Elliot Avis (B. 1995) is an artist based in Washington D.C. who works in Painting, Sculpture, and Installation. He employs references from video games, cartoons, and mythology to create his zainy and psychically charged works. Born in Philadelphia he went on to attend Denison university where he received his BFA, and most recently at the Cranbrook Academy of art where he received his MFA in Painting. He has exhibited in New York, Boston, Detroit, London, Columbus, and Saint Petersburg Fl where he had a recent solo exhibition with Heiress Gallery.

Lorena Cruz Santiago is an artist working across photography, video, and installation informed and inspired by her family’s indigenous origins in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work covers topics of migration, assimilation, labor, and more recently, collaborative image-making with her parents as a form of indigenous autonomy. Cruz Santiago holds a BFA in Photography from Sonoma State University (2016) and an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2019). She has been an artist-in-residence at ACRE (Steuben, WI), Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency (Saugatuck, MI), Pocoapoco Residency (Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, MX), Oak Spring Garden and Foundation Residency (Upperville, VA), Darkroom Detroit (Detroit, MI) and Chalk Hill Residency (Healdsburg, CA). Her work has been included in shows at El Comalito Collective (Vallejo, CA), Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), and ACRE Projects in Chicago, IL. She is currently based out of Detroit, MI.

Clare Gatto is a Detroit-based artist using 3D rendering software to create and explore simulated bodies, egg sacs, and interstitial space. These digital simulations, in the form of video and photographic works, offer the in-between as an opportunity to reconsider ideas around the body as we know it and envision the physicalized self beyond labels and binaries.

Clare Gatto earned a BFA from Ohio State State University and an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art, in the interim they co-founded MINT collective, a collaborative, multidisciplinary artist-run space in Columbus, OH. They attended Vermont Studio Center and ACRE artist residencies in 2018 and Seljavegur residency in Reykjavik, Iceland in fall 2019. Their artist book Good Side, published with New Archive, is in the collection of Cranbrook Academy of Art Library and the Whitney Museum of Art Library Special Collections.

Gatto is a co-director of BULK Space in Detroit, MI. They work collaboratively with Jova Lynne, Meg Kelley and Jessica Allie. BULK Space is a collective dedicated to uplifting the works of marginalized artists in taking up physical and digital space.

Clare Gatto has exhibited at SHAG previously, alongside Kara Güt in their joint exhibition Spawning Point (March 2021).

Kara Güt is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary focus is image-based digital media. Her work investigates the new shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyle, constructed detachment from reality, and the power dynamics of the virtual. She received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Solo shows include Presence at IRL Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Crystal Magic Weapon at Open Space, Baltimore, Maryland. Recent group shows include Daily Rush: Season 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and LAN Party at the 2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. She is represented by Lava Project, and her videos are editioned by Daata Editions. In Spring 2021 she will be in residence at Pioneer Works in NYC. She currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kara has previously shown at SHAG alongside Clare Gatto, in their joint exhibition Spawning Point (March 2021).

Cooper Holoweski is an artist working in print, video, and sculpture. His work explores the intersection of spirituality and consumerism through everyday objects and materials. Holoweski has an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and has held residencies at Taller 99 in Santiago, Chile; Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Clocktower Gallery and the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC. His prints have been described as “striking” by Paul Coldwell in Art in Print, and his video work has been praised by Sarah Schmerler of Art in America as “magical” and “infinitely watchable.”

Exhibitions include: Nostalgia and Obsolescence, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Cannibal Universe, Clocktower Gallery at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Dead Air, Cohen Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (2017), and Basement Cosmos, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI (2017). In Spring of 2017 he was awarded the Prix de Print by Art in Print Magazine. His short film “As Above, So Below” won Best Regional Filmmaker at the 57th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2019. /. Holoweski is currently the Artist-In-Residence and co-Head of the Print Media department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Andie Labgold is a contemporary fine artist who works with print, sculpture, video, and installation to recontextualize logic systems and perception. Her work explores the commonalities between practical jokes, stage props, and conspiracy theories. She earned a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2018 and an MFA in PrintMedia from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020.