YASH ZHANG (Brooklyn, NY)
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Yifei "Yash" Zhang (he/they) is a filmmaker, artist, and tree lover from Tengzhou, China. Yash's work explores queerness, fluidity, mental health, and futurity. Yash's work-in-progress debut feature documentary "Ma, Let's Fly Together" has been selected for the UnionDocs Summer Lab, Edinburgh Pitch, and In Moment Film Festival CCDF Selection Award in 2024. Yash's short films and collaborations have been featured at various festivals and exhibitions, including Nowness China(2024), Sheffield Doc Fest (2024), Indie Memphis Film Festival (2022), and the International Short Film Festival Canton (2023), etc. Yash holds an MFA in Creative Documentary from University College London and a BA in Theatre and Film from Rhodes College.

FRÉDÉRIC TCHENG (Brooklyn, NY)
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Frédéric Tcheng is a French-born filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His films have premiered in Venice, Toronto, Sundance, Telluride, CPH:Dox and Tribeca. His most recent film Invisible Beauty (2023), co-directed with trailblazer activist Bethann Hardison, was released by Magnolia Pictures and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. In 2019, Frédéric directed the documentary Halston, a CNN Films production and Amazon Original. His award-winning directorial debut Dior and I was released in 2015 by The Orchard. Previously, Frédéric had co-directed the 2011 acclaimed documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, which the New York Times called “dizzily enjoyable.” He also co-produced and co-edited Valentino: The Last Emperor, the 2009 hit documentary shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar.

Frédéric has served as a filmmaking mentor for Queer|Art, a non-profit LGBTQ+ arts organization. He holds an engineering degree from France and an MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University.

SAUDADE TOXOSI (East Point, GA)
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Saudade Toxosi is a psycho-spiritual visual artist engaged in a meditative process of selecting and organizing found images that articulate her thoughts about the “new indigenous african'' experience in the united states. Through image pairings in her project, “Equinox 1600, Toxosi has informed some of the most important visual and narrative statements of our time, notably Samora Pinderhughes’ “Rituals of Abolition,” (2022); Bradford Young’s “Black History Written By,” (2021), Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” (2016), and Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the Message…” (2016) in which Toxosi contributed to the visual foundations of these works. In 2020 Toxosi was named a distinguished fellow by Hambidge Center for the creative arts and sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. She has shown her art globally at Norval Foundation in South Africa, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway and Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht Netherlands.

TABITHA JACKSON (New York, NY)
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Tabitha Jackson has spent the last 30 years supporting the independent voice, championing the social and cultural power of artful cinema, and furthering the mission of uplifting a more expansive set of makers, audiences, and  forms. Most recently as the first woman and person of color to be appointed Director of Sundance Film Festival, she re-imagined and led two technologically innovative and radically accessible pandemic editions. They ‘expanded the possibilities of what a film festival can be, and who it can be for’. Between 2013 and 2020  she headed the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program rethinking traditional project support in favor of more artist-centered  models,  and advocating for institutional support of  formal innovation in nonfiction cinema. Tabitha is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is currently a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

JOVAN JAMES (North Hollywood, CA)
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Jovan Avery James is a Black, queer, Los Angeles-based filmmaker born and raised in Baltimore, MD. The youngest of 3 boys raised by a single mother, Jovan had a working class upbringing that instilled kindness, integrity, and compassion into his very core. A deep love of storytelling and a rich inner life fed his ambitious artistic dreams. After graduating from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Jovan took a leap of faith and moved to New York in 2014 to attend the Grad Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where he wrote and directed 3 award-winning short films: The Jump Off, Tadpole, and BUCK. Jovan moved to LA in 2019 to work as a fall intern for Bad Robot Productions. His latest short and graduate thesis film, BUCK, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was a finalist for Best U.S. Short. With a focus on Black and queer characters in his stories, his work has played at numerous film festivals, including BFI London, Outfest, Frameline, Maryland Film Festival, and UrbanWorld. Following his Sundance premiere, Jovan joined the WGA when he began developing his short film BUCK into a television series. Embarking on the next step in his career, Jovan was chosen as a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow in 2023 in support of TADPOLE, his first feature film script, which is tentatively set for production in 2025.

