Hapaska, Long, Neto
Siobhán Hapaska
Siobhán Hapaska was born in 1963 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Solo exhibitions include Barbican Centre, London (2010), Glasgow Sculpture Studios (2009) and Camden Arts Centre, London (2007). She received the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2003, represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale in 2001, and participated in Documenta X, 1997.
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as British Sculpture: A View Through the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011); Islands Never Found, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy, which was also shown at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France (2010); Causing Chaos, The Museum of the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland (2010); Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2008); Micro-narratives: tentation despetites realités, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France (2008); and Neo Futur, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (2008). Work by Siobhán Hapaska is in collections including Magasin III; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Modern, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1964. Together with Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, Neto represented Brazil in the 2001 Venice Biennale, and in 2017 he exhibited once again at the Venice Biennale, this time in the international group exhibition in the Arsenale. Neto lives and works in Brazil.
Charles Long
Long was born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey. He currently lives and works in California. In 1981, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Philadelphia College of Art while also participating in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program that year, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in New Haven in 1988.
Stereolab
English-French avant-pop band formed in 1990 in London. In 1995, the band collaborated with Charles Long for the interactive exhibition The Amorphous Body Study Center at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, for which Stereolab created the music.