Duke Riley Author

Duke Riley is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has had solo exhibitions at Queens Museum of Art, Havana Biennale, MOCA Cleveland, and recently the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Sydney Biennale. In 2012 Riley was selected by the U.S. State Department's smARTpower project to be a cultural ambassador to China where he created The Rematch. Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum since 2015. Formerly the Executive Director of Creative Time (1993- 2015). For more than thirty years, Pasternak has devoted her career to engaging broad audiences with the limitless power of art to move, motivate, and inspire. Meredith Johnson is the VP of Arts and Culture and Head Curator at Trust for Govornors Island (2017-present). Formerly a curator at Creative Time and Artist Space in NYC.