ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jane Fentress

Jane Fentress is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia who works primarily in drawing and sculpture. She is interested in psychoanalysis, interiority, and the role of materiality in religious experience. She received a BA in Visual Art and English Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Austin Fisher

Austin Fisher is a musician and artist currently based in Providence, Rhode Island who works primarily with sound and video. His scores have been included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the 2018 Carnegie International.

Evan Curtis Charles Hall

Evan Curtis Charles Hall (b. 1995, Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist who works and thinks through photography, sculpture, and sound. Hall’s practice explores the ways that historical materials surge into the present—whether through photographic processes, archaeological excavations, or prophetic utterances. He received a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA, CTL Teaching Certificate, and Graduate Certificate of Archaeological Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been exhibited at 41 Cooper Gallery, NY; Philomathean Gallery, PA; The Penn Museum, PA; Automat Gallery, PA; A Lab Amsterdam, NL; and the Municipal Archive of Lugo, Italy. Hall lives and works between Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York City. 

Kyuri Jeon

Kyuri Jeon is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Seoul and New York. Through installation, video, and performance Jeon explores interconnectedness of mobility, language, dislocation, gender, and identity manifested on the body. Jeon’s work has been featured at The Institute of Contemporary Art, USA; Artists’ Moving Image Festival, UK; Festival Film Dokumenter, Indonesia; and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, KR. She holds a BFA from Korea National University of Arts, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University. She is a recipient of Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and Second Prize in Asian Shorts Competition, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. 

David Johnson

David Johnson (b. 1993, New York, NY) is an artist and educator who lives and works in New York. His work uses video, photography, found and stolen objects, and architectural intervention to engage with subjects and histories entangled in processes of urban erasure. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2015, a MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and will be a participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2021. Recent exhibitions include: Pilot + Projects, Philadelphia, PA; Philomathean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; The Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New School, New York, NY; Hosting Projects, New York, NY; La Mama Galleria, New York, NY.

Jessi Ali Lin

Jessi Ali Lin is an artist working with and through sculpture, video, performance, and embodiment. Her work explores the notion of positionality both in terms of physical position and the multivalence of identity. She is interested in the objectness of the body and how it forms, morphs, and reconfigures according to systems and structures within and outside of ourselves. Lin holds a BA in Art & Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship Award, the Oakley Medal Award, and the Vermont Studio Scholarship Award. Her work has been shown at IceBox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA, Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA, and Dixon Place, New York, NY. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Rebecca Naegele

Rebecca Naegele is an artist who works in sculpture, installation, video and photography. Her work is informed by cultural and spatial symptoms of neoliberalism, consumerism and technological advance. Rebecca's process is grounded in observation and an experiential translation of life under late capitalism. Her work materializes a material language of precarity through instability, collapsing visual space, fragmentation, and disrupted viewership. Cyclic history, speculative value, infrastructure, architecture, and duration guide and inform her work. Videos explore notions of progress through cyclic repetition, repeated attempts without resolution, and mechanisms of surveillance. Rebecca Naegele lives and works in Queens, NY. She received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program's Studio Program in New York, NY in 2016-17. Recent exhibitions include Pilot+Projects, Philadelphia, PA; Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY; 3A Gallery, New York, NY; 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY.

Emmanuela Soria Ruiz

Emmanuela Soria Ruiz (b.1992, Granada, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia (Lenni-Lenape occupied land) working in and across sculpture, video, installation and performance. Through both research-based and intuitive methodologies, she investigates hegemonies embedded in personal histories, Greco-Roman mythology, literature and history of architecture. She obtained her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2014, and an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2020. Recently, her work has been featured in the Icebox Project Space, Pilot + Projects, Automat Gallery, Cherry St. Pier, and Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Valentina Soto Illanes

Valentina Soto Illanes (b. 1988, Santiago, Chile) is a Latin American artist currently living and working in Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work mainly in South America and partaken in interdisciplinary residencies and research projects, interested in how disciplines of knowledge categorize the encounter of flora and fauna. She holds a BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Universidad de Chile. In 2020, she received the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation.

Sonnie Wooden Jr.

Engaging with overlapping practices of visual art, filmmaking, and writing, Glenn “Sonnie” Wooden investigates the experiences of individuals through an ontological-and-ethnographic-like process by investigating environments, food, and bodies within and around issues of class, race, romance and violence. Sonnie is from Chicago, IL, and now lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received a BA from The University of Iowa (2018) and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2020).

Julian Zeidler

Working through personal narrative surrounding identity and a tender research based practice, Julian Zeidler (they/them) engages with leftist theory through misuse and the art of failure. Play is a preciously held political philosophy. Julian is a United Statesian sculptor, drawer, and performer. They received their BSA from Southern Connecticut State University and their MFA from University of Pennsylvania. Julian currently resides in Bradenton, FL.