Participants

Kellie Jones

art historian

Dr. Kellie Jones is Chair of the Department African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Dr. Jones has also worked as a curator for over three decades and has numerous major national and international exhibitions to her credit. Her exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011.

Lorna Simpson

artist

Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as “Guarded Conditions” and “Square Deal.” Simpson is best known for her work in conceptual photography. Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally and include photo-text installations, photo-collages, and films.

Betye Saar

artist

Betye Irene Saar is an African-American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. She was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity. Her work is considered highly political as she challenged negative ideas about African-Americans throughout her career.

Franklin Sirmans

curator

Franklin Sirmans is an American art critic, editor, writer, curator and has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami since October 2015. His initiatives there include ensuring that PAMM’s art program reflects the community in Miami and securing donations. For Frieze New York 2019, he was selected to curate a homage to the pioneering non-profit arts organization Just Above Midtown (JAM) and its founder Linda Goode Bryant.

Papo Colo

co founder of Exit Art

Papo Colo is a Puerto Rican performance artist, painter, writer, and curator. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He lives and works in New York City and in El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico. Papo Colo is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work ranges from performance, theater and installation art to painting, writing, and graphic design. He founded Exit Art in 1982 with his partner Jeanette Ingberman.

Dominique Lévy

gallerist

Dominique Astrid Lévy is a Swiss-born art dealer who recently joined forces with fellow dealers Brett Gorvy, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Amalia Dayan to form the collaborative art partnership of LGDR. Lévy is also the co-founder and partner, with Brett Gorvy, of Lévy Gorvy, formerly based in New York City, London, Geneva, Hong Kong and Paris. In 2005 Lévy formed a partnership with Robert Mnuchin in New York as L&M Arts which staged the important “David Hammons – Five Decades” Exhibition in 2016.

Suzanne Jackson

artist

Suzanne Jackson is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. She worked in Los Angeles during the 1960s to 1980s, early on crossing paths with Hammons and founding Gallery 32. Based in Savannah, Georgia since 1996, she taught for many years at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Robert Storr

critic

Robert Storr is an American curator, critic, painter, and writer. From 1990 to 2002 Storr was curator, then senior curator, in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. He was the first American Director of Visual Arts of the Venice Biennale in 2007. Storr was the Dean of the Yale School of Art After and continues to teach at the Yale School of Art as a tenured Professor in the Department of Painting/Printmaking.

Robert Farris Thompson

art historian

Robert Farris Thompson was an American art historian and writer who specialized in Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world. He was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1965 to his retirement more than fifty years later and served as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art. Thompson coined the term “black Atlantic” in his 1983 book Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy.

Henry Taylor

artist

Henry Taylor is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his acrylic paintings, mixed media sculptures, and installations. Taylor’s important exhibitions include a mid-career Retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2012, and the upcoming “Henry Taylor: B Side” A 30 year survey of his work at MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) and a massive installation of recent work at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (England) in 2021. He received the prestigious Robert De Niro, Sr. prize for outstanding achievements in painting in 2018.

Complete List of Participants

Stuart Anthony – former associate director Exit Art
Jan Christiaan Braun – curator, Museum Overholland director
Steve Cannon – poet, founder of A Gathering of The Tribes gallery
Gylbert Coker – art historian, artist, curator
Bridget R. Cooks – art historian
Dimitris Daskalopoulos – collector
Ilene Susan Fort – curator
Alana Heiss – former director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Paul H-O – artist
Mary Jane Jacob – curator
Joe Lewis – artist

Anna Kustera – gallerist
Robert Mnuchin – gallerist
Richard Powell – art historian
Sukanya Rajaratnam – gallerist
Halsey Rodman – artist
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn – gallerist
Antwaun Sargent – art critic
Adam Sheffer – gallerist
Tschabalala Self – artist
Jack Tilton – gallerist
Fred Wilson – artist