Naoko Adachi is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. From Kyoto, Japan, she specializes in Early Modern and Modern Japanese art. Together with Ramey Mize, she curated Traversals at New Boon(e) in 2016.

nadachi@sas.upenn.edu

Haely Yoon Chang received her MA at the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Hongik University in Seoul with a BA in the History of Art. She is currently assisting curatorial projects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will join the Slought Foundation and Metropolitan Museum of Art as an intern and fellow, respectively. Her previous research topics include representations of women’s leisure consumption in Korean and American art during the early twentieth century, the intersection of artists and immigration history, Korean American artists in the early twentieth century, and contemporary Korean art. She also co-curated the first three independent exhibitions in the Incubation Series — UNcommons, EchoLocation, and Please Come In, alongside her colleagues Hilary R. Whitham and Kirsten Gill.

haeyoonchang24@gmail.com

Lauren Downing recently graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with an MA in the History of Art. She became the Executive Assistant to the Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art in 2019 since joining the museum as the Curatorial Assistant in 2014. She is also a co-owner of Ulises, a local bookshop and curatorial platform focused on artists’ books and independent art publications. While attending The Pennsylvania State University, she triple-majored in Art History, Finance, and French, with a minor in International Business. Before moving to Philadelphia, she was the Assistant Director of Ion, a contemporary art and design gallery.

Olivia Dudnik is a Master's student in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. A native of Toronto, Canada, Olivia holds a BA in Art History & Classics from McMaster University. Her research focuses on late Impressionist paintings. She has held internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Contemporary Art Department and the Registrar's Office, and the European Department at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (ON).

oliviaal@sas.upenn.edu

Ginny Duncan is an MA student in the History of Art department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focus is in American art from the first half of the 20th century. She is currently the Women Artists Project intern in the Office of the Curator at the Penn Art Collection. Previously, she worked as a Production Associate in the Digital Media department at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She was also a curatorial intern at the Whitney for the exhibition Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. She co-curated Weak Link in January 2019 with Tausif Noor for the Incubation Series.

Francesca Ferrari is a doctoral student in Art History at New York University. From Lugano, Switzerland, she received her MA from the University of Pennsylvania 2017. She holds a double BA in Art History and English Literature from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a certificate in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Her research focuses on the early European avant-garde, with special emphasis on the artistic groups working in pre-revolutionary Russia and the Weimar Republic.  In particular, she studies the representation and construction of utopian ideals, considering their relation to exclusionary narratives of gender, class, and ethnicity. She has previously interned at the Museo d’Arte in Lugano, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York, and at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City. Recently, she has collaborated to the installation of Christo’s Floating Piers on Lake Iseo, Italy. Together with Laurel McLaughlin, she curated passages at FJORD in the spring of 2017.

fferr@sas.upenn.edu

Kirsten Gill co-founded the Incubation Series in 2015 with Keenan Bennett, Haely Chang, and Hilary R. Whitham, co-curating three shows at Little Berlin, Grizzly Grizzly, and Space 1026 in the series' first year: UNcommons, EchoLocation, and Please Come In. In addition to self-directed curatorial projects, Kirsten has held positions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has worked on exhibitions at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently an editor and contributor at Title Magazine. Kirsten recently completed her MA in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and she holds a double BA in Studio Art and French from Bates College. Her research interests include land, territory, and spatial politics; issues of race; and sound art, video, and performance.

Click here to have a look at the Q&A session in which Kirsten and Keenan illustrate the origins of the project at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

kirstenm.gill@gmail.com

Jessica Hough is a doctoral student in Art History at Northwestern University studying modern and contemporary art, with a focus on time-based and “new” media, feminist historiography, and queer theory. She received her BA from the University of Chicago, MA in Film Studies from Columbia University, and MA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held positions at the Berman Museum of Art, Artists Space, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Smart Museum of Art. Together with Francesca Richman, she curated Remote Control at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in 2016. She also co-curated the fall 2017 exhibition, Loose Ends, at Seraphin Gallery with Isabelle Lynch.

houghjes@sas.upenn.edu

Jeff Katzin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. From Cleveland, Ohio, he specializes in modern and contemporary art of the United States. He received a double BA in art history and government from Wesleyan University, where he wrote his senior honors essay on Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross series. He then earned an MA in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, where his master’s thesis covered Adolph Gottlieb’s career in painting. He has also obtained a certificate in Art Museum Studies from Smith College and completed internships at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. He is particularly interested in abstract art and its capacities to convey political, philosophical, and personal meaning. Jeff’s research also ranges into photography, film, video, and video games. He is currently conducting research towards his dissertation on the history and potential of abstract photography. Jeff curated Sources of the Self at AUTOMAT in 2017, co-curated Double Vision at FJORD in 2018 with Olivia Dudnik, and will co-curate the Incubation Series' fall 2018 show at High Tide with Emily Leifer.

jkatzin@sas.upenn.edu

Emily Leifer is a doctoral student in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She earned a BA in the History of Art from Brandeis University and an MA in the History of Art from Williams College. Her research at Bryn Mawr focuses on installation art of the 1960s and 1970s and its intersections with ecology and environmentalism. She has previously worked as a Curatorial Associate at the AC Institute and has held internships at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, David Zwirner Gallery, e-flux, and The Judd Foundation.

