Valerio Spada lives between New York and Milan. His work is exhibited, collected, and published internationally. On September 2011, Time magazine announced his first self-published book Gomorrah Girl to win the Grand Prize PBN Photography Book Now 2011 as Best Book of the Year, nominated by a panel of eleven international judges, among them Darius Himes,
Ange Mlinko is the author of four collections of poetry and numerous essays and reviews. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, Poetry, Paris Review, London Review of Books, Poetry Review (U.K.), Granta, Southern Review, and she is the recipient of the Frederick Bock Award as well as the Randall Jarrell Award for
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth’s work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the
Artist Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance. The results are documented using photographs, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. In 1996 Sollars’ studio practice moved into the street to have direct and immediate interaction with a public audience. His interdisciplinary work navigates
Dean Snyder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a B.FA. in photography and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1974. In 1975–1976 Snyder received a British Arts Council Fellowship for postgraduate work in sculpture at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, UK. He completed his M.F.A. work in sculpture in 1978 at The School of
Painter Tracy Miller was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1966 and studied at the University of Iowa, the University of California at Berkeley, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her large-scale still life paintings of food have been included in nine solo shows and more than forty group shows throughout the United States
Greg Smith makes videos and objects. The videos pivot around mechanisms and hand-made devices, equal parts precise engineering and haphazard artifice. They are built, used, dismantled, re-purposed, or forgotten in front of the camera. The objects make their own arguments for themselves, but their overriding purpose and that of Smith’s project is to better understand
Andrea Miller is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of New York–based company Gallim Dance. Through a plural body of work that explores the relationships of movement with other forms of expression including theater, visual arts, music, and politics, Miller has developed a recognizable artistic language of extreme physicality and unprejudiced emotionality. New York Magazine
In her paintings Elena Sisto uses the structuring ideas of abstraction to mine content that relates to her interest in how people define their own identity and present themselves. The combination of abstract means and figurative content often results in imagery that has a simplified or slightly cartoonish cast. Sisto uses the economy of cartooning
Composer Sheila Silver has written in a wide range of mediums: from solo instrumental to large orchestral works; from opera to feature film scores. Her musical language is a unique synthesis of the tonal and atonal worlds, coupled with a rhythmic vitality which is both masterful and compelling. She collaborates with leading musicians and music
D.T. Max is a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His first book was The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery. The book was at once a piece of science journalism and a point of entry to explore what it means to be sick in a well world.
Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and his books include The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), winner of the 2002 New York/New England Award, and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008
Joshua Marston’s film work combines the tools of anthropological field work and immersive journalism to create narrative cinema that explores worlds through otherwise overlooked points of view. Maria Full of Grace (2004) tells a story about the drug war that eschews drug lords and DEA agents in favor of the perspective of a Colombian teenager—a
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar, which was a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy, finalist for
Gary Schneider is a photographer whose early work in painting, performance, and film remain integral to his explorations of portraiture. He strives to marry art and science, identity and obscurity, figuration and abstraction, the carnal and the spiritual. Schneider has had a number of solo exhibitions at such prominent venues as Artist Space, New York
William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose diverse practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions. Set in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. In some works he is the subject, directly performing
Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007), and Gods Without Men (2011), as well as a short-story collection, Noise (2006) and a novella, Memory Palace (2013). His work has been translated into twenty languages. In 2003 Granta named him one of its twenty
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