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Jane Panetta is a New York-based independent art historian and holds a curatorial position at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prior to the Whitney, Panetta spent several years in the Painting and Sculpture Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was involved specifically with MoMA's 2007 Richard Serra retrospective and the 2009 retrospective on the Belgian artist James Ensor. Panetta was a contributor to the publication James Ensor (2009), and writes frequently for such publications as Art in America and Modern Painters. Alongside her museum work, she is also an adjunct faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on modern and contemporary sculpture.

Mirjam Varadinis is art historian and a curator at Kunsthaus Zrich where she is in charge of contemporary art. She has organized various exhibitions, including the group show 'Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now' and solo exhibitions with Adrian Paci, Mircea Cantor, Runa Islam, Tino Sehgal, Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer, and David Shrigley. She has published numerous catalogues and artist books. In 2006 she was the co-curator of 'Printemps de Septembre', an annual festival of contemporary arts in Toulouse, France. In 2005 she launched the Internet platform www.azple.com (in collaboration with Annie Wu). She is the co-curator of the exhibition 'TRACK' in Ghent with Philippe van Cauteren. TRACK (12 May - 16 September 2012) takes place in 6 zones of the city of Ghent, showing new commissions by 41 international artists (www.track.be).

Rebecca Wilson is a Director at the Saatchi Gallery, London. In May 2006 she brought her expertise from 14 years in book and art magazine publishing to the Saatchi Gallery, where she was instrumental in the launch of the gallery's online presence. In 2007 she created New Sensations, a prize for art students which identifies and supports the most exciting emerging artists. The prize is run in the UK with Channel 4. Prior to joining The Saatchi Gallery, Rebecca was editor of ArtReview, and before that deputy editor of Modern Painters.

Steven Holmes was most recently adjunct curator at Miami's Bass Museum of Art. Holmes began working with the museum as an independent curator several years ago, spearheading the three-part exhibition series 'The Endless Renaissance', which pairs Renaissance and Baroque works with contemporary artworks. He also curated a solo exhibition by artist Charles LeDray and the group exhibition 'Human Rites'.

Holmes is currently head curator of the Cartin Collection in Hartford, Connecticut, which features the private holdings of Connecticut electric supply mogul Mickey Cartin. Since 2006, Holmes has overseen Cartin's collection, curating shows for the Hartford space and organizing exhibitions from the collection in museums and galleries across the country.

Prior to his position at Cartin, Holmes was director of visual arts at Real Art Ways in Hartford; and founder of the Khyber Arts Society in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has curated projects for Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunste-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Sperone Westwater in New York, and the Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico.

Hamidah Glasgow is the Executive Director at The Center for Fine Art Photography. The Center has three galleries and hosts 17 exhibitions annually consisting of juried, group and solo exhibitions. The Center features emerging and established artists from around the world and promotes individual artists work through our physical and online galleries, and publications. Ms. Glasgow has had diverse careers as a TV producer, photographer and nonprofit arts executive.

Rene Morales is associate curator at Miami Art Museum, where he has organized several exhibitions including 'The Wilderness', 'Space as Medium', 'Objects of Value', and 'Miami in Transition'. Prior to MAM, Morales worked at the RISD Museum in Providence.

New Delhi-based independent art writer and curator Deeksha Nath (b. 1976) has realized curatorial projects in India and internationally with both private and public institutions. Select exhibitions include 'Step Across This Line: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh' at Asia House, London, 2011; 'An Elixir Realigning', a performance project at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2011; FIRST SHOWING, a series of first solo exhibitions of young artists, Seven Art Ltd, New Delhi, 2009-2010; 'Astonishment of Being', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, 2009; 'Still Moving Image', inaugural exhibition of the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2008, and 'House of Mirrors', Grosvenor Vadehra, London, 2007. She has a forthcoming exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.

Her previous assignments have been with the Tate Modern, London, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

Deeksha is Desk Editor, Art AsiaPacific (Hong Kong) and ArtEast (Kolkata). She has published in books, journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues.
She is erstwhile editor of the web journal www.craftrevivaltrust.org.

Deeksha is a Charles Wallace scholar trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara (B.F.A. Art History), City University, London (M.A. Arts Policy) and Goldsmiths College, London (M.A. Contemporary Art Theory).

Justin Hammond is an independent curator, art writer and publisher. In 2007 he devised the Catlin Art Prize, an annual showcase for the most talented new artists in the UK and later went on to compile The Catlin Guide, widely recognised as the essential reference for collectors of emerging artists. In 2010 he published 'An Unspoken Arrangement' to coincide with Alex Ball's debut solo exhibition, and as part of The Makers' Union curated 'Mike Ballard's Whose Coat is that Jacket You're Wearing?', held in a disused tailor's shop during Frieze. He is currently researching The Catlin Guide 2013.

Eric Paddock is Curator of Photography and Media Arts at Denver Art Museum. Since 2008 he has curated exhibitions such as 'Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful', 'Roberrt Adams: The Place We Live', which will tour to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery and then on to museums in Spain, Germany and France, Switzerland and the UK.

