Sahar Khoury (b. 1973) lives and works in Oakland, CA. Trained in anthropology and working for many years on community-based research projects concerning structural vulnerability within Latinx migrant labor communities, Khoury developed her interdisciplinary practice within the Bay Area’s queer community of the late 1990s and 2000s. Khoury’s sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, John M. Kohler Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (where she was the recipient of the 2019 SECA Art Award), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gwangju Biennale American Pavilion, and Asian Art Museum. She received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013. ------------------------ Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. She is known for her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven patterns on mixed media panels. McCarthy has exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Academy of Art and Sciences, SFMOMA's SECA Art Award, and the Artadia Award. Her work is included in a number of important public and private collections, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California, MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York City. The artist lives and works in Oakland.