Manuela Paz

Manuela Paz is the Director of Development and Strategic Planning at Independent Curators International (ICI), an organization that produces exhibitions and develops collaborative networks of curators, artists, and other practitioners in diverse settings worldwide. Manuela is also Co-Founder and Director of EMBAJADA, a gallery in San Juan where she works with emerging and mid-career artists from Puerto Rico and abroad. Before joining ICI, Manuela was Membership Director for the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). Paz is also a Foundwork Advisor.

Marisa Finos

Born 1985. Lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.

2014 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. 2007 BFA, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

"I am drawn to the vessels and structures Finos is creating as a set for her performances about the body. The structures are reminiscent of ancestral tombs, and I appreciate their organic materiality. Marisa's practice also has an affinity with the great Ana Mendieta's work about the body and landscape, life and death."

Artwork Image: Thaw, 2017. Snow, Ice, body heat. Performance documentation.

Sacha Ingber

Born 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

2013 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

"Sacha Ingber creates fantastical architecture with her sculptural wall works that invite one's imagination to daydream. I like how unique the work is, hovering between sculpture, painting and craft."

Artwork Image: Seven Skins, 2016. Urethane, alabaster, glazed ceramic, pigment, fillers. 23.75 x 38.75 x 0.5 in.

Jeffrey Augustine Songco

Born 1983, New Jersey. Lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

2011 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2005 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"Jeffrey describes his work as having a postcolonial queer narrative. As a gay American man of Filipino ethnicity, he has a unique point of reference that he articulates in a way that is at once playful and political."

Artwork Image: Society of 23's Locker Dressing Room, 2017. Mixed-media installation. 240 x 240 x 96 in.