Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (b. 1982, Port-Harcourt) lives and works in New York and Philadelphia. Graduated from BFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2004); and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2006). She was selected as a finalist for the Prix Canson Drawing Prize (2016); was an Open Sessions participant at the Drawing Center, New York (2015-17); and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012-13). Select residencies include Queens Museum, Flushings, New York (2015-16); Workspace Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2014-15); Bric Arts, New York (2014); BetterArt Residency Program, New York (2011); and Cooper Union School of Art, New York (2011). Select solo exhibitions include STAR FISH, Smack Mellon, New York (2017); The Armory Show Focus, Marian Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle (2016); SALT WATER, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2015); and a story. in parts., Tiwani Contemporary, London (2015). Select group exhibitions include Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York (2017); The Day Comes, Galerie des Galeries, Paris (2017); Studio Program Exhibition, Queens Museum, New York (2017); Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco (2017); Un-becoming, Fridman Gallery, New York (2016); The Ease of Fiction, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh (2016); KIN, Hanger, Lisbon (2016); Speaking Back, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2015); Telling Truths/Speaking Secrets [November 2014], Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green (2014); no one belongs here more than you, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (2013); Waiting for the Queen, Dyker Gallery, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2012); and Part II, Causeu Contemporary Gallery, New York (2011).

Milano Chow (b. 1987, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. Received her BA from Barnard College (2009); and attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013). Chow was awarded the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant (2018). Select solo exhibitions include These Buildings are Rated X, Chapter NY, New York (2018); Sightlines, Museo Apparente, Naples (2017); Egg and Tongue, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2016); The Painted Screen, Chapter NY, New York (2015); and Mode Pratique, Young Art, Los Angeles (2015). Select group exhibitions include Line and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2018); The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas (2018); Milano Chow/Ann Green Kelly/Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2017); 2016 Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York (2016); I hope to God you’re not as dumb as you make out, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2015); Light Night, Wallspace, New York (2014); and Near Dark, Young Art, Los Angeles (2013). Her work is held in private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Born 1985 Dahmani, Nidhal Chamekh lives and works between Paris and Tunis. Graduated from BA Fine Art, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (2008); and MA Fine Arts and Art Sciences, Paris I, Panthéon-​Sorbonne (2010).

NChamekh's practice reflects on the times that we inhabit. His artwork is situated at the intersection of the biographic and the political, the lived and the historical, the event and the archive. Using drawing, installations, photography and video, his oeuvres dissect the constitution of our contemporary identity. Chamekh has developed a language that challenges history and politics in their broader sense. He performs his fragmentary research to convey an ambiguous atmosphere, shifting between the experience and the violence of the individual representation. He represents an imperceptible space between a silent violence mirroring an intimate experience of trauma.

Selected exhibitions include Comme un parfum d'aventure, MACLyon, Lyon (2020); Nos visages, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis (2019); The 12th edition of Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial, Mali, Bamako (2019); HybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg (2019); Diaspora at Home, CCA Lagos (2019); 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo (2019); Dream City Biennial, Tunis (2019 & 2017); A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists' Drawings, Modern Art Oxford and Drawing Room, London (2018); Memory Matters, Skissernas Museum, Lund (2018); The Sea is the Limit, York Art Gallery (2018); Yinchuan Biennale: For an Image, Faster Than Light, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (2016); and All the World's Futures, 56th International La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2015).

Born 1977 New Zealand, Kate Davis lives and works in Glasgow. Graduated from the Glasgow School of Art (2001).

Her work in drawing, moving image, printmaking, installation and bookworks questions how to bear witness to the complexities of the past. Reconsidering what certain histories could look, sound and feel like, this has often involved responding to the aesthetic and political ambiguities of historical art works and their reception.

Selected exhibitions include The Driver’s Seat, Cubitt Gallery, London (2018); Here was Elsewhere >>FFWD, Cooper Gallery DJCAD, Dundee (2018); A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London and Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2018); NOW: Susan Philipsz, Michael Armitage, Yto Barrada, Kate Davis, Hiwa K, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2017); Charity, LUX, London (2017); Nudes Never Wear Glasses, Stills, Edinburgh (2017); The Unswept Floor, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2016); Not Just the Perfect Moments, The Drawing Room, London (2012); Eight Blocks or a Field, Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2013); Peace at last!, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2012); Ranziges Fett, Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2012); ¿Qué tenemos que hacer con una habitación propia?, Museo de la Ciudad and La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico (2010); The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?, CCA, Glasgow (with Faith Wilding) (2010); Outsider, Sorcha Dallas,Glasgow (2008); Your Body is a Battleground Still, Tate Britain, London (2007); and Stop! Stop! Stop!, Kunsthalle Basel (2006).

