Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Masked and merkin-ed, she works at the intersection of dance, art, and activism in a range of media including live performance, film, video, collage, and sculpture. She presents work worldwide at festivals, nightclubs, museums, and galleries. She won “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival, a Bessie nomination for the theatrical performance “Organ Player”, Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards, and interested in troubling the popular entertainment and experimental art divide, she appeared on America’s Got Talent. Her first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player” premiered at Sundance 2018. Her activist short film “Narcissister Breast Work” premiered at Sundance 2020 and won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at Outfest 2021.

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom. They make work about people’s hopes and dreams out of the ephemera created trying to attain those aspirations. They began working together in 2007 shortly after getting married and this collaboration has been their full-time practice ever since.

Ghost of a Dream’s current solo exhibitions are: “Tomorrow is Here” at the new MAAM museum in Boston, MA and “Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution)” at the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC. They will have their next solo exhibition in Paris, France at Galerie Paris B. “State of the Art” a recent exhibition including their work, made stops at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, AK; the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA; the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, MN; the Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum in Memphis, TN; the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville, TN; and The Mint in Charlotte, NC. Other recent solo exhibitions include “A Devil to Pay” at CES Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; “The Fair Housing Project” at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY; “A Good Run of Bad Luck” at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY; and “Gone the Sun” at Galerie Paris Beijing in Paris, France.

Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as “inevitabilities.” This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video and performance. His solo exhibitions include; Zulu Time, at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, A Life in Pictures, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia, at Cue Arts Foundation, and Wayward North at Art in General.

His works have premiered nationally at The Sundance Film Festival, Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Mass MoCA. Internationally his work has been featured at Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; Kunsthal Rotterdam in Netherlands; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland and Para Site in Hong Kong among others. Olujimi has been awarded residencies from Black Rock Senegal, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and MacDowell.

Tauba Auerbach is an artist and publisher working in New York. A life-long student of math and physics, their work contends with structure and connectivity on the microscopic to the universal scale. Auerbach often invents tools and techniques for inducing material behaviors, building on crafts in many disciplines. The artist’s hand is recognizable in work across painting, weaving, glass sculpture, photography, video, typography and musical instrument design. In 2013, Auerbach founded Diagonal Press to formalize and challenge their ongoing book design and publishing practice.

Auerbach’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou among others. The artist is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and STANDARD (Oslo), Norway. Their first museum survey, S v Z, is currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.