Based in New York, Mary Simpson and Fionn Meade have been collaborating on film and video works since 2005. Mary Simpson received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2009 and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2010. Her work has shown at Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Art in General, The Kitchen, and CAM2 Madrid, among other venues. Simpson attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter, NY, where recent group exhibitions include Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New York, and Leopards in the Temple, with Lothar Baumgarten, Das Institut, Patrick Hill, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer, and Kathrin Sonntag, among others. Recent curatorial projects also include Nachleben, co-organized with Lucy Raven at Goethe Institut, NY, which engaged Aby Warburg's thinking and included works by Matthew Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki, Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Stan VanDerBeek, James Welling, Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari, among others, and Entr'acte at Catherine Bastide with Tom Burr, James Coleman, David Noonan, William Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and Rosemarie Trockel. His writing appears in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, The Fillip Review, Mousse, and Parkett, among other publications, and he received a 2009 Arts Writer Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recently released catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the Kunsthalle Zurich (JRP/Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum Winterthur (JRP/Ringier). He holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and and MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.