Awards include the Margaret Tait Award (2017); Creative Scotland Artists Bursary Award (2014); and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington (2012).

Born 1976 New York, Karl Haendel lives and works in Los Angeles. Graduated from BA at Brown University, Providence (2000); and MFA University of California, Los Angeles (2003).

Haendel's practice is anchored in the production of large, labor-intensive pencil drawings which are presented in installation form. He uses the installations as a means to discover connections and affinities between seemingly disparate nodes of cultural data, drawing attention to the overlaps between the social, political, and personal. He also creates public projects, films, and artists' books that explore these themes in a less object-based manner, allowing him to access contexts outside of the gallery and museum. His work explores how our culture uses images to produce opinions, values, and beliefs and how the images we produce reflexively re-shape these frameworks.

Selected solo exhibitions include exhibitions include Double Dominant, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Doppelgänger, WENTRUP, Berlin (2018); The Competition Myth, Yvon Lambert, Paris (2013); High Performance Stiffened Structures, Locust Projects, Miami (2013); and Questions for My Father, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2012). Selected group exhibitions include 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York (2020); A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford and Drawing Room, London (2018); I who make mistakes on the eternal typewriter, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim (2017); Biennial of The Americas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2015); 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); and 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013).

Awards and residencies include the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2015); Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence (2011); and the Penny McCall Foundation Award, Durfee Foundation Grant (2004).

David Haines (b. 1969, Nottingham) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Studied at Camberwell School of Art, London; and The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Haines' work is featured in publications including Vitamin D2, Phaidon (2013); Drawing People by Roger Malbert, Thames and Hudson (2015); and Interdisciplinary Encounters - Hidden and Visible Explorations of the work of Adrian Rifkin, I.B.Tauris (2014). Awards include the Irinox Drawing Prize, Artissima, Turin (2017); and the Jeanne Oosting Prize, The Hague (2012). Haines exhibited as part of the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).  Select solo exhibitions include A Fragile Membrane, an Illusive Screen, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017); Two Way Mirror, Tyneside Cinema (Gallery), Newcastle (2017); Disegni, Artissima, Turin (2017); Armory Show, New York (2016); Discoveries, Art Basel HK, Hong Kong (2014); and Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2013). Select group exhibitions include Trouble in Paradise, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (2019); A Slice Through the World, Drawing Room, London (2018); Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); New Dutch Short Films, Rooftop Films/ Trilok Fusion Center for the Arts, New York (2016); Art at the Spaarne (The Collection/Donation of Bart Spoorenberg), Teylers Museum, Haarlem (2016); Transformer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2015); Beauty of Violence, Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem (2014); and Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011). 

Ian Kiaer (b. 1971, London, UK) lives and works in Oxford, UK. Kiaer studied at the Slade School of Art, UK (1995); and at the Royal College of Art, UK for his MA (2000) and PhD (2008). His installations involve groupings of architectural models, untouched or slightly modified found objects, and two-dimensional work to create fragmented narratives. These works are prompted by the ideas of utopian thinkers, architects, and artists from various periods of history whose common concern has been their resistance and critique of dominant ideologies – while providing possible alternatives for thought. Select solo exhibitions include Endnote, tooth, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2017-2018); Neubauer Collegium, Chicago, USA (2016); Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2014); Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK (2014); Centre International d'art et du Paysage, Vassivière, France (2013); Aspen Art Museum, USA (2012); Kunstverein, Munich, Germany (2010); Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin (2009); Bloomberg SPACE, London (2009); and British School at Rome, Italy (2005). Select group exhibitions include We Stared at the Moon from the Centre of the Sun, Towner Art Gallery, Sussex (2018); Strange Days, frac île-de-france, Paris (2017); Klappe eins, Affe tot, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin (2016); Concrete, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2015); L'Image Papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg (2013); The Space Between, Tate Britain, London (2012); All of this and Nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery, London (2010); and Setting the Scene, Tate Modern, London. Kiaer also participated in the 10th Lyon Biennale (2009); the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006); and the 50th Venice Biennale (2005). His work is held in public and private collections including Tate, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

