Felipe Baeza (b. 1987, Mexico) received a BFA from The Cooper Union (2009) and an MFA from Yale University (2018). He has presented solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and New York. His work was included in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Prospect.5 in New Orleans (2021), and Desert X in Palm Springs (2021), among other group exhibitions across Asia, Europe, and South America. Baeza has received awards and residencies from the Getty Research Institute, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Public Art Fund, NXTHVN, and the Vilcek Foundation, among others. His work is held in the collections of LACMA, Moderna Museet, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Christopher Alessandrini is a writer based in New York, where he currently works as managing editor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online magazine, Perspectives. His writing on art has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, CURA., Interview, and elsewhere. His short story "Maverick Road" was published in Five Stories for Philip Guston (2024).