Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York–based artist with practices rooted in Deconstructivist philosophies and the formation and perception of ideals attached to objects, colors, textures, symbols and ideologies. Focus is on fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface – exploring shape-shifting forces of popular culture and its counter balances in our lives. The collage works on paper create minimal geometric constructions of angular human figures that seemingly live both in a state of deconstruction at the same time as if in the process of being built.

Adams received his MFA from Columbia University, his BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alumnus. Adams is a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2019), a Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Studio Museum Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2016), and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2009).

Notable solo exhibitions include: Where I’m From — Derrick Adams (2019) at The Gallery in Baltimore City Hall; Derrick Adams: Sanctuary (2018) at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and Derrick Adams: Transmission (2018) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Public exhibition and performance highlights include: Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. (2019) at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati; PERFORMA (2015, 2013, and 2005); The Shadows Took Shape (2014) and Radical Presence (2013–14) at The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Channel (2012) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Greater New York (2005) at MoMA PS1; and Open House: Working In Brooklyn (2004) at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ghada Amer was born 1963 in Cairo, Egypt. She is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City. She emigrated from Egypt to the US at age 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice. Much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality, particularly the representation of female nudes in art history as ideal objects rather than human beings with a sexuality and eroticism of their own. Her most notable body of work involves highly-layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery. 

Amer's work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cheim & Read, New York; Deitch Projects, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the 2007 and 1999 Venice Biennale; the 2000 Whitney Biennial; the 2000 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; SITE Santa Fe, NM; the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale; Gagosian Gallery, London and Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. She is the first Arab artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Saxony) lives and works outside Munich, Germany, and Imperia, Italy. Major retrospectives of his work have been held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Royal Academy of Arts, London. Baselitz has represented Germany at the Venice Biennale (1980) and participated in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany (1982).

In the 1960s Georg Baselitz emerged as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionist painting. His work evokes disquieting subjects rendered feverishly as a means of confronting the realities of the modern age and explores what it is to be German and a German artist in a postwar world. In the late 1970s his iconic "upside-down" paintings, in which bodies, landscapes, and buildings are inverted within the picture plane, ignoring the realities of the physical world, make obvious the artifice of painting. Drawing upon a dynamic and myriad pool of influences, including art of the Mannerist period, African sculptures, and Soviet era illustration art, Baselitz developed a distinct painting language.

Close was born in 1940 in Monroe, WA. He is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of painting the human face, and is best known for his large-scale, photo-based portrait paintings. In 1988, Close was paralyzed following a rare spinal artery collapse; he continues to paint using a brush-holding device strapped to his wrist and forearm. His practice extends beyond painting to encompass printmaking, photography, and, most recently, tapestries based on Polaroids. In 2000, Close was presented with the prestigious National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. Close is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has served on the board of many arts organizations, and was recently appointed by President Obama to serve on The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Close joined Pace Gallery in 1977.

Will Cotton is an American painter who was born 1965 in Melrose, Massachusetts. Cotton lives and works in New York City. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Cotton's works depict pop icons sourced from contemporary advertisements such as the Nestlé Quick bunny - directly referencing visual modes aimed at evoking desire. He has also created an iconography in which the landscape itself became an object of desire. The paintings often feature scenery made up entirely of pastries, candy and melting ice cream. Pinup-style models have occasionally populated these candy-land scenes. As in the past, the works project a tactile indulgence in fanciful glut. The female characters are icons of indulgence and languor, reflecting the feel of the landscape itself.

Born 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut. Lives in New York City. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham’s career reached critical renown in the 1980s, a period during which many artists returned to painting. He is known for his conceptual approach to painting and drawing and his interest in exploring the relationship between abstraction and figuration.

Dunham has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective at the New Museum in New York and an exhibition of paintings and sculptures at Millesgården in Stockholm. His work has been included in several Whitney Biennials and in “Disparaties and Deformations: Our Grotesque,” SITE Santa Fe’s fifth biennial curated by Robert Storr. He has participated in exhibitions at major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

His work is included in a number of public collections, including, amongst others, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

Leo de Goede was born in Rotterdam and lives and works in New York. Some recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Konsortium, Dusseldorf in 2007, a solo exhibition at Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin in 2006 and a solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York in 2003. 