Ciprian Mureşan (b.1977, Dej) lives and works in Cluj. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj (2003); and The University of Art and Design, Cluj (2001). Select solo exhibitions include Ciprian Muresan, SMAK Museum, Ghent, BE (2019); Ciprian Mureșan, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Art Club 22: Ciprian Mureșan, Accademia di Francia a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome (2018); Ciprian Mureșan: All Images from a Book…, David Nolan Gallery, New York (2017); Ciprian Muresan, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (2015); Stage and Twist, Project Space, Tate Modern, London (2012); Recycled Playground, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims and touring (2011); and Ciprian Mureșan, n.b.k., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2010). Select group exhibitions include Beating around the bush # 6: Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL (2020); End of Future, SAPS La Tallera Museum, Cuernavaca, MX (2019); How We Live, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill NY, US (2019); Perspectives, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE (2019); Geta Bratescu, Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Serban Savu, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome, IT (2019); Ciprian Muresan and Serban Savu, L’atelier sans fin, Atelier Brancusi - Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2019); An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, HK (2019); Grande Révolution Domestique, Le Familistère de Guise, Guise, FR (2019); La Brique, the Brick, Caramida, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, FR (2019); Ex-East, past and recent stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR (2019); Ciprian Muresan and Serban Savu, L'entretien infini, Une saison roumaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2018); The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin, DE (2018); A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London and Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2018); Acquisitions récentes du Cabinet d’Art Graphique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2018); VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale exhibition, Venice (2017); Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul: Freiburg, Museum fur Neue Kunst Freiburg, Freiburg (2017); Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, Works from Art Collection Telekom, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2017); Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); Without Reality There is No Utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla (2011); and No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010). 

David Musgrave (b.1973, Stockton-on-Tees) lives and works in London. Studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he now teaches. Musgrave was a finalist for the Prix Canson in 2015. His digital animation Studio golem was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom (2013). He is the author of two novels: Unit, published by LemonMelon (2015); and Total Abstraction, shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize (2018). Select institutional exhibitions include Good Grief, Charlie Brown!, Somerset House, London (2018-19); The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2017); Space Force Construction, V-A-C Foundation, Venice (2017); Being Thing, CIAP, île de Vassivière, Beaumont du-Lac (2015); The Noing Uv It, Kunsthalle Bergen, Bergen (2015); Être Chose, CIAP Île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac (2015); and The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, and touring (2013). Select solo exhibitions include greengrassi, London (2018, 2016); Luhring Augustine, New York (2014); and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2015). His work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Tate, London. 

Wura-Natasha Ogunji (b. 1970, St. Louis, MO, USA) lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Ogunji received a BA in Anthropology from Stanford University, USA (1992) and an MFA in Photography from San Jose State University, USA (1998). She is a co-founder and lecturer at the Institute for Performing Justice (CWGS) at the University of Texas, Austin, USA and founder/curator of the experimental art space The Treehouse in Lagos. She has received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; The Dallas Museum of Art; and the Idea Fund.  Ogunji was an Artist-Curator for the 33rd São Paulo Bienal where her large-scale performance Days of Being Free premiered. Select solo exhibitions include Every Mask I Ever Loved, ifa-Galerie Berlin (2017/18). Select group exhibitions include City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Modern Art Oxford (2018); inaugural Lagos Biennial (2017); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India (2018); 1:54, London, UK (2018); Seattle Art Museum; Brooklyn Art Museum, USA; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

Born Dublin 1958, Kathy Prendergast lives and works in London. Graduated from BA Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1983), and MA Fine Art at Royal College of Art, London (1986).

Prendergast makes work that combines drawing, sculpture and installation, and is informed by a range of interests including landscape, mapping, migration, the female body and the relationship between the individual (the solitary) and the collective (the universal). At the core of the work is the notion of the one and the many, how we interact in the world and impact on it. The crossover between history, geography, archaeology and memory as a narrative is central to her practice. She is interested in the formal and conceptual qualities of repetition, and the transformational potential inherent in familiar objects through artistic intervention.

Her work is held in public collections including Tate, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain, London; the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin; the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; the Santa Barbara University Museum, Santa Barbara; the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin.

