Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Died in New York, NY in 1987.

Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression “15 minutes of fame”. In the late 1960s he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine.

Catherine Opie was born in 1961 in Sandusky, Ohio and received her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1988. Her work was included in notable exhibitions throughout the 1990s, including: The American Century (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999 ); Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997 (The Lousiana Museum, Denmark, 1997); Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photograpghy (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997); Persona (Renaissance Society, Chicago, 1996); In a Different Light (University Art Museum at Berkeley, 1995); among others. In 1997 she was awarded the Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Allen Ruppersberg is an internationally-known conceptual artist whose humorous installations, sculptures and actions blend popular culture with art history and literary references.
Ruppersberg was born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio and received his B.F.A. from the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles. Since the late 1960s, his work has been the subject of over sixty solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group shows. Career highlights include participation in the Whitney Biennials (1970, 1975, 1991), Documenta V (1972), Lyon Biennale (1997), and Sculpture Project Munster (1998). In 1985, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles organized a major exhibition of Ruppersberg’s work. Recent exhibitions include Frac Limousin, Limoges, France (1999); Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1998); and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1997). Ruppersberg lives and works in New York, NY.