Previously Paddock spent 25 years as the Colorado Historical Society's (CHS) Curator of Photography and Film. He more than doubled the size of its photography collection, from 300,000 photographs to more than 800,000 and 32,000 motion picture films relating to Colorado and the West. He also created several highly regarded exhibitions and established interpretive programs. Originally from Boulder, Paddock holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Yale University In addition to his role at the Colorado Historical Society, Paddock also has taught as a visiting professor of art history and photography for several leading Colorado institutions, including the University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Denver Colorado College and Arapahoe Community College's study abroad arts program in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Nora Lawrence is associate curator at Storm King Art Center, New York. She conducts research on Storm King's permanent collection and organizes special exhibitions, including Storm King's major exhibition for 2012, Light and Landscape.

Prior to joining Storm King, Lawrence was for five years curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), where she managed preparations for several exhibitions and contributed to related publications, including 'Ernesto Neto: Navedenga' (2010), which she co-curated, and 'Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today' (2008), among others.

Lawrence has co-authored several publications, including the MoMA title Monet's Water Lilies (2009), and contributed an essay on Lynda Benglis to the award-winning MoMA volume The Modern Woman: Women Artists in the Collection (2010). She has taught courses at MoMA, the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, and the University of Southern California.

A graduate of Pomona College, Nora Lawrence received her MA in art history from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, from where she also received a Master of Philosophy degree.

Charlie Levine, based in Birmingham, UK, has been an independent curator since 2005. She is founder, director and curator of independent contemporary art gallery TROVE, which opened in October 2009 at heritage site, The Old Science and Industry Museum. Levine has worked in/responded to various heritage sites nationally, in particular Curzon Street Station, and worked with a variety of artists both nationally and internationally as co-curator of 'Some Domestic Incidents' at the 5th Prague Biennale, 2011. Levine is co-founder and partner of Clarke Griffiths Levine, a trio who are working to catalyse a new commercial art market in Birmingham. She is also currently the Associate Producer of ALLOTMENT, a 9-month project highlighting and mentoring local curatorial talent and artist-led gallery activity at mac birmingham.

Veronica Roberts is a curator based in New York. She currently holds two positions-as Adjunct Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and as Director of Research for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Catalogue Raisonn in New York.

Jon Brumit is an artist and curator working at the intersections of sound, community engagement, collaboration and structured improvisation. He is currently the Curator of Public Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His organizational and curatorial projects for venues or public spaces include Post-Industrial Complex, FESTEVIL 060606, BYOBW, the Duct Tape Festival and Sliv & Dulet's Summer Line, among others, and have appeared in San Francisco, Novi Sad (Serbia), Hamburg, Berlin, Oakland (CA) and Detroit.

Brumit's solo and collaborative works have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, DeYoung Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Novi Sad Contemporary Museum (Serbia), Radio Web MACBA (Barcelona), MOCA Los Angeles; 0047 (Berlin), and In-F (Tokyo). Publications include Penthouse, Punk Planet, Artforum, Wired, Readymade, 7x7, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Broadcast media coverage includes 20/20, Today Show, Tech Now, Discovery Channel, and NPR's All Things Considered. Awards include Creative Work Fund, CEC ArtsLink, San Jose Public Arts Commission, Oakland Arts Commission, Meet the Composer, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, and the Knight Foundation. Festivals include ISEA/01, San Jose; Version 05, Chicago; Sonic Fragments, Princeton University with residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Temescal Amity Works, KUDA.org, and the San Francisco Dump.

Meg Maggio is owner/director of Pkin Fine Arts, a Beijing-based contemporary art gallery established in 2005. She acts as advisor to leading museums, corporate and private collectors on collecting and exhibiting Chinese and Asian contemporary and traditional fine arts.

Maggio has curated various contemporary art exhibitions including "Ink City": New Video Installation works by Chen Shaoxiong; "Focus: New Works by Lin Tianmiao"; "New Works by Liu Wei"; and, "New Photography from China".

Pkin Fine Arts opened its new space in the Cao Changdi Village area of Beijing in May 2007, an exciting new artists' district, in an 800 + square meter new building designed by Beijing-based architect/artist, Ai Weiwei. In 2012, Pkin Fine Arts will open a branch in Hong Kong's Wong Chuk Hang.

Maggio, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, has lived and worked in China since 1986; first in Hong Kong as a summer law student, and, following graduation from law school, in Beijing (1986-1990), Hong Kong and Shanghai (1990 - 1995), returning to reside in Beijing, since 1995. She is a fluent Mandarin speaker and 25+ year resident of China.

Catherine Taft is a critic, curator, and project specialist at the Getty Research Institute, where she helped organize the 2008 exhibition, 'California Video and Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980'. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Double Issue: A Document of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival (Fall 2012). Her essays on contemporary art and culture appear regularly in publications including Artforum, Modern Painters, ArtReview, Metropolis-M, Kaleidoscope, and in exhibition catalogs in the US and abroad.