Victoria Fu is a visual artist who received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. Her art installations, both individual and collaborative with artist Matt Rich, have been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA; DeutscheBank Commission at Frieze Los Angeles; The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA. Fu has received grants from Art Matters and the Harpo Foundation, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives and … » More …

Kori Newkirk creates mixed media artworks often inspired from cast-off objects found in his local environs of downtown Los Angeles. By using unpredictable materials such as pony beads, pomade and hair extensions, Newkirk astounds us by articulating complex ideas about our cultural memory. Newkirk’s provocative works, inflected and informed by his African-American heritage, poignantly remind us of our racist inhumanity. Newkirk continually reinvents his practice, rethinking cultural notions of beauty, exploring issues of narcissism, celebrity and spectacle in the political arena, and taking his practice into new unexpected directions.

Kori Newkirk received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine and his BFA from The … » More …