Janine Antoni is a visual artist born in Freeport, Bahamas. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Antoni is known for her unusual processes. Her body is both her tool for making and the source from which her meaning arises. Antoni’s early work transformed materials like chocolate and soap, and she has used everyday activities like bathing, eating, and sleeping as sculptural processes. She carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the senses.
Antoni’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Art Institute of Chicago; among others.
Antoni is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the New Media Award from the ICA/Boston, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011.
Pallavi Sen is an artist originally from Bombay, India. She works with installation, printmaking, textiles, Instagram, and intuitive movement. Sen received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University and has been a fellow and artist-in-residence at Shandaken Projects: Storm King, Mildred’s Lane, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Ox-Bow School of Art, Byrdcliffe at Woodstock, Wormfarm Institute, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Hambidge Center, and ACRE. She is an Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College, and lives/walks in the Berkshires.
Kazumi Tanaka (b. 1962, Osaka, Japan) graduated from Osaka University in 1985 before relocating to New York in 1987, where she studied sculpture at the New York Studio School (1987–1990). Tanaka has exhibited at museums and galleries around the world. Solo exhibitions include Kent Gallery between 1995 and 2003; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1993); Beacon Project Space (2002) and Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2011); Fridman Gallery in Beacon NY (2022).
Group exhibitions include A Labor of Love, the New Museum of Contemporary Art (1996); The Quiet in the Land, at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art (1997); Model World at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2002); and Today is the Day exhibition at Miyauchi Art Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan (2015), Collateral Project by The Brooklyn Rail at the Venice Biennale (2018); Kunming Art Biennale, Yunnan Art Museum, Kunming, Yunnan province, China (2018), Art Brussels with Fridman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2022), Snowdrop at Fridman Gallery, NY, Voyage at Ulterior, NY (2024), The Faraway Nearby at Westbeth Gallery, NY (2025).
Tanaka’s numerous residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine (1990); the United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine (1996); in Salem, Germany (2010, 2012); Art Omi in New York (2013); Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy (2014); McDowell, Peterborough, New Hampshire (2015); Manitoga, the Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY (2018); and at the L wie Materie, Salem, Germany (2022).
Tanaka received a 2017 Tiffany Foundation Grant; In 2023, she was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Fellowship for Craft/Sculpture. She lives and works in Beacon, New York.