ANDREW AHN (Los Angeles, CA)
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Andrew Ahn is a queer Korean American filmmaker. Ahn's latest feature Fire Island (Searchlight Pictures) stars Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, and Margaret Cho. The film won the Ensemble Tribute at the 2023 Gotham Awards, a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Film Streaming/TV, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. Ahn's sophomore feature DRIVEWAYS premiered at the 2019 Berlinale and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Screenplay and Best Lead Actress for Hong Chau. Ahn's first film Spa Night premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance. The film went on to win the 2017 John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award. He has promoted diversity in the arts by mentoring youth filmmakers through programs like Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices, Outfest’s OutSet, and the Sundance Institute's Native Filmmaker Lab.

LEE PAINTER-KIM (Los Angeles, CA)
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Lee Painter-Kim is a nonbinary multidisciplinary writer and cultural producer with a background in cultural studies, art history, and English literature. Their work spans creative nonfiction about Korean American history and demilitarization, queer theory centering intersex and gender expansive identities, and contemporary art, often focusing on labor, identity, and decoloniality. Painter-Kim has contributed chapters to numerous publications, including works published by Duke University Press (forthcoming), Co-Prosperity Press, Routledge, Dio Press, and Monument Lab. In addition to their writing, Painter-Kim serves as a Community Scientist and 2024 community-elected Co-Chair of the Cedars-Sinai Trans Research Advisory Committee (TRAC), where they provide nonbinary perspective to community health initiatives and medical research.

ALEXANDER CHEE (New York, NY)
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Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, all from Mariner Books. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He was guest-editor for The Best American Essays of 2022. He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Leidig House, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is a full professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont. Learn more here.

RAY LEVY UYEDA (Oakland, CA)
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Ray Levy Uyeda is a poet, writer, photographer and amatuer archivist based in the Bay Area. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Offing, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Gyroscope Magazine, and Dispatches Magazine, among others. They value community, being outside, and gathering around food. A shy guy. Dance floor politics.

STACY SZYMASZEK (Hudson Valley, NY)
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Stacy Szymaszek is the author of seven books of poetry: Emptied of All Ships (2005), Hyperglossia (2009), hart island (2015), Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (2016), which won the Ottoline Prize from Fence Books and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017, A Year From Today (2018), The Pasolini Book (2022), and Famous Hermits (2023). Their book Essay will be published in 2025. Their most recent chapbook Three Novenas was published by auric books in 2022. They are the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry, and are a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. They enjoy teaching and mentoring younger poets and have done both in a wide variety of contexts, including, recently, for the “ESB” Fellowship program they founded at The Poetry Project in 2013. They live in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley on the sacred homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people, who, due to forced removal, reside in Northeast Wisconsin as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. Szymaszek is the Development Director for a small non-profit farm where they are also a volunteer cow groomer. Learn more here.

MK THEKKUMKATTIL (Anchorage, AK)
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M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them) is a trans disabled writer and nurse. Their writing is informed by disability justice, consent and negotiation practices from BDSM, care work, grief, intergenerational trauma, sobriety, ancestral wisdom, relationship with land, and queer theory. They were a recipient of a 2023 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award and a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow. They received fellowships from VONA and Writing by Writers and were a resident at Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. Their work can be found in Fence Magazine, Year Round Queer, & In the Future There Are No Hospitals. @thekkumkattilmk

LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA (Philadelphia, PA)
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a writer, older cousin, cultural and memory worker, divinator, writing teacher, space creator, low-tech survival technologist and structural engineer of disability and transformative justice work. Telling a story is still their primary form of tech.

