Robert Pruitt (b. 1975, Houston, TX) received his BA from Texas Southern University (2000) and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2003).

His work was recently included in the traveling exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, which began at South at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, and traveled to the North at the Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), and The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Solo exhibitions include To Control the Universe, Salon 94, New York (NY); Guest Minister at Oxbow, Seattle (WA); The Banner Project: Robert Pruitt, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA); Robert Pruitt: Devotion, at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles (CA), among many others.

Recent group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY); FEMMES, Curated by Pharrell Williams, Perrotin, Paris,France; Between Distance and Desire: African Perspectives, The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, New York, (NY); Us, We, Them, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (MA); Assembly, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (TX); Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (AR); and Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, which traveled to the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (CA); the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston (SC); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (MI); Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton (MA); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle (WA).

Pruitt’s work was also featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His work is included in many public collections including the Dallas Museum of Art (TX); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (MA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX); the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham (NC); the Portland Museum of Art (OR); the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (NY); the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (TX); and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (VA), among others.

Taylor Bythewood-Porter is a curator and writer whose practice engages history, material culture, and Black feminist thought to examine the rituals, aesthetics, and afterlives of the African Diaspora. Her work bridges archival research and curatorial praxis to surface overlooked narratives and cultural memory.

She is the Director of Exhibitions at the Armory Center for the Arts. Previously, as Curator of History at the Museum of Riverside, she organized First Comes Love: Courtship in the Victorian Era (2025). From 2017–2023, she served as Assistant Curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM), where she was honored with the American Association for State and Local History’s Award of Excellence for Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture (2021).

At CAAM, Bythewood-Porter co-curated a range of exhibitions, including Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds (2023), Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century (2020), The Liberator: Chronicling Black Los Angeles, 1900–1914 (2019), Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 (2019), Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963 (2018), and California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865 (2018). She also contributed to How Sweet the Sound: The History of Gospel Music in Los Angeles (2018), Circles and Circuits I: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora (2017), and Lezley Saar: Salon des Refusés (2017).

Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Frieze Week, and Yesterday We Said Tomorrow for Prospect.5.