Chibụike Ụzọma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut. Ụzọma received his BFA from the University of Benin, an MFA from Yale University School of Art and was awarded the Francis Greenburger Fellowship in 2018. His work is included in the public collections of Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, and Fotohof Salzburg, Austria. Recent exhibitions include Pace, New York, NY (2021); Lyles & King, New York, NY (2021); Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa (2019); Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Florida, FL (2019); Circa Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2017); and D-Contemporary Gallery, London, UK (2017).
Ekow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, curator, editor and Chair of Fourth Plinth. He is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Tank, a former editor of Arena magazine, and the former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Bishupal Limbu is Associate Professor of English at Portland State University in Oregon, USA, where he teaches contemporary literary and cultural studies. His research explores the relation between aesthetic expression and questions of social and political change.
Kat Sapera is Director at Simon Lee Gallery, London. She has previously worked as Director of Timothy Taylor, and independently on curatorial projects and private collection management.
Carlos Valladares is a writer and critic. He studied film at Stanford University and has received his masters’ in History of Art and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He has written for Gagosian Quarterly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Film Comment, the Criterion Collection, Frieze, and n+1.
