Tomashi Jackson (born 1980 in Houston, Texas) was raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2016, her Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012, her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2010, and is a 2019 alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jackson's work has been included in recent solo exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis and Survival at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge (2025), Power of the People: Art and Democracy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2024), Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2023), Multiplicity at the Frist Art Museum (2023), Working Thought at the Carnegie Museum of Art (2022), Off the Record at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2021), and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Jackson was the recipient of the Rappaport Prize in 2023, the Roy R. Neuberger Prize in 2022, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2020. Jackson's artworks are in numerous museum collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Jackson will be in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, FL in 2025 and will have a solo exhibition at Tilton Gallery, New York in early 2026. Jackson lives and works in Cambridge, MA.

Ryan N. Dennis is Co-Director and Chief Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). Dennis joined CAMH in 2023 as Senior Curator and Director of Public Initiatives. In this role, she stewarded Rebirth in Action, the Museum’s collaboration with Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy (HFTC), working closely alongside CAMH’s Partnerships team, and co-curated Theaster Gates’s blockbuster solo exhibition The Gift and The Renege (2024). She joined CAMH from the Mississippi Museum of Art where she curated Leonardo Drew’s City in the Garden (2020), Betye Saar: Call & Response (2021), and Dusti Bonge: Piercing the Inner Wall (2021), and organized CAPE Artist-in-Resident Shani Peter’s Collective Care for Black Mothers and Caretakers with the local Jackson community. She is the co-curator of the critically acclaimed exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration and also the co-curator of the 2021 Texas Biennial A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon (2021).

Previously she served as the Cura­tor and Programs Director at Project Row Houses (PRH) in Houston, where she worked with over 100 BIPOC artists to exhibit their work, led the creation of the 2:2:2 Exchange Residency Program with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chi­cago, and established Project/Site, a temporary, site-specific, commission-based public art program. In 2017, she launched the PRH Fellowship with the Center for Art and Social Engagement at the University of Houston’s Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts.

Dennis earned her master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute with a focus in Curatorial Practice. Her writings have appeared in online and print catalogs, journals, and publications nationally and internationally and she has served as the guest art editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She has been a visiting lecturer and critic at a number of art schools and institutions and has taught courses on community-based practices and contemporary art at the University of Houston.

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her most recent accomplishments include acting as the Susan Brennan co- Artistic Director (alongside Ebony G. Patterson) of the 2024–2025 international art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans; and organizing the following exhibitions at MCA Denver: Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025, co-organized with Leilani Lynch); Cowboy (2023, co-organized with Nora Burnett Abrams); Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe (2023); Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth (2022); Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting / Rivalizando con el relampágo (2022); and Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues (2021). In 2016 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed group exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art and in 2014 Lash organized the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership.