Arturo Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959. He received a BA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Herrera's work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall-painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. His work taps into the viewer's unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with abstract shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection.

Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. Since 1980 he has created large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural facades and monuments worldwide. By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history.

Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England in 1964. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London and attended Boston University. Ritchie's encyclopedic project stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judaeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific principles. Matthew Ritchie lives and works in New York City.

Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954. He received a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Kelley's work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments. A critic and curator, Kelley has organized numerous exhibitions.

Oliver Herring was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1964. He received a BFA from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. Among Herring's early works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing, and furniture. Since 1998, Herring has created stop motion videos and participatory performances with 'off-the-street' strangers.

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