Artist's Biography

Josh Blackwell received his MFA in 1999 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and his BA in 1995 from Bennington College in Vermont. Josh has exhibited his work in the US and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Kate MacGarry, London, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, and Galleria Alessandro de March, Milan. His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England; and Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan. He has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Gemini GEL in Los Angeles, and the Delfina Studio Trust in London. He is a visiting faculty member in Visual Arts this spring at Bennington College.

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Curator's Biography

Wendy and Amy Yao were born and raised in Los Angeles, and over the last two decades have collaborated together in various bands, such as Emily’s Sassy Lime, Meditation Duo, and Shady Ladies. They have also worked together in curatorial projects such as their long-running Art Swap Meet at Andrea Zittel’s High Desert Test Sites. In 1999, Amy co-founded China Art Objects Gallery with three fellow art librarians, and is now a practicing artist residing in New York City. She received her MFA from Yale in 2007 and exhibits her work nationally while teaching art at City College New York. Wendy is the founder and owner of Ooga Booga store in Chinatown, specializing in artist books, art ephemera, music and design, from 2004 to the present. For more information: www.amysyao.info, www.oogaboogastore.com