ABOUT THE CURATORS

Stamatina Gregory is a curator and an art historian, whose work focuses primarily on the interrelationship of contemporary art and politics. She has organized exhibitions for institutions including The Cooper Union, FLAG Art Foundation, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and has taught art history, critical theory, and writing at New York University, The New School, the School of Visual Arts, Purchase College, Sotheby’s Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeanne Vaccaro is a writer, curator, and teacher whose work explores the intersection of aesthetics and the history and theory of trans and queer life. Her book in process, Handmade: Feelings and Textures of Transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity and was awarded the Arts Writers Grant by Creative Capital | the Andy Warhol Foundation. Jeanne is a Queer|Art curatorial fellow, working with mentor Nelson Santos, and she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University.

Gregory and Vaccaro are the co-curators of Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics, for the Cooper Union (one of ArtNet's most memorable museum shows of 2015); READING ROOM: the feminist art of self-help (Root Division); and Tuesday Smillie: left brain of darkness (Magil Library).