Judy Radul is based in Berlin and Vancouver, where she is professor at Simon Fraser University. Recent solo exhibitions include World Rehearsal Court, V-A-C Foundation at the GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (2017); the king, the door, the thief, the window, the stranger, the camera, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2017), Judy Radul: Closeup, The Breakdown, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2015); This is Television, Daadgalerie, Berlin (2013). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales including the Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen (2017); Nicaragua Biennale X (2016); the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); People Things Enter Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2011); Seoul Biennale of Media Art (2010); and Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives – Lived Fiction, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2010). She has a BA in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University and a MFA in Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Mina Totino lives and works in Vancouver. Best known for her work in painting, Totino has exhibited widely, appearing in solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto and Berlin. Her studio practice, teaching, writing and curating are informed by her continued research into the history of art and painting. Totino first came to prominence in the 1985 Young Romantics exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Totino’s work is informed by contemporary criticism, especially literary and film criticism that have analyzed the position of the imaginary spectator. In 1982, Totino received a diploma in art from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; Vancouver Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Oboro Gallery, Montreal; Diaz Contemporary, Toronto; Galerie Likofabrik, Berlin and the Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, Riga. She received the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award in 2014.

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).