Artists' Conversation: on Water Scarcity

Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent. He has been the subject of more than 21 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 110 group exhibitions at venues such as Art Mûr, Montreal; Princeton University Art Museum; Washington Project for the Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Gardiner Museum, Toronto; Orenda Gallery, Paris; Autry Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum of Arts and Design, New York, among others. His works are featured in the public collections of the North American Native Museum, Zürich, Switzerland; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy, Yale University Art Gallery and other museums. He earned a BFA in from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Christine Howard Sandoval is an interdisciplinary artist of Chalon Ohlone, Mexican and Spanish ancestry. Her work challenges the boundaries of representation, access and habitation through the use of performance, video and sculpture. Howard Sandoval has exhibited nationally and internationally at the ICA San Diego; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Disjecta, Portland, OR; The Museum of Capitalism, Oakland, CA; Designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin; El Museo del Barrio, New York; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens. Her first solo museum exhibition debuted at The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center in 2019, during which time she was the Mellon Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Howard Sandoval has participated in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Triangle Arts, and The Vermont Studio Center. She earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design.

Shayok Mukhopadhyay grew up in Kolkata, India, and graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2012. His first solo show of photographs, Québec, took place at Katharine Mulherin Projects in Toronto in 2013. His installation, Back Home, was part of the 2017 Bronx Museum’s AIM Biennial exhibition. In 2019, he completed a six-month residency at Atelier Mondial, Basel; premiered his feature-length documentary, Gautam & Buddha at the Transilvania International Film Festival; and had a solo show at DOCK, Basel, titled Calcutta Corner. Mukopadhyay is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow.

Gabriel de Guzman is Director of Arts & Chief Curator at Wave Hill, where he oversees the visual and performing arts program. From 2017 to 2021, he was Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, where he organized group and solo exhibitions of emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists whose work explores critical, socially relevant issues. Before joining Smack Mellon, de Guzman held a previous position at Wave Hill, as Curator of Visual Arts, organizing solo projects and thematic group exhibitions that explored human connections to the natural world. As a guest curator, he has also presented shows at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, BronxArtSpace, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Bronx Museum's 2013 AIM Biennial. He earned an MA in art history from Hunter College and a BA in art history from the University of Virginia.

Photo: Joshua Bright