Since 1980 Leo de Goede has been collecting printed images - reproductions of photo's from magazines, newspapers, books, auction catalogues etc. His interest and intention is concerned with the creation of visual analogies. De Goede wishes to emphasize connections and to project a sense of wonder at this picture world and with it at the world at large. HORIZON features a suite of five prints that represent a sample of this project.

Derived from the artist’s rewriting of a 700 page CIA document known as “the Family Jewels," these images continue Guérin’s practice of uncovering the transformative potential of the everyday. Drawing on her background in sociology and linguistics, she explores meaning and the structures, constructs and codes that govern systems of representation.

Sandrine Guérin was born in Neuilly sur Marne, France. She lives and works in New York, NY. She received her MA in Sociology from the University of Paris-X, France (1995), and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (1998). She participated in several group shows at museums and galleries including The New York Public Library, Baron/Boisanté Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; French Institute, Berlin, Germany; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, as well as corporate and private collections.

Born in New York City, Harris spent his formative years in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor at New York University.  Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation and performance. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the 52nd Venice Biennale.

His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Kunsthalle Basel, and the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. During 2000 and 2001, Harris was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He has received numerous awards for his photography and is currently represented by CRG Gallery in New York. Harris' photographs have also appeared in international magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and Vibe.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974, Kao received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

With a background in Continental philosophy, Amy Kao's work speaks to experiences of nature as markers of history and culture. Her work has been exhibited in many public venues, such as the Busan Biennale, Korea; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Asian American Art Centre, NY and Apexart, NY. Solo exhibitions include Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, NY.  Kao is a recipient of residency fellowships at Yaddo, NY; MacDowell Colony, NH; Art Omi, NY and the Lower East Side Printshop, NY. Reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times and Art News.

Ester Partegàs was born in 1972 in Barcelona, Spain and is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received an MFA from the Universitat de Barcelona, has completed postgraduate studies at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 1999.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Aldrich Museum, CT; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 2nd Moscow Bienniale; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC; Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; Cercle Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona; Sculpture Center, New York; Rice University Art Gallery, Houston TX; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York.

Partegàs' work features in a number of public collections, including MoMA, New York; The Dikeou Collection, Denver; Coca-Cola Espana Foundation, Madrid; Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid; CajaMadrid, Madrid. Her work also features in numerous private collections in the US and Europe. She is represented by Foxy Production, New York.

Isca Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City, where she currently lives and works. In 2000, she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. in visual arts from Brown University. In 2001, she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Greenfield-Sanders has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Museum Morsbroich, Germany; Baldwin Gallery, Aspen Colorado; Goff and Rosenthal, New York; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Kluser, Munich; Bjorn Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm; and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her work is in public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, and the Progressive Collection in Ohio. Currently, she is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, Kluser Gallery in Munich, Wetterling Gallery in Sweden, and Dubner Moderne in Switzerland.

Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists--including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others-- Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery. Wiley's larger-than-life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

Kehinde Wiley received his MFA from Yale University in 2001. Shortly after, he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Wiley’s work has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide and is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Denver Art Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the High Museum, Atlanta; the Columbus Museum of Art; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Brown was born in 1966, Washington, DC and currently live and works in New York City. She received her MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2002. Brown uses her large-scale acrylic paintings to wryly comment on the ductile and ever-changing essence of cultural identity, most often by creating visual mash-ups of two disparate but in fact subtly harmonious subcultures: the samurai and geishas depicted in traditional Japanese ukiyo-e printmaking and the contemporary world of hip-hop. Trained in the art of ukiyo-e herself, Brown pursues a transcultural aesthetic in both her imagery and her technique, mixing the racial, gender, and class issues in her subject matter with the deftness of a DJ.

The artist's paintings have been widely exhibited, and she has received numerous solo shows including A3, Black on Both Sides, Spellman College Museum of Fine Art (2004); All Falls Down, Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art (2010); and Introducing…The House of Brando, Salon 94 (2013). In 2011 she was commissioned to create a performance for the Performa biennial. Her work is held in many permanent collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.