She received her BFA in Painting from Goa University in 2004 and Master of Visual Arts in Graphic arts – Printmaking from M.S. University of Baroda in 2006, and awarded the Gold medal. D’Souza’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Xippas Galerie, Paris, France; Dorsk Gallery, New York, USA; Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany; Baronian-Xippas Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium; Atelier Concorde, Lisboa, Portugal; Fundação Oriente, Goa; Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad; Ashvita Gallery, Chennai, India; Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht; University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; and Central Museum (CBK), Drenthe, The Netherlands. D’Souza is also represented in the permanent collections of the CNAP, Paris, France; Chadha Art Collection (KRC), the Netherlands; Urecht Central Museum, the Netherlands; and Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. D’Souza lives and works in Goa, India and Lisboa, Portugal.

Kate Newby received her Doctorate of Fine Art in 2015 from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Recent institutional exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; The Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; 21st Biennale of Sydney; Sculpture Center, New York; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. In 2012, she won the Walters Prize, New Zealand’s largest contemporary art prize, and in 2019 Newby was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Kate has undertaken residencies at The Chinati Foundation, Artpace, Fogo Island, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP. Newby currently lives and works in Wilson County, USA.

Raina is a previous Fellow of the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as well as a Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University, he was a recipient of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, and a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his BFA from Western University in 2013, his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. He has exhibited internationally at the Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris; Todd Madigan Art Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield; Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Museum of Contemporary Art; Textile Museum, Toronto; Soft Opening, London; (Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis; Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Humber Galleries, Toronto; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown; Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); and Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, amongst others. His works can be found in the permanent collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Guelph. Raina lives and works in Houston, USA.

Raina’s work has been exhibited internationally including at PATRON Gallery, Sullivan Galleries; Mana Contemporary; Chicago; Lighthouse Works; Chapter NY; Hales Gallery; Rata Projects; New York; Deli Gallery, Art Helix Gallery; Brooklyn; Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland; Flatland Gallery, Houston; USA; and Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy. She attended artist residencies internationally including Paint School, Shandaken Projects, New York; Triangle Arts Association, Dumbo; ACRE, Stueben; Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island; Chicago Artists Coalition, BOLT Residency, Chicago; Ox-Bow Fall Residency, Full Funding, Saugatuck, USA; Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artist Exchange Fellowship, Dresden, Germany; and Arpana Caur Art Studios, New Delhi, India. She is represented by PATRON Gallery in Chicago, USA. Raina lives and works in Brooklyn, USA.

Howard Sandoval’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally including: The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil; The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany; El Museo Del Barrio, New York; Oregon Contemporary, Portland; The Museum of Capitalism, Oakland; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, USA. Howard Sandoval’s work has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the ICA San Diego and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, during which time she was the Mellon Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Howard Sandoval has been awarded numerous residencies including: UBC Okanagan, Indigenous Art Intensive program, Kelowna, Canada; ICA San Diego, Encinitas; Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe; Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA. Howard Sandoval is also represented in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, the private research collection of Indigenous art at Forge Projects (NY), the San Jose Museum of Art (CA), and is represented by parrasch heijnen (LA). She is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada and an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield, California. Howard Sandoval lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Thirumalaisamy’s films, installations, and compositions engage everyday spaces and civic infrastructures—such as hospitals, parks, streets, kitchens, temples, mosques, lakes and roadsides— as sites of collective resistance and care. Her 2019 film, ‘The Lake and The Lake,’ premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), won the jury award for Best Documentary at the 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and was nominated for awards at BlackStar Film Festival and Open City Documentary Festival. Thirumalaisamy is the recipient of awards and fellowships including the MacDowell Fellowship, the NYSCA/ NYFA Fellowship in Film/Video, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Fellowship. Thirumalaisamy lives and works in Houston, USA.

Hernandez-Vargas’ work has been recently exhibited and performed in Houston Climate Justice Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, the Blaffer Art Museum (Houston) and the Lawndale Art Center (Houston). He was also an artist in residence at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (Arizona State University), and the Dust Program (Marfa). His work has been discussed in The Tyranny of Common Sense by Irmgard Emmelhainz (Sunny Press, 2021). In 2020, he developed Afilada Radio and co-curated No hay lengua humana que a series of radio interventions for independent radio projects in Mexico. His first book, Te preparé humo, was published in 2019 (UNAM, Mexico). He co-founded the publishing project Surt. Hernandez-Vargas lives and works in Houston, USA.