Elizabeth Thomas is Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at Berkeley Art Museum, where she directs the museum's MATRIX series of contemporary projects by international artists, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with Paul Chan, Martha Colburn, Omer Fast, Mario Garcia Torres, Rosalind Nashashibi, Trevor Paglen, Olivia Plender, Tomas Saraceno, Allison Smith, and Tris Vonna-Michell, among others. Previously, she was an independent curator and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA, organizing 'The Believers', a collaboration with Nato Thompson at MassMoCA, North Adams, USA; The 'F' Word at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; and 'Empathetic' at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA. As Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, she worked intensively on the 2004-5 Carnegie International, as well as overseeing a series of project exhibitions with artists such as Cory Arcangel/Paper Rad, Edgar Arceneaux, Jesse Bransford, Omer Fast, Christian Jankowski, Zon Ito/Ryoko Aoki, and Paul Wood/John Harrison. She also served as curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, was a founding editor of the Chicago arts and culture magazine, TenbyTen, and was program coordinator at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA. She received her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and her BA in Anthropology and Art History from George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Ms. Thomas has written for numerous catalogues and publications, and lectures often to audiences in museums, universities, and other public venues. She has served as nominator or jurist for many national awards and grants, including Creative Capital, Alpert Awards, Anonymous Was a Woman, and the Heinz Endowments, among others.
Adam Szymczyk Photo: Hildegard Spielhofer
MA in Art History, Warsaw University, Poland. Participated in Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995). Curator at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, Poland (1997-2003). Curator and writer, currently director of the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Adam Szymczyk worked on exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists including Pawel Althamer, Christoph Büchel, Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Edward Krasinski, Gustav Metzger, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gregor Schneider, Ahlam Shibli, Superflex, Piotr Uklanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko. Curated group exhibitions include 'Roundabout' (CCA, Warsaw, 1998), 'Amateur' (co-curated with Mark Kremer and Charles Esche, Kunstmuseum Göteborg, Sweden, 2000) 'Painters' Competition' (Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland, 2001), 'Hidden In a Daylight' (co- curated with Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara, Hotel 'Pod brunatnym jeleniem', Cieszyn, Poland 2003). In 2008 Adam Szymczyk curated together with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 'When things cast no shadow'.
