Nathalie Angles most recently was Director of the International Residency Program at Location One in New York, where she built and managed the program from its inception in 2001 to March 2009 , and curated numerous exhibitions with resident artists. She began her professional career at Sotheby’s in London. In 1993, she completed the Ecole du Magasin curatorial study program in Grenoble (France), then worked for 3 years at the American Center in Paris as Director of the Residency Program, the Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) and at Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD). Over this time, she has carried through various independent curatorial projects amongst which in 1996, the year long residency project Pleased to meet you” in Nantes/Porto and Glasgow. In 2000, she co-founded the online platform artbrain.org. Currently, Nathalie is one of the initiators of €˜Exhibition’ an independent space which hosts a succession of interventions by artists ruled by a set of mechanisms in a vacant storefront in the Lower East Side, NYC.
Jean Barberis, a native of France, came to New York in 2000 to learn a few things and has never left. He is a well-traveled young man and a jack of all trades. Barberis is co-founder of Flux Factory’s gallery space and arts collective. As a curator, his interests are wide and his curiosity unbound. He likes to engage artists in the curatorial process, and to foster collaborations and encourage the production of ambitious new works.
Naomi Beckwith is Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem whose particular concerns focus on conceptual practices in contemporary art. Her master’s thesis on Adrian Piper and Carrie Mae Weems earned Distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Prior to joining the Studio Museum, Beckwith was a project coordinator for BAMart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and, most immediately, the Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Beckwith is a recent grant recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a guest blogger for Art21 at PBS.org. Beckwith sits on the board of the Laundromat Project and she has curated and co-curated several exhibitions at the ICA in Philadelphia and in New York at Cuchifritos, Artists Space and at the Studio Museum where she also manages the Artists-in-Residence program.
Matt Bua has worked collaboratively on public installations that actively engage community. His present artistic focus is on the creation of an open air work space in Catskill, New York where small structures will be constructed and installed that exemplify aspects of visionary, vernacular, alternative, and sustainable architecture.
Paul Butler is an artist, curator, and dealer with an interest in multidisciplinary, social and alternative pedagogical practices. He has exhibited and curated shows at numerous galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Canada.
Summer Guthery is a New York-based independent curator. Her curatorial projects have included group shows, commissions, screenings and performance events. She co-founded Why and Wherefore, an online exhibition venue and holds a Masters degree from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies.
Matthew Higgs is an artist and curator and the director of White Columns in New York, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2010. Over the past 15 years Higgs has organized more than 150 exhibitions in Europe and North America. Higgs is a regular contributor to Artforum and has contributed to many catalogs and other publications. As an artist, he is represented by Murray Guy in New York and the Wilkinson Gallery in London.
Prem Krishnamurthy is a founding principal of the multidisciplinary graphic design studio Project Projects. Prem is also active as a curator, photographer, writer, and a contributing editor of the art journal Paper Monument. He is a graduate of Yale University.
Carin Kuoni is director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. From 1998 to 2003, she was director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI), and from 1992 to 1997 director of The Swiss Institute. Ms. Kuoni has curated many exhibitions of contemporary international art; in 2008, her exhibition The Puppet Show (co-curated with Ingrid Schaffner) opened at the ICA Philadelphia (traveling to five other museums) and OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding was presented at Parsons The New School for Design. Ms. Kuoni has written for a variety of art periodicals and exhibition catalogues; she is also the editor of Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America and Words of Wisdom: A Curator’s Vade Mecum. Considering Forgiveness, published by the Vera List Center (ed. Aleksandra Wagner, with Carin Kuoni) is forthcoming in 2009. Ms. Kuoni is a founding member of the artists’ group REPOhistory and a member of AICA, CAA, and IKT. She holds a B.A. from the Sorbonne, and a M.A. from the University of Zurich.
Todd Lester is the founder of freeDimensional (fD) and more recently the Creative Resistance Fund. Previously, he served as Communications Officer for Reporters sans frontières in New York City, and Information & Advocacy Manager for the International Rescue Committee in Khartoum, Sudan. Todd holds a Masters of Public Administration from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Refugee Studies Centre’s Institute on Forced Migration at Oxford University. Todd received a Film Production Diploma from The New School for Social Research where he also serves as adjunct instructor in Media Studies. He is active in several networks, think tanks and boards, most notably, the World Policy Institute, 21st Century Trust, Res Artis, Sangam House, and the Gorée Institute. In 2006, Todd received the Peace Corps Fund Award for his work starting freeDimensional and was named ‘Architect of the Future’ by the Waldzell Institute in 2008.
