Tyler Coburn (b. 1983, New York City) is an artist and writer based in New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Coburn’s performances, sound works and installations have been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; CAC Vilnius; LA><ART, Los Angeles; and SculptureCenter, New York.
Shannon Ebner (b. 1971, New Jersey) lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is Associate Professor of Fine Arts Practice and head of the Photography Area at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MoMA/ PS1, The Hammer Museum and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Selected group exhibitions include Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York, the 54th International Venice Biennale; The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Sixth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York; and Learn to Read at Tate Modern.
Adam Putnam (b. 1973, New York City) is an artist based in New York. His work has been included in various exhibitions internationally, from the 2008 Whitney Biennial and the 2nd Moscow Biennial to the 2008 Busan Biennial. Putnam has also exhibited at Art Statements, MoMA/PS1 and The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo. Curatorial projects include an exhibition of the work of Martin Wong at P.P.O.W., New York and Blow Both of Us at Participant Inc., New York, co-curated by Shannon Ebner.
Rachelle Sawatsky (b. 1983, Richmond, British Columbia) lives and works in Los Angeles, where she recently received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Western Front Gallery, Vancouver and Or Gallery, Berlin; in the 2012 Wight Biennial, Los Angeles; and in group exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, and Projectesd, Barcelona. Sawatsky’s writing has appeared in The Happy Hypocrite, Art Papers and C Magazine.