Wassan Al-Khudhairi is a curator and writer currently based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Most recently, she served as the Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where she organized exhibitions and new commissions with artists including Hajra Waheed, Dominic Chambers, Gala Porras-Kim, Martine Gutierrez, Derek Fordjour, Stephanie Syjuco, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Bethany Collins, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guan Xiao, Hayv Kahraman, and others. She co-produced the Radio Resistance podcast, which accompanied the publication and exhibition Stories of Resistance, a thematic group exhibition featuring over 20 artists. Al-Khudhairi was co-curator of the 6th Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan (2017) and co-Artistic Director for the 9th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea (2012). As the Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, she organized the museum’s first large-scale exhibition of its contemporary collection, Third Space: Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art. She also served as the Founding Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, where she oversaw its opening in 2010. There, she co-curated Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art and curated Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab.

Binna Choi has served as the director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, in the Netherlands since June 2008. Under her directorship, Casco has been exploring the commons as an alternative to binary worldviews and systems through and for art, taking it for their organizing guideline. Her key curatorial-collaborative projects at Casco include Grand Domestic Revolution (2009–2012), Site for Unlearning (Art Organization) (2014–2018), Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills (2018–ongoing), alongside engagement with networks like Arts Collaboratory and Cluster. Choi served as co-artistic director for Singapore Biennale 2022, named Natasha, and curator for the 11th Gwangju Biennale, titled The Eighth Climate (What does art do?). As a member of Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne, Germany, she curated the exhibition project Gwangju Lessons (2020), which traveled to the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea. Choi is also part of the faculty of Dutch Art Institute and an advisor for Afield.

Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻŌiwi/Native Hawaiian) is a 15-year veteran of Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she developed scores of exhibitions and programs. She worked on the major renovations of Hawaiian Hall (2009) and Pacific Hall (2013), as well as the landmark E Kū Ana Ka Paia: Unification, Responsibility and the Kū Images exhibition (2010). She has a law degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she worked on issues affecting Native Hawaiians, American Indians, and Alaska Natives. She is currently an associate specialist in Public Humanities and Native Hawaiian Programs in the American Studies Department at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her current research and practice explore the liberating and generative opportunities when museums “seed” rather than cede authority.