England Hidalgo examines the colonial gaze embedded in museology and anthropology. Reworking archival images of Indigenous Filipinos exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, he erases bodies and reframes what remains—measurements, garments, artifacts of control. Through print and installation, Hidalgo exposes how museums once catalogued lives as evidence of empire. His work transforms the archive into a site of reckoning, confronting the authority of display and the persistence of colonial vision in our ways of seeing.

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.

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