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Biografies of the artists represented in the exhibition and Materials and Money and Crisis Terry Atkinson (born 1939, Thurnscoe, UK) was a founding member of the conceptual art group Art & Language, producing work under this rubric between 1968 and 1974. Since this time he has pursued his own practice as an artist and teacher, and is a highly influential figure for a younger generation of artists. His work has been rigorously based around questioning the semiotic and political grounds of art, spanning the production of text-based works, paintings, and multi-media assemblages. Atkinson has exhibited globally in numerous venues both with the group Art & Language and as an individual artist, including solo shows at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1983), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1993). He participated with Art & Language in documenta 6 (1974), and as an individual artist in the 41st Venice Biennale (1984). In 1985 he was nominated for the Turner Prize. Maria Eichhorn (born 1962, Bamberg, DE) pursues an artistic practice that is rooted in traditions of conceptual art and institutional critique. Her works are often based around and utilize instructional forms and systems: social, legal, economic contracts; taxonomic and bureaucratic methods of ordering. Eichhorn moves beyond the typical role of the artist and the artist’s relations with institutions, intervening in the fabric of these structures in order to make apparent and subvert their logics. Eichhorn has had recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (2011), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007), and Kunsthalle Bern (2005). Her work has been included in the Berlin Biennial in 2008 and 2004, documenta 11 (2002), and Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997). Melanie Gilligan (born 1979, Toronto, CA) is an artist and writer based in London and New York. Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals including Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, Mute, and Grey Room; and in edited volumes such as Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and its Markets (Sternberg Press, 2008); Intangible Economies (Fillip, 2012); and The Market (Documents of Contemporary Art) (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2013). In 2004–2005 she was a Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. Solo exhibitions have been held at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; among other venues. Gareth James (born 1970, London, UK) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His work is rooted in complex conceptual relays between materials, images and actions. Most notably, the process of drawing and the relationship it entails between technology, body, and inscription plays a central role in works that are often principally sculptural in their realization. The materials of these works, ranging from 1 and Materials and Money and Crisis, 8.11.2013–2.2.2014, Biografies of the artists bicycle inner tubes to neon, carry particular qualities as structures of information as much as aesthetic forms. James has had recent solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2011), and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (2008). His work has been shown in group exhibitions including at MoMA, New York (2009), and Secession, Vienna (2007). Sam Lewitt (born 1981, Los Angeles¸ US) is an artist based in New York. Solo exhibitions of his work have recently been held at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. He has also participated in group shows at SculptureCenter, MoMA PS1, Swiss Institute, David Zwirner, and Artists Space, all in New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; as well as the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Lewitt is among the authors of Société Populaire (Halmos, 2012) and has regularly contributed to publications such as Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, and Collapse. Henrik Olesen (born 1967, Esbjerg, DK) works in a variety of media, from drawing to collage and the presentation of existing objects. His conceptually rigorous yet witty practice investigates structures of power and systems of knowledge to reveal the inherent logic and rules of social and political normalization. His projects, based on in-depth research, have addressed a range of subjects including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history. Olesen has had recent solo exhibitions at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2012), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2011), MoMA, New York (2011), and Malmo Konsthall, Malmo (2010). His work was also included in the Nordic and Danish Pavilions of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Pratchaya Phinthong (born 1974, Bangkok, TH) lives and works in Bangkok. His work often revolves around a series of actions and instructions, either undertaken by the artist himself, or others involved in the constitution of the artwork—the curator, or audience. As such his projects are distinctly conceptual in nature, manifesting themselves in a variety of forms inside and outside the gallery space. These projects often address economic systems, particularly those defined principally through labor relations. Phinthong has had recent solo exhibitions at gb agency, Paris (2012), GAMeC, Bergamo (2011), and CAC Bretigny (2010). His work was included in the New Museum Triennial 2012, New York. R. H. Quaytman (born 1961, Boston, US) pursues a rigorous investigation into painting and its terms of production and reception, through the use of organizational systems that structure both the material and conceptual aspects of her work. Her paintings to date are organized into chapters, an ongoing archive in which each new painting or series is informed by what came before it. A single image or event acts as a starting point for each chapter, often relating to the context in which the chapter will be exhibited. Quaytman has had recent solo exhibitions at The Renaissance Society, Chicago 2 and Materials and Money and Crisis, 8.11.2013–2.2.2014, Biografies of the artists (2013), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2012), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2011), and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2009). Her work was shown at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2010). Lucy Raven (born 1977, Tucson, US) works principally with film and video, although her practice encompasses a wide variety of forms, including animated films, sculptural installations, performative lectures, curatorial projects, art criticism, and interventions. Connecting all of these disparate strands is the artist’s continuing exploration into the effects of technology on the world, specifically addressing the relationship between the circulation of “materials,” and the economic and conceptual structures this circulation inscribes. Raven’s work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally including the Whitney Biennial 2012, New York (2012), Manchester International Festival, UK (2011), and Greater New York, PS1 MoMA, New York (2010). Raven is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, and in 2010 co-curated the exhibition Nachleben at the Goethe Institute, New York. Cheyney Thompson (born 1975, Los Angeles, US) is a New York based artist whose work is focused on the technology, production, and distribution of painting. At times taking on conventional form as stretcher-based painting, but at others separating out aspects of the process of painting into objects and texts, he addresses the problems that organize themselves around the medium. Thompson has had recent solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2012), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2012), and MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2012). His work was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2008, and in the exhibition Greater New York at PS1 MoMA, in 2005. Emily Wardill (born 1977, UK) primarily works with film and video. Taking her point of departure as the relationship between materiality and ideas, she works in an original, humorous, and critical manner, mixing a wide range of filmic genres and connecting insights into historical, scientific, and philosophical information in unorthodox ways. Wardill has recently presented her work in solo shows at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2012), De Appel, Amsterdam (2009), and at ICA, London (2008). Her work has also been shown at the British Art Show (2010) and the Venice Biennale (2011). In 2010 she won the prestigious Jarman Award for film art. 3 and Materials and Money and Crisis, 8.11.2013–2.2.2014, Biografies of the artists .