Umico Niwa (b. 1991, Japan) received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University. Niwa’s solo show, Fruiting Bodies, is currently on display at the American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings in Tucson, Arizona. She has also recently been invited to lead a workshop, together with her partner, “Meet Your Gremlin, Make Your Gremlin” at Recess Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City.
Peat Szilagyi (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist who was raised in Los Angeles in a Afro-Caribbean/Hungarian household. Szilagyi has travelled from Japan to Nigeria (and many places in-between) for site-specific projects, collaborations, and performances that commemorate the inexplicable, the unquantifiable, and richly anti-structured. Peat received their BA from Williams College and their MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. They have recently spoken at various conferences on the intersections of psi, spirituality and aesthetics in Europe and Vietnam, and are currently working on programming emphasizing queer expression for femme-identifying artists in Kumasi Ghana.
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