A curator and writer living in New York, Lynne Cooke is currently the John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities at the American Academy in Berlin. She has held positions at the following institutions: 1991-2008 Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York; 2008-2012 Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; 2012-2014 Andrew W Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, and 2014-2025 Senior Curator, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. In 1991 she co-curated the Carnegie International; in 1996 she helmed the Sydney Biennale. Her most recent shows include Outliers and American Vanguard Art, 2018, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, 2023. Cooke has published extensively on modern and contemporary artists.

Ulrike Müller’s expanded notion of painting mobilizes vocabularies of color and shape that are politically and emotionally charged and encourage figurative readings. Alongside small-scale paintings in vitreous enamel, Müller also produces expansive murals, textiles, and prints. Müller was a co-editor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and from 2009-2012 organized the collaborative project Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists. Her interest in archives and collections has lead to curatorial projects such as The Animal Within (mumok, Vienna, 2021-22). Her work has been shown internationally and is included in numerous collections.