Hariton Pushwagner (Terje Brofos) was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1940. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating in 1966, he became a set painter for Norwegian state television, and in 1968 began collaborating with the Norwegian author Axel Jensen on a series of graphic novels and illustrations. In 1969, he started work on Soft City, which was completed in 1975 but then lost; it was rediscovered in Oslo in 2002. The original art for Soft City was exhibited both in the 2008 Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art and the Sydney Biennial. Pushwagner’s work has been displayed in galleries and museums all over the world, including in New York, Berlin, Sydney, Paris, and London.
Chris Ware is the author of
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and
Building Stories, which was deemed a Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year by
The New York Times and
Time magazine. A contributor to
The New Yorker, his work has been exhibited at the MoCa Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Martin Herbert is associate editor of
ArtReview and a regular contributor to
Artforum,
frieze, and
Art Monthly. His monograph
Mark Wallinger was published in 2011.