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Laurie Simmons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), the Jewish Museum, New York (NY); the Neues Museum, Nuremberg (DE) and a career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL). Her work is included in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (DC); the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (MA); the International Center of Photography, New York (NY); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (NY); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY).

Chloe Wise was born in Montréal, Canada in 1990. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Québec, Canada.

Wise’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2022); “In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds” at Blouin Division in Montréal, Canada (2022); “Spite Unseen” at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva, Switzerland (2022); “Thank You For The Nice Fire” at Almine Rech in New York, New York (2021); “Second Nature” at Almine Rech Online in New York, New York (2020); “And Everything Was True” at HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark (2019); Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2019); “Not That We Don’t” at Almine Rech in London, United Kingdom (2019); “Chère” at Arsenal Contemporary in New York, New York (2018); and “Of False Beaches and Butter Money” at Almine Rech in Paris, France. (2017).

Chloe Wise lives and works in New York, New York.

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Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, “The Punishing Blow,” ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, “Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything,” was published by Chronicle. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Courtesy of P·P·O·W, New York. Photo by Grace Roselli.

Wendy Olsoff co-founded P·P·O·W alongside Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, exhibiting politically and socially conscious contemporary work in all media. P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists including the estates of Hunter Reynolds, Carolee Schneemann, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, and Jimmy DeSana as well as representing the work of contemporary artists such as Guadalupe Maravilla, Robin F. Williams, Hew Locke, Carlos Motta, and Chiffon Thomas to name a few.

An alumna of William Smith College (1978), Olsoff has lectured extensively throughout the United States at universities and museums. In 2012, Olsoff was a recipient of the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award for the gallery’s dedication and support of artists in the LGBTQ+ community and her ongoing leadership in the fight against censorship. She is a founding Charter member of the Feminist Art Council at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum and served on the Board of Directors of the Art Dealers Association of America as well as Visual AIDS.

Brigitte Mulholland is a Senior Director at Anton Kern Gallery, where she has worked since 2017. She is also sometimes an independent writer and curator. Mulholland has been working in New York in the art world since 2006, and holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Hunter College.