Dionne Lee is an artist working across various mediums such as photography, collage, and video. Her practice explores themes of power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. As she works with images, her acts of extracting, transforming, and reconfiguring them are aimed at developing new ways of seeing as well as searching for meaning within abstraction. Her work has been exhibited at the The Barbican, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others. Lee is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.

Marina Chao is a curator at CPW in Kingston, New York. She has previously held curatorial positions at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As assistant curator at ICP she organized the exhibition Multiply, Identify, Her (2018) and contributed to the publication Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (Aperture and ICP, 2018). She was awarded a 2019 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Seeing Meaning: From Pictographs to AI, an interdisciplinary project exploring the intersections of image, language, and technology.