The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners, is hosted by David A. Ross, faculty member of the MA Curatorial programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Nery Gabriel Lemus was born in Los Angeles, in 1977. The subjects in his work range from issues of stereotype and immigration to problems in society that can lead to the failure of families, such as poverty, abuse and neglect. He has done a great deal of work with incarcerated youth and with recently arrived immigrants. Lemus received his BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (2007) and his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California (2009). Lemus also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2008).