Time as a Muse

Julia Buntaine Hoel is a conceptual artist and founding Executive Director of SciArt Initiative. Julia attained her double BA in neuroscience and sculpture from Hampshire College, her post-baccalaureate certificate in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her MFA of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including shows in New York City, Washington D.C., Amherst, Baltimore, Seattle, Madison, Princeton, London, Toronto, Knokke, Sofia, and others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of New York University and Johns Hopkins University, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She also teaches, consults, curates, and frequently writes about art, and currently holds positions at Pratt Institute, Montserrat College of Art, and Merrimack College. Julia is based in Boston, MA.

Jonathan Latiano (born 1982) received his BA in Studio Art from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Interdisciplinary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jonathan’s artistic practice is rooted in the study of time, the natural sciences, and the viewer’s own spatial awareness within the immersive installations he creates. His artwork has been exhibited in numerous solo and group public art exhibitions in cities including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and London, and his work has been featured in local, national, and international art publications. Jonathan was the recipient of the 2013 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize in Art, Moravian College’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award, and the Bunting Teaching Fellowship in Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jonathan resides and works in Boston, Massachusetts and serves as the Director of the Studio Arts program at Merrimack College.

Daniel Ranalli divides his time between Wellfleet and Cambridge, Massachusetts with a career stretching over 40 years. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian National Gallery of American Art. He has been included in more than 150 solo and group shows in the U.S. and abroad. Daniel has also been the recipient of two artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and multiple artist fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Ranalli’s work can often be characterized as conceptual and/or environmental and often engages directly with the coastal ecology. In 1993 Daniel Ranalli founded the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University where he taught until 2015. He is represented by Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and Gallery Kayafas in Boston.

Elena Soterakis is a Brooklyn based artist, curator, and educator. She is the co-founder of BioBAT Art Space, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of art and science, located on the ground floor of a biotech incubator in the Brooklyn Army Terminal. She is a founding member of the international space art initiative, Beyond Earth, a multidisciplinary project and exhibition series that explores the new frontiers of space and art. Soterakis’ artwork explores environmental degradation in the age of the Anthropocene. She has recently participated in exhibitions at the Matsudo Science and Art Festival in Tokyo, Japan, SPRING/BREAK Art Show and SUPERCOLLIDER in Los Angeles, JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY in New Orleans, The Center for Contemporary Political Art in Washington D.C.