Diana Shpungin’s work is dedicated to challenging ideas of drawing through sculptural and time-based forms. Her works are led by a heart-strong conceptualism, involving obsessive processes while exploring themes of memory, failure, loss, and repair, –employing optimism in a quest for empathy across identity lines. Born in Riga, Latvia, Shpungin emigrated as a child to New York City. She received her MFA from SVA, NY and has exhibited extensively in both national and international venues including: Bronx Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Invisible Exports; SculptureCenter NY; Smack Mellon,NY; Aldrich Museum,CT; Bass Museum,Miami; MASS MoCA; Museum of Contemporary Art,Miami; Museum of Contemporary Art,Tucson; SiTE:LAB; Futura Center Prague; Galerie Zurcher,Paris; and Tomio Koyama,Tokyo. Shpungin was awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture as well as residencies from Art Omi, BAU at The Camargo Foundation, Bronx Museum AIM, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Shpungin’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, The New York Times among many other publications.

Jon Kessler’s sculptures are in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center. He is a professor at the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

Nancy Bowen is a mixed media artist who has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. She is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Purchase College, SUNY.

Mamiko Otsubo is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited internationally. She investigates the history of modernism, furniture, and display.

Nene Humphrey’s exhibits her work widely. She received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman, among others.