Gi (Ginny) Huo is an artist and educator exploring the intentions of what people believe and the legacies of religious systems. Huo received a BFA at Brigham Young University and a MFA at the Maryland Institute College of the Arts. 

Huo’s work has recently been exhibited and screened at places such as CANADA Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, BAMCinemafest, The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and the University of Southern California Queer and Trans Asian Short Films. They have participated in residencies and fellowships such as Smack Mellon, Baxter St Camera Club of New York, Robert Blackburn Printshop SIP Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SHIFT Residency, Queens Museum Art Action Academy, American Academy in Rome as Visiting Artist, Takt Kunstraum in Berlin, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Huo’s book “all i wanted was to get into heaven” published with Small Editions was named one of the Best Art Books of 2021 by the Brooklyn Rail. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Studio Magazine, ART PAPERS, TAYO Literary Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. Huo is the Assistant Director of Education at the New Museum and an Adjunct Professor at Parsons School of Design and was formerly at The Studio Museum in Harlem. They believe that art and education are powerful tools for liberation.

Re’al Christian is a writer, editor, and art historian based in Queens. Her work explores issues related to and connection between identity, diasporas, ecology, media, and materiality. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and ART PAPERS, where she is a Contributing Editor. She has written texts for Howardena Pindell: Numbers/Pathways/Grids (Garth Greenan and Dieu Donné), On the Town: A Performa Compendium 2016–2021 (Gregory R. Miller & Co.), Zipora Fried (Sikkema Jenkins & Co.), Katia Santibañez: Lumens Anima (DC Moore), and Myeongsoo Kim: Mother-Land (CUE Art Foundation), among others. Her curatorial and editorial projects include Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone (ISCP 2022), The earth leaked red ochre (Miriam Gallery), Life as Activity: David Lamelas and The Black Index (both Hunter College Art Galleries and Hirmer Verlag). Christian is the Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. She received her MA in Art History from Hunter College and holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University, where she double majored in Art History and Media, Culture, and Communication.