An Aries/Taurus four horns compulsive maker and documenter, they are the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon), Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Bridge of Flowers, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Bodymap, The Revolution Starts At Home (co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani), Love Cake and Consensual Genocide. Their work has been widely anthologized and self-published, including recent work in Eater, Disability Visibility Project and The Massachusetts Review but with a long-ass CV before that. They make marvelous things/ performance/ ritual with other disabled mostly BIPOC creators/family, most recently Kinetic Light’s Wired and the i wanna be with you everywhere crew. They curated Poets.org’s disabled and D(d)eaf poetry folio and created the disabled grief transformation portal altar, remembering the disabled beloved dead lost during 2020-2023, for i wanna be with you everywhere and (soon) elsewhere.

A Lambda Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times, Piepzna-Samarasinha won  Lambda’s 2020 Jeanne Córdova Award “honoring a lifetime of work documenting the complexities of queer of color/ disabled/ femme experience.” Since 2009 they have been a lead performer with disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid; since 2020 they have been on the programming committee of the Disability and Intersectionality Summit. They co-founded Toronto’s Asian Arts Freedom School (2005-2009) the QTPOC floating cabaret and performance tour/ art apocalypse Mangos With Chili (2006-2015) and Toronto’s Performance/Disability/Art (PDA) (2014- present.) A Disability Futures Fellow, they are currently building Living Altars, building power and space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers/creators. 

They are Jackie and Anna’s grandfemme, from Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Ukrainian/Galician/Rom lineage, sick, disabled and autistic, a nonbinary femme on the stoop, a survivor and a grown up runaway making home and family. Raised in Worcester, MA, they have home in Toronto/T’karonto, South Seattle, their body, with the beloved dead and in the disabled brown web and imaginary. They are a new Philly resident after being a long-time visiting cousin. Learn more here.

AZ ESPINOZA (Philadelphia, PA)
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AZ Espinoza is an afro-futurist-trans-masculine-feminist making magic through theatre. As a playwright, director, mover and maker their praxis is grounded in community building, embodiments of queer joy, and decolonial ritual practice, all in an effort to dare audiences to accept wild invitations. His full-length plays All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, Homeridae, and Caribbean King have been produced and supported by Azuka Theatre, National New Play Network, Black Spatial Relics, and the Four Seasons Playwriting Residency. AZ’s directing credits include classics where they embrace adaptation as a revolutionary aesthetic (William Shakespeare’s Macbeth; Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness) and world premieres where he elevates the words of fellow playwrights committed to the stories of everyday radicals (Benjamin Benne’s Alma; Savannah Reich’s A Series of Meetings) AZ is a theater educator for all ages, most recently at Haverford College and Temple University, and they are a student of liberation everywhere, and for everyone.

RAJA FEATHER KELLY (Bogota, NJ)
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Choreographer/director Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (founded in 2009). Raja has been awarded a Creative Capital Award (2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019). In 2019–2020 Raja was the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Professionally, Raja has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper. Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons. He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College. Learn more here.

SUNGJAE LEE (Chicago, IL)
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SUNGJAE LEE (he/they) is a Seoul-born, Chicago-based visual artist, educator, and writer whose practice centers around the visibility and varied representations of queer Asians. He has presented his works globally in South Korea, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. He has had residencies at ACRE, High Concept Labs, HATCH Projects, Fire Island, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Arts, and Yaddo. He was selected for the 2024 Chicago Artadia Awards Finalist, 2022-2023 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, Franklin Furnace Fund 2021-22, and the 2020 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship. He received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from Seoul National University and M.F.A. in Performance Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He is currently teaching performance classes at SAIC.

YOUNG JOON KWAK (Los Angeles, CA)
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Young Joon Kwak (they/she; b. 1984, Queens, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a sculptor and performance artist whose work challenges the boundaries of representation through innovative techniques of masking and camouflage. Their art generates new, tangible forms of connection and interaction with others that go beyond traditional categories of gender and race, while vividly imagining new spaces for marginalized bodies to thrive. They are the founder of Mutant Salon, a dynamic queer-transfem-BIPOC collective beauty salon and collaborative art and performance platform. They also electrify audiences as the lead performer of the drag-electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Their work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums internationally, including at the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living. Their next solo exhibition Resistance Pleasure opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in August 2024, with another major exhibition following at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York in 2025. Learn more here.

