Contributors
Ian Alden Russell in an independent curator and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Curatorial Practice and Cultural Heritage at Koç University, Istanbul.1 Articles
Dana Moser is a new contributor to Big, Red & Shiny.1 Articles
Kyle Chayka is a writer in Brooklyn who has contributed to publications include Modern Painters, Newsweek, and The New Yorker. He is also the curator of Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York.1 Articles
Maria Rondeau is a new contributor to Big, Red & Shiny.1 Articles
Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz migrated from Perú to the United States in 2000. She is a performer, organizer and writer. Ximena is a BFA 2014 candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is the co-curator of lecture and performance series platform, KNEWBODY, which brings artists/thinkers of color to Boston. A founding member of Boston Latin@ artists’ group ¡Qué Lástima! , assistant to the curator at La Galeria at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts a program of IBA, member of hardcore band Daypussy, and co-curator at Sweety's.1 Articles
Sarah Montross is Associate Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum where she has most recently co-organized the deCordova New England Biennial 2016. Forthcoming projects include a site-specific outdoor sculpture by artist Letha Wilson. From 2012-2015, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art where she organized exhibitions including Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (exh cat. MIT Press, 2015). Montross earned her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Lucy Kim is a visual artist and Senior Visiting Critic at Brandeis University. She is a recipient of the 2017 James and Audrey Foster Prize for which a new body of work is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Her work has been exhibited at Lisa Cooley, NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music, OyG Projects, NY, and MonChéri, Brussels amongst others. She has upcoming solo exhibitions at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and Galerie Pact in Paris.1 Articles
Tim McCool is an artist currently studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He uploads his drawings to Tumblr at http://ironylab.com.1 Articles
Born in 1975 in Bonn, Germany, Vera Brenner has dedicated all her professional life to the design and creation of audio and visual content for German television. Driven by the wish to tell more compelling stories and explore other cultures and languages she took up Creative Writing in 2005 and emigrated to Spain in 2007. In 2012 she moved to London where she is currently studying the Creative Writing MFA at Kingston University while at the same time working as a freelancer in TV (post)-production.1 Articles
Ben Street is an art historian, lecturer, museum educator, curator and writer. He lectures on art old and new for the National Gallery, Tate Modern, Christie's Education and the Saatchi Gallery, among other places, and runs his own courses in contemporary art in London. Ben is a freelance art writer and the co-director of the independent art fair Sluice.1 Articles