Xingze Li (b. 1992, Ya’an, China) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited and curated in China, the United States, and Denmark. He has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City at venues including Ortega y Gasset Projects, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Tutu Gallery, and Hunter East Harlem Gallery. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Cathouse Proper and Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen. He has curated shows including A Picnic State of Mind (2023), and F-1: Out Inside (2019) in Brooklyn, NY. Notable awards include the Marble House Project Residency, 77ART Residency, and Cope NYC Residency. Li earned his bachelor's degree in Oil Painting from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2019.
David Dixon is a curator, artist, and filmmaker, he lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Dixon is the founding director of the Cathouse FUNeral / Proper gallery project opened in 2013 first in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, then moved to Carroll Gardens in 2017. In the gallery’s ten years of operation, Dixon organized over fifty exhibitions, providing visibility to hundreds of artists. The gallery, conceived as a project space, offered a platform for both established and emerging artists. His exhibitions have been reviewed by such publications as The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Artcritical, among others. Before opening the gallery, Dixon produced two feature films, the second of which, “David Dixon is dead.” (2011) won Best Feature at the Queens World Film Festival and received a distribution grant from NYSCA-Wave Farm. His first documentary short film, ‘The Boat’, premiered at MoMA in NYC in 2005. His object-based work has been exhibited at Sculpture Center, Ryan/Lee Gallery, Postmasters, among others. David Dixon holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Cornell University. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute, Fine Arts and New York School of Art.
