Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1940. Among the many public institutions that have hosted solo exhibitions of his work in the United States are the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has taught at Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design and Yale University.
John Bock was born in 1965 in Gribbohm, Germany. He began studies in business at the University of Hamburg, but soon switched to studying art there. His work has been exhibited widely, icluding at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City.
Olaf Breuningn, born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1970, has exhibited in numerous international group exhibitions over the last three years, including Missing Link at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Hypermental at the Kunsthaus Zurich, and Let's Entertain at the Walker Arts Center.
Martin Kippenberger was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1953, to a mine director and a dermatologist. He showed artistic talent, and independence, at at early age, boycotting art classes in elementary school after a teacher gave him only the second highest grade. Since then his work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Until his death in 1997, he lived and worked in Austria.
