Genevieve Hyacinthe is Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture and MFA Fine Art Faculty member at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, where she also serves as an advisor on theses on the Black Atlantic and Americas in the Visual and Critical Studies Masters Program.

Dedicated to D. Soyini Madison’s “loving ethnography,” she views research and writing as critical—yet poetic—heart-felt practice embracing “unfinish” over closed, authoritative perspectives. Her first book, Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic (MIT Press, 2019), cast the Cuban-American artist anew in relation to Mendieta’s construction of art formats emergent from her imaginary of ritual practices from West Africa and the Caribbean during the 1970s and 1980s. A practitioner of Mande and Haitian drum and dance, Genevieve views her primary methodology as Black Atlantic Phenomenology and continually wonders about risk at the intersection of art practice—including writing, research—and abstraction across media. Genevieve has authored numerous chapters on Black Atlantic spirituality and issues of the environment, performance, and abstraction. She is currently completing a manuscript on Black Atlantic Land Art.

Suchitra Mattai is a multi-disciplinary artist of Indo-Caribbean descent who creates mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations that often combine processes and materials associated with the domestic sphere, such as embroidery, weaving, and found clothing, in order to honor the labor of women.

Past projects include group exhibitions at the MCA Chicago, the ICA Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville, AR), the Sharjah Biennial 14 (Sharjah, UAE) , the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), the MCA Denver, and solo exhibitions at the Center for Visual Art MSU Denver and the Boise Museum of Art. 2024 solo exhibitions include Socrates Sculpture Park (New York, NY), the Tampa Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her works are represented in public and private collections which include Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Joslyn Museum of Art, the Crocker Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Suchitra received an MFA in painting and drawing and an MA in South Asian art from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and is a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023) and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2024). Mattai is represented by Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.