Mark Lewis (Canadian, b. 1958) is an artist based in London, UK. Known for his investigation of the cinematic image and its representation of modernity, Lewis is interested in exploring how the pictorial tradition “can continue through film and if so, how that tradition itself has been transformed by film.” Lewis trained at Harrow College of Art and Polytechnic of Central London. He worked in Vancouver and Toronto before moving to the UK, where he is Professor of Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall – A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry and editor of Afterall Books. His works have been exhibited extensively in North America and internationally in solo exhibitions such as at The Power Plant, Toronto and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. In 2007, Lewis received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Brit Art Doc Foundation Award and in 2009, Lewis represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).