Christina Ulke is a german artist based in Los Angeles who specializes in public art. Since 2001 she has taught at the Art Department of the University of California San Diego. Her work is shown internationally and locally, recent projects include a collaboration for the Pasadena Public Art Program and a commission for the North Hollywood Commons development. She holds an M.F.A in Fine Arts (Sculpture & Public Art) from the Universität der Künste Berlin and an M.F.A in Media and Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. As co-founder of C-Level in LA’s Chinatown, Ulke has extensive experience in working with different communities and members of L.A.’s art and cultural scene. Ulke likes to work collaboratively and she has been collaborating with Ashok Sukumaran since 2003. She and Sukumaran won the public art grant for innovative public art from the Bermant Foundation in Los Angeles in 2004.

Ashok Sukumaran is a media artist and architect. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India, and an M.F.A. from the Department of Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Graduate Fellowship). He has worked extensively with architect/designer/artist teams. Previously, he has been a core participant in large projects such as the Basic Needs Pavilion at the World EXPO 2000 in Hannover (120,000 sq. feet, 300 artists and craftspeople), the Orientation Gallery at the Earth Centre, Doncaster, UK. (6,000 sq. ft. currently unbuilt) and The Silk Road on the Mall in Washington D.C, 2002. In 2003-04 he was project director for NANO, a year-long, 10,000 sq. foot exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum’s LACMALab which broke LACMALab attendance records. Ashok’s work received numerous award internationally; in 2003 he was awarded the first prize of the David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion Award for Media Art, in 2002 he won the Grand Prize in Connecting Cultures, the Samsung Art and Design Institute's annual competition and 2001 he was nominated Best of Show in the international Warning Sign competition for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.

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