YOUNG JOON KWAK (b. 1984, Queens, NY) is a LA-based multidisciplinary artist, whose practice moves beyond the bounds of the studio, gallery, and institution, into interstitial social realms. Kwak collaborates with her community of queer, trans, femme, POC as the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for performances that experiment with heterogeneous forms of engagement in order to explore alternatives for inhabiting a world in which non-normative bodies are increasingly objectified, exploited, and policed. Her sculptures reimagine the function, material, and form of objects, as a means of proposing different ways of viewing and interpreting bodies as mutable and open-ended. Kwak has performed and exhibited at venues internationally, including the Hammer Museum UCLA; The Broad, Los Angeles; REDCAT, Los Angeles; ONE National LGBT Archives, Los Angeles; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Regina Rex and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; and Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain, Clichy, France. Kwak was recently awarded the Art Matters Grant and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Artist Community Engagement Grant. Kwak received an MFA from the University of Southern California (2014), MA in Art History and Literature from the University of Chicago (2010), and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).

JENNIFER MOON (b. 1973, Lafayette, Indiana) is a Los Angeles based artist, writer, adventurer, and revolutionary committed to creating alternatives to the predetermined outcomes of art and of life. Drawing from the extremely personal, blending a mix of political theory, science, self-help, popular culture, and fantasy, Moon presents possibilities of new futures and new ways of being that stimulate continuous expansion for all on this earth and beyond. Moon’s work was exhibited in Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, where she won the Mohn Public Recognition Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles (2012, 2015); Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles (2014); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (2013); China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles (2000); Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles (1995, 1996); and Tunnel, New York (1994). Moon maintains a monthly radio show, Adventures With You (2016–present), formerly Adventures Within (2012–2016), on KCHUNG and is the recipient of a 2013 CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists. Moon received her BA in Fine Art at UCLA (1996) and her MFA in Fine Art at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2002).

HAEGUE YANG (b. 1971, Seoul), is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin and Seoul and is currently in residence at Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades. Her work explores the affective power of materials by destabilizing the distinction between the modern and pre-modern, and her vocabulary of visual abstraction with sensory experiences combine industrial fabrication and folk craftsmanship. Yang’s ongoing research is empowered by underlying references to art history, literature, and political history, through which she re-interprets some of her recurrent themes: migration, postcolonial diasporas, enforced exile, and social mobility. Notable exhibitions include Lingering Nous, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2016); An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2016); The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire (commissioned by M+), Hong Kong (2015); Shooting the Elephant象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Uneven Arrivals, Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts UCCA, Beijing (2015); Family of Equivocations, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (2013); Honesty Printed on Modesty, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2013); Accommodating the Epic Dispersion, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Arrivals, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2011); Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York (2010); Symmetric Inequality, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2008); Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2008). Furthermore, her work has been included in the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Sharjah Biennial 12, United Arab Emirates (2015): dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012); 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010); 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); 5th Gwangju Biennale (2004); Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt (2004); Tiranna Biennale 1, Albania (2001).