S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist working primarily in poetry and photography, and, by extension, vocal and sonic performance and publishing. They are the author of Body Text (2016), Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system (2019), Wild Peach (2020), the co-author (alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson, with whom they collaborate as mouthfeel) of Consider the Tongue (2019), and the director of Lunar New Year (2021). Henry-Smith regularly collaborates with Dweller Electronics, Ryan C. Clarke, Constantina Zavistanos, Justin Allen, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Danny Sadiel Peña, Geo Wyex, Alec Mateo, Tavish Timothy, Yulan Grant, senakirfa A., and Derica Shields, among others.
Constantina Zavitsanos has exhibited at the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Participant Inc., and Performance Space New York, and at Arika UK, Glasgow; If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam; and Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf. With Park McArthur, they wrote “Other Forms of Conviviality” in the journal, Women & Performance, (Routledge, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). They co-organize the cross-disability arts events, I Wanna Be With You Everywhere, and have received a Roy Lichtenstein Award in Visual Arts from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Zavitsanos lives and works in New York.
