### Sebastiaan Bremer

Sebastiaan Bremer, born in Amsterdam on June 27, 1970, is a Dutch artist based in New York City. He attended the open studio program at Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1989 to 1991 and participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1998. Early in his career, Bremer worked as an assistant to artists in New York and contributed to productions for photographers Inez and Vinoodh from 1996 to 2000, honing his photographic and painterly skills.

Bremer's style transforms personal photographs—of himself and his family—into intricate, baroque tableaux through meticulous hand-painting, drawing, and collage techniques. Working primarily in black and white to evoke photography's immediacy, he layers dots, text, symbols, and ghostly shapes over snapshots, creating surreal interior landscapes that slow down time and reveal psychological depths. Key works include *10 AM-PM* (1999), a large-scale ink drawing on C-print, and *Veronica* (2001), marking his solo debut in New York. His experimentation extends to murals and direct interventions on found images, blending personal narrative with painterly abstraction.

Bremer's exhibitions span prestigious venues like Tate Modern, PS1/MoMA, and the Brooklyn Museum, with solo shows at Roebling Hall, Hales Gallery, and Air de Paris. His works grace collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, MoMA, and Rabobank, cementing his legacy in bridging photography and painting. Represented in this museum's collection, Bremer's art invites viewers to uncover hidden emotional layers in the everyday snapshot.

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### Jake and Dinos Chapman

Jake Chapman (born 1966, Cheltenham) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962, London) are British visual artists and brothers, pivotal figures in the Young British Artists (YBA) movement. Raised in Cheltenham by an English art teacher father and Orthodox Greek Cypriot mother, they studied at Ravensbourne College of Art (Dinos, 1980–83), North East London Polytechnic (Jake, 1985–88), and the Royal College of Art (both, 1988–90), where they worked as assistants to Gilbert and George.

Their provocative style employs plastic models, fibreglass mannequins, and defaced prints to explore taboo themes of torture, disfigurement, and mutation, often appropriating Francisco Goya's *Disasters of War* etchings. Landmark works include *Great Deeds Against the Dead* (1997), *Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, De-Sublimated Libidinal Model (Enlarged x 1000)* (1997), *Hell* (2000, remade as *Fucking Hell* in 2004 after a fire), *Insult to Injury* (2003, altered Goyas), and *Sex* and *Death* (2003). These installations shocked audiences with their visceral horror and satire.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, the Chapmans featured in seminal YBA shows like *Sensation* and had solos at Modern Art Oxford and Serpentine Gallery. Though they ended their professional partnership in 2022, their influence endures in contemporary sculpture's embrace of discomfort and critique. Pieces from the brothers grace this museum's collection, challenging viewers to confront humanity's darkest impulses.

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### Mark Thomas Gibson

Mark Thomas Gibson, born in 1980 in Miami, Florida, is an American visual artist working in painting, printmaking, ink, and watercolor. He earned his B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2002 and M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in painting and printmaking in 2013, receiving the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Award and Yale Norfolk Assistantship awarded by Samuel Messer.

Describing himself as an "American history painter," Gibson merges fine art with comic book aesthetics, using stark black ink contrasts and sequential narratives to probe Black representation, social justice, Western colonialism, and apocalypse themes. Major works include *Some Monsters Loom Large* (2016), featuring the wolf-man Mr. Wolfson amid Manifest Destiny motifs, and *Early Retirement* (2017), with werewolf prophet and drummer heralds post-2016 election—both presented as graphic novels with colorized acrylic installations.

Gibson's exhibitions, like solos at Fredericks & Freiser, and awards including Guggenheim (2022), Hodder, and Pew Fellowships underscore his rising legacy. As Associate Professor at Rutgers, he influences new generations. Influenced by Kerry James Marshall, Philip Guston, and comic creators like Jim Steranko, his works in this museum's collection vividly reframe American history through comics' urgent lens.

