Aria Dean Abattoir U.S.A.!

Aria Dean lives and works in New York. Her moving image work, Abattoir, U.S.A.!, which debuted at the Renaissance Society, has also been shown at the ICA London and the Power Plant in Toronto. Other recent solo and two-person exhibitions and performances include: Greene Naftali, CAPC, REDCAT, Artists Space, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Significant group shows include the Whitney Biennial: Quiet As It's Kept, the Hammer Museum's biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version, the Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania), The MAC, Tai Kwun, Schinkel Pavillon, Swiss Institute (New York), and the de Young Museum, among others. She is the author of Bad Infinity. Myriam Ben Salah is the director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society in Chicago. She was the co-curator of Made in L.A. 2020 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She served as the editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope Magazine between 2016 and 2020 and as a curator of special projects and public programs at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris between 2009 and 2016. In 2018 she was the guest curator of the tenth edition of the Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai. Ben Salah's projects encompass exhibitions and programs organized at institutions including the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunis, the ICA in London, Beirut Art Center, Kunsthall Stavanger, Kadist Foundation in Paris and San Francisco, Pejman Foundation in Tehran, and DESTE Foundation in Athens. She is sits on the scientific committee of MUDAM (Luxembourg) and on the commissioning committee of Hartwig Art Production/Collection Fund (Amsterdam).