Selected solo exhibitions include Atlas and The Road, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln (2019); Black Maps, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2016); Atlas, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2016); Atlas - a reverie, The European Commission, London (2016); OR, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2015); Black Map Series, PEER, London (2010); Dream of Discipline, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2006); The End and the Beginning, IMMA, Dublin (2000); and Art Now, Tate Britain, London (1997). Selected group exhibitions include From A to B, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2020); The Other Side - Borderlands in Contemporary Irish Art, Dortmunder U, Dortmund (2019); A Slice through the World, Modern Art Oxford, and Drawing Room, London (2018); Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama (2017); The Lie of the Land, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon (2017); Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014); and With an Apple I Will Astonish, Large Glass, London (2012). 

Awards include The David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation Award (2018); and The Bryan Robertson Trust Award (2017). Prendergast won the Best Young Artist Award at the Venice Biennale for her work City Drawings (1995). 

Born1980 Algiers, Massinissa Selmani lives in Tours and Tizi-Ouzou. Graduated from Computer science, University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria (2003); and DNSEP, École des beaux-arts de Tours, France (2010).

Selmani's practice is made up of drawn forms that emphasize the documentary dimension of drawing and the narrative processes that result from it, creating works at the frontier of the real and the unreal, the political and the poetic, the comic and the tragic, which are characteristic of his work.

Select solo exhibitions include Le calme de l’idée fixe, Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré (CCC OD), Tours, France (2019); Choses fortuites, Château d’Oiron, France (2019); Ce qui coule n’a pas de fin. SAM Art Projects Prize, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); and Les choses que vous faites m’entourent, Selma Feriani gallery, Tunis (2017).

Select group exhibitions include The wall at the end of the rainbow, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2020); Waiting for Omar Gatlato, The Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2019); Incursioni D’arte Nella Civiltà, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Italy (2019); Inhabiting the Mediterranean, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia (2018); No Looking Back, Okay?, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia (2018); A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Modern Art Oxford (2018); Tamawuj, 13th Sharjah biennial, Sharjah (2017); Social Calligraphies, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw (2016); All the world’s futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015); La vie moderne, 13th biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2015); and Produire le commun, Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar (2014).

Awards include SAM Art Projects Prize, Paris (2016); Art Collector Prize, Paris (2016); and Special mention, 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Lucy Skaer (b. 1975, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Skaer studied for her BA Honors Fine Art at the Environmental Art Department, Glasgow School of Art. Awards and residences include the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2016); Hammer Museum Residency, Los Angeles, US (2016); Villa Medicis Residency, Rome, Italy (2015); Résidence - Atelier Calder, Saché, France (2013); and Location One International Fellowship, New York, USA (2010). Nominations include the Prix Canson (2016) and the Turner Prize (2009). Select solo exhibitions include Sentiment, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, USA (2018); Available Fonts, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria (2018); Una Casa Más Pequeña (A smaller house), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2017); Past Shows, GRIMM Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017); One Remove, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2016); Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow, UK (2013); and A Boat Used As A Vessel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2009). Select group exhibitions include Now Wakes the Sea: Contemporary art and the ocean, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2017); The Other Dark: Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar, Nashashibi/Skaer, Sirius Arts Center, Ireland (2017); Generation: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, The Hunterian, Glasgow, UK (2014); Art Under Attack – Histories of British Iconoclasm, Tate Britain, London, UK (2013); Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2012); and Watercolour, Tate Britain, London, UK (2011).

Barbara Walker (b. 1964, Birmingham, UK) lives and works in Birmingham. She received her BA in Art and Design from the University of Central England, Birmingham (1996). Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that affect her life and the lives of those around her.  Growing up in the Black community in Birmingham during the 1960s and 70s, her experiences have directly shaped a practice concerned with issues of class and power, gender, race, representation and belonging.  Her figurative drawings and paintings tell contemporary stories hinged on historical circumstances, making them universally understood and reflecting a human perspective on the state of affairs in her native Britain and elsewhere. Walker received the inaugural Evelyn Williams Drawing Award in 2017, in association with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Select solo exhibitions include Shock and Awe, Midlands Arts Centre (2016); Sub Urban, James Hockey Gallery, part of the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham (2015); and As Seen, Tiwani Contemporary, London (2013).  Select group exhibitions include Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, the Royal West of England Academy (2016); Diaspora Pavilion, the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); and A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Modern Art Oxford (2018). Her work is held in private and public collections including Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; The Herbert Art Gallery; and Arts Council Collection.