Ben DuVall is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work synthesizes historical and conceptual research through a variety of processes, alternately becoming drawings, oral histories, exhibitions, texts, billboards, websites, guided walks, radio broadcasts, books, or sculptural objects, balanced on the border of art and non-art. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has participated in artist residencies in the US and Europe. He is a member of the exhibition-making collective Darling Green, and hosts The Condition of Music, a monthly radio broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio.
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Charlie Engman is a Brooklyn-based artist, photographer, and educator whose work examines how images shape emotion, identity, and embodiment in contemporary life. Working across photography, writing, and generative AI, Engman explores the shifting boundaries between the real and the artificial, and how technology influences the ways we see and represent ourselves. His long-term projects often draw from personal relationships—including a collaborative series with his mother—to consider intimacy, performance, and the social life of images. Engman’s recent work uses AI both as a creative tool and a lens for thinking about labor, authorship, and the emotional texture of digital culture. He is the author of MOM (2020); Hello Chaos: A Love Story – The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen (2024); and Cursed (2024), created entirely with generative AI. In addition to his artistic practice, Engman works commercially in fashion, serving as art director for Collina Strada and collaborating with international brands and publications. Across these contexts, his work investigates how images construct the stories we tell about the body and contemporary selfhood.
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Amaryllis R. Flowers is a queer Puerto Rican American artist living and working in upstate New York. Raised between multiple cities and rural communities across America in a constantly shifting landscape, her practice explores themes of hybridity, mythology and sexuality. Drawing inspiration from visual systems of communication such as comics, cartoons, codices, Egyptian scrolls, sympathetic magic, Caribbean Surrealisms, and alchemical diagrams for transformation, Flowers creates non-linear symbol sets that buck colonial notions of how to navigate and describe our world. Where taste has been constructed by these notions, she aims to create work of questionable taste, utilizing color and material classed as “femme” and casting it to the center of the circle. Amaryllis earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2019 and her BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 2014. She is the recipient of the 2023 Pocantico Prize from the David Rockefeller Center for Creative Arts, a 2022-2027 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee.
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Valentina Jager is an artist, writer, and translator from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her practice is founded on the relationship between materiality and language, the explicit evidence of the writing body, and its conditions of production. Jager holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Houston, Hispanic Studies Department, and was a 2024-25 Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Since 2012, when she first encountered it, Valentina has become a Butoh enthusiast.
Jen Liu is a New York-based visual artist looking at histories of labor, diasporic Asian identities, and the ways in which technology features in both. Her most recently completed body of work, Pink Slime Caesar Shift, centered stories of political resistance, and was built on a proposal to use the domestic food distribution network in China as a covert information network for labor activists. Liu worked with biologists to genetically alter beef cells to store encrypted texts on labor and protest, then preserve these cells in sculptures. She also used the materials and methods of genetic engineering as conceptual starting points for hybrid films, paintings on paper, and performances. Liu’s current body of work, Future Perfect 888666, is structured on the fluidity of elemental mercury, in which various histories of invisible labor converge – Chinese American sex workers in the 19th century, AI microlaborers, and xenobots. In this project she continues to collage together nonfiction texts to reveal the true nature of labor, as well as to underscore the underlying dreamlike logic of entanglement capitalism. She is a recent recipient of the Creative Capital Grant, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video, \Art Award from Cornell Tech, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and Hewlett 50 Arts Commission in Media Performance.
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Exx Nottage is an archivist, healthcare activist, and art curator. Creating accessible space is a core part of their practice, which for them is more than just getting into a space, but also taking pleasure in being there. They are the co-founder of The Collective Practices Oral History Project: NYC 1980 - 2005, as well as a co-organizer at The Come Forever Garage, a garage-space in Brooklyn that houses a public archive, public bathroom, mask non-optional social space, and various healthcare mutual aid initiatives. They have a robust practice of self-publishing and in 2022, founded the annual Cherry Grove DIY Zine Fair which happens each year during Trans Celebration Weekend in Cherry Grove, Fire Island. His most recent externally-published work I Wanna Be Well: Preliminary Materials for the Formation of Cooperative Clinics was published by Participant Inc in May of 2025.
