Avantika Bawa lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Originally from New Delhi, India, she received an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in the same from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India. She has participated in numerous residencies that include Skowhegan, ME; Ucross Foundation, WY; MacDowell, NH; Kochi Biennial Foundation, India, and Nes Artist Residency, Iceland. Noteworthy solo exhibits include shows at The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR; Suyama Space, Seattle, WA; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Nature Morte and Gallery Maskara in India; and Disjecta, Portland, OR. Large scale site-specific installations include, A Pink Scaffold in the Rann, Kutch, India (2019-20), and A Yellow Scaffold on the Ranch, part of Art Beyond, Ashland OR (2021). She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA. 

Namwon Choi is an artist splitting her time between Augusta, GA and Atlanta, GA. Choi earned her BFA and MFA in Traditional Korean Painting from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea in 2002, and her MFA in Drawing and Painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA in 2014. In 2020 she was included in the Wiregrass Museum Biennial in Dothan, Alabama and in 2021 her solo exhibition at THE END Project Space in Atlanta, GA was reviewed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. In 2022 she had solo exhibitions at the Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA and at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, GA. In 2023 Choi was one of five artists included in New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, co-curated by Melissa Messina and Sierra King, at Atlanta Contemporary, organized by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Choi’s work has been exhibited in the Korean Cultural Centers in New York City, Los Angeles, and in Washington D.C., where her work was reviewed by the Washington Post.  In August 2024, Choi will have her first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia.

Zerek Kempf received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2006 and his BFA from The Ohio State University in 2003. He has been selected to attend residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Fountainhead, and the New York Art Residency & Studio Foundation. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Waag Society, Amsterdam; CA2M Museum, Madrid. 

Shanna Zentner is a painter whose work includes mural, installation, printmaking, and ceramics. Originally from New York City, she is currently based in Chicago, holding a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MFA from The University of Chicago where she was awarded an Art, Science, and Culture Fellowship. Shanna has exhibited throughout the US and in Germany and has work in the collection of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. She was an artist in residence at Ox-Bow School of Art in 2017, The Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center in 2019, and at Pilotenkeuche in Leipzig, Germany in 2022. She has lectured at The University of Chicago and Purdue University Northwest.

Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. He shows at Freight+Volume Gallery in New York City and Laney Contemporary in Savannah, GA. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, and The New York Times. His recent curatorial projects include Paula Crown: #solotogether at Rockefeller Center in New York City. He served as Dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, teaches at Georgia State University, and manages THE END Project Space in Atlanta.