Biographies

Valerie Tevere is a multidisciplinary artist whose projects investigate contemporary music, dissent, and public fora. She is an Associate Professor in the department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, CUNY and from 2013-14 was a Mellon Resident Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA, New York; Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain; The New Museum, New York; Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; among others. Tevere’s recent fellowships include a Creative Capital fellowship, an Art Matters grant, an NEA project grant, and a Franklin Furnace Performance Art fellowship. www.nevareztevere.info


Siona Wilson is associate professor of art history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is the author of Art Labors, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). A contributing writer to Art Review, her scholarly publishing on sexual difference and the political, contemporary photography, experimental film and performance can be found in journals such as Third Text, Art History, Oxford Art Journal, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Art-History/Faculty-Bios/Siona-Wilson

Art Labor, Sex Politics Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance