Elizabeth Axtman lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in 1980, she completed her BA at San Francisco State University in 2004 and an MFA at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Axtman was selected for the highly competitive Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency program in the summer of 2006. In her work, Axtman investigates the portrayal of race in American culture and media. Her video work has been included in significant exhibitions such as VideoStudio at Studio Museum Harlem (NYC), Black Is, Black Ain't at The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL); Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at Spellman College (Atlanta, GA) and Contemporary Art Musuem Houston (Houston, TX); Bare Walls, No Boundaries at the Wadsworth Antheneum (Hartford, CT); and Off Color at Rush Arts Gallery (NYC).


Fang Lu is a video artist born in 1981 from Guangzhou China. She received a BFA in Graphic Design at School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005 and completed her MFA degree in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. She is the recipient of SFAI's Chauncey Mckeever Award (2007) as well as Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant in support of her production company Fabricatorz (founded with Jon Phillips). Fang's work is internationally shown. Her earlier projects investigate the condition of video in art making and the dynamics within the production process through participation, improvisation, real-time and socialization. Her current work uses popular media formats to dissect culture and political meanings of visual culture and our everyday society. She is currently living and working in Beijing and San Francisco.

A Canadian-born artist living in New York, Jillian Mcdonald is currently the Associate Professor of Fine Art at Pace University. In addition to group exhibition and festivals featuring her work, she has had solo exhibitions at such venues as the Moti Hasson Gallery and Jack the Pelican Presents in New York; The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and ThreeWalls in Chicago. She is the recipient of grants including the Canada Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Turbulence. She lectures regularly in North America and Europe about her work and attends numerous residencies including The Headlands Center for the Arts in California and Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden. Mcdonald's work is reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art Papers and The Village Voice, among others. She is currently working on a solo show at Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco (June 09) and a large scale performance at Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden (May 09).

Aernout Mik (born in 1962) is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of video installation. He often combines video and architecture to transform exhibition spaces into vivid, unsettling tableaux of irrational human behaviour. Recent exhibitions include (selection): Citizens and Subjects: Aernout Mik, Dutch Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2007; Aernout Mik, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover 2007; Raw Footage/Scapegoats, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2006; Under the Skin, Universal Studios-beijing, Beijing, 2006; A Short History of Performance - Part IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2006; post_modelism, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, 2006; Roaming Memories, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, 2005; Soft Target. War as a Daily, First-Hand Reality, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2005; Vacuum Room, Centre pour l'image Contemporaine, Geneva, 2005; The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2005; Ensemble!, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, 2005 and Irreducible CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 2005. Mik lives and works in Amsterdam. 


Kamau Patton is a visual artist and art educator. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Sociology. He received his MFA from Stanford University, Spring 2007. Patton has exhibited his work in solo shows in Los Angeles at Machine Project, in San Francisco at Queens Nails Annex and at Tilton Gallery in New York. Kamau Patton has worked on numerous community based art projects for organizations such as The San Francisco Art Institute, The School House, the Museum of Children's Art, Southern Exposure and the Richmond Art Center. He has worked on public art projects commissioned by The San Francisco Arts Commission, the City of Walnut Creek, the City of San Jose, and Creative Time. Patton has worked collaboratively on artists' projects at the MoMA in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Kamau Patton is currently a Lecturer in New Media at UC Berkeley.