MOS is a New York–based architecture and design studio founded in 2005 by architects Hilary Sample, professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, and Michael Meredith, Associate Dean at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. They are the recipients of the United States Artist Award, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award, and many more. Their design work is held in the collection of MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale Art Gallery, and their written work in the special collections of the Harvard Loeb Library and Columbia University Avery Library. Tony Cokes and MOS were both 2022-23 Rome Prize Fellows.

Tony Cokes, based in Providence, serves as professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. His work confronts issues of structural racism, power, visibility, and the defiant pleasures still found under capitalism. Cokes is a recipient of the 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and his works have appeared in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, Haus der Kunst, MACBA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, among others.