New York based photographer Ed Hotchkiss, has traveled to six continents, over 100 countries and every U.S. state. He specializes in photographing street life, urban and nature landscapes, musical events and night scenes.
Federico Solmi is a new media artist, best known for his sardonic video-paintings and video installations, with a multimedia practice that incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, digital design and game design. Born in 1973 in Bologna, Italy, Solmi moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1999, where he lives and works today. Solmi’s work has been featured in numerous solo
and group exhibitions in the US: Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; Luis de
Jesus Los Angeles; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC; Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey; Times Square Arts, New
York; Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois; Rochester Contemporary Art Center,
Rochester, New York; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois;
and Postmasters Gallery, New York. And internationally: Ocean Flower Island Museum,
Hainan Province, Danzhou, China; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin; ADN Galeria, Barcelona;
1335MABINI, Manila; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del ZulIa, Maracaibo, Venezuela;
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Dino Morra Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy; Centro
Cultural Mantucana 100, Santiago, Chile; Gleichapel, Paris; Galerie Vernon, Prague,
Czech Republic; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, Spain; Galerie Zimmermann
Kratochwill, Fraz, Austria; and Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway; as well as international
art biennials and festivals.
His work is in the permanent collections of: The
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois; Tarble Art Center, Charleston, Illinois; Buckhorn Sculpture
Park, Sherry and Joel Mallin Collection, Pound Ridge, New York; 21C Museum Hotels,
Louisville, Kentucky; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai; Thoma Foundation,
Chicago and Santa Fe; Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, Rome, Italy; and Collezione
BolognaFiere, Bologna, Italy.
From 2016–19, Solmi was Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut, and he is Guest Critic for 2022. His awards include a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship for Video and Audio in the Unites States and Canada from the John H Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
