Poet, artist, and curator Chris Hosea is the author of Put Your Hands In: Poems (LSU Press 2014), selected by John Ashbery as winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1998) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (M.F.A. 2006), Hosea’s work as curator includes Ode to Street Hassle (Bronx Art Space 2012; featured: Zoe Leonard, Myles Paige, Kimi Hodges, Amy Touchette, Kim Bennett). His performance and artwork has been featured at Ugly Duckling Storefront Gallery, Ran Tea House, and Double Happiness. Hosea is based in Brooklyn.
Transmitter is a collaborative curatorial initiative, focusing on programming that is multidisciplinary, international and experimental, founded in 2014 by Rob de Oude, Carl Gunhouse, Sara Jones, Rod Malin, Tom Marquet and Mel Prest.