Magali Arriola is an art critic and independent curator sharing her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles. Currently she is curator-in-residence at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco. From 1998 to 2001 she was chief curator at Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico City). Among her most recent projects are 'What once past for a future or the landscapes of the living dead' (Art2102, Los Angeles, 2005), 'Only Characters Change' (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MARCO, Monterrey, 2004); 'How to Learn to Love the Bomb and Stop Worrying about it' (CANAIA, Mexico City / Central de Arte at WTC, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2003-2004); 'We are all Sinners', Nordic Contemporary Art (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City / MARCO, Monterrey, N. L., 2002-2003); 'Zebra Crossing' (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2002); 'Alibis' (Mexican Cultural Institute, Paris / Witt de Whith, Rotterdam, 2002) and 'Erógena' (SMAK, Stedelijk vor Aktuelle Kunst, Gent) / Museo Carrillo Gil, México, 2000). She has written for magazines as Afterall, Poliéster, Curare, ArtNexus, Parachute, Exit and Spike. She is a founding member of the group Teratoma and the independent space CANAIA (National Chamber for the Arts Industries) in Mexico City.
Kate Fowle is currently the chair of the MA Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She founded this program with Ralph Rugoff in 2002. Trained in the United Kingdom, she was a curator for the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne from 1994-7, before going on to curate projects for the British Council and the 1998 UK Year of Photography, as well as publishing Scratch magazine (1996-8). In 1998 Fowle co-founded smith + fowle, a curatorial partnership based in London that developed exhibitions and commissions for galleries and public spaces across the country, including The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gasworks Gallery in London and the Contemporary Arts Society (1998-2002). Since moving to San Francisco in 2001, Fowle’s latest curatorial projects include 'Tonite!' (2003) Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco and '17 Reasons' (2003) Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. She has written for magazines including [a-n], Celeste, Contemporary, Graphics International and Manifesta Journal. Recent publications include What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, ed. Ted Purves (New York: SUNY Press, 2005) and San Francisco: A Guide to Recent Architecture (London: B. T. Batsford, forthcoming).
Renaud Proch is a Los Angeles-based curator and currently the Director at MC (formerly The Project, Los Angeles), a gallery dedicated to the production and presentation of new works by international artists. Recent curated exhibitions include Self Formations (2005) and Ritalin (2004), both at art2102, Los Angeles, a non-profit gallery where Proch has also served on the Board of Directors for the past year. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2003, he was the Visual Arts Program Director at the Queer Cultural Center in San Francisco. Proche moved to California from London, were he graduated from the MA program in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. He has lectured at Camberwell College, London, the Royal College of Art, London, the California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.