Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez

rafa esparza



Kang Seung Lee



Candice Lin



Pavithra Prasad



Christian Tedeschi

Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores multiple temporalities beyond the human experience, and concepts of simultaneity, multiplicities, the untimely, and speculative imaginaries of the future. Born in El Salvador in 1970, Cortez received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. She has exhibited at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Clockshop, Los Angeles; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles; Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador; and Museo Municipal Tecleño (MUTE), El Salvador; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Cortez is the recipient of the Artadia Los Angeles Award, the inaugural Frieze LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize (2019), the Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. Beatriz Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.

rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist born in Los Angeles whose work explores identities disrupted by colonialism using performance art to consider his own relationship to those histories. esparza is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, and Art Matters Foundation grant. He has exhibited and performed at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Ballroom Marfa, TX; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA (2013); Performance Space New York and the Ellipse, Washington, D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Diego Art Institute, CA; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and LA><ART, CA. esparza is represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles.

Kang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist born in Seoul, South Korea. Lee’s work challenges mainstream narratives by creating speculative cross-cultural and queer histories based on personal and margalized group’s lived experiences. Lee has shown at Hapjungjigu, Seoul, South Korea; One and J. Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Artpace, San Antonio; Baik Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Archive; Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont; Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City, Mexico; Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Palm Springs Art Museum, CA; PARTICIPANT INC., New York (2019); LA><ART, Los Angeles; SOMArts, San Francisco; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Lee received the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2018-19), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant, and Artpace San Antonio International Artist-in-Residence program.

Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Concord, MA, who explores colonial legacies as they relate to forgotten histories through multi-sensory installations, often including living and organic materials and processes. Lin has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in Semiotics and Visual Arts from Brown University. She has received numerous awards such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and has exhibited internationally at places such as Portikus, Frankfurt; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Bétonsalon—Center for Art and Research, Paris; Human Resources, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Hammer, Los Angeles; and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Her work will also be at Prospect 5, New Orleans in 2021.

Pavithra Prasad is a writer, scholar, and performer working at the intersection of text, voice, sound, and performance art. Born and raised in Chennai in South India, her aesthetic engages decolonial forms of narrative, music composition, and language praxis. Her mixed-method research and performances map South Asian futurism and global anti-racist coalition. She has done ethnographic work on psychedelic subculture in India, which informs and ignites the cultural criticism embedded in her creative work. She has shown her work in India and the United States. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and teaches at California State University, Northridge.

Christian Tedeschi is an interdisciplinary artist utilizing found materials and the senses to decontextualize and restructure objects and experiences within spatial relations. Tedeschi is an Associate Professor in sculpture at California State University, Northridge and has received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and a BFA from University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. He has exhibited at Western Projects, Culver City, CA; Torrance Art Museum, CA; Reserve Ames Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; CSUN Art Galleries; Skala Gallery, Poznan, Poland; and ASHES/ASHES in New York City.