Luis Camnitzer has insistently investigated art-making as a strategy of pedagogy while interrogating political relations such as those between periphery and center.

Walid Raad’s work explores how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative.

Studio K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) investigate art-making as a process of collaborative learning and literacy-building.

Kara Walker offers discomforting views into the intertwinings of violence and intimacy, pleasure and power, freedom and enslavement running throughout US history.

Roni Horn explores the fluid nature of identity, and the way it is shaped by memory, time, place, and language.

A founding figure of Conceptual art, Lawrence Weiner pioneered the use of language as a sculptural material.

Glenn Ligon grasps language as material and subject matter, incisively investigating issues of visibility, race, identity, and history.