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Robbie Pangaea is a visual / performance artist living and working in New York City and Athens, Greece. Robbie has exhibited and performed across the United States and Europe at various venues including: Club Rhubarb (NYC), Canada Gallery (NYC), MoMA PS1 (NYC), Andrew Edlin Gallery (NYC), Salon Fuer Kunstbuch (Austria), Stellage (Greece), Situations (NYC), D'Amelio Terras (NYC), 80WSE (NYC), Bike Jesus (Czech Republic), NADA (Miami), AD Gallery (NYC), Redling Fine Arts (Los Angeles), Galerie Ethiopiques (Senegal), Tops Gallery (Memphis), Jackie Klempay (Brooklyn), Essex Flowers (NYC), Bascilica (Hudson), Fifth Floor Gallery (Los Angeles), and Tonic (NYC). Robbie holds an MFA from NYU and has been awarded residencies at Waaw Senegal and Shandaken Project.
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sadé powell is a concrete poet based in staten island, ny, working at the intersections of experimental print and paper. using a 1930s royal typewriter, handmade paper, and diy print processes, her work explores black vernacularity, orthographic disruption, and concealment through fragmentation and illegibility. she produces typewritten poems, artist books, and publications that treat language as material shaped by pressure, repetition, and refusal. her work has been supported by hand papermaking magazine, the center for book arts, the poetry project, and staten island arts, among others. sadé holds an ma in performance studies from nyu tisch and is a 2025 jerome fellow in literature. she is the author of the chapbooks wordtomydead (ugly duckling presse), which received the 2025 anna rabinowitz award, and periodluv (belladonna* collaborative). her debut poetry collection dontbeabitterbtch is available from selva oscura press.
Birgit Rathsmann is an anti-disciplinary artist who translates between contexts. I live in Brooklyn, where I am Bavarian. In Germany, I am an artist who lives in New York. In Indonesia (where I was partially raised), I am German. I spend a lot of time thinking about human–nonhuman entanglements, the relationship between the Enlightenment and animism, interspecies relations, geology, and what it means to be a good neighbor.
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Justin Remo is a printmaker and designer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024 with a BFA in Printmaking. Remo currently works as a council member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and has managed studios at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey. He has displayed his work internationally in exhibitions including the SGCI 2025 Annual Juried Members Exhibition (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and the 2025 Ironbridge Printmaking Competition (Shropshire, England). His creative work is driven by storytelling, placing illustrative caricatures within photorealistic settings depicting memories of lived experience involving fleeting romance, maritime isolation and metropolitan loneliness. Remo’s science-fiction graphic novel series, Dust, won in the Ratcliffe Center for Creative Entrepeneurship’s 2024 UP/START Competition and is currently represented by Inkwell Management.
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Amina Ross is an artist, filmmaker and educator whose interdisciplinary practice spans video, sound, sculpture and installation. Ross’ practice scrutinizes the subtle workings of systems of power and their influence on sense perception and behavior.Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA PS1, the Hessel Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Tate London among other venues.Ross is also an experienced educator currently teaching at Parsons School of Design, with prior teaching roles at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Vassar College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the School for Poetic Computation. Outside of holding academic educational positions Ross has founded, co-founded and been a part of several arts based cooperatives, collectives and curatorial projects, including ECLIPSING a performance festival, F4F a house venue, and 3rd Language a queer zine project among others. Currently they lead workshops rooted in embodied knowledge and they practice Usui Reiki healing as trained by NYC POC Healing Circle. They hold a BFA from SAIC and an MFA from Yale School of Art, where they received the Fannie B. Pardee Prize in sculpture.
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Hannah Tishkoff and Sophie Appel are collaborators based in Los Angeles, working across visual art, writing, and exhibition-making. Merging literary and visual methodologies, they utilize language as a means of intertwining the physical and visual components of their practice. Together, they treat exhibitions and publications as porous forms for attention, friendship, and collaborative thought. Grounded in daily ritual and a shared interest in how art circulates beyond a single moment, their concerns include telepathy, vernacular publishing histories, and the everyday as structure. Tishkoff and Appel have collaborated on The Museum of I Love You So Much #2 and THE CENTER FOR SHORT-LIVED PHENOMENA at Melrose Botanical Garden in Los Angeles, Like a City at Slash in San Francisco, and have performed at NNOOO at Cafe 2001 and at The Marciano Foundation. They are currently in the final stages of opening a forthcoming experimental gallery and project space in Los Angeles in 2026.
Photograph by Adam Deen, 2023.