REED RUSHES (Queens, NY)
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Reed Rushes is a British-American performance artist living and working in Queens, New York. They have a multimedia performance practice that centers queer fantasy. Combining drag, movement, video, found and self made objects Rushes’ performances unpick the hierarchical distinctions between human bodies, emotional affect and objecthood. Described as “defying the boundaries of skin, enacting solidarity instead” (Exeunt Magazine) they explore queer modes of connection beyond the physical realm. Often working collaboratively Rushes work reminds us of our own interdependence and capacity for collective transformation. They began their performance practice on London's queer club scene, winning Europe’s largest Drag King competition in 2018 “brilliantly subverting extreme masculinity” (The Guardian). Rushes graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts. Their work has since been shown at The Park Avenue Armory, Performance Space New York, Centre for Performance Research, BOFFO and Art Omi. 

ERIN MARKEY (Brooklyn, NY)
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Erin Markey is a writer/actor/creator/composer who works across media. In addition to regular literary/comedy/cabaret appearances in NYC, they create full-length music/theater stage works that most recently include Boner Killer (Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater), A Ride On The Irish Cream (Abrons Arts Center), Singlet (Bushwick Starr, Lamda Literary Award Nom) and the in-development First Lady (New York Voices Commission at Joe’s Pub/Public Theater). These works have toured nationally and internationally to Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Spiegeltent (Bard College), ART (Cambridge, MA), The Yard Theater (London, UK), FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA), Luminato Festival (Toronto, ON), PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland, OR), Fierce Festival (Birmingham, UK), Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), Washington Ensemble Theater (Seattle, WA) San Francisco Film Society and more. Their short play, Siobhan’s Wheel World was recently published in The Brooklyn Rail.

Markey has appeared on High Maintenance (HBO), At Home with Amy Sedaris (TruTV), Girls5Eva (Netflix), Run/On (SXSW), Our Home Out West (Independent, Cole Escola) and the upcoming Fantasmas (Max). They have composed music for Tender Claws VR games The Under Presents and Virtual Virtual Reality 2. As a stage actor, their recent theater credits include Staff Meal (Playwrighs Horizons) Most Happy (Williamstown Theater Festival), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova), and Assassins (NYCC Encores!).

NATHAN STOREY (Boulder, CO)
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Nathan Storey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based between Boulder, Colorado and Southern California. His work traces the relationship between printed matter and queer desire, memory, and loss. Storey’s work has been supported by ICA San Diego, 80WSE New York, and galleries internationally. He has attended workshops and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass; and the Prattsville Art Center; Catskills. In 2019, Storey founded SUBLIMATION, an artist-run space supporting multidisciplinary exhibitions by underrepresented artists in New York's Lower East Side. In 2024, he established UNDERTOW, an artist-run press supporting queer artists’ printed matter and ephemera. Storey is a 2025 Queer|Art|Mentorship fellow working with Ken Gonzales-Day. He holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA from UC San Diego. 

KEN GONZALES-DAY (Los Angeles, CA)
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Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, an MA in art history from Hunter College, an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was a Van Leer Fellow in studio art at the Whitney Museum's ISP program. He is a longtime professor of art and Fletcher Jones Chair in Art at Scripps College. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in the museum collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MoMA, MOCA Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among others. Gonzales-Day has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including grants from Art Matters, Creative Capital, California Community Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Smithsonian’s SARF award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. His monographs include Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press, 2006) and Profiled (LACMA, 2011). Gonzales-Day holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Art at Scripps College. Learn more here.

