Sowon Kwon is an artist based in New York City working in a range of media, including sculptural and video installations, animation, drawing, printmaking, artist books, and writing. Her projects have explored coincidence, constructions of interiority, historical memory, and portraiture; and have been featured in Triple Canopy magazine; The Poetry Project; and Broodthaers Society of America. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Simon, Seoul; The Kitchen, New York; Matrix Gallery/UC Berkeley Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work has also been featured in many group exhibitions in the US and abroad: New Museum, New York; ICA Boston; MOCA Los Angeles; Queens Museum, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Artists Space, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Artsonje Center, Seoul; the Gwangju Biennale; the Yokohama Triennale; and San Art, Ho Chi Minh City. She currently teaches at Parsons The New School and is a contributor to 4 Columns magazine. 

Kwon is a recipient of fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts in Sculpture, The Asian Cultural Council, and The Wexner Center for the Arts in Media Arts. She holds a double major B.A. in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of California in Berkeley (1985); an M.F.A from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY (1988); and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1991).

Sowon Kwon

fiction07, 2019

22 x 22"

pencil, charcoal, false eyelashes on paper

Feruza Aripova is a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She holds her Ph.D. in World History from Northeastern University. Her research and teaching focus on the nineteenth- and twentieth- century Russian and Soviet history, with a regional focus on Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Her current book project, Fifty Shades of Vice: Decolonizing the Soviet Homophobic Legacy, looks at the lasting impact of Bolshevik sexual politics in the metropole vs. the periphery—particularly the Uzbek SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic)—and inconsistencies in same-sex discourses in Russia and its former imperial borderlands, e.g. the Baltic republics. It further examines the complex historical roots of contemporary homophobia in Russia and the post-Soviet spaces that developed as the result of colonial, political, and ideological continuities.

She is the author of “Tracing the Effects of Soviet Gender and Sexual Politics in Central Asia,” published in Central Asian Affairs (2022). Her article on “Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal cases of consensual sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s)” was published as a part of Decolonizing Queer Experience LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia, an anthology published in 2020. She is also a co-author of "The Ukrainian-Russian Virtual Flashmob against Sexual Assault" with Janet Johnson, published in The Journal of Social Policy Studies (2018).

Feruza Aripova developed and taught undergraduate courses, ranging from the survey course on the U.S. foreign policy to historical and political development in the world since 1945, which includes a comprehensive understanding of America’s global role and its diplomatic strategies to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union at Lehman College, CUNY, MIT and Northeastern University. She also designed and executed two short-term study abroad programs to the Baltic states and Russia in partnership with the Global Experience Office at Northeastern University.
 

Lindsey Wikstrom is an architect, author, and professor, known for advancing regenerative approaches to design with a focus on material innovation, biodiversity, and non-extractive processes. As the Founding Principal of Mattaforma, she leads the design of all projects big and small, public and private. 

Lindsey is the author of Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (Routledge, 2023), a book that situates architecture within living forest systems and argues for more just and ecological building practices. She has been invited to contribute to notable publications, has moderated conversations with global leaders, and is a frequent public speaker including for Prada Possible Conversations, MoMA, conferences, universities, and others.

Lindsey has led graduate-level architecture studios at Columbia GSAPP, Yale, Cornell, and Syracuse, and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University where she was awarded the McKim Prize and Avery 6 Prize. She is the winner of 2025 New Practices New York Prize and among the World Architect Festival’s Top 40 Under 40. 

Through both her studio and her scholarship, Lindsey advances the idea that architecture can be a choreography of care: designing not only for buildings, but for the interconnected flourishing of communities, landscapes, and planetary systems. 

Lindsey's CV is available here.