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“BENEATH“ JUNE 28 - JULY 27, 2012 PARTICIPANTS Maiken Bent was born in 1980. She received an MFA from the Royal Danish A...

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“BENEATH“ JUNE 28 - JULY 27, 2012 PARTICIPANTS Maiken Bent was born in 1980. She received an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Bent has been shown internationally including the Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg; the Hole, New York; and Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg. Last year she had her first museum solo exhibition, "Sense of Echoes", at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU) in Norway. In 2008, Bent was awarded a residency in Berlin by The Danish Art Council. A monograph of her work was published in March 2012. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tatiana Blass was born in 1979 in Sao Paulo, where she currently lives and works. Blass’ solo exhibitions include Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brazil; Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa in Lisbon, Portugal; Museu de Arte Moderna, Brazil; Capela do Morumbi, Brazil; Centro Universitário Maria Antonia em São Paulo, Brazil; and Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil. She presented her work at the 29th São Paulo International Biennial in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Nam June Paik Award. She was a recipient of the 2010 Grants & Commissions Program of the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation. In 2011, Blass was nominated by Art Foundation for the PIPA Prize, having won the Jury Award and the Popular Vote Award. Travis Boyer was born in 1979 in Fort Worth Texas. He is a 2012 MFA Bard College graduate. His work has been shown at museums and institutions including Museum of Temporary Art, Los Angeles; Goethe Institute, New York; SOMA Arts, San Francisco; and Dumbo Arts Center, New York. He recently did a three-day long performance at Participant Inc, New York. He lives and works in New York. Jesse Aron Green was born in 1979 in Boston, MA. He received his MFA from UCLA and his BA from Harvard University. He was part of the 2010 Whitney Biennial. His recent solo exhibitions include CCA Zamek Ujazdowksi, Warsaw; Tate Modern, London; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; and Halle14, Leipzig. Recent group exhibitions include Invisible Exports Gallery, New York; and ICA, Boston. He was a Henry Luce Scholar in 2008/09, a Trust for Mutual Understanding/Location One Fellow in 2009/10, and the Arthur Levitt Fellow at Williams College for 2010/11.

Philipp Messner was born in 1975 in Bolzano, Italy. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria and the École Nationale Supérieure des BeauxArts (ENSBA) in Paris, France. Recent exhibitions include Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany; Steinle Contemporary, Germany; Galeria Foksal, Poland; Museion, Italy; and Italiano di Cultura Monaco di Baviera, Germany. He received grants and awards including Studio grant from State of Bavaria, Germany; residency at Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland and “Kunstpreis Museion”, Italy. Messner currently lives and works in Munich, Germany. MPA was born in 1980. She was included in the 2011 program of Performa, New York. Her work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Art in General, NY; Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects, London: the Kitchen, NY; Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxacam, México. Her solo show “Directing Light onto Fist of Father” at Leo Koenig Inc., NY, was acclaimed in the New York Times by Holland Cotter for “its simple but ingenious, and dynamic, theatricality.“ MPA lives in Brooklyn, NY. Paul Mpagi Sepuya was born in 1982 in San Bernardino, California. He received a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the NP Contemporary Art Space, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; the Australian Center of Photography, Sydney; Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo; and Overtaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Interview, Capricious, V, Paper, and BUTT, among other publications. Awards include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, Artistin-Residence at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, and Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Zach Storm was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art+Design in Washington, DC in 2005. Storm earned his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012. Storm's work is heavily influenced by surface detail, objects of desire and spatial illusion. Selected exhibitons include Cocoran Gallery, Washington DC; Transformer Gallery, Washington DC; and Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York.

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