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Sofija
Grandakovska is a poet and researcher from Macedonia. She
is currently pursuing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the School
of Philology at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia.
The title of her thesis is The Akathistos Hymn of the Mother of
God in the Context of Byzantine Hymnography. Since 1992, Sofija
has published research studies, reviews, essays, and poetry in Macedonian
and foreign periodicals. She is the author of two books of poetry: The
Eighth Day (2005, in Macedonian and in English) and The Burden
Sun (2007, translated in Macedonian, English, Serbian, Albanian
and Greek), and she recently published Discourse of the Prayer
(2008), a scientific study. Ms. Grandakovska is currently in residence
at apexart through March 19.
Jayson
Keeling was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended The Fashion
Institute of Technology. He lives and works in Long Island City, Queens.
For most of his career Keeling worked almost exclusively in the medium
of photography but recently he has begun to explore painting, video,
and sculpture as well. His work has been featured in many exhibitions
including The Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of
Art, Queens, NY; Filmic, VideoStudio, The Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York; Summer Mixtape Vol. 1, Exit Art, New York
and The Wu-Tang googolplex Show (Congress), GBE@passerby, New
York. Mr. Keeling participated in the apexart Outbound
Residency to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2009.9.
Edwin
Ramoran was born and raised in Palm Springs, California.
He lives in Harlem and currently works as director of exhibitions and
programs at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey.
He is a recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the forthcoming group exhibition
Me Love You Long Time that will be presented at Aljira in late
2009-early 2010. He has worked as a guest curator at institutions such
as the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFORMA 05 at Artists Space,
Center for Book Arts, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center
for Arts & Learning, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, and
Visual AIDS online. Mr. Ramoran participated in the apexart
Outbound Residency to Athens, Greece in November 2007.
Carlo McCormick
is a popular culture critic and curator living in New York City. He
is the author of numerous books, monographs and catalogues on contemporary
art and artists, and has lectured and taught extensively at universities
and colleges around the United States. His writing has appeared in Aperture,
Art in America, Art News, Artforum, Camera
Austria, High Times, Spin, Tokion, Vice
and countless other magazines. He has curated shows for the Bronx Museum
of Art, New York University, the Queens Museum of Art and the Woodstock
Center for Photography. Mr. McCormick is Senior Editor of PAPER
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apexart's residency program is supported in part by
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apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported
in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum
Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation,
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