2026 Participants
Adrián Villar Rojas
Artist whose large-scale, site-specific sculptures and environments explore questions of deep time, future ruins, and the conditions of a humanity at risk.
Camille Henrot
Artist whose work across film, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation transforms references from literature and psychoanalysis to social media and self-help.
Lucy Raven
Artist whose multidisciplinary work explores infrastructural systems and the dynamics of changing material states.
Kaveh Akbar
Poet, novelist, and scholar celebrated for his innovative, deeply personal work exploring spirituality and addiction.
Lyle Ashton Harris
Artist whose work across photography, performance, collage, and installation explores the rupture of identities, acts of intimacy and questions of authorship.
Matthew Barney
Artist renowned for provocative explorations of the body and sexuality across sculpture, installation, film, performance, and drawing.
Morgan Bassichis
Writer and performer whose work moves through sharp, comedic explorations of gender, queer culture, and social justice.
Nuar Alsadir
Poet, nonfiction writer, psychoanalyst and professor whose work explores selfhood, embodied knowledge, unconscious communication, and what it takes to feel alive.
Ivan Cheng
Performance and video artist whose work engages place, text, and the accumulation of information.
Julie Dash
Filmmaker, writer, and producer whose work explores racial justice, diasporic identity, migration, and the experiences of Black women across film, video, and installation.
Patrick House
Neuroscientist and writer fascinated by the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and the strange ways brains can be manipulated.
Miranda July
Artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer whose work navigates desire, intimacy, and the emotional complexities of everyday experience.
Paige Lewis
Poet and novelist whose writing moves from the irreverent to the epic through humor, vulnerability, and cosmic imagery.
Kali Malone
Composer and musician working with pipe organ, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats to create durational compositions that draw from polyphonic traditions.
Darnell Moore
Writer, media maker, educator, and thought leader whose activist work centers on identity, equity, and social justice.
Aliza Nisenbaum
Artist who creates richly detailed, large-scale portraits born out of close collaboration and exchange with her subjects
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artistic director of Serpentine in London, and senior advisor at LUMA Arles.
Okwui Okpokwasili
Artist, performer, choreographer, and writer known for multidisciplinary performances merging dance, theatre, and installation.
Jane Panetta
Art historian and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Deantoni Parks
Percussionist, producer, and composer whose work blends acoustic drums with electronic, granular samples.
Raymond Pinto
Interdisciplinary artist creating work rooted in the diasporas of the Global South
Rachel Rose
Artist whose immersive video installations, drawings, sculptures, and paintings invite viewers into dreamlike spaces where personal and collective stories converge.
Caroline Shaw
Composer, violinist, vocalist, and producer whose work moves among roles, mediums, and genres spanning classical and contemporary music.
Los Thuthanaka
Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton are artists and musicians whose experimental work weaves Aymara Indigenous traditions with avant‑garde sound design and contemporary music.
Hamza Walker
Curator and the executive director of The Brick (formerly LAXART) in Los Angeles.