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About Andrea FraserHarmony Holiday

Born in 1983 in Anchorage Alaska Nikita Gale received a BA from Yale University New Haven in 2006 and an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2016. Gale also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Madison Maine in 2019. In 2022 Chisenhale Gallery London will present Gales first European solo exhibition. The artist has had other notable solo exhibitions and commissions at institutions such as LAXART Los Angeles (2022); the California African American Museum Los Angeles (2021); Anchorage Museum Alaska (2021); MoMA PS1 New York (2020); The Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin (2019); Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2018). Gale is represented by 56 Henry New York; Reyes|Finn Detroit; and Commonwealth and Council Los Angeles. The artist resides and works in Los Angeles. Ebony L. Haynes is a writer and curator from Toronto. She is based in New York where she is a director at David Zwirner. Haynes has previously held positions as visiting curator and critic at Yale School of Art in the Painting and Printmaking program and director at Martos Gallery and Shoot The Lobster NY & LA. Haynes sits on the boards of Artists Space and the New Art Dealers Alliance. She also runs an online school that offers free professional practice classes to Black students worldwide. Harmony Holiday is a writer dancer archivist and the author of five collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and the forthcoming Maafa (Jan. 2022). She curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at LAs MOCA and a music and archive venue 2220 arts that she runs with several friends also in Los Angeles. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books a Ruth Lilly Fellowship a NYFA fellowship a Schomburg Fellowship a California Book Award and a research fellowship from Harvad. Shes currently showing a film commissioned for LAs 2020-21 and working on a collection of essays and a biography of Abbey Lincoln in addition to other writing film and curatorial projects. Andrea Fraser is an artist whose work investigates the social financial and affective economies of cultural institutions fields and groups. She is Professor and Interdisciplinary Studio Area Head at the UCLA Department of Art. Her most recent books include Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews 19902018 (2019 copublished by A.R.T. and Walter Koenig); and 2016 in Museums Money and Politics (2018 copublished by the CCA Wattis Institute Westreich/Wagner Publications and MIT Press).