Blair Whiteford (b. 1990; lives and works in New York) received his MFA from Yale University and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Sowing a Seed On a Field Made of Ash at Jack Barrett, NY; Flesh Beloved, Slipping Window, Union Pacific, London, UK, 2019; and Hoodwinked with Rory Rosenberg, Gern NY, New York, NY, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include Home Alone at Jack Barrett NY, 2020, and the Chicago Invitational Presented by NADA, 2019. Whiteford is a recipient of the Cape Ann Art Museum Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting (2018), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2013). In 2021 he will be an artist-in-residence at the Fountainhead in Miami, FL. His work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, and Pond Society, Shanghai.

Amy Brener (b. 1982; lives and works in New York) was born in Victoria, BC, Canada and is currently based in Queens, New York. She is a full time faculty member at Hamilton College. Since graduating with an MFA from Hunter College in 2010, her work has exhibited at galleries and institutions in the US, Canada, Europe and China. Highlights include MoMA PS1 and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Galerie Pact in Paris, Reyes Projects in Detroit, Wentrup Gallery in Berlin, MacLaren Art Centre in Ontario and Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Recent solo shows include Consolarium at Jack Barrett, New York. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, CURA, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and The Brooklyn Rail.