Hayoon Jay Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who frequently combines installations, performances, sculptures, videos and paintings. Born in Daegu, South Korea, Lee obtained both a BFA and MFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Among other awards, Lee received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship award from the U.S. Department of Education and a Full Fellowship Artist in Residency Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work can be found in the collections of the Zimmerli Museum; Asheville Museum; the Gwangju Contemporary Museum of Art; the Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, China; Hollis Taggart Gallery; and many private collections.

Seph Rodney, PhD, was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He is a former senior critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic, and now regularly contributes to The New York Times. He has written for CNN, NBC, Art in America, American Craft Magazine and penned catalog essays on Gary Simmons, Lisa Corinne Davis, Pope.L, Teresita Fernandez, Sarah Oppenheimer, and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in May 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize and in 2022 the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is also a curator of contemporary art and has co-curated Get in the Game, a show on sports that is the largest exhibition that SFMoMA has undertaken.