Jerome Reyes with Jessamine Batario

Artist, researcher, and educator Jerome Reyes works with the collaborative potentials of institutions, alterity, and architecture. He is Artist Liaison and faculty at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, teaching courses and designing partnerships with artists, curators, scholars, and organizations. Reyes is also Researcher at Asia and Migration, Asia Culture Institute in Gwangju, Korea. He is a long-term collaborator of the South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN) in downtown San Francisco, and is also an advisory board member of the nonprofit media and culture organization, Define American. He works between Seoul, Korea and San Francisco.

Art historian Jessamine Batario specializes in modern and contemporary art. She received her PhD in Art History from The University of Texas at Austin. Batario currently lives in Waterville, Maine, where she is the Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Engagement at the Colby College Museum of Art. She was the guest critic for the Rail in March 2020.