I Dreamt the Landscape Was Looking at Me: Jessica Mitrani

New York- based artist Jessica Mitrani (b. 1968, Barranquilla) makes multivalent works which are fundamentally concerned with exploring social, linguistic, and aesthetic constructs of the feminine. Her work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and broadcast internationally, including at OCD Chinatown, New York; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; French Institute Alliance Française, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bogotá Museum of Modern Art MAMBO; Marfa Film Festival, Texas; Medellin Museum of Modern Art MAMM; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; and ARTE1 television network, Brazil. In 2022, Mitrani will develop a new multimedia project as an invited guest artist at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Artist, educator, and scholar Suzanne Herrera Li Puma works at the intersections of Latinx and Latin American arts, intersectional feminisms, and critical theory. Herrera Li Puma was a 2021 ACLS Leading Edge Fellow at the non-profit Breakthrough, New York, and she holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Her corazón lives and works between New York and Lima, Peru.