Michael Smith is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Austin. He is an AssociateProfessor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin and recently was the subject of a major retrospective entitled Mike's World at the Blanton Museum which traveled to The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Jay Sanders is a curator, writer and Gallery Director at Greene Naftali, New York.

This is the second time Michael and Jay are working together in a curatorial endeavor.