Shortly after graduating from SVA’s MFA program in Visual Art, Pam Butler gained attention for her street art postering. In particular, her work ‘Good Girl Project (92-95)’ received recognition. In 2010, the project was revisited and expanded on for “The Good Girl Book”. In 2015 Butler was awarded a Gottieb Foundation individual artists grant.  Other grants and awards have included a Maria Walsh Sharpe Foundation Residency (2012), Virgina Center for the arts (1998 and in 1997 a N.E.A. supported residency), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2012), and NY Foundation for the Arts artist fellowship in drawing (1997). Butler’s work has been shown in solo and group shows in New York City and internationally since 1991, including at White Columns, Cue Art Gallery, Artists Space, Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Hallwalls, Scotland Street Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Butler has recently been publishing a magazine based around her work in photography, drawing, and social commentary entitled Lotion. 

Leigh Ledare’s multidisciplinary work utilizes photography, the archive, text, and film. Born in Seattle, Washington in 1976, Leigh Ledare received his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. His work has been widely exhibited in solo surveys at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2013); WIELS, Brussels (2012); and at The Box, Los Angeles (2012); Pilar Corrias, London (2012); The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2010); Les Rencontres de Arles, Arles (2009); and Rivington Arms Gallery, New York (2008). His work has appeared in group shows at Metro Pictures, New York; Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2012); PS1/MoMA, New York (2010); Swiss Institute, New York (2009); and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2008). This fall Ledare’s show “The Plot” opens at the Art Institute of Chicago.