Rebecca Morris (b.1969, Honolulu, HI) has been the subject of significant solo exhibitions at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2019); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Holland (2014); and The Renaissance Society (2005). Her work has been included in numerous group shows, including Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts (2018), Made in L.A.:, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014). Other solo shows include those at 356 Mission Rd. and LAXART, both in Los Angeles. Her work is in various public collections, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL.

Morris is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Bortolami Gallery, and Galerie Barbara Weiss. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and Art Matters Inc., among others.

Jamillah James is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and was the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) from 2017-2022. James was the co-curator of Soft Water, Hard Stone, the 2021 edition of the New Museum Triennial (with Margot Norton). Previously she was Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, organizing exhibitions at the museum and Art + Practice, an arts and social services nonprofit in Leimert Park, Los Angeles and held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Queens Museum, in addition to independently curating exhibitions and programs at various alternative and artist-run spaces throughout the US and Canada. James has contributed texts to Artforum, Frieze, The International Review of African American Art, and various institutional exhibition catalogues.

Recent exhibitions at ICA LA include Sara Cwynar: Apple Red/Grass Green/Sky Blue (2022); Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way (2020); Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs (2020); No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake (2019); and This Has No Name, the first US museum survey of B. Wurtz (2018). She has curated several thematic group exhibitions, including The Inconstant World (ICA LA, 2021); A Shape That Stands Up (Art + Practice, Los Angeles, 2016); and sisters and brothers (The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2014), as well as solo presentations of Lucas Blalock, Sarah Cain, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Alex Da Corte, Abigail DeVille, rafa esparza, Maryam Jafri, Ann Greene Kelly, Simone Leigh, and Michele O’Marah.