Shimon Attie (artist)
Born in Los Angeles and based in New York, Attie began his career in Berlin in the early 1990s, where he projected photographs of prewar Jewish street life onto the buildings where the images were originally taken. For more than three decades, he has explored how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine relationships between space, time, place and identity, and to animate urban space with imagery of its lost histories, marginalised communities and speculative futures. His practice extends across video, photography and immersive multimedia projects in museums and galleries, to site-specific installations for public spaces in Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, Rome, San Francisco, the Israel-Palestine border and other locations. He has shown in group and solo exhibitions around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art and Jewish Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Saint Louis Art Museum; Wexner Center for the Arts; National Museum of Wales; and Centre Georges Pompidou. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and Rome Prize recipient and holds the Lee Krasner Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. In 2021–2022 Attie was the Theodore U Horger Artist in Residence in the Department of Art, Architecture and Design at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, where Starstruck: An American Tale was developed and exhibited.Nicholas Sawicki is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art, Architecture and Design at Lehigh University. He writes on art of the 20th century, with a focus on overlooked histories and documents of modernism, on which he has spoken and published broadly. He is a past recipient of fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Social Sciences Research Council and the Leonard A Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has held previous faculty appointments at Grinnell College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hannah Klemm is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She curates the museum’s long-running contemporary art exhibition programmes “Currents” and “New Media Series”, and was co-curator of the exhibitions Storm of Progress: German Art Since 1800; Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis; and Oliver Lee Jackson. Klemm’s research centres on underground artistic movements, collaborative practices, and new media and technology in art. She is the past recipient of fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions, a contributing writer for Belt Magazine and a contributing editor for the History News Network, focusing on religion, literature, politics and geography. He is the author of several books, including An Alternative History of Pittsburgh from Belt Publishing and, most recently, Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, a work of illustrated non-fiction released by Abrams. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon,The New Republic and The New York Times, among numerous other publications. Currently he is working on a book about apocalypticism for MIT Press and a contribution to Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” series entitled Relic.