Elizaveta Shneyderman

Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman is a Belarusian-American curator, writer, and publisher. She is Curator and Founder at the Riga Technoculture Research Unit (RTRU) and Curator (Special Projects) at Kim? Contemporary Art Center (Riga, Latvia). Shneyderman’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the history and philosophy of media materialities and the techniques that emerge from them, including their influence on contemporary art. Her essays on contemporary art and visual culture have been published in Artforum, Animation Studies Journal, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, PIN-UP Magazine, and Rhizome, among others. Previously, Shneyderman has held curatorial positions and contributed research to exhibitions at the MoMA PS1, the Hessel Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, EMPAC, PARTICIPANT INC, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, Kunsthalle.Ost, and Mana Contemporary. She holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Wai Lau

b. Hong Kong. Lives and works in New York, NY. 2020 MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York.

"Interested in the cross-section of culture and emerging technologies, Wei Lau investigates the complex processes that go into identity formation. Combining global history, fictionalized storytelling, and computer-generated imagery, Lau explores how cultural representations have been continually reinforced through fantasized depictions and synthetic media technologies, such as Deepfakes. By probing Hollywood and cinematic portrayals of Asian identity—from the broad stroke depictions of the “Orient” in relation to Hong Kong, to Asian diasporic representations—Lau gestures to the paradoxes inherent to constitutions of representation, raising questions about who actually has legitimate power and control over bodies."

Artwork Image: Feed 3.0 / T318k V399k 0.1, 2021. 3-channel HD video (color, sound, looped) / Adhesive vinyl. 4:45.

André Magaña

b. 1992, Lagunitas, CA. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 2013 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.

"André Magaña’s work reimagines Mexican-American identity as it singles out the colonial legacies inherent to its visual culture. Through careful examination of white supremacy’s prominence, Magaña probes and deconstructs the infrastructures which have replaced indigenous history and iconography within everyday Mexican society. Drawing on indigenous motifs—including pre-Columbian altarpieces, totems, and ceramics—Magaña envisions a “parallel timeline in which the detritus of Western capitalism is re-consumed as material for the construction of sculpture of the spirit and of the people.” By collapsing object making traditions with contemporary means of production, Magaña subverts the oft-contradictory realities which coloniality ushers."

Artwork Image: Pelosiestataquero & Pelochingamicheladón, 2019. Enamel, epoxy resin, 3d-printed thermoplastic. 15 x 46 x 47 in.

Cammie Staros

b. 1983, Nashville, TN. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. 2011 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. 2006 BA, Brown University, Providence, RI.

"Mining Classical antiquities, Carrie Stamos creates original sculptures which recontextualize Greco-Roman images and artifacts into new arrangements. Staros artfully combines ancient ceramic techniques with modern industrial processes, such as milling and machining, in order to dissect institutional tropes of display. Her work reveals the semiotic systems at the heart of Western art history, challenging its conventions of production and neutrality. What most fascinates me are the broader regional and epochal additions she makes to the works, examining overlapping, aesthetic histories within visual culture."

Artwork Image: Figlinum aquaticum, 2021. Ceramic, acrylic, wood, laminate, de-chlorinated water, aquatic filtration system, programmed grow light, aquarium soil, lace rock, quartz-veined basalt, aquatic plants (Dwarf Lily, Eusteralis Stellata, Ludwigia Repens) (also shown with harlequin rasbora, tiger snails, and shrimp). 18 x 30 x 12 in.