Nora Burnett Abrams

Nora Burnett Abrams is Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver).

Kathy Battista

Battista is scholar, lecturer, and a curator of exhibitions in museums and galleries. She is currently the Sotheby’s Institute of Art Program Director, MA Contemporary Art and Faculty, Summer Study, New York.

Dominic Molon

Dominic Molon is the current Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum of Art, located on the Rhode Island School of Design campus in Providence, Rhode Island.

María Elena Ortiz

María Elena Ortiz is Assistant Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she has curated At the Crossroads: Critical Film and Video from the Caribbean (2014), Firelei Báez: Bloodlines (2015), and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: A Universe of Fragile Mirrors (upcoming).

Larry Ossei-Mensah

Larry Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernades, Ebony G. Patterson, Modou Dieng, Glenn Kaino, Joiri Minaya and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.

William J Simmons

William J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Southern California’s art history and gender studies programs.

Mari Spirito

Mari Spirito is Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, a cross-cultural, site-aware art organization commissioning and presenting exhibitions and public programs in Istanbul, New York, and around the world since 2011.