Trevor Paglen’s work is inspired by his multi-disciplinary exploration of new ways to interpret our world. In a 2010 commission for Creative Time, Last Pictures, Paglen chose 100 photographs to be micro-etched onto an archival silicon disc and affixed to the exterior of a communications satellite orbiting Earth. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial; the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions. Paglen is the author of 5 books and holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. He currently lives and works in New York.

Born in Fujian (China) in 1977, Chuen immigrated to Hong Kong in 1984 where he lives and works. He obtained his B.A. degree in Fine Arts and Theology from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002. The artist’s conceptual artwork includes performance, intervention, and documentation highlighting the contradictions present in the absurd and mundane of daily life. From 2003-07, his work was published in the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao; and has been included in numerous solo exhibitions, including Killing 3000 (2012) at the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, China; Hong Kong Diary (2010) at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong; Making (Perfect) World in the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, Hong Kong Pavilion; and page 22 (2008) at the 58th Street Branch Library in New York, NY. He is the recipient of The Best Artist, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2012, Beijing, China and the Frieze London Best Stand Prize at the 2012 Frieze Art Fair in London, England.

Originally from Brazil, a Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program fellowship brought Clarissa Tossin to Houston, Texas in 2010. Through photography, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video, Tossin’s work explores the unseen aspects of modernity, urban life, and global identity. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including most recently a 2013 commission on view at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, TX, Blind Spot: Window into Houston Clarissa Tossin. Earlier this year, her work could be seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit as a part of CCA Wattis Institute’s traveling exhibition, When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, and will be included in a forthcoming publication.

Artist Anya Gallaccio returns to Artpace 16 years after her International Artist-in-Residence exhibition, they said there was a paradise way out west, debuted alongside projects by fellow residents Nancy Rubins and Kathy Vargas. Known for her site-specific installations that often incorporate organic material referencing the physical nature of the site, Gallaccio will unveil new work in the Hudson (Show)Room composed of native Texas rock.

Born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1963, Gallaccio attended Goldsmiths College at the University of London during what would later be considered an influential period in art history, when she and her peers became known as Young British Artists. She has exhibited extensively with major solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London (2003); Sculpture Center, New York (2006); Camden Art Centre, London (2008); and Eastshire Museum, Scotland (2010). In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize, Britain’s top art honor. She was selected for Artpace’s International Artist-in-Residence program in 1997 by a panel of curators that included Maaretta Jaukkuri, Elizabeth Armstrong, David Avalos, Dana Friis-Hansen, and Thelma Golden. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Art Council, London; The British Council Collection, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Seattle Art Museum; Tate Britain, London; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is currently a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

San Antonio-based artist Michael Menchaca’s colorful illustrations and videos draw inspiration from pictorial history books of ancient Mesoamerica known as “codices” that traced history, religion, and geography through a codified, symbolic language. Using this historical precedent, he creates a visual allegory to address sociopolitical issues surrounding the US-Mexican border. For Artpace’s Main Avenue windows, his multi-dimensional installation--"AUTOS SACRAMENTALES"--depicts self-sacrifice in homage to El Diedad del Queso, a rat god, and Aquilas, an eagle deity.