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Bean Gilsdorf's work examines the visual traces of political histories and sociocultural narratives. Her projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and the American Textile History Museum, as well as exhibition spaces in England, Italy, China, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and South Africa. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship (2024), a Ford Family Foundation Fellowship Residency at Ucross (2023), an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2020), two creative Fulbright Fellowships to Poland (2015–2016 and 2016–2017), and a Graduate Fellowship Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts (2011–2012). Gilsdorf’s work is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, and the International Quilt Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Learn moreMadison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he makes films, paintings, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. He frequently collaborates with musicians and composers, such as Ezra Buchla, LCollective, Laura Steenberge, Mark So, and Tashi Wada.
Learn moreStephanie Barber is a writer and artist who has created a poetic, conceptual, and philosophical body of work in a variety of media, often literary/visual hybrids that dissolve boundaries between narrative, essay, and dialectic. Her work considers the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity, profundity, and banality) with play and humor.
Barber’s films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums, and festivals.
Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema. Publishing Genius Press published her books Night Moves and these here separated... in 2013 and 2010 respectively. CTRL+P published a collection of her haiku, Status Update Vol. 1 in 2019 and her full-length play Trial in the Woods was published by Plays Inverse in 2021 with a second pressing in 2022.
James Glisson at Artforum wrote, "...the films of Stephanie Barber engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting, frustration." and Ed Halter at Afterall Online wrote, "Barber...approaches cinema as a philosophical toy, intimately small, in which the play itself generates both pleasure and insight."
Barber is currently Department Head of Film and Digital Cinema at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA. She is also a resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD, and a teaching artist for The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and Image Text Ithaca.
Learn moreTrisha Baga (b. 1985, Venice, FL) lives and works in New York. Baga will be part of Here, To you, Now, the 2026 Converge 45 Triennial in Portland and received the USA Fellowship Award in 2024. Baga’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; CCC, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge; Zabludowicz Collection, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Their immersive large-scale painting installation BODY CLOCK was exhibited at Art Basel Unlimited in 2021. That same year, their video installation HOPE illuminated the façade of Kassel’s Fridericianum on the United States election day. Baga's work was included in the exhibition HOPE at Museion, Bolzano curated by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine and The Irreplaceable Human at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek. They have also participated in group exhibitions at Tanoto Art Foundation, Singapore; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; PS1, New York; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich; and Julia Stoschek Foundation at ZKM, Düsseldorf, among many other venues.
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