Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and former curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1, from 2007 to 2010. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the monthly journal the Brooklyn Rail, the publishing press Rail Editions, and the Rail Curatorial Projects, as well as the Host/Producer of “Off the Rail” on Art International Radio. He is a board member of the Third Rail of the Twin Cities, the Miami Rail, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Anthology Film Archives, and the International Association of Art Critics United States Section (AICA USA).

In 2006, Bui won the Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Eric Isenburger Annual Prize for Installation from the National Academy Museum. In 2014, he was the keynote speaker of The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and was Art in General’s Visionary Honoree. In 2016, he was given the Esther Montanez Leadership Award by Fountain House Gallery.

Susan Bee is a Brooklyn-based artist and A.I.R. member since 1996. She has had solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery, Southfirst Gallery, and Accola Griefen Gallery in NY. Bee has published 16 artist's books and collaborated with poets including Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Levitsky, Johanna Drucker, and Jerome Rothenberg. She is the coeditor with Mira Schor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Bee received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

This event is being held in conjunction with Susan Bee's eighth solo show, Pow! New Paintings, at A.I.R. Gallery.

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