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ADAMA DELPHINE FAWUNDU
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist of Mende, Bubi and Krim descent born in Brooklyn, NY.  Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. For decades, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is a 2024 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts.  Her awards include, New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship (2016) and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant (2018) and a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist.  She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years|100 Women Project/The Women’s Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019-2021).   Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Springs, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University. 

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ANSLEY WEST RIVERS
Ansley West Rivers (American, b. 1983) holds a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. West Rivers’ work is featured in many public and private collections including Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Judge Collection, LaGrange Art Museum, and The Mayo Collection. Additionally, West Rivers's work has been shown at The Wiregrass Museum (Dothan, AL), Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco, CA), Sous Les Etoiles Gallery (New York, NY), Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver BC), The David Brower Center (Berkeley, CA), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), Hathaway Gallery (Atlanta, GA), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA). She currently lives with her husband and two children in Victor, Idaho.

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BREA SOUDERS
Brea Souders is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, often blending digital phenomena with physical objects and the handmade.  Her recent work explores concepts of selfhood, anonymity, and the virtual “other” within web-based culture. Looking at the historical, contemporary, and prospective imprints of technology through a female lens, the artist examines its impact on our bodies, identities, and perceptions of the world around us. Souders has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Baxter St. at CCNY, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, and the Abrons Arts Center in New York, as well as at Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France; PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy; and Peckham 24, London, UK.  She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and National Arts Club Fellowship and was an artist-in-residence with Baxter St. at CCNY, Millay Arts, and the Artist House at St. Mary’s College, Maryland. Essays and reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, i-D, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the books Another Online Pervert, (MACK, 2023) and Brea Souders: Eleven Years (Saint Lucy Books, 2021).

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CHRISTINE ELFMAN
Christine Elfman makes photographs that explore the unity of opposites such as stillness and change, intimacy and distance, visibility and the unknown.  Many of her images are made out of their own disappearance, through week long exposures in the sun, and cannot be fixed.   She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, and BFA from Cornell University.  Elfman’s photographs have been shown at the Houston Center for Photography, Texas; Penumbra Foundation, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia;  University of the Arts, Philadelphia; and EUQINOM Gallery, San Francisco which represents her work.  Her photographs have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, 1000words, The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, and Der Greif.  She has been awarded a Light Work Grant in Photography, San Francisco Artist Award, and residencies at the Penumbra Foundation, Cape Cod National Seashore, and Saltonstall Foundation.  She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Book Arts at Wells College in Aurora, New York.   

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ELIZABETH SIMS
A fifth-generation Californian living on Ohlone land, Elizabeth Sims' work examines the intersection between the natural and cultural histories of the American West. Sims received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005. Her artwork is widely collected and has been exhibited in venues such as diRosa, Minnesota Street Projects, the California Governor's Mansion, and various galleries. She has published articles in X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Practical, and been invited several times to contribute to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s online publications. Her artist talk, “Taking the Cure,” was published in the North American Review, received a Pushcart nomination, and was included in Best American Essays’ notable essays of 2020. Her essay, “A Ritual for the End of the World,” created during a 2023 fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, will be published in the spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares.

ERIC WILLIAM CARROLL
Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, organize, and represent the world. Through his photographs, installations, and performances, Carroll creates visual and emotional connections that span enormous distances in space and time. As a public scholar Carroll activates archives and collaborates playfully with artists and non-artists alike. At the heart of his practice is a genuine sense of curiosity and humor that questions traditional binary relationships.

Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Pier 24 Photography, among others. Carroll has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for Emerging Photographers. Born and raised in the Midwest, Carroll is currently based in Asheville, North Carolina.

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KLEA MCKENNA
Klea McKenna (born 1980, Freestone, CA) is a visual artist who also writes and makes films. She is known for cameraless photography and her innovative use of light-sensitive materials. She is a 2023 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Photography. Her work is held in several public collections, including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; United States Embassy Collection; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She studied art at UCLA, UCSC, and California College of the Arts. She is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanist, Kathleen Harrison and psychedelic philosopher, Terence McKenna. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and their young children.

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MICHAEL LUNDGREN
Michael Lundgren (b.1974, USA) received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology relocating to Phoenix, Arizona where he earned an MFA in studio art from Arizona State University. Lundgren’s work and interviews have been published in Port Magazine, Foam, Design Observer, The Believer, Conscientious, Hotshoe and Vice. He is the author of two monographs with Radius Books and a third with Stanley/Barker. 

He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2017 and has been awarded accolades from the Magenta Foundation, 10x10 American Photobooks, The Silverstein Photography Annual, and the Arizona Governor’s Award. Lundgren was recently named a finalist for the Hariban Award and for Immersion: A French American Photography Commission.

Lundgren’s work resides in the esteemed collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; the Fralin Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Odense, Denmark; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; among others. Lundgren has exhibited at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; the Fralin Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Tokyo Photo, Japan; Paris Photo, France; and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Most recently his work was included in exhibitions I Hear America Singing, at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; After Ansel Adams at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Fotografia Europea Festival, Earth Effect, Reggio Emilia, Italy; and his first museum solo exhibition was at the Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea.

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RODRIGO VALENZUELA
Rodrigo Valenzuela (b. Santiago, Chile 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela is the recipient of the Harpo Foundation Grant and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Award, Art Matters Foundation Grant, and the Artist Trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; BRIC Arts Media, NY; Screen Series at the New Museum, NY; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Orange County Museum, Santa Ana, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Recent residencies include the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Dora Maar Fellowship, Ménerbes, France; Fountainhead Residency, Miami FL; Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; Lightwork, Syracuse, NY, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.

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VANESSA MARSH
Vanessa Marsh (b.1978, Seattle, Washington) is a Portland, OR-based visual artist. Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres through a mixed-media process based in photography. Working in various photographic processes she creates the illusion of a layered and dimensional landscape using opaque stencils and cut paper to make multiple exposures on light-sensitive materials. She has translated this process into different forms of photographic printmaking, from traditional black and white darkroom prints, to analog color printing, wet plate collodion, lumen, and cyanotype. Reflecting upon the landscapes of her life in the Western United States, the images she creates are meditations on memory, climate change, and geologic time.

She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004 and her BA from Western Washington University in 2001. Marsh’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, The SFO Museum, The Penumbra Foundation in New York, photoEye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Marsh has been the recipient of a Penland School of Craft Winter Residency (2023), a Jentel Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Rayko Photo Center residency (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2007), and a Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship (2004). Marsh’s images are held in institutional collections including the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Commission, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.