Finnegan Shannon: There's no me without you

Finnegan Shannon is an artist experimenting with forms of access. They intervene in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Some of their recent work includes Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don’t mind if I do, a conveyor-belt-centered exhibition that prioritizes rest and play. They have done projects with MUDAM Luxembourg, the Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, the High Line, MMK Frankfurt, MCA Denver, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, a Disability Futures Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. Their work has been written about in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, The Believer, and Out Magazine. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY.

Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a writer, artist, freelance access worker, and editor born, raised, and still living in New York City. She works as a visual arts teaching artist with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' education department. The artist has exhibited or shared work at Smith College Museum of Art, MoCA Cleveland, Institute of Contemporary Art: VCU, Participant Inc., Lincoln Center, MoMA, Leslie Lohman Museum, Bard College, Swarthmore College, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere. Her writing has been published in the 59th Carnegie International catalog (2026), Apogee Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Project, Split This Rock, Blackflash Magazine, Leste Magazine, Jewish Currents, and Ocean State Review. Hughes is the author of the chapbooks I Need Fucking Space Like Fuck (Boundaries, 2025) and 1/2 the pressure 2x the speed (Eureka Press, 2025). She earned her MFA in writing from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Ariana Martinez is a queer, nonbinary artist of Puerto Rican descent based in The Bronx, New York. Their practice is grounded in the knowledge that processes of displacement, debility, and environmental destruction leave indelible marks upon the body. Through sculpture, print, and time-based media, Martinez develops tactile language, navigational tools, and shared rituals for grief and repair. The artist holds an M.F.A from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, a B.F.A in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.A. in Urban Studies from Brown University. Their work has appeared at Westbeth (NY), the Re-Institute (NY), the Open City Documentary Festival (UK), and the Barbican Cultural Center (UK). Martinez has been an artist in residence at The Ragdale Foundation (IL), The James Castle House (ID), the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and elsewhere.

Alex Dolores Salerno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, New York) in Turtle Island in Abya Yala with Ecuadorian and Italian-American roots. Their practice is informed by queer, trans and crip communities, and anti-capitalist revolution that centers interdependence and nurtures connection to the earth. They exhibit at venues such as Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (Castellón de la Plana), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC). Salerno received their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and they have been awarded a Wynn Newhouse Award and an Art Matters Foundation Artist2Artist Fellowship. Their most recent residencies include the LMCC Workspace Residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Winter Workspace Residency at Wave Hill (NYC), and the No Lugar AIR Program at No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo (Quito, Ecuador).