Based in Chicago, Trevor Martin is a multi-media artist, educator, and arts administrator. As an artist, he creates works on paper, sculpture, video, and live performance. Since 1996, Trevor has collaborated with Kym Olsen as part of the ensemble “Morganville” producing durational events, curated projects, and evening length performances. Trevor has exhibited and performed in various venues throughout Chicago and the region including: Insight Arts, the Spareroom, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Terra Museum of American Art, the Blue Rider Theater, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Randolph Street Gallery, (untitled) space, ARC Gallery, NFA Space, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, and the Cleveland Performance Festival. Trevor received his BA in 1992 from Transylvania University and his MFA in 1998 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As an educator, Trevor has taught numerous workshops at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Links Hall, and Columbia College as well as studio and art history courses in the film/video/new media, performance, and art history departments at the School of the Art Institute. He currently serves as the Director of Exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute.
Kym Olsen is a performance artist whose primary focus is a collaboration with Trevor Martin. In addition, she creates solo work and performance installations that have been shown in a varitey Midwest and Northeastern locations. Outside of performance work, she has served on N.A.M.E. Gallery's Time Arts Committee, Insight Arts' Women's Performance Jam, has volunteered for New Haven's Independent Film Festival and independently organized performance events at (untitled) space, a contemporary art gallery in New Haven, Connecticut and Insight Arts in Chicago. She has taught part-time at the School of the Art Institute and been a visiting artist at several Universities including Columbia College and Transylvania University, and held performance workshops at Links Hall and the Spareroom in Chicago. Currently, Kym serves as Treasure on the Board of Insight Arts.
Daniéle Wilmouth is an artist working primarily in experimental and documentary filmmaking. In 1990 she began a six-year residency in Osaka, Japan, where she co-founded Hairless Films, an independent filmmaking collective. For more than 5 years she studied the Japanese contemporary dance form Butoh with several teachers including Yoshito Ohno, Min Tanaka, Maro Akaji, Byakko-sha, and her main instructor Katsura Kan. Her films Curtain of Eyes, Tracing a Vein, Containers and ROUND have won awards and screened widely in festivals, museums and on television around the world. She is currently a faculty member in the film and video departments of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College.