Gavin Butt is the author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World 1948–1963, and editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance. 

Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography and has traveled extensively to produce her work, including to India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, Southeast Asia, and the Southwest of the United States. Since the late 1960s, she has been teaching in the Photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and exhibiting, publishing, and teaching nationally and internationally.

Tom di Maria has served as the Director of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland since 2000.

Hans Winkler's projects are seen as interventions into the reality of daily life and the perceptions of popular symbols.

Chair of SFAI's Urban Studies program, Balliger conducts research in Trinidad on expressive culture, media expansion, and identity formation in national/transnational space to explore neoliberal transformations in culture and governance. 

Jorge Fernández Torres is the curator of the Cuban Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011 and the director of the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam and the XI Havana Biennial. 

Interdisciplinary artist Alexandre Arrechea was born in Cuba, and currently represents Cuba at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011. His work often deals with loss of privacy, fragility, memory, and the failure of control and power.

Reagan Louie’s photography and installations explore global transformation and cultural identity. His book on China, Toward a Truer Life, was named the best photography book of the year by the New York Times Book Review.

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, England. The author of four previous books, she is currently completing Duplicitous Blue: A Study of the Hue of Blue.

Ranu Mukherjee is a multi-disciplinary artist making hybrid films, works on paper, and collaborative projects. Her recent work investigates the figure of the nomad as well as an imagined personal history of relations between Indian and European/US culture.