NON GRATA GROUP
NON For those whose art world starts at the point where the mainstream art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course which betrays us - it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical - it is the image of primitivism, un-personality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place accordingly to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by group members. Aesthetic and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn't work.
Non Grata Group: www.nongrata.ee

Rob Andrews
Rob Andrews lives and works in Brooklyn. He has shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, Grace Exhibition Space, and is represented by English Kills Art Gallery. He recently enacted mass group feet cleanings in Union Square as part of Art in Odd Places, and in Bitola, Macedonia as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Live Art Festival on 11.11.11. He is a 2010-11 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art recipient.
Rob Andrews: www.andrewsautomatic.com

Hector Canonge
Hector Canonge lives and works in New York City where he studied comparative literature, film and Integrated Media Arts. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performative narratives. Canonge has been featured by the Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Jersey City Museum, Exit Art, NY Studio Gallery, Flux Factory, Gallery Aferro, Topaz Arts, Y Gallery, Art for Change, and other art spaces in the city and abroad. His work has been reviewed by the The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Hispanic Magazine, El Diario, Timeout NY, by online publications such as NYRemezcla, Turbulence, ART CARDS Review, and by networks such as ABC, NBC, CNN, NY1, and UNIVISION among others.
Hector Canonge: www.hectorcanonge.net

Peter Dobill
Peter Dobill Born in New Zealand, Peter Dobill is a Brooklyn, NY based artist. He received his BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2004 in addition to receiving the 2008-2009 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Grant. Dobill co-founded and curates the annual Maximum Perception Performance Festival in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed and exhibited in galleries/venues including Exit Art, NY, NY; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, Meme Gallery, Cambridge, MA, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY; Open Realization Contemporary Art Gallery, Beijing, China, and Rockefeller University, NY, NY.
Peter Dobill: www.peterdobillactionist.com/

Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig’s work, The Anxiety of Influence, was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day.Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, Public Culture, Art Papers, X-tra, ArtNews, The L Magazine, The Other Journal, Jewcy, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin, Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta.
Anya Liftig: www.anyaliftig.com

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (Born in Jamaica, West Indies 1975). She lives and works in Queens,Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts, Miami in 1996. In 2005 she attained an MFA from Hunter College, New York City. She has exhibited her work at numerous venues including Exit Art (NYC), Rush Arts Gallery (NYC), SUNY Old Westbury College (NY), Scope Art Fair (FL), a featured artist in Queens International 4 at the Queens Museum of Art (NY) and the “Open International Performance Art Festival” at Open Contemporary Art Center in Beijing ,China.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow:www.jodielynkeechow.com/home.html

Rafael Sanchez
Rafael Sanchez (b.Newark, New Jersey, 1978) In his performances, Sanchez frequently subjects his body to extreme stress and pain to materialize ideas of memory, spirituality and endurance. . In an early work titled Back to Africa (2000), Sanchez wandered around New Jersey in white face. In a more recent work, Caliente/Frio (2007) the artist traced the migration process of two women from Cuba to America during the 1960s.
Rafael Sanchez Facebook:: Rafael-Sanchez-Performance-Artist/216067758507

Elinor Thompson
Elinor Thompson strives to create work that forces viewers to question the physical and social contours of their environment. She is currently working with Papo Colo and the Trickster Theater, which will be reprising several performances in Exit Art's closing show, Every Entrance is an Exit, in May. Ms Thompson is a devotee of The Grace Exhibition Space and has shown work at various exhibitions and galleries in New York City, including the Scope Art Fair, the Alice Chilton Gallery, the WagMag benefit, Fresh Ground Pepper, and Live Music Video's Bjorkball. She has also performed with the AABeir and Non Grata.
Elinor Thompson: www.grace-exhibitionspace.com/performance.php?event_id=107