University Reader in Modern & Contemporary Art Theory, Juan Vicente Aliaga is associated with the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His research focuses on feminist, gender, and queer studies with special attention to cultural, artistic, and political representations of sexual diversity. His teaching focuses on the role of micro-politics and the contribution of intercultural, postcolonial and decolonial studies. His research explores Feminist genealogies in Spanish art, Cultural, artistic and visual presence and agency of sexual diversity, and Critical revision of modern art from a gender and sexual perspective. In 2020, he curated an exhibition at Valencia Institute of Modern Art titled Moral Dis/Order: Art and Sexuality in Europe between the Wars.

A London-based curator whose most recent project is Being Human, a new permanent gallery curated for the Wellcome Collection, London. Previously, Clare was the curator for Queer British Art, 1861-1967 at Tate Britain, an exhibition that marked the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalization of sex between men in England and Wales. She is now working as Curator of Exhibitions at the Science Museum in London, developing exhibitions for their major international touring program. She has published articles on queer art, disability studies and curatorial practice, among other topics. Her research focus as a curator is ethical approaches to inclusion in the museum and how museums can better engage with themes of social justice.

A board member of the Schwules Museum in Berlin. She was the project leader and co-curator of the exhibition Homosexualität_en. Together with Vera Hofmann, she directed the Jahr der Frau_en / Year of the Women*, as a part of which she curated together with Carina Klugbauer the survey exhibition Lesbian Visions. Most recently, she realized, also with Klugbauer, a traveling exhibition on queer history in Germany in cooperation with the Goethe Institut and the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2019 the exhibition toured North America and can be seen in Hong Kong, Shanghai, São Paolo, Nancy, and online: http://www.queerexhibition.org/en. She is a freelance consultant in portfolio management and a lecturer and author of specialized literature.

New York-based curator, art writer and educator Dan Cameron launched his career in 1982 with Extended Sensibilities at the New Museum, the first institutional effort in the US to examine gay & lesbian identity in art. For over forty years, Cameron has held senior curatorial positions at the New Museum, Orange County Museum of Art and CAC New Orleans, and organized more than a hundred museum exhibitions, including surveys of Martin Wong, David Wojnarowicz, Faith Ringgold, and others. In 2007, Dan founded Prospect New Orleans, the contemporary art triennial to benefit the city after Hurricane Katrina, and organized the first two editions. More recently, his book on Nicole Eisenman’s paintings was published in 2021 by Lund Humphries.

Art historian, critic, and curator Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Academics & Research in Roski School of Art & Design at USC. Amelia is the curator of the critically acclaimed exhibition Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History at the Hammer Museum and most recently Queer Communion: Ron Athey at Participant, Inc., New York and ICA, Los Angeles. Recent publications include In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge Press, 2021), the anthology Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2016), and Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (Routledge Press, 2012).

A founding figure in queer art history and responsible for the first queer scholarship on a number of artists beginning in the early 90’s. Recent projects include a study of the international influence of Herbert Marcuse’s writing on the visual arts, a new reading of the cultural wars in the era of AIDS, a project envisioning supplanting the predominantly binary understanding of sexuality with a trans perspective, and new work on queer Latinx artists in periods of dictatorship. His recent exhibition About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, was the largest queer exhibition yet mounted. Katz has been a central figure in the establishment of the field of queer studies in the US. He also founded and chaired several non-profit, queer activist organizations.

Curator and arts writer who has organized dozens of exhibitions internationally with a focus on marginalized artists. She has written extensively on global contemporary art and curatorial practice, including, most recently Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. Her next book, The Ethical Museum, is forthcoming in 2022, followed by a textbook on Feminist Art. Reilly is the Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she launched the first exhibition and public programming space in the US devoted to feminist art. She is a founding member of The Feminist Art Project and Feminist Curators United. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail and Associate Professor of Art History & Museum Studies at ASU.