Michelle Levy is an art administrator, curator, and artist. She is creator and Program Director of EFA Project Space, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. From 2001 to 2008, she was Program Manager at the International Print Center. Michelle is an original member of Gowanus Studio Space. She holds a B.A. in Art from Wesleyan University, and has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Maria Lind was born in Stockholm in 1966 and is currently director of the graduate program at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies. Prior to this post she was director of Iaspis (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden). From 2002-2004 she was director of Kunstverein München, where her curatorial team ran a program that involved artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno, and Marion von Osten. Lind served as the commissioner for Sweden’s participation at the São Paulo Bienal in 2002 (Annika Eriksson) and in 1998 (Ann-Sofà Sidén). From 1997-2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and, in 1998, co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s biennale of contemporary art. Throughout her career she has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and other scholarly publications.
Marie Losier is a filmmaker and curator living and working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival, Tate Modern, the Basel Art Fair, Rotterdam and Copenhagen film festivals, Harvard Film Archives, Cornell Cinema. In 2006, Losier’s film on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy, was included in the Whitney Biennial. Marie Losier is the film curator at FIAF where she presents a weekly film series and also programed experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Ocularis. She is also on the board of the Film Coop in NYC.
Amy Owen is Director of Exhibitions at Artists Space, an alternative non-profit gallery in New York City. She was previously Exhibitions Associate and Publications Coordinator at Independent Curators International. Recent curatorial projects include Facts on the Ground at Bard College, Salad Days III at Artists Space, and Other Certainties at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies. She received a B.A. in Art History from Southern Methodist University and an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College.
Douglas Paulson is a New York based artist whose work is an exploration of the relationships between social dynamics and physical spaces. Paulson received a B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art in 2003. In addition to working independently, he’s the New York wing of the Copenhagen-based collective, Parfyme, and often works with New York’s Ward Shelley.
Sal Randolph produces artworks involving gift economies, social architectures, one-on-one interactions, and public spaces. She has founded several websites devoted to bringing together artists and their work, including Opsound, Free Manifesta, and Free Words.
Christina Ray is the founder of Glowlab, a platform for presenting site-specific art and technology projects and nurturing the cutting-edge work of artists inspired by urban life. She founded Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space.
Peter J. Russo is managing editor for Triple Canopy. He also works collectively with artists, curators, musicians and others on various projects. From 2005-2008, he served as program manager for Dieu Donné and has previously held positions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Livewire Records.
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria has lived and worked in New York City since 2001, where he has devoted himself to the development of the arts-collective Flux Factory, while equally deploying his skills to mediums of sound installation, musical performance, dance, and most recently, film and video. He currently coordinates the International Residency Program at Location One, Soho.
Jeff Stark is the editor and publisher of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and resource for independent art, events, and happenings in New York City. He works on massive interactive sculptures, developing public performances, and street events. He also works with Brooklyn art collective, the Madagascar Institute, and is the founder of Amateurs art collective.
Radhika Subramaniam is the Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design where she is also assistant professor of art and design history and theory. Her projects include Art in Odd Places: Sign (co-curated with Erin Donnelly, October 2009), Abecedarium for Our Times (Apexart, 2008), Rods and Cones: Seeing from the Back of One’s Head (guest-curated for the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, 2008), and Cities, Art and Recovery (LMCC, 2005–2006), a major two-year international initiative focused on art and culture in the aftermath of catastrophe. Subramaniam was the director of cultural programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the founding and executive editor of the interdisciplinary art journal Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, published by Arts International. She has a PhD in Performance Studies and a master’s degree in anthropology.
Chen Tamir has been with Flux Factory since 2006. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, a B.A. in Anthropology, and a B.F.A. in Visual Art from York University. She’s curated exhibitions in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Israel and has written for numerous international art publications.
Lee Walton is an artist represented by Kraushaar Gallery in New York and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina.