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Ella Hohnen-Ford is a singer and songwriter from North London, England. She studied Jazz Voice at the Royal Academy of music. Ella garnered much attention from her live streams during lockdown and has recently released her debut EP “Infinity” on Young Poet. Links: https://hohnenford.com https://www.instagram.com/hohnenford/ https://open.spotify.com/user/bettinahohnen?si=6b145a07ab324afa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwUyq19J8IxlS-RcYo1E9pQ

Jim Isermann (b. 1955, Kenosha, WI) received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Center, London, United Kingdom; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs, CA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, among others. He has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA jus to name a few. He lives and works in Palm Springs, CA.

Natalie Frank was born in Austin, TX and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Columbia University, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2004, Frank was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. Natalie has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Salon 94, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; ACME., Los Angeles, CA; Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT; The Corcoran, Washington, D.C.; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; London Museum of Design, London, United Kingdom; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, FL; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere.

Simphiwe Mbunyuza was born in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and lives and works in Norman, OK. He has been the subject of exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including recent presentations with Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa; South Willard, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery 1957, London and Accra, Ghana; and is the recipient of awards and residencies including the Red Clay Faction Award and Oscar Jacobson Award from The University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Museum, Norman, OK in 2019, and a residency with A.I.R Vallauris, France, in 2017.

Markus Linnenbrink is an artist from Dortmund, Germany who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany and the Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany. His recent solo exhibitions include Galería Max Estrella in Madrid, the Fundación DIDAC, in Spain, the Museum of New Art in Portsmouth, NH, Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, Taubert Contemporary in Berlin, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, and Maurizio Caldiorola Gallery, Monza, Italy. Markus has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Borusan Contemporary in Istanbul, Daegu National Museum in South Korea, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, the San José Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in VA. His work may be found in the collections of the Clemens Sels Museum, in Germany, El Espacio 23 in Miami, the Hammer Museum, in LA, the Ministry of Culture at the Hague in the Netherlands, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to just name a few. His current show EVERYTHINGBETWEENTHESUNANDTHEDIRT is on view at Miles McEnery Gallery through 22 July 2023 at 511 West 22nd Street.

Leo Park is a painter who works and lives in Stockholm. He holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design. Park has his roots in both art history and pop culture, collecting motifs and stylistic influences from past to present. Since his solo debut at Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm 2021, he has participated in various international shows in Berlin, Cologne, London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, Mexico City and Taipei. He has shown in art fairs such as the Armory Show, Market Art Fair and Zona Maco.' Get WHY I MAKE ART here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art#:~:text=Why%20I%20Make%20Art%20offers,and%20statelessness%2C%20community%20and%20identity.

Kyle Dunn lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. His work has been included in exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Marlborough Gallery, London, UK; GRIMM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland; among others. He is the recipient of grants from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and his work is in the collections of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; the Sunpride Foundation, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Pond Society, Shanghai; and X Museum, Beijing, China.

Emily Weiner is a painter living and working in Nashville, TN. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (2003) and her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2011). She is represented by Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville, TN and has exhibited work at Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA); Kunsthall Grenland (Porsgrunn, Norway); Wespace (Shanghai, China); David Lusk Gallery (Nashville, TN); Gerdarsafn Museum (Kopavogur, Iceland); LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University (New York); CULT (San Francisco); Soloway (Brooklyn), and Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia). Emily has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome; Residency Co-Leader at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine; Artist Teacher-Resident at The Cooper Union, New York, NY; Artist-in-Residence at The Banff Centre, Canada; and Resident at Camac Art Center in France. She is a adjunct faculty at Watkins College of Art, Belmont University; and was previously Associate Adjunct Professor in Painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and faculty in Visual and Critical Studies at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Past curatorial projects include Soloway Gallery, The Willows NYC, and Vanderbilt University Gallery. Emily’s work as an artist and curator has received press in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Artsy, the BBC, New American Paintings, ArtNews, Domus (Italy), and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications and media platforms.She is a winner of the Fall 2022 Hopper Prize and a 2022 nominee for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship.

Visual artist, filmmaker social researcher. Carol Montealegre studied Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes with an emphasis on Art. In her degree practice she inserted tools from Augusto Boal’s “Theater of the Oppressed” in two rural schools of the Colombian Caribbean where she worked with children ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old for a period of year. She received a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. While there, she wrote her thesis “The Permanency of the Ephemeral” an investigation into the experience of time / space from a philosophical and aesthetic approach, embodied in the human body as a support for the experience in performance art. Recently her research and practice intersect cinema and performance art with human rights advocacy. She works in the creation of experiences that allow the spectator and the performer to immerse themselves in other possible realities, for the sake of decolonization of the body, mind and soul. She is currently working on the project Howls in the Mountains with a women’s union in Colombia on alternative healing practices for post war trauma, creating video installations in Super 8 mm film and mixed media. The Center for Human Rights & the Arts (CHRA) at Bard College is where she just produced her thesis exhibition and completed her Master's degree as part of the inaugural cohort at Bard.

Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who through an exploration of the use of text and language in various media—painting, drawing, sculpture, film, and photography—probes ideas of translation, identity, dis/location, and social responsibility. Grant frequently collaborates with other artists, writers, and philosophers, often going so far as to have specific texts written as the impetus to her intricate paintings and sculptures. She has collaborated with author Michael Joyce, actor Keanu Reeves, artist Channing Hansen, and the philosopher Hélène Cixous, amongst others. Alexandra has exhibited widely at galleries including Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Lelong, New York City; Galerie Gradiva, Paris; and Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City; and at institutions such as Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA; The Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, White Hot Magazine, Frieze, Art in America, and Artforum amongst others. Awards include the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her works are included in museum collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. She is the creator of the grantLOVE project, which has raised funds for arts-based non-profits including; Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), Project Angel Food, Art of Elysium, 18th Street Arts Center, and LAXART. In 2017, Grant cofounded X Artists’ Books, a publishing house for artist-centered books. Publications have included collaborations with Diane di Prima, George Herms, Eve Wood, Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby among others, and are available online and in bookstores throughout Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Fulcrum Coffee and the New York Studio School. Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work: From the Sound & Vision Podcast by Brian Alfred by Atelier Éditions Available here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art