Jessica Buie (she/her) was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1991. She received her Bachelor of Arts from St. Edward’s University in 2013 and her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2018. While living in southern California, she worked as an artist assistant to photographer Ken Gonzales-Day. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Houston Center For Photography, the San Diego Art Institute, Public Pool (Los Angeles, CA) and Other Subjects (Brooklyn, NY). Her work has also appeared in publications by the Detroit Center For Contemporary Photography, Ain’t Bad, Press & Fold, and Balam Revista. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Buie is the co-founder of Private Practice, an artist-run studio and gallery space in Austin, Texas.

Dillon Chapman (she/her) (b.1995) is a San Diego-based artist, educator, and cultural critic. Her practice is primarily concerned with autofiction, autotheory, and hauntology, particularly as they relate to queer and trans/gender expansive histories of written and visual culture, and spans writing, photography, filmmaking, and performance. Chapman holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University. Her work has been included in exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications, nationally and internationally, in venues including the Feminist Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), Nightingale Cinema (Chicago), Altes Finanzamt (Berlin), and CURA. Magazine (Rome).

Cody Norton (he/him) is an Elgin, Texas-born artist currently serving as Assistant Professor of Art at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. He earned his BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas and his MFA in Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder. Cody has exhibited internationally and nationally in cities including London, New York, Toronto, Glasgow, São Paulo, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Denver. His work has been featured in Art X Climate, the US Global Change Research Program (Fifth National Climate Assessment) at the Smithsonian American Art Museumin Washington D.C., and he was recently mentioned in Rolling Stone Magazine regarding the growing controversy of Wildlife Killing Contests in the United States. Currently, his work is on view at Lyon College for the Faculty Exhibition, Shifting Perspectives.

Be Oakley (they/them) (b. 1991) is an artist, writer, and publisher based in the homeland of the Lenape (Lenapehoking), or Ridgewood/ Queens, NY. In 2015 they founded GenderFail, a publishing outlet with over 120 editions. GenderFail publications can be found in the Library, Special, and Museum collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MoMA, the MET, MCA Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum Library, and over 95 others.

Oakley has exhibited in programs and exhibitions at MoMA PS1, The International Center of Photography, Center for Book Arts, Woman Studio Workshop, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Oakley has been an Artist in Residence with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Acre Residency, and Wendy’s Subway. In 2022, Oakley was awarded a 3-year $30,000 grant through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for their ongoing work with GenderFail. Oakley is currently a NEW INC Y11 member in Cooperative Studies with the New Museum. 

Kyle Quinn (he/him) born in Okinawa, Japan, currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He received a fine arts degree from the Art Institute of Colorado (2010). He was an artist-in-residence through Altered Esthetics Gallery in Minneapolis, MN (2008), Ace Air Residency - the Ace Hotel’s artist’s program in New York (2016), and Mauser Foundation located in Parrita, Costa Rica (2022). He is the owner, publisher, designer and  curator of the queer publishing house RAW MEAT, first established in 2015. His practice shifts mediums between drawing, painting, design, photography and sculpture. His work has been  shown both nationally and internationally, with works privately collected and kept within museum and gallery collections around the world. His artworks have been collected and archived by The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Thomas J Watson Library at The Met, and The Yale Private Library. He has been published in various press outlets including ArtForum, BUTT Magazine, and Hyperallergic. In the Spring of 2023 the MoMA Library in New York acquired thirty two archived publications, books, prints, photographs, and more directly from the artist.

Alexander Richard Wilson (they/them) is a landscape and figure painter whose work is driven by contradictions found in observances of the contemporary habitation of the lands of the American West. The artist’s practice draws on the history of the spaces that make up the Front Range and observations of social crossover experienced as a black queer American artist.

CURATOR

Nathan Storey (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, writer, educator, and facilitator based in Boulder, Colorado. His research traces the relationship between printed matter and queer desire, memory, and loss. Storey’s work has been supported by ICA San Diego, 80WSE New York, and galleries internationally. He has attended workshops and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass; and the Prattsville Art Center; Catskills. Storey’s work has been featured in MATTE Editions, Queer Aesthetics Journal, HereIn Journal, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. In 2019, he founded SUBLIMATION, an artist-run space supporting multidisciplinary exhibitions by underrepresented artists in New York's Lower East Side. In 2024, Storey established UNDERTOW, an artist-run press supporting queer artists’ printed matter and ephemera. He is a 2025 Queer|Art|Mentorship fellow working with Ken Gonzales-Day. He holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA from UC San Diego. He is currently a professor at the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design.