Ana Rosa Rivera Marrero and Charles Juhasz-Alvarado with Alanna Heiss

Sculptor, photographer, and video, installation, and performance artist Ana Rosa Rivera Marrero graduated from the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts in 1992 with a degree in sculpture and then took graduate courses in sculpture and art criticism at the Yale School of Art in Connecticut. Since the 1990s she has been involved in countless group and solo projects, including public art installations, and her work has been included in some twenty group shows, in addition to her one-woman shows, inside and outside Puerto Rico. Her work is distinguished by the number and variety of materials she skillfully handles—from raw materials to found objects, photographs, videos, and mixed-media constructions, which, in combination, lend added significance to her works.

Charles Juhasz-Alvarado is a creator of mixed-media sculptural artist, architect, and teacher. He has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions and at events inside and outside Puerto Rico, including the Sao Paulo Biennial, Art Basel Miami, and ARCO. He has received academic fellowships such as the Phillip Morris Fellowship for Graduate Studies at Yale (1992–93) and a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His installations, sometimes interactive, involve subjects such as cultural hybridization, identity, and the relations of power between cultures in a time of globalization, and provoke viewers not only to be participants as they interact with the pieces but also to look beyond their experience with the work.

Director of Clocktower Productions, Alanna Heiss is a leader of the groundbreaking early 1970s alternative spaces movement in New York City. In 1972 she founded the legendary Clocktower Gallery, and in 1976 she founded P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1) which she directed for 32 years and transformed into an internationally renowned non-collecting center for the production and presentation of contemporary art. Heiss has organized over 700 exhibitions at P.S.1 and in art spaces around the world. In 2003, she founded Art Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of P.S.1 and first ever all-art museum station. Among her numerous publications are catalogues of the work of Janet Cardiff, Alex Katz, and Dennis Oppenheim.