Beatriz Cortez is a Los Angeles-based artist and scholar. Born in El Salvador, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She has had solo exhibitions at Clockshop/the Bowtie Project in Los Angeles (2018); the Vincent Price Art Museum in East Los Angeles (2016); Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles (2016); the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park (2015); the Centro Cultural de España in El Salvador (2014); and the Museo Municipal Tecleño in El Salvador (2012). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Tina Kim Gallery in New York (2018); the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2018); BANK/MABSOCIETY in Shanghai, China (2017); Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas (2017); the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2017); the Centro Cultural Metropolitano in

Quito, Ecuador (2016); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016). She has received a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; 2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists; a 2017 Artist Community Engagement Grant; and a 2016 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a doctorate in Latin American literature from Arizona State University. Her upcoming solo exhibition, Trinidad: Joy Station will be held at the Craft Contemporary Museum of Los Angeles in 2019.

Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) works in Altadena, California. She received her BA in both visual arts and semiotics from Brown University, in 2001, and MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute, in 2004. Her work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Taipei Biennial 2018, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2018); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2018); Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2018); Portikus, Frankfurt (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017); Bétonsalon—Center for Art and Research, Paris (2017); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2017); New Museum, New York (2017) SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2017); Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016); and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013), among others. She is

the recipient of several residencies, grants, and fellowships, including a California Community Foundation Award (2014), Fine Arts Work Center Residency (2012), Frankfurter.

Fernando Palma Rodríguez (San Pedro Atocpan, Mexico, 1957) lives and works in the agricultural region of Milpa Alta outside Mexico City, where he runs Calpulli Tecalco AC, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Nahua language and agriculture. He was the subject of a retrospective at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (2017). His work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, New York (2018), FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France (2016); Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico (2016); Nottingham Contemporary, England (2015); the Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado (2015); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico

City, Mexico (2014); and SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2014).