IFAC was originally founded in 1996 as IF Gallery / Imperfect Fluids Arts Collective (IFAC) in the Bickerdike Community of Chicago's near northwest side. Since then IFAC has hosted over 1000 artists through various programs, exhibitions, performances, screenings and discussions.

In the fall of 2000, IFAC relocated to New York where the organization has functioned as a loosely knit international network of artists, activists, curators, designers and culture workers, independently curating through projects spaces, art fairs and galleries.

Lee Wells (Curator in Residence) is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York.  He has exhibited internationally, including in the 51st Biennale Di Venezia, The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and The Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, (www.ifac-arts.org), an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators. His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications, which include The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, Artforum.com and artnet. Wells is currently a curator-at-large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs (www.scope-art.com). In January 2006, he co-founded the video-art community-research portal and traveling installation, [PAM] (PerpetualArtMachine.com) with artists Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller. Wells most recently has been appointed as online site editor at rhizome (www.rhizome.org) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

www.leewells.org