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### Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey, born in 1967 in Farnborough, Kent, UK, to German and British parents, is an American-British conceptual artist living in Brooklyn. She holds an A.B. from Harvard (1989), attended Hochschule der Künste Berlin (1990), earned a J.D. from Yale Law (1993), and completed Whitney Independent Study and PS1 National Studio Programs.

Harvey pairs traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture with postmodern appropriation, institutional critique, and site-specific installations in video, mosaic, and engraved mirrors, exploring ruins, the Picturesque, and art-world economies. Iconic projects: *New York Beautification* (1999–2001, oil paintings over graffiti), *Museum of Failure* (2007–8, Whitney Biennial), *Repeat* (2013, artificial ruin church), *The Unloved* (2015, Bruges mapping), *Atlantis* (2019, engraved mirror), and ongoing *The Disappointed Tourist* (2019–).

A Guggenheim Fellow (2016), Harvey's solos at Whitney, Corcoran, and Barnes, plus Biennials, affirm her impact; works in Whitney, Hammer, and Princeton collections. Drawing from Turner and Hudson River School, her art in this museum reimagines loss and reflection with wry elegance.

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### Deborah Kass

Deborah Kass, born in 1952 in San Antonio, Texas, is an American artist from a Jewish immigrant family; her third cousin is Sandy Koufax. She earned a B.F.A. in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, creating her first appropriation there.

Kass appropriates iconic male artists' styles in mixed-media paintings, prints, sculptures, and neons, blending pop culture, art history, feminism, and queer identity with song lyrics and comics. Seminal series: *Art History Paintings* (1989–92, e.g., *Before and Happily Ever After* after Pollock), *The Warhol Project* (1992–2000, *Jewish Jackie*), *Feel Good Paintings* (2002–, *Sing Out Louise*), *OY/YO* (2015 installation), *No Kidding* neons (2015–).

Retrospectives at Warhol Museum (2012) and Venice Biennale appearances highlight her legacy; collections include MoMA, Whitney, Guggenheim. A Yale senior critic honored by Carnegie Mellon (2025), Kass's bold interventions, featured here, reclaim narratives for marginalized voices.

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### Hew Locke

Hew Locke, born October 13, 1959, in Edinburgh, is a British sculptor; son of Guyanese sculptor Donald Locke and painter Leila Locke, he grew up in Guyana (1966–80). He earned a B.A. Fine Art from Falmouth University (1988) and M.A. Sculpture from Royal College of Art (1994).

Locke's multimedia works with found objects satirize colonialism, trade, royalty, and migration via boats, cardboard, and public statues. Major pieces: *The Jurors* (2015, Magna Carta sculpture), *For Those in Peril on the Sea* (2011), *Armada* (2019, 45 boats), *The Procession* (2022, Tate), *Cargoes* (2025, Thames bronzes).

A Royal Academician (2022), OBE (2023), and Apollo Artist of the Year (2025), Locke's Tate, Met, and Pérez commissions define his legacy. His vibrant critiques enrich this museum's holdings.

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### Narsiso Martinez

Narsiso Martinez, born 1977 in Oaxaca, Mexico, immigrated to the U.S. at 20 and became American by residence; lives in Long Beach, CA. He completed high school at Evans Community Adult School (2006), A.A. from Los Angeles City College (2009), B.F.A. (2012) and M.F.A. in drawing/painting (2018) from California State University Long Beach, earning the Dedalus Foundation Fellowship.

In 1930s Social Realism style, Martinez paints, draws, and sculpts farmworker portraits on discarded produce boxes, humanizing undocumented laborers from his own experience in multi-figure agricultural scenes. Notable: *Always Fresh* (2018), *Super Fresh* (2020), *Legal Tender* (2022), *Supreme Fresh* (2023), *In the Works* (2024).

A 2023 Frieze Impact Award winner, his works in Hammer, LACMA, and Stanford collections shine via shows at Charlie James Gallery. Martinez elevates invisible toil, vital to this museum's American narratives.

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