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Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere
Truman Lowe
Truman Tennis Lowe is a Ho-Chunk sculptor and installation artist living in Wisconsin.
 A professor of fine art at the University of Wisconsin, Lowe is the former curator of contemporary art at the National Museum of the American Indian.
 He is known for large site-specific installation pieces utilizing natural materials.
National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere—past, present, and future—through partnership with Native people and others.
 The museum works to support the continuance of culture, traditional values, and transitions in contemporary Native life.
 It has three facilities: the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which opened on September 21, 2004, on Fourth Street and Independence Avenue, Southwest; the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent museum in New York City; and the Cultural Resources Center, a research and collections facility in Suitland, Maryland.
 The foundations for the present collections were first assembled in the former Museum of the American Indian in New York City, which was established in 1916, and which became part of the Smithsonian in 1990.
Gerardo Mosquera
Gerardo Mosquera (Havana, 1945) is a freelance curator, critic, art historian, and writer based in Havana, Cuba.
 He was one of the organizers of the first Havana Biennial in 1984 and remained central to the curatorial team until he resigned in 1989.
 Since then, his activity turned to be mainly international: he has been traveling, lecturing and curating exhibitions in more than 70 countries.
 Mosquera was adjunct curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, from 1995 to 2009.
 Since 1995 he is advisor in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kusten in Amsterdam.
 His publications include several books on art and art theory (and a short stories' volume), and more than 600 articles, reviews and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Aperture", "Art in America", "Art & Text", "Art Criticism", "Art Journal", "Art Nexus", "Atlántica", "Cahiers", "Casa de las Américas", "ArtForum", "Kunstforum", "La Jornada Semanal", "Lápiz", "Neue Bildende Kunst", "Oxford Art Journal", "Parkett", "Plural", "Poliester", "Third Text", etc.
 Among other volumes, Mosquera has edited "Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America" (Cambridge, MA and London: INIVA and The MIT Press, 1995) and co-edited (with Jean Fisher) "Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture" (Cambridge, MA and New York: The MIT Press and New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004).
 His theoretical essays – which have been influential in discussing art’s cultural dynamics in an internationalized world, and contemporary Latin American art – are dispersed in English, but have been collected in books in Caracas and Madrid in Spanish, and in Chinese in Beijing.
 Mosquera was the Artistic Director of PHotoEspaña, Madrid (2011–2013), and the Chief Curator of the 4th Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial, (2015-2016). Alexis Gideon
Alexis Gideon (born December 24, 1980) is a visual artist, director, composer and performer best known for his animated video operas.
 In 2013, Manhattan’s New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with William Kentridge in a joint program.
 Gideon has performed his video operas over 350 times at various venues including Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (2016), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) (2015), Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson (2013), Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2013), Portland Art Museum (2013), Wexner Center for the Arts (2012), Times Zone Festival (Bari, Italy) (2010), Sudpol (Luzerne, Switzerland) (2010), Centre d'Art Bastille (Grenoble, France) (2010), Baltimore Museum of Art (2009).
 Gideon is notable for his fusion of music, visuals, literature, and mythology.
 Gideon's work is in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas as well as in the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, Florida.
 Gideon has been cited as a vital and visionary artist, both in the US and internationally. Helen Molesworth
Helen Molesworth is an American curator born in 1971 in Chickasaw, Alabama.
 She received a degree in Art History from Cornell University in 1997."
 Her exhibitions have included This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, and Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two.
 She has been the curator of contemporary art at the Harvard Art Museum, the chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
 From 1997 to 1999, she was director and curator of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury.
 Molesworth also served as senior critic at the Yale School of Art and has held teaching positions at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies; SUNY, Old Westbury; and the Cooper Union School of Art.
 On September 1, 2014 she started as chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. David Thorp
David Thorp (born 26 March 1947) is an independent curator and director.
 He curated GSK Contemporary at The Royal Academy of Arts and Wide Open Spaces at PS1 MoMA New York, among many others.
 He was previously Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Henry Moore Foundation and was subsequently director of the South London Gallery, The Showroom and Chisenhale.
 He has been Associate Director for Artes Mundi, the biannual contemporary art exhibition and prize at the National Museum of Wales, and following the death of Michael Stanley in late September 2012 was appointed Interim Director at Modern Art Oxford.
 He was a member of the Turner Prize jury in 2004.
 Since the beginning of 2005 David Thorp has been an independent curator organising and initiating various projects in the UK and abroad.
 Thorp has held the positions of International Adjunct Curator at PS1 MoMA New York, Associate Curator at Platform China, Beijing, Curator of the Frank Cohen Collection, one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the UK. Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Elizabeth A. T. Smith (born 1958) is an American art historian, museum curator, writer, and presently the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
 She has formerly held positions as a curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the executive director, curatorial affairs, at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
 She is the author of numerous books on art and architecture, including "Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses"; "Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective", "Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color, 1962–63", and many others. Emmanuel Guigon
Emmanuel Guigon (born 1959, Besançon) is a museologist, holds a doctorate in art history and is the current director of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.
 He holds dual French-Swiss nationality.
 Guigon earned his doctorate in contemporary art at the Paris-Sorbonne University (France), and is a specialist in historical avant-gardes, surrealism, modern Spanish art and European post-war art.
 Before becoming the director of the Picasso Museum Barcelona, he was deputy director of museums in Besançon.
 Prior to that, he was director and head curator at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France) and head curator at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM).
 He was a member of the Science Section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Hispaniques Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, having previously lectured in contemporary art history at the Université de Franche-Comté (UFR) between 1985 and 1987.
 He is an associate member of numerous organisations, including the Training and Research Unit (UFR) of Iberian and Latin-American Studies at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University; the André Chastel Centre, Laboratoire de Recherche en Histoire de l’Art; AICA France (International Association of Art Critics); the Technical Committee of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Alsace; and the Board of Directors of the Société des Amis de Paul Éluard.
 He was named Knight in the Order of Academic Palms and Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture of the French government. Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
The Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) is a non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver, focused on contemporary art.
 The CAG exhibits local, national, and international artists, primarily featuring emerging local artists producing Canadian contemporary art.
 It has exhibited work by many of Vancouver's most acclaimed artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Liz Magor, and Brian Jungen, and it continues to feature local artists such as Damian Moppett, Shannon Oksanen, Elspeth Pratt, Myfanwy MacLeod, and many others.
 International artists who have had exhibitions at the CAG include Dan Graham, Christopher Williams, Rachel Harrison, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Ceal Floyer.
 Other notable people that have curated or written for the CAG include Douglas Coupland, Beatriz Colomina, Roy Arden, and John Welchman.
 In January 2011, Nigel Prince, former curator of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham U.K., was appointed executive director of the CAG.
 Apart from the exhibition of visual art, the Contemporary Art Gallery produces publications, facilitates education and outreach programs, public talks, and visiting artist/curator programs, and maintains a library. June Yap
June Yap is the Director of Curatorial, Programmes and Publications at the Singapore Art Museum.
 She was formerly Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator (South and Southeast Asia), Deputy Director and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and curating independently.
 During her residency at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, she curated the exhibition ‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’.
 In 2011, Yap curated the Singapore pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, featuring work by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen, 'The Cloud of Unknowing'.
 She has also curated exhibitions for the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Stuttgart and Berlin, and the National University of Singapore Museum, amongst others.
 She received her MA in Fine Art at the University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore.
 She is the author of "Retrospective: A Historiographical Aesthetic in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia" (Petaling Jaya: SIRD, 2016).