CONNIE ZHENG

Connie Zheng is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker who was born in China, grew up in the Northeastern United States, and is currently based out of Oakland, California. Her practice moves between text, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media, and she draws heavily upon methods of assemblage and recontextualization. Her work focuses on diasporic place-making and the political potentials enabled by fantasy as a means of community-building amidst climate change. She has presented scholarly work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and exhibited her visual work around the U.S., including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), and AIR Gallery (New York). She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE, and her writing has appeared on SFMOMA's Open Space platform, Art Practical and in the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. She received an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and BAs in Economics and English (Creative Nonfiction) from Brown University. She is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

DAWLINE-JANE ONI-ESELEH

Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh is a visual artist and illustrator whose current work is focused primarily on the shifting urban landscape. An avid observer and prolific photographer, she employs a vast catalog of visual notes and memories to create her work. A lover of materials and process, Dawline-Jane uses a range of media including relief print making, pen and ink, photo transfer and encaustic. She has exhibited at Oxtail Gallery, NIAD Gallery, Southern Exposure, and has been a Print Public Artist-in-Residence at Kala.

KIM BENNETT

Kim Bennett has a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from California College of the Arts, where she is an Adjunct Professor. She has exhibited her work in the Bay Area at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, pied-à-terre and Interface Gallery, as well as Transmitter Gallery in New York and Conduit Gallery in Dallas. She is the recipient of a Creative Time commission, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and a Kala Parent Artist Fellowship. 

KARIN DAHL

Karin Dahl is an artist, anthropologist and cartographer born at the edge of the Finnish archipelago. She was raised in Seattle, WA and is a decade plus long resident of the Bay Area. Karin holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Mills College and an M.A. in Anthropology with emphasis on Archaeology and Material Culture Studies from San Francisco State. Her work explores convergences between cultural, natural, and material phenomena.

JESSICA SABOGAL

Jessica Sabogal is a first-generation Colombian American muralist using her medium for social change, action, and empowerment. Her murals have been commissioned by Facebook, Google, 20th Century Fox, the University of Southern California, CSU San Marcos, The University of Arizona, and The University of Utah among many others. In 2016, Sabogal received KQED’s Women to Watch Award and the following year was commissioned by the Amplifier Foundation for the 2017 Women’s March, after which her “Women Are Perfect” campaign. She is current an Artist-in-Residence at Kala.