Ross Bleckner received his Bachelor of Arts degree from NYU and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia California. He is well-known for his large-scale paintings and his works have been shown in esteemed public collections throughout the world, including MoMA, MoCA, Astrup Fearnley, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1994 Bleckner had a mid-career solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In addition to his New York City studio practice, he is currently Clinical Professor of Studio Art at New York University. Additionally, he is President of Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA), a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education centre. For more than thirty years Bleckner’s painting and mixed media works have been largely an investigation of change, loss, and memory, often addressing the subject of AIDS.

Zachari Logan has a MFA from the University of Saskatchewan’s Art and Art History Department. Over the last seven years he has maintained a studio practice with a focus on drawing, painting, ceramics and installation. His work has been exhibited widely, in group and solo exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, and India. His work can be found in public and private collections worldwide. Logan has attended artist residencies in London, Paris, rural Tennessee, Calgary (Alberta College of Art + Design), Vernon and twice in Vienna (Museum Quartier’s quartier21: Artist in Residence Program, in conjunction with Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art). His work has been featured in many publications worldwide. He has participated in a series of drawing and ceramics residencies at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, has taught at the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan and has worked closely with students, faculty, curators, and collectors during his intriguing investigation of a highly mediated natural world.