Artist's Biography

Sarah Conaway received her MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Project Space, Bellwether Gallery, New York (solo), Opposition is Essential, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York (solo); New Symmetrical Works, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago (solo); Post Rose: Artists In and Out of Hazard Park, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (curated by Sterling Ruby); I Am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, Chicago (curated by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart); and When Darkness Falls, Midway Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis. She has also curated numerous exhibitions under the auspices of Destroyer, Inc. in Los Angeles and Chicago. Conaway lives and works in Los Angeles.

Curator's Biography

Sterling Ruby is an American artist born in Bitburg, Germany. He lives and works in Los Angeles and holds a BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA. He has had numerous solo exhibitions including Spectrum Ripper, Sprüth Magers, London, "Grid Ripper," Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, "Sterling Ruby Supermax," Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, "KILN Works," Metro Pictures, New, "Chron," and The Drawing Room, New York. He has also exhibited in a range of group shows including "Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, "The Station," Midblock East, Miami Metro Pictures, New York, "Begin Again Right Back Here," White Columns, New York, and "If you destroy the image you destroy the thing it self," Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.