Painting/Performance. Born in 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan. B.F.A., Philadelphia College of Art; M.F.A. in Sculpture, Yale University. John Jesurun is a writer/director/designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes and explore the relation of form to content. They challenge the experience of verbal, visual and intangible perceptions. His work is distinguished by his integrated creation of the text, direction, set and media design. Since 1984 he has written,directed and designed over 25 pieces including: the media trilogy of DEEP SLEEP (1986 Obie Award, Best Play), WHITE WATER and BLACK MARIA , NUMBER MINUS ONE, DOG’S EYE VIEW, RED HOUSE, SHATTERHAND MASSACREE, PHILOKTETES, EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, SLIGHT RETURN, IRON LUNG, BARDO, SEPTET and SNOW. Other projects include the 2000 staging and video design for the concert performance of Roy Nathanson’s Jazz Suite “Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill” featuring Debby Harry and Elvis Costello at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn and Royal Festival Hall, London, the set and video design for the opera “Dennis Cleveland” at Lincoln Center.

Painting. B.A., Bennington College. Solo exhibitions at Debs & Co., New York Academy of Science, and Wolff Gallery, New York; Vassar College Gallery; Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona; McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia. Group shows at Nature Morte, New Delhi; Drawing Center, Lipton Owens Company, National Academy, and White Columns, New York; Sideshow, Brooklyn; Assilah Arts Festival, Morocco; Watercolor: In the Abstract, traveling exhibition. Has written for Arts Magazine and Bomb, and guest-edited two issues of Tema Celeste. Recipient of awards from National Endowment for the Arts, National Academy of Design, and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2005).

B.A., Carleton College; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Taught at University of Maryland, Swarthmore College, Villanova University, University of Chicago. Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health Neuroethology Training Program, University of Maryland; Century Graduate Fellow, University of Chicago. Numerous publications, presentations, and professional activities related to evolutionary genetics. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.

Sculpture. B.A., Washington University, St. Louis; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art; studied biology at Wesleyan University. Solo exhibitions include: Samsung Museum of Art (Rodin Gallery), Seoul (2006); Bohen Foundation, New York (2005); Asia Society, New York (2005); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2003); 49th Venice Biennale, South Korean Pavilion (2001); Anton Kern Gallery, New York; White Cube, London; Curti/Gambuzzi & Co., Milan; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris. Group shows include: Serpentine Gallery, London (1994, 2006); Gwangju Biennial, Korea (1995, 2006); Studio Museum in Harlem (2003); Whitney Biennial (2000); Johannesburg Biennial (1997); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1993). Works in the collections of and exhibited at: Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Denver Art Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum, Samsung Museum, Walker Art Center, Israel Museum, Moderna Museet. Grants, fellowships, and awards from: United States Artists, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, LEF Foundation, U.S. Information Agency, Rockefeller Foundation, and 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 (Grand Prize recipient, ex aequo).

B.A., Colby College; Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Recipient, Albert J. Ryan Fellowship for Biomedical Sciences; training fellowships, National Institutes of Health. Current research focuses on attachment factors for aquatic vibrio-related microorganisms. Has taught at Colby College; served as mentor, Dartmouth College Women in Science Program. Former research assistant, Jackson Laboratories. (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Biology.