Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.

Jananne Al-Ani works in photography, film and video. Her early work focuses on Orientalist representations of the Middle East in Western visual culture.

Burak Arikan uses social, economic and political issues as inputs to generate network maps, rendering power dynamics visible and discussable.

Bill Balaskas is a London-based interdisciplinary artist who studied economics before enrolling in the Royal College of Art, London, where he is currently a doctoral candidate.

Khaldun Bshara is a conservation architect and anthropologist.

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Mumbai in 2007 by Ashok Sukumaran and Shaina Anand.

Kwok Kian Chow is Founding Director of the Singapore Art Museum, as well as the National Art Gallery, Singapore, where he currently serves as Senior Advisor.

Tiffany Chung’s cartographic and installation works examine conflict, migration, urban progress and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory.

Pablo León de la Barra is an independent curator, exhibition maker, and art and architecture researcher.

Hu Fang is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space and the Pavilion in Beijing, China.

Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies in the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator at the Vargas Museum in Manila.

Mohamad Hafeda is a doctoral candidate in Architectural Design at the Bartlett school of architecture, University College of London, UK

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Yuko Hasegawa is the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Professor in Curatorial Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Paulo Herkenhoff is Director of the recently opened Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.