Kevin Quiles Bonilla (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through photography, performance and installation, his works explore ideas around power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Puerto Rico (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design (2018). He has presented his work at Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center and Ford Foundation. Recent solo shows include Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2021), and Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY (2022). His first public artwork, For centuries, and still…(anticipated completion), made in collaboration with artist Zaq Landsberg, was presented through NYC Parks in 2022. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Arts + Disability Residency (2018-2019), LMCC Workspace Residency (2019-2020), En Foco Inc. Photography Fellowship (2021), EmergeNYC (2021), Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program (2022-2023), Monira Foundation Residency (2024), and LMCC Arts Center Residency in Governors Island (2024 Forthcoming). His work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Washington Post, BOMB Magazine and The Guardian. He lives and works between New York and Puerto Rico.

Keishla Quiles Bonilla (b. 1991) is a writer born and raised in Puerto Rico. Her work ranges from Fiction to Non-fiction and Poetry. Through her writing, she explores ideas around identity, gender, sexuality, and familial relations. She received a BA in Foreign Languages from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras (2014) and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of the Sacred Heart in Santurce (2020). Her work has been published in an anthology of micro stories in Puerto Rico.

Stephanie Alvarado (they/she) is an antidisciplinary archivist, artist, activist, and poet. Alvarado is a queer disabled nonbinary femme born and raised in the Bronx, NY by way of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Their artist project, Fotos y Recuerdos, is an offering for queer, trans, Black and Brown people to build community photo archives, witness our personal stories, and remember for those who cannot while taking up space on both public lands and virtual spaces. Since 2015, Alvarado has had the privilege to work on Kathleen Cleaver’s Papers and Family Photo Archive and is now curating the traveling exhibition for the collection. Alvarado has held artist residencies and fellowships at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Korea Art Forum, The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Witness for Peace, and The Laundromat Project. Alvarado was the recipient of the NYC SU-CASA Artist Residency at the largest senior housing complex, Big Six Towers NORC, in Woodside, Queens and has exhibited at The White Plains Library Gallery. They’ve had performances at Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Inwood Hill Park, Franklin Furnace Archive, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, and Kelly Street Garden. Alvarado has facilitated disability justice and arts workshops for Photoville, The Creative Center, Hunter College School of Social Work and BRIC Arts Media Center. They currently serve on the Board of Directors for The Literary Freedom Project.

Noah Benus is a New York City-based educator and artist with a focus on engaging students in both analog and digital media. He uses photography to explore politics and people through the prism of relationships; with each other, with environments, and with the camera itself. Noah is one half of Brothers Sick, a sibling artistic collaboration on disability justice, illness, and care.

Ezra Benus’ practice is cradled by embedded Jewishness, queerness, and sickness as purviews and navigational tools in this world. They are an artist, educator, and curator raised and still based in Brooklyn, whose multi-media practice concerns constructions of values of normativity, relationships and intimacies of power, care, pain and pleasure. Ezra has had residencies with Art Beyond Sight’s Art + Disability Residency (2018-19), Wave Hill Winter Workspace (2020), SHIFT Residency at EFA (2020-21), BRIClab Contemporary Art at BRIC (2022-23). Most recently Ezra had a two person exhibition with Finnegan Shannon at Perlman Teaching Museum in Minnesota. He has exhibited work in NYC with NYU Gallatin Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Dedalus Foundation, EFA Project Space, The Shed, and internationally with Shape Arts (UK), Museion (IT), MMK Frankfurt (DE), Doris McCarthy Gallery (CA), Art Gallery Windsor (CA). Curatorial projects and programs include Locus: Art as a Disabled Space (The 8th Floor), My Body Is The House That We Live (Gibney Dance), Disability Futures Virtual Festival (United States Artists, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation), Crip Ecologies of Emergent Pain (Flux Factory), Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage (CUE Art Foundation). Ezra is also one half of Brothers Sick, a sibling artistic collaboration on disability justice, illness, spirituality, and care. Commissioned published works include Blackwood Gallery’s SDUK: Lingering, and Kingdom of The Ill reader published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Their work has been featured and reviewed in publications such as Artforum (Susanne Pfeffer’s #1 artwork of 2021), Pin Up, Mousse Magazine, Ocula, Art Agenda, Publico ípsilon, and Welt Kunst.