FRANCHESKA ALCÁNTARA (The Bronx, NY)
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Francheska Alcántara is a queer Afro-Caribbean artist based in The Bronx, NY and raised by a village of people in community. Their work plays at the intersection of gesture, ritual, and myth within the Black diasporic imagination. Francheska reworks, repurposes, and transforms artifacts such as brown paper bags, Hispano cuaba soap, dominoes, and organic residues through sewing, folding, cutting, burning, and layering. Alcántara holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2019) and has been a resident artist at LMCC's Workspace (2024), Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2020-2023), MASS MoCA (2023), and Recess’ Session (2022). Francheska is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Richmond. 

LIZ COLLINS (New York, NY)
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Liz Collins is an NYC- based artist known for her dynamic fiber works that vary in scale, form, and context. She has collaborated with design brands on collections of functional textiles, and produced large scale public art works, installations, and performances. Her solo exhibitions and installations have been at the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), Candice Madey (NYC), Luis de Jesus (Los Angeles, CA), Rossana Orlandi ( Milan, Italy), and Touchstones Rochdale (England), among others. Collins has been in dozens of group shows over the past 20 years, including at New York institutions the New Museum, the Drawing Center, and the Leslie Lohman Museum, and at LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Addison Gallery, and ICA/Boston. Collins’ honors include a USA Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Drawing Center Open Sessions program, Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship. Collins’ new, large tapestries are on view in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In 2025, Collins’ mid-career retrospective will open at the RISD Museum (Providence, RI) with an accompanying monograph. Liz Collins is represented by Candice Madey gallery in New York. Learn more here.

RIDIKKULUZ (New York, NY)
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RIDIKKULUZ is a Palestinian, Egyptian, Jordanian multidisciplinary artist from NYC. Their figurative work memorializes family, chosen family, and the self while investigating religious, decolonial, cultural, and queer themes. They have been an Artist-in-Resident at XOL Gallery in Maryland; Rowaq Al Balqa in Jordan, and The Laundromat Project in Brooklyn, NY. RIDIKKULUZ is an MFA candidate at Hunter College and recently completed research at Universitat de Künste Berlin.They were featured in Habibi, Les Révolutions de L'amour, at Institut Du Monde Arabe: the first institutional exhibit intersecting Arabness and Queerness. RIDIKKULUZ’s artwork served as the album art for DJ Lorant, Lupe Fiasco and Kiing Sky.RIDIKKULUZ belongs to the underground ballroom community as a member of the Haus of Telfar and has been mentored by Benny Ninja.

CHITRA GANESH (Brooklyn, NY)
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Across a twenty-five year practice that spans South Asia, North America, and Europe, Chitra Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting, which has evolved to encompass animation, wall drawings, prints, collage, video, and sculpture. Ganesh’s oeuvre is informed by her studies in literature and semiotic theory, and rich histories of public art and graphic design in India. In detailed works, Ganesh combines a vast array of influences including South Asian iconography, science fiction and queer theory, drawing upon visual tropes of vintage comics, anime, and film posters. In nonlinear narratives and richly layered worlds, Ganesh subverts traditional storytelling to open up speculative narratives where queer and femme protagonists actively shape their futures. Her works propose alternative depictions of sexuality and power from popular stories and histories, highlighting the accounts of female protagonists, which have often been subsumed or marginalized by plot lines that reproduce the contours of majoritarian power.

Ganesh is the recipient of numerous awards, including from the Ford Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Arts; the Joan Mitchell Award, Art Matters Foundation, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and many others. Her work has been widely reviewed including in The New York Times, Art Forum, Art In America, Hyperallergic, the Art Newspaper, Flash Art, and Art Asia Pacific.

Ganesh’s work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA; The Guggenheim, NY, USA; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Ford Foundation, NY, USA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI, USA; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA, USA; the Devi Art Foundation, India; Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi, India; the Ishara Foundation. Dubai, the Saatchi Collection, London, UK; the Tai Kwun Foundation, Hong Kong; Deutsche Bank, among others. She is on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and recently joined the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Ganesh holds a BA in Art-Semiotics and Comparative Literature from Brown University, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Learn more here.