Steffani Jemison

Steffani Jemison was born in Berkeley, California, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University (2003). Jemison’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; solo exhibitions include LAXART, the RISD Museum, the…

Katherine Hubbard

Katherine Hubbard is an interdisciplinary artist living in New York who works at the intersection of photography, performance, and writing. A new series of landscape photographs, bygone from here (2015), is currently included in Greater New York at MoMA PS1. Katherine Hubbard is invited to present work at After the Fact, a one day symposium examining the place…

Martha Joseph

Martha Joseph is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked on such exhibitions, commissions, and performances as Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980; Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine; and Projects 101: Rabih Mroué. Before joining MoMA she worked at…

Martha Wilson

Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In…

“Vanity” (online exhibition)

This exhibition is inspired by Sebastiao Salgado’s black and white photograph of nude women of the Zo’é village of Towari Ypy, Brazil (2009). The focus is on the seven women on the left who are engaged in body painting using urucum—seeds from a Bixa orellana tree—in a sheltered hut made of tree leaves. Applying urucum…