Matthew Jordan
(Born 1975, Portsmouth, Ohio)
Jordan received a BA in 2001 from Yale University, where he was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts, and an MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received numerous accolades, including the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship in 2002 and the Louise Berman Fellowship in 2003. Since his MFA exhibition, he has been included in recent exhibitions at Western Project in Los Angeles and The Photography Institute in New York. Jordan's work has been acquired by private collectors on both coasts, and in 2006, he joined the photography faculty at Pasadena City College.

Annie Lapin
(Born 1978, Washington, D.C.)
Lapin graduated cum laude from Yale University with a BA in 2001 and obtained an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. Last year she had solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery, where she is represented, and at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. She has previously exhibited in Los Angeles at Daniel Weinberg Gallery in 2007 and Taylor De Cordoba in 2006. She has received many awards and fellowships for excellence from the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA and Yale University.

Elad Lassry
(Born 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Lassry received a BFA in 2003 from CalArts, with dual majors in studio art and film, and received an MFA in studio art in 2007 from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. His first solo exhibition was at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles in 2007. His work is included in public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Israel Museum. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2008 his films were shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Christopher Michlig
(Born 1976, Girdwood, Alaska)
Michlig received an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 2007. In spring 2009, he has a solo exhibition – Man, Man, Man – at Devening Projects + Editions in Chicago and a group show – 5+1 – at 1000eventi Gallery in Milan, Italy. His solo debut at Jail Gallery was reviewed in the May 2008 issue of Artforum by Jan Tumlir. His work has been featured at the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Yellow, curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, and in the 2006 L.A. Weekly Biennial, curated by Holly Myers and Tom Christie. Michlig's exhibitions have also included Desertshore, curated by Jan Tumlir at Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles.

Yaniro Paramo
(Born 1982, Joliet, Illinois)
Paramo obtained a BA from the University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois in 2004, with a double major in public relations/advertising visual arts and an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles in 2007. His exhibitions have included Lost Streams: The First Frontier Was The Waters Edge at Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico in 2006 and Departure, a group show at the Steelworkers Building in Joliet, Illinois in 2004.

José Álvaro Perdices
(Born 1971, Madrid, Spain)
Perdices studied at Universidad Complutense, Madrid; California State University, Los Angeles; and received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited in numerous international venues, including the Espacio Garcia, Madrid; Riga Triennial, Latvia; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; the Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. He has developed works in photographic installation and film, turning images, actions and narratives into highly charged psychological performances that address cultural and personal visibility.

Ephraim Puusemp
(Born 1976, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Puusemp received a BA from The University of Utah in 1999 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. His work has been included in numerous group shows in California, including Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs at the UCR Sweeney Gallery and the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, California. Last summer his work was featured in Time, Space and Alchemy at Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles.  

Marco Rios
(Born 1975, Los Angeles, California)
Rios received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1997 and his MFA at the University of California, Irvine in 2006, where he was the winner of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. His work is included in MASS MoCA's exhibition, This is Killing Me, from May 2009 through April 2010. Recent exhibitions include the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and a group exhibition at Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York. His work has been exhibited at Artists Space, NY; Phantom Sightings, a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and a two-person exhibit at Simon Preston Gallery, New York. In 2007, he received the California Community Foundation Fellowship and he was recently selected as a recipient of a Visions from the New California Award, given by the James Irvine Foundation.

Jeff Sheng
(Born 1980, Santa Barbara, California)
Sheng received a BA in visual and environmental studies with an emphasis on filmmaking and photography from Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude, and received an MFA with an emphasis in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine and have appeared in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Arles, France. His activist-inspired project, Fearless, about openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual athletes on high school and college sports teams in the United States has been seen at over 25 college campuses across the country. Last August, Sheng was in Beijing photographing at the Olympics for a project in conjunction with Amnesty International. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Art Studio and Asian American Studies departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Natalie Shriver
(Born 1979, Baltimore, Maryland)
Shriver received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in 2004. She has exhibited in Chicago at Gallery 312 and The Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, and in Los Angeles at the Anna Helwing Gallery in 2004. She is currently working on a new photography project and a situation comedy entitled Deadbeat Dad.

Carly Steward
(Born 1979, Redlands, California)
Steward received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2003 and an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles in 2007. She has exhibited in many group shows including: Interactions: Armory Artists and Their Art at The Armory Center for the Arts this year in Pasadena; De Pasada Por Los Angeles at Atelier als Supermedium in The Hague, Netherlands; Photo Femmes at Caren Golden Fine Art in 2006 in New York; Speakeasy at Upspace, L.A. Design Center in 2005; Disquieted at 4-F Gallery in Los Angeles in 2004; and, Always Already Passe, curated by Chivas Clem at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York in 2004.

Whitney Stolich
(Born 1975, Monterey, California)
Stolich obtained a BA in urban planning from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles in 1997 and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2004. Stolich's work reflects her intense interest in urbanism through a conceptual approach. Her current body of work, Third Space, is built around 16 twin cities situated on the U.S./Mexico border and their independent cultures, which the artist believes are fusing together because of their proximity and similar urban cultures.

Lee Thompson
(Born 1980, Oil City, Pennsylvania)
Thompson received a BFA in fine art photography in 2003 from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York and an MFA in 2008 from the University of California, Riverside, where he has taught photography and digital art. He has also taught at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in Erie, Pennsylvania. Thompson's photographs have been exhibited in Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Los Angeles. His work was most recently shown at the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside, California. He has also exhibited at the New Wight Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Greg Wilken
(Born 1980, Los Angeles, California)
Wilken received his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2004 and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in 2006. He received USC's Kathleen Neely Macomber Travel Award in 2005. He has shown work in numerous group shows in Los Angeles. Currently, he is at work on a large film and drawing installation based on the allegorization of the history of television transmission technology in Los Angeles.

Rosha Yaghmai
(Born 1978, Los Angeles, California)
After studying at the School of Visual Arts, New York, Yaghmai received both her BFA (2001) and her MFA (2007) degrees from CalArts, Los Angeles. During this time she also ran the exhibition space 507Rose in Venice, California. She has exhibited widely in Southern California, including at the Riverside Art Museum, Eveningside Dr., Kontainer, and Steve Turner Contemporary. Abroad, Yaghmai has been included in exhibitions at Transmission in the United Kingdom and GBK in Sydney, Australia. Her work was shown in 2008 with Slab projects as well as at Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.

Brenna Youngblood
(Born 1979, Riverside, California)
Youngblood received a BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2002 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and the Hammer Museum, UCLA. Youngblood has also participated in exhibitions at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; the Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco; and Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles. She was included in the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.