Renee Cox (b. 1960, Colgate, Jamaica; lives in New York) makes photographs, collages, and installations that draw on art history, fashion photography and popular culture. Her work invokes a critical vision of female sexuality, beauty, power and heroism through nudity, religious imagery and symbolism that inform her interdisciplinary process. She is most noted for her larger than life photographs of female bodies. She reexaminations the black female figure in the context of structures of power. Inspired by critical epochs and artistic styles, her works are often reimaginations of art history, ranging from the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, to Cubism (Picasso), Modernism (Édouard Manet) to traditional West African Art (Dogon, Mali, Cross River section of Nigeria). Cox utilizes a mélange of photographic styles in the vein of fashion photographer Richard Avedon, German portrait photographer August Sander, as well as summoning Harlem Renaissance photographic practices, inspired by James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks to the obscure ritualistic three-dimensional sculptural collages of Bettye Saar. Cox’s work is a celebration of the spectrum of the black female body. Her work challenges how women are seen respective to time, place and the intangible spaces between representation and reality.

Renee Cox received her BA from Syracuse University, (Syracuse, NY) and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, (New York, NY). She was a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, (New York, NY). Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at prominent institutions to include Hannah Traore Gallery (New York, NY), Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, SC), Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts (Atlanta, GA), Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK), The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY) to name a few. She received the Artists Fellowship Award, New York Foundations for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, (Petersborough, NY) and the Aaron Matalon Award, The National Gallery of Jamaica (Kingston, Jamaica) among others. She is an associate professor at Columbia University and has lectured at Yale College of Art (New Haven, CT), New York University (New York, NY) and Parsons School of Design (New York, NY) to name a few. She lives and works in Manhattan and Amagansett with her husband,and their dog, Dogon.

From the outset of a four decade career, Beverly Fishman has centered her work around the body, probing abstract investigations of disease, identity, and medicine.

Her current series focuses on the concept of polypharmacy—the prescription of multiple medicines to one individual. Compiled forms correspond to specific pills as Fishman expertly illustrates the measured precision of an individual’s unique prescription. The work provokes an interrogation surrounding Big Pharma and the promises of pharmaceuticals as the means for a cure.

Beverly Fishman (b. 1955, Philadelphia, PA) received her Master of Fine Arts in 1980 from Yale University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1977. In 2020, Fishman was inducted as a National Academician of the National Academy of Design. She is the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts; and a Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lisa Lebofsky is a nomadic plein air painter. She paints the restlessness of nature, correlating it with human vulnerabilities. Her direct participation with the landscape is vital to imbue a painting with the energy of a place. Lebofsky visits regions susceptible to climate change – including include Antarctica, Newfoundland and Labrador, Greenland, and The Maldives ¬– and meets with local residents to discuss how their community is impacted.

Lisa Lebofsky has her MFA in painting from New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited in museums and universities such as Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA; Shelburne Museum, VT; Lehman College, NY; Pima Air and Space Museum, AZ; El Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico. She is the recipient of residencies including: Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland; Saltonstall, Ithaca, NY; Tilting Air, Fogo Island, Newfoundland; Jentel, WY; Shenandoah National Park, VA.

Christie Neptune lives between Brooklyn, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Visual Arts from Fordham University and is currently a masters candidate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in Art, Culture, and Technology. Neptune's work has been exhibited at venues including: Gagosian, New York; We Buy Gold, New York; Martos Gallery, New York; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts among others. Her work is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. In 2021, she was awarded the Prix Medeos for the presentation of her work at Art-o-rama, Marseille, France. Neptune’s work has been widely discussed in publications such as 4 Columns, Artforum, Hyperallergic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Her numerous awards and residencies include Cornell University’s \Art Award, Light Work Artist-in-Residence, NYFA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, and Smack Mellon Studio Residency among others.

Shinique Smith’s multifaceted practice includes painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance. Exploring ideas of transformation and ritual, through materials such as fabric, clothing, and collage, breath, bundling and calligraphic brushwork, Smith has built a complex visual language that resonates on intimate and social scales. Her totemic works bear the presence of her body and serve as containers that operate at the convergence of consumption, displacement, and spiritual sanctuary. Smith’s work has been featured in over twenty solo exhibitions and is represented in the collections of many prestigious institutions including Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim, Denver Art Museum, LACMA, Minneapolis Art Institute, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Baltimore Museum of Art, Whitney Museum and Studio Museum in Harlem. Smith has also been honored with awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.