Yasmil Raymond is the Curator of Dia Art Foundation, New York, where she is responsible for exhibitions, as well as its collection and public programs. She most recently organized the solo exhibitions Jean-Luc Moulène, Opus + One (2011), Koo Jeong A, Constellation Congress (2010), and Franz Erhard Walther, Work as Action (2010), and performance programs with Ian Wilson, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Whitman, and Trisha Brown. Previously she was Associate Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where she organized the first exhibitions in the United States of work by artists Tomás Saraceno and Tino Sehgal. She is currently organizing a retrospective of the works of Carl Andre, which will open at Dia:Beacon in May 2013.

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Perhaps best known as a leader of the spoken word poetry movement, including slam and hiphop poetries, Bob Holman recently published his fifteenth book, Picasso in Barcelona (Paper Kite Press, 2011). This follows A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, 2003), a collaboration with Chuck Close and Crossing State Lines: An American Renga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), which he co-edited. He teaches at Columbia and New York University and is a founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, where he serves as Artistic Director. His current mission is bringing attention to Endangered Languages, and he is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance.

Thomas Fink was born in New York City in 1954. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently Peace Conference (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011), Clarity and Other Poems (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008), and a book of collaborative poetry with Maya Diablo Mason, Autopsy Turvy (Meritage Press, 2010). A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth Century Poetry (FDU Press, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he co-edited Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics (FDU Press). His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, and his paintings hang in various collections. Fink is a Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia, and lives in New York City.

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Erica Battle is a Project Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she has curated Everyday Disturbances, an ongoing installation of contemporary sculpture from the 1980s to today, and Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s. Past projects at the PMA include Marine Hugonnier: A Film Trilogy (2007); Kiefer, Polke, Richter (2007); William Kentridge: Tapestries (2008); Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni (2010); Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974 (2011); and Cittadellarte (2011). In collaboration with Carlos Basualdo, she is currently organizing a special exhibition featuring the work of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp.

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Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures which have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide, her major survey show, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, premiered at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in February 2007. Walker is the recipient of many awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award in 1997, the Deutsche Bank Prize in 2000, and United States Artists Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. Her work is included in numerous museums and public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome; and Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt. She lives and works in New York City.

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Eva Respini is the Associate Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. There, she has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and photography, including Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 (2004); New Photography (2005, 2007, and 2009); Out of Time: A Contemporary View (2006); Vik Muniz: Artist's Choice, Rebus (2008); Projects 89: Klara Liden (2009); Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (2010); 1969 (MoMA PS1, 2010); Boris Mikhailov: Case History (2011); and Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 (2011). The author of Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West and co-author of Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, Respini is a visiting critic at Columbia University School of Arts. She recently organized the retrospective of the photographic works of Cindy Sherman, currently on view at MoMA through June 11, 2012.

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