Ciprian Muresan (b.1977 Dej, Romania) lives and works in Cluj, Romania. Select solo exhibitions include Ciprian Mureșan: All Images from a Book…, David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA (2017); Ciprian Muresan, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy (2016); Ciprian Muresan, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Ciprian Muresan, Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (2015); All that work for nothing! That's what I try to do all the time!, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2013); The Praxis of Starvation, Video Room: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2013); Stage and Twist, Project Space, with Anna Molska, Tate Modern, London (2012); Ciprian Muresan, Wilkinson Gallery, London (2012); Ciprian Muresan, Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2012); Dead Weights, Museum of Art Cluj Napoca, Cluj (2012); Recycled Playground, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (2011); and Ciprian Muresan, David Nolan Gallery, New York (2011). Select group exhibitions include VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale exhibition, Venice, Italy (2017); Group presentation featuring the 30 artists nominated for the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Drawing Prize, Cabinet d'art graphique - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2017); Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal (2017); #1.1 Palimpsest: Joachim Bandau, Pavel Buchler, Oscar Hugal, Ciprian Muresan, Convent Art Space, Ghent, Belgium (2017); George Grosz: Politics and His Influence, David Nolan Gallery, New York (2017); Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul: Freiburg, Museum fur Neue Kunst Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (2017); Track Changes, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2017); Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, Works from Art Collection Telekom, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2017); Few Were Happy with Their Condition, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago (2017); Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London (2017); Cher(e)s Ami(e)s : Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines, Centra Pompidou, Paris (2017); Balagan, KühlhausBerlin, Berlin, DE (2015); IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, PERSONAL IMAGINATIONS, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (2015); Chercher le garçon, Musée d´Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, FR (2015); and Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London (2015).

George Grosz (1893-1959) lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. Studied Drawing at the Dresden Royal Academy of Art, specialising in Graphic Art (1909-11); the School of Arts and Crafts, Berlin (1912-14) and the Atelier Colarossi, Paris (1913). A prominent member of the New Objectivity Movement, a band of Social Realism in German avant-garde art, Grosz's work depicted and commented on German society between the wars. Also a member of Berlin's Dada movement, his caricatures critiqued the politics and culture of the day through satirical illustrations reflecting his observations of life in the city. Select exhibtions include Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London, UK (2017); George Grosz: Correct and Anarchic, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2010); The Years in America: 1933-1958, David Nolan, New York, US (2009); German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (2004); The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints 1912-1930, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (1997); The New Objectivity, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, US (1997); Art and Politics in Weimar Germany, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, US (1993). Expressionist works by George Grosz are held in a number of public collections world-wide including Kunsthalle, Hamburg; the Staatliche Museum, Berlin; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Mardrid and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US.