Rashaad Newsome’s work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a field that rejects classification. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, Art History, and Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between social practice and abstraction. Newsome’s work is in numerous public and private collections. He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall (NYC), The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and The Gar Hayward Gallery, London, UK. Recent awards include a 2022 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award, a 2021 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, and a 2020 Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence artist residency.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a Tiffany Foundation Award, a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, and was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History. She has exhibited widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Oakland, California.

Stephanie Syjuco, “Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage),” 2019, installation detail. Wooden platform, digital photos and printed vinyl on lasercut wood, chromakey fabric, printed backdrops, seamless paper, artificial plants, mixed media.