Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2005 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, his exhibition there consisted of a pirate radio (with instructions on how to make one for yourself.) Tiravanija was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award.
Tomas Vu was born in Saigon, Vietnam and at the age of ten moved with his family to El Paso, Texas. Vu received a BFA from the University of Texas, El Paso in 1987 and went on to earn an MFA from Yale University in 1990. He currently lives and works in New York City. Vu has been a professor at the School of the Arts of Columbia University since 1996, when he helped found the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. For those 17 years he has served as Artistic Director of the Center.
Dominic Mangila holds an MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University where he has taught in the visual arts department and a BFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught at the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Fine Arts. Dominic had solo and group exhibitions at the Drawing Room, Metropolitan Museum Manila, 2018 Gwangju Biennale, Tokyo Gendai, S.E.A. Focus, Melbourne Art Fair, Art Market Hamptons, Asia Art Fair Paris, The Armory New York to name a few.
He participated in artist residencies such as Skowhegan, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Woodstock Byrdcliffe and Seven Below Arts Initiative. He is a recipient of New York Community Trust Art Grant, Lotos Club Foundation Art Award, D’Arcy Trust Fund, Agnes Martin Fellowship and Chicago Community Art Grant. He received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
