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Coleman Collins is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores notions of diaspora in relation to technological methods of transmission, translation, copying, and reiteration. His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles in 2018 and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, ME. Collins is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at e-flux, New York; Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Herald Street, London; Soldes, Los Angeles; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah; Larder, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; Brief Histories, New York; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine.

Ruth Estévez is a writer, performer, and curator focusing on the development of new artistic fields of knowledge through research and interdisciplinary initiatives. She is currently the co-director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Previously, Estévez was the Artistic Director of Amant, an alternative art space in Brooklyn (2020–23), Senior Curator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (2018–20), and co-curator of the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021). She organized the performance festival Idiorrhythmic at MACBA in Barcelona (2017–20) and was the gallery director and curator of REDCAT/Calarts (2012–18). Estévez co-founded LIGA-Space for Architecture and Spatial Practices in Mexico City (2010–). She is currently finishing her PhD in Art, Education, and Research at the University of Castilla–La Mancha, Cuenca, focusing on the aesthetic, social, and political shifts in collective creation across performance art, architecture, and theater.

Sandra Erbacher is a German interdisciplinary artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Working in collage, photography, installation, and artist books, her practice critically explores the archive as a site of historical production and negotiation. Erbacher has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Penumbra Foundation, Cuchifritos, ISCP, Spring/Break, GRIN, and Atlanta Contemporary. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Penumbra Foundation, LMCC Workspace, NARS Foundation, and Artists Alliance. Honors include a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Center for Book Arts Residency, and the Chazen Prize. Her work is held in collections such as Fidelity Investments, the Stone Foundation, and the Tedeschi Collection.