Matthew Brandt was born in California in 1982. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and his MFA from UCLA. Brandt's work is in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Cincinnati Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Danish Library, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. Matthew Brandt was one of seven artists featured in the 2015 exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography. A solo exhibition of his work, Sticky/Dusty/Wet, was presented by the Columbus Museum of Art and traveled to the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in 2014. Brandt's first monograph, Lakes and Reservoirs, co-published by Damiani and Yossi Milo Gallery, was released in Fall 2014. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Ahndraya Parlato was born in Kailua, Hawaii. She has a B.A. in photography from Bard College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her first monograph, A Spectacle and Nothing Strange was recently published by Kehrer Verlag. A book of her collaborations with Gregory Halpern, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, was published by Études Books in 2014. She has been nominated for the ICP Infinity Award, the Paul Huf Award from the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, and the SECCA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ahndraya has received grants from Light Work as well as the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a professor of photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Klea McKenna is a visual artist whose work has been shown and published internationally at venues such as SFMOMA, Datz Museum of Art in Korea, The Museum of Photographic Arts and the Hecksher Museum in NY. Her photograms are held in the collection of the SFMOMA, LACMA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the US Embassy collection and the Mead Museum of Art . McKenna is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles and Euqinom Projects in San Francisco. In addition to her own art practice, she was co-founder and photographer at IN THE MAKE an online arts journal that published studio visits and interviews with over 120 West Coast artists from 2011 to 2015. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their young daughter.

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Ellen Carey (b.1952 USA) is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, with 53 one-person exhibitions. and several hundred group exhibitions. Widewalls named her one of the top ten photographers working in abstraction worldwide; she lives and works between New York and Hartford, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.

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Arthur Ou works in photography, painting, sculpture, and installation. He has exhibited internationally, most recently in “Images that Speak” at the Presentation House in Vancouver, Canada, and “Astoria,” at the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz, Austria. His work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Aperture, Blind Spot, Camera Austria, Art in America, and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson). His work is featured in the new book, The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy (University of Chicago Press, June 2015), by Walter Benn Michaels, and "Photography is Magic," (Aperture, September 2015) by Charlotte Cotton. He has published critical texts in Aperture, Afterall.org, Artforum.com, Bidoun, Foam, Fantom, Words Without Pictures, and X-Tra. Ou received his MFA from the Yale School of Art Photography Program. He is an associate professor of photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

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