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Rachel Eboh was born in Chicago and has been a resident of New York for the past ten years. Prior to attending the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, she was the director of Tina Kim Gallery. During her time at the gallery, she worked on contemporary art exhibitions such as Davide Balliano (2021), Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus (2020), Tania Pérez Córdova: Short Sight Box (2020), and Minouk Lim: Mamour (2017) and helped mount historic solo exhibitions by Korean modern masters such as Kim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris (2019), Suh-Seung-Won: Early Works 1960s–1980s (2019), and Suki Seokyeong Kang: Jeong (2018). For her bachelor’s degree, Eboh studied at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her degree, Elements of the Art World, investigated the industry's intersections between artists, collectives, writers, museums, nonprofit spaces, galleries, collectors, and auction houses.

Laura Hakel is a curator based in Buenos Aires and New York. She worked as a curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires until 2020. There, she curated exhibitions such as Andrés Aizicovich: Contact (2019–20), Flavia Da Rin: Who’s That Girl? (2019), Mercedes Azpilicueta: Body Birds (2018–19), Gabriel Chaile: Patricia (2017), and Eccentrics and Ultra-Enlightened (co-curated with Javier Villa and Sofía Dourron, 2016). She also commissioned works for the museum’s public programs, special events, and online program. Hakel frequently contributes to exhibitions, art books, and other publications with essays, reviews, and editorial and curatorial work. Laura has a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2014, she participated in the Artists’ Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

Nicasia Solano is an art historian and curator focused on twentieth century art in Latin America and contemporary Latinx art in the United States. She is an MA student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is the recipient of the Estrellita B. Brodsky Fellowship for Latin American Art History. At the IFA, she has curated two shows in the Duke House Exhibition Series and participated in the Curatorial Collaborative initiative while serving on forum organizing committees. Solano earned her BA from City University of New York’s Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Program where she double-majored in Modern Art History and Fine Arts and was the recipient of the Thomas W. Smith Fellowship for Academic Excellence. She has held internships at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and teaching assistantships at City University of New York. Solano is the 2023 Curatorial Fellow at ISLAA.