Pawel Althamer

Pawel Althamer was born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, where he studied in the Department of Sculpture. In 2004, Althamer received the Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award from the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His recent solo exhibitions include One of Many, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Black Market, neugerriemschneider, Berlin (2007); and Au Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006). Althamer is represented by the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. He currently lives and works in Warsaw.

Huma Bhabha

Huma Bhabha was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1962. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1985 and her MFA from Columbia University in New York in 1989. She was awarded the Emerging Artist Award from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT in 2008. Bhabha has had solo exhibitions at Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam (2009); Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris (2009); and Salon 94, New York (2007). Her recent group exhibitions include 2010: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2009); and After-Nature, New Museum, New York (2008). She is represented by Salon 94, New York and currently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Bhabha speaks about The Orientalist:

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Aaron Curry

Aaron Curry was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2005. His recent solo exhibitions have taken place at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2009); Hammer Project: Aaron Curry, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008-2009); and Aaron Curry: Bad Dimension, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2009). His works have also been shown in group exhibitions including Alexander Calder: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2010); Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2009-10); and Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009). Curry is represented by Michael Werner Gallery, New York and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Thomas Houseago

Thomas Houseago was born in Leeds, England in 1972. He studied at Jacob Kramer Foundation College in Leeds from 1990-1991, earned his BA from St. Martin’s School of Art, London in 1994, and studied at De Ateliers, Amsterdam from 1994-1996. His solo exhibitions have been held at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2009); Galleria Zero, Milan (2009); and Herald St, London (2008). He has also participated in group exhibitions including 2010: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2009); and Construct and Dissolve, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (2009). Houseago is represented by Michael Werner Gallery, New York and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Houseago discusses Untitled (Sprawling Octopus Man), during a Public Art Fund Talk at The New School in May 2010:

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Matthew Monahan

Matthew Monahan was born in Eureka, California in 1972. He received his BFA in 1994 from The Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Modern Art, London (2009); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2008); and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007). His recent group exhibitions include Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (2008); Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York (2007); and the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006). Monahan is represented by Anton Kern Gallery, New York and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Monahan discusses figurative sculpture and the term “statuesque”, during a Public Art Fund Talk at The New School in March 2010:

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Rebecca Warren

Rebecca Warren was born in London, England in 1965. She received her BA from Goldsmith's College at the University of London in 1991 and her MA from the Chelsea College of Art in London in 1993. Warren was an artist in residence at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University from 1993-1994. She was nominated for the Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2008 and the Turner Prize from Tate Britain, London in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2009); Serpentine Gallery, London (2009); and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2007). Her recent group exhibitions include: Classified, Tate Britain, London (2009); Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008); and Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York (2007). Warren is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Maureen Paley, London. She currently lives and works in London, England.