Isabelle Lynch is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania where she is specializing in contemporary art. She studied Art History at McGill University in Montreal (MA in Art History) and at the University of Ottawa (BA in Philosophy and History and Theory of Art). Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant at Vancouver’s The Polygon Gallery and at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She has also worked as an educator at McGill University, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Icelandic Art Center. Recently, she co-curated (with Sophie Lynch) the exhibition Blood, Sweat, Tears at the Art Gallery of Guelph and was the recipient of the the 2016 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. She co-curated Loose Ends in fall 2017 with Jessica Hough. 

ilynch@sas.upenn.edu

Laurel McLaughlin is a doctoral student in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College working with Homay King. She earned a BA in Art History and English from Wake Forest University (2013), an MA with Distinction from The Courtauld Institute of Art (2015), and an MA from Bryn Mawr College (2017). Her research focuses on contemporary performance that engages theories of identity, embodiment, and feminism. She is currently a Curatorial Assistant at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts working on the upcoming retrospective, Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, and the Ridgway Curatorial Fellow at Bryn Mawr College for Tania El Khoury’s current exhibition Camp Pause. She recently co-curated the exhibitions Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA’s Permanent Collection and SWARM. (featuring the work of Didier William and Nestor Armando Gil/ Taller Workshop) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For the Incubation Series, Laurel has co-curated Flooding with Tamir Williams at AUTOMAT Gallery, passages with Francesca Ferrari at FJORD Gallery, and the performance event, Playing the Rules, with Jessica Hough at Vox Populi.

lmclaughli@brynmawr.edu

Ramey Mize is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. From Atlanta, Georgia, she holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The majority of her research and publications to date examine the intersection of nineteenth-century art, gender, and material culture in Europe and the United States. Previously, she worked as the Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, where she curated the exhibition Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision (2014) and contributed essays to the catalogues Whistler and the World: The Lunder Collection of James McNeill Whistler at the Colby College Museum of Art (2015) and A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (2016). She also spearheaded a number of diverse campus and community outreach schemes, including the formation of a Student Advisory Board to the Colby Museum as well as "Young Curators," the first-ever teen program in the history of the institution. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Expanding the Audience for Art in the Nineteenth Century at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery. Together with Naoko Adachi, she curated Traversals at New Boon(e) in 2016.

rmize@upenn.edu

Tausif Noor is the Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellow at ICA. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he studied art history, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he received his MA in Art and Politics. From 2014-15, he was a Fulbright Scholar in India, where he worked with organizations such as the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art and assisted at the 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Noor previously held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Imperial War Museum in London, and the UK-based not-for-profit agency Culture+Conflict. He is a contributing editor at Momus, and his writing has appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Frieze, and Artforum.com among other publications.

Francesca Richman is a MA candidate in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Francesca is from Greenwich, Connecticut and graduated from Bucknell Univeristy with a double BA in Art History and Italian Studies. While broadly interested in modern and contemporary issues, Francesca’s research focuses on public art and architecture. She is currently a Graduate Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and is involved with Philadelphia's ongoing Monument Lab. Previously, Francesca has held internships at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Glass House, and Phillips Auction House. Along with Jessica Hough, she curated Remote Control at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in 2016.

francann@sas.upenn.edu

Tyler Shine is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania where he specializes in modern/contemporary art with a focus on the history of photography. He studied Art History at the University of Pittsburgh (BA) and the University of Maryland, College Park (MA). Before coming to Penn, he was the Constance E. Clayton Fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Previously, he worked at The Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Hilary R. Whitham is a PhD candidate in the History of Art program at the University of Pennsylvania.  Living and working in New York City for nearly a decade prior to her arrival at Penn, she served as the Director of New York's oldest cooperative artist space, Amos Eno Gallery, and as a graduate curatorial intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Specializing in the history of photography, European modernism, and the arts of Africa, she earned her MA from the City University of New York and her BA from Fordham University.  In her free time she enjoys bicycling and spending time with her dog. Along with Haely Yoon Chang and Kirsten Gill, she co-curated the first three exhibitions of the Incubation Series: UNcommons, EchoLocation, and Please Come In.

hwhitham@sas.upenn.edu

Tamir Williams is a doctoral student in History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. They hold an MA in History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in American Studies and French from Middlebury College. Previously, they have held fellowships and internships at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, The Library Company of Philadelphia, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Their research interests focus on the intersections of the body, race, gender, sexuality, and disability studies in contemporary art.

tamirwil@sas.upenn.edu