residencies in Chicago, and Mississippi, and Michigan.
Kennedy co-curates at Parlour and Ramp Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, and has served as the Gallery Director at Rockford University, and guest curator for the Chicago Printmaker's Guild and Northeastern Illinois University.
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Grace DeVies is a performance artist currently based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Creating art centered around ritual and the human emotional experience, they find themself inspired by psychology, sexuality, sociopolitical issues, and the spaces they perform in. DeVies’s passion for performance lies in the concept that they will always have the one thing that they need to express and evoke emotion— the body.
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Grace DeVies website https://www.gracedevies.com
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Jeremy Wong is an interdisciplinary artist based out of Pittsburgh and Chicago. He works in a variety of media including but not limited to ceramics, sculpture, video, and performance. Addressing themes of anthropomorphism, familial ties, and interpersonal relations, art functions as a means for the artist to make sense of the inherent dissonances in everyday life. Wong is currently pursuing his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Jeremy Wong website : https://jplotkinwong.com/video
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Suture Blue & Royb0t are Chicago based artists who together craft fragmented, digital worlds that they use for live performances. Suture pushes viewers through visually intricate, haunting, and celestial environments while in compliment Royb0t drives the tension and release, navigating ambient, frenetic, and cinematic soundscapes. // Suture has a BFA in Design & Multimedia from Northern Illinois University, and is currently a graduate candidate with Savannah College of Art & Design for Interactive Design & Game Development. Royb0t holds a MS in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago, and his skills in audio and visual arts are all self-taught. These two met online through Glitch Artists Collective over 5 years ago, and have done several collaborations since. Together and separately, these artists' work often focuses on the relationships of self within the everchanging landscape of technological advances.
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Eetu Linnankivi is an artist working with video, audio and photography. At Dispatch gallery, he exhibits a work called Notation, which focuses on connection between human and nature. Another important theme in his work is expectations concerning male emotions. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
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Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is currently an interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.
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Wild Actions, a North Carolina-based multidisciplinary performance group, wrestles with obstacles: impossible, everyday, behavioral, and momentary. Since 2016, we have created interactive installations, evening-length performances, and public interventions while committing to the ethical imperative of paying fair wages to all contributors and presenting accessible events with free or low-cost tickets. We gather all kinds of creators for in-depth collaboration and experimentation, to then be fueled by audiences’ personal experiences. Wild Actions wants the public to not only have, but access and attend to their agency, intuition, curiosity, and sensory experience.
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Cherrie Yu is a 25 year old artist born in Xi’an, China. She currently lives and works from Chicago, IL. She has shown work at Chicago Cultural Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Links Halland Mana Contemporary Chicago. She has been an artist in residence at ACRE, Contemporary Calgary Museum, and a visiting artist at Emory University. She is the awardee of the 2020 Kala Art Institute Media Award Fellowship, and will be an artist in residence at Yaddo Foundation in 2021.
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