As the vital link between CUE's Board of Directors and the Advisory Council, Gregory Amenoff serves as the Curator Governor of the Council and is the sole permanent member. A painter who lives between New York City and New Mexico, he is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, and The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts. Mr. Amenoff has had one person exhibitions in scores of museums, public spaces and galleries throughout the United States and Europe and his work is in the permanent collections of more than twenty eminent museums around the country. Mr. Amenoff has been a Professor of Art at Columbia since 1994, and was recently appointed as the inaugural Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts in the School of the Arts. As an artist, Mr. Amenoff is represented by Salander O'Reilly Galleries in New York, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe and Vidal St. Phalle Galerie in Paris.

Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at the Museum of Modern Art NY and the International Center of Photography. His monographs include: Come Sunday (with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Found in Brooklyn (with an introduction by Dr. Robert Coles), Sunset Park, Higher Ground (with an introduction by Ian Frazier), Enduring Justice (with an introduction by Norman Mailer), Show & Tell, Sanctuary (with and introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Sicilian Passage, In Prison Air (with an introduction by John Szarkowski), On Three Pillars (with text by Phillip Lopate), and his latest publication House Calls with William Carlos Williams, MD with an accompanying text by Dr. Robert Coles which was released this September by powerhouse Books, Inc.

He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and in 1996 became the Director of the Photography Program at Columbia University School of the Arts where he is a Professor of Art. His work is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. Mr. Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife Anna and their son Giancarlo.

Andrea Zittel was born in 1965 in Escondido, California.  She received a BFA in painting and sculpture (1988) from San Diego State University, and an MFA (1990) in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.  Zittel examines the everyday through experiments in social and domestic relationships.  Using herself as a “guinea pig,” her projects have included wearing the same outfit for months, living without measured time, and constantly remodeling her home to meet changing demands.   Zittel remarks that one of the most important goals of her work is to “illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life, and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be.”

In the early 1990s Zittel first established her practice in New York.  One of her most visible projects there was "A-Z East", a small row house in Brooklyn which she turned into a showroom testing grounds for her prototypes for living.  In 2008 Zittel moved back to the West Coast, and she now divides her time between A-Z East and A-Z West in Joshua Tree, California.  

Zittel is a co-organizer of the High Desert Test Sites, the A-Z smockshop, and The Group Formerly Known as Smockshop. She is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in NYC, Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Sadie Coles HQ in London, Massimo DeCarlo in Milan and Spruth-Magers in Munich.  Her work has also been included in the Venice Bienalle, Doccumenta X, Skulture project in Munster, and both the 1995 and the 2004 Whitney Biennials.    

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, OK. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative. Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey.  His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  Hancock’s work is also in the permanent collections of several prestigious museums, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and il Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Trento, Italy.  The recipient of numerous awards, Trenton Doyle Hancock lives and works in Houston where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

William Corbett is a poet, memoirist, art critic and essayist. Owing to his distinct role in developing CUE's literary programs that coincide with specific exhibitions, Mr. Corbett will continue to serve as a member of the Advisory Council for another two seasons. He has written books on New York City literary life, the sculptor John Raimondi and painter Philip Guston. His most recent books are Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999) and his collected essays and reviews, All Prose (Zoland Books, 2001). He frequently publishes poetry and prose in The Boston Phoenix, Modern Painters, Brick and other journals and magazines large and small.  Mr. Corbett is Writer-in-Residence at MIT, an editor of Pressed Wafer, and lives in Boston's South End.

Lari Pittman, a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the California Institute for the Arts. His work is featured in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has earned international recognition with recent solo exhibitions including the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY; Greengrassi, London, England, the Monika Sprüth-Philomene Magers Gallery, Münich, Germany and Regen Projects in Los Angeles, CA. In 2006, Pittman received an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. He teaches Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Marjorie Welish is an artist/critic whose practice encompasses both painting and poetry. Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought), 2003) consists of papers given at a conference on her writing and art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Recently a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in art, she taught seminars in art criticism at the University of Frankfurt where she also worked to complete a limited-edition art book in collaboration with James Siena, to be published by Granary Books in 2008. Other art grants and fellowships awarded her: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor Foundation, International Studio Program, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding. Her paintings are represented by Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, in New York, and Aaron Galleries, in Chicago. Her book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Isle of the Signatories is her most recent book of poems; others are Word Group (2004), and The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems (2000), this last a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. All are published by Coffee House Press. Welish has received poetry grants and fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University in 2005.

Welish regularly teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.

Bill Berkson

Vicky A. Clark

Petah Coyne

Meg Cranston 

Roy De Carava

James Drake

Bruce W. Ferguson

Vernon Fisher

Malik Gaines

Michelle Grabner

Sanford Hirsch

Dana Hoey

Deborah Kass

Kris Kuramitsu

Jonathan Lethem

Iriving Sandler