Jimmy DeSana: Submission

Drew Sawyer is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum where he has curated and co-curated several shows, including Jimmy DeSana: Submission, John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance, and Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha. He has previously held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, where he co-organized the award-winning historical survey, Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989. Other exhibitions include Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston, Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories, and Lucy Raven: Low Relief. Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, and is a regular contributor to publications including Artforum, Aperture, Mousse, and Osmos.

Scholar and artist, Jill H. Casid is Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is currently completing Necrolandscaping, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is being translated into Spanish and forthcoming from Metales Pesados press, among others. Recent articles have appeared in Art in America, Women and Performance, TDR, and elsewhere. Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in recent exhibitions at Signs and Symbols and the Ford Foundation Gallery, and Documenta 15.