Cecilia Andersson studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York, and holds a master’s degree in Curating from Goldsmiths, London (2002). She has worked at Tate and FACT, both in Liverpool. In 2003, she initiated Werk, a platform for discussing the changing role of the artist within the context of urban regeneration. Her current interests concern the social function of art and include co-creation processes, interdisciplinary approaches, and contextual challenges in terms of communication and presentation of artists’ works. Andersson was acting curator for Madrid Abierto (2009-10), and as an independent curator organized exhibitions at Moderna Museet (2004), the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (2008), and the Swedish Museum of Architecture (2008). Recently, she has curated exhibitions of the work of Francesco Jodice, Daniel Canogar, Reynier Leyva Novo, Rawiya, Agnès Varda, Stéphane Couturier, Leonor Fini, and Thilo Frank, all at Bildmuseet. Her writing has been published extensively in international journals, magazines, and artist catalogues. Andersson is currently Curator at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden. (2014)

Antonio Eligio Fernández “Tonel” (b. Cuba, 1958) is an independent artist, art critic and curator. He graduated with a degree in Art History from the University of Havana in 1982. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, in 2001, and was a visiting artist/lecturer at the Center for Latin American Studies and at the Department of Art and Art History in Stanford University, California, from 2001 to 2003. His articles and essays on Cuban and Latin American contemporary art are published in catalogues and journals in Cuba and abroad. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba; the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany; the Van Reekum Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands; the Daros Collection in Zurich, Switzerland; the Department of Fine Arts at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; the Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe, Arizona; the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art in the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, among other institutions. Tonel was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998), with residency at The University of Texas, Austin, and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Painting and Installation Art (1995). He was awarded the Prize for Art Criticism by the Cuban Section of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) in 1988. In 2003 he received the Cuban Artists Fund Award (New York, USA). He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he focuses on his own practice as a visual artist and writer, and teaches drawing and painting at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC.

Independent curator Keith Wallace (Canadian, b. 1951) has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991 to 2001 he was Curator, then Director/Curator, of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He has organized exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto, and the Belkin, where he was Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2008 and 2012 to 2015. Wallace has travelled to India more than a dozen times over close to thirty years and artists of South Asian descent he has exhibited in Vancouver include Shani Mootoo, Sunil Gupta, Vivan Sundaram, Subodh Gupta, and Anita Dube. From 2004 to 2020, he was Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English-language publication on contemporary Chinese art that is edited and designed in Vancouver and published in Taipei, Taiwan.