Carlos Irijalba Pamplona (SP) 1979.

To the question “Does the world need this new object?”, most of the times the answer would be “no”. So the work of Irijalba moves by the principle of pertinence, trying to remain context-responsive. In projects like Skins (2013), Hiatus (2022) and Pannotia (2016-ongoing) he works with geology and time sensitive materials that give us perspective on the dominant narratives in history. 

Resident at the Rijksacademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam) in 2013/2014, Irijalba has been awardedMondriaan Fonds 2022, Sifting Foundation SF 2015 y Marcelino Botin 2007/08 among others. He exhibited internationally in the Shanghai Bienial 2012, CAB Art Center Brussels, Guangzhou Triennale 2017 or MUMA Melbourne in Australia. 

His work is present in public collections as Museo Nacional Reina Sofia,  Sammlung Wemhoener Foundation en Alemania, the Taviloglu Art Collection in Istambul.

Dr. Meagan Khoury investigates art historical questions of gender in later medieval and early modern Europe. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of labor collectives, authorial anonymity, the natural world, and busy bodies. Khoury’s work contributes to discourses of human-nonhuman interactions, ecologies of scale studies, and ecofeminist frameworks. Her intellectual commitments emphasize reparative models that inspire community-building and kinship in the classroom.

Currently, her research centers women’s communal living and silk, embroidery, and lace production in sixteenth-century Italy through an anarcha-ecofeminist lens. She has written previously on the journey narratives of Eleanor Rykener, a trans sex worker from fourteenth- century London; and on the connection between the metaphysical heart and breast for Saint Catherine of Siena. She co-edited the volume, “Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements” (Palgrave McMillan, 2023). Khoury received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University, her M.A. in Art History from the University of York (England), and her B.F.A. in Studio Art from The School of Visual Arts.

Hermona Tamrat is the founding principal of hgt studio, a Brooklyn-based structural engineering practice rooted in supporting the design of public, community-centric architecture, in the responsibility to advance social equity through the built environment. She obtained her Master’s in Structural Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. During her years practicing structural engineering at Silman (previously Robert Silman Associates, now T.Y. Lin), she collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron on the award-winning Powerhouse Arts Workshop. hgt studio has provided structural engineering support to artists Torkwase Dyson for her large scale outdoor sculptures at the Whitney Biennial 2024, and currently to Kenseth Armstead on various works including a forthcoming public sculpture in downtown Brooklyn.

Hermona is also an adjunct professor at Yale School of Architecture and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Hermona's CV is available here.