Matthew Cohn
Matthew Cohn is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist. Drawing on his background in theater, he makes interactive visual art, combining music, printmaking, photography, and text. He is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. www.matthewcohn.com
Brandon Sward
Brandon Sward is an artist, performer, writer, organizer, and doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. His work has recognized in a number of Literary awards and he has been awarded multiple residencies and group exhibitions. His first solo exhibition, How the West was lost, opens at Stone House Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC inf October 2021. His criticism can be read in Flash Art, BOMB Magazine, The Point, Full Bleed, aqnb, Hyperallergic, the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Review, Contemporary And, Newcity, Sixty Inches From Center, The Seen, ASAP/J, Post45: Contemporaries, Tesserae, Tripwire, Power Clash Art, and Flatpack Publications.
He has served as a visiting critic in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, and given talks at the College Art Association annual conference, the Smart Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Southeastern College Art Conference, the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Universities of Montreal and Santa Barbara.