Participants

2024-2025

Mark de Silva (2024-2025 Distinguished Fellow) is the author of the novels Square Wave and The Logos, as well as the essay collection Points of Attack.

Sophy Naess (2024-2025 Distinguished Fellow) is based in New York and received her B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2004 and M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2013. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Veda (2023); April in Paris (2021); 17 Essex (2018); The Middler (2017) and 321 Gallery (2016). Her work has appeared in group shows at Kerry Schuss, Heroes Gallery, The New School, Chapter NY, Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali galleries in New York City, as well as institutional shows at Växjö Konsthall in Sweden and the Albuqerque Museum in the US. She has been artist in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), NY; The Shandaken Project, NY; Southern Oregon University; The Brooklyn Arts Council's SU CASA program at the Bay Ridge Senior Center in Brooklyn; Gael Roots Community Farm, NY; The Range, Colorado; and Sikås Art Center, Sweden. Naess is a Senior Critic in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.

Joyce Chung is the Curator at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. Her curatorial interests include media art, performance, intersections of feminism and visual arts, and identity politics in Asian and Asian American art. Joyce seeks to examine how Asian Diaspora artists develop practices responding to the US’s history of immigration and the Asian American art histories that underpin struggles of decolonization. She previously worked at a number of museums and galleries both in Seoul and New York, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Hyundai Card, Kukje Gallery, as well as for the Gwangju Biennale and Performa, New York. Joyce studied art history at Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago.

Karen Dias is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Mumbai living in New York City. After a long-term career as a photojournalist, her practice shifted to include painting, sculpture and installation exploring visual representations of violence, conflict and power through the use of universal, everyday materials. Karen's work has been exhibited in France, India, UAE, and New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts and Woodward Residency. Her photographs, web docs and writings have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Le Monde, and Al Jazeera among others. Karen has taught photography and media theory at Columbia University, New York University and International Center of Photography including at public schools with the Josephine Herrick Project. She holds a Bachelors in Mass Media and Journalism from St. Xavier's University in Mumbai and a Masters in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design-The New School in NYC.'

Farid Djamalov lives and works at a gallery in New York. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University in History of Art and has worked internationally at various museums (Garage Museum, Moscow; The Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven), galleries (Gagosian, Paris; Petzel, New York) nonprofits and foundations (Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; Hermitage Museum Foundation, New York; Darling Foundry, Montreal) and auction houses (Christie's, London). He has also written for publications that include BlackFlash, Esse arts + opinions, C Magazine, Border Crossings and All The Russias.

Curtis Eckley is a writer and art historian living between Brooklyn, NY and the Hudson Valley, where he grew up in a log cabin in the woods. He is currently part of the curatorial studio Darling Green.

Dylan Seh-Jin Kim currently serves as the Institutional Giving Coordinator at Independent Curators International, the Curatorial Fellow at NARS Foundation, and a Bandung Resident at Asian American Arts Alliance & MoCADA. He has organized and worked on exhibitions and programs at MoMA PS1, Protocinema, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Unclebrother, Tutu Gallery, NARS Foundation, Columbia University, brownstones, restaurants, and elsewhere. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and Film and Media Studies from Columbia University.

Anna Ting Möller is an artist based in New York City and Stockholm. They hold an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Konstfack University. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail.

Waseem Nafisi is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated in 2018 from The Cooper Union with a BFA, having completed Yale’s Norfolk residency in 2017. His practice involves mixed media assemblage. Recently, his work was exhibited in a three-person show centered on printing processes at Kapp Kapp in Tribeca.

Alex Puz is a painter focused on the relationship between perceptual color, the mind and mental health. He holds an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art, a BFA from Hunter College and was a NXTHVN Cohort 05 Studio Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Gallery Simon in Seoul, South Korea and was included in the Inaugural Exhibition of The Campus, Hudson. His studio practice is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida living in New Haven, CT. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has exhibited recently at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX; Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL; Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. She attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions) and is currently the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence for the Latinx Project at New York University.

Cici Wu was born in Beijing and grew up in Hong Kong. She is an artist who creates complex, sensory and dreamlike investigations into cultural and material environment using drawing, video, sculpture, writing and installation. Combining historical research and material experimentation with an acute sensitivity to sociopolitical structures, Wu’s works aim to explore and interrupt dominant narratives on a multitude of subjects, including memory, cinematic history, nationalism, belonging and identity, and relationships between humans and non-humans.

Irisol Gonzalez-Vega

Gerardo Ismael Madera

Fiza Khatri

Justine Lai

Xiao Liu

2023-2024

Cecilia Caldiera is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Using sculpture, printmaking, and ephemeral installation, she explores relationships among people, public space, time, and value. In her work, found objects are integrated into precarious new systems that challenge hierarchies of matter, recontextualizing local histories and sites’ material life with play and resilience. Cecilia graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in 2013 and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2023, and she currently teaches at Pratt and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.

Katie Chin is New York City-based interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2023. She is currently a participant in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program and will be in residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 2024. Her practice is concerned with social behavior and institutional formation related to labor, gender, and hierarchies of power. Anchored in sculpture and social practice, Chin’s work explores how inherited social systems govern collectivity and individual agency. The dominant influence of precarity under capitalism is one connecting influence. Sculptured form is manifested through queered metaphors and laborious processes. Absurd performances and play suggest emergent correlations on the periphery of dominant ideology. She is interested in formulation of identity and the cultural implications of economic theory.

Elisheva Gavra is an artist, photographer and writer based in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York, The Broad Art Center in Los Angeles, and elsewhere. She is a recent MFA graduate in photography from Columbia University. She makes photography, writing, installation, performance, and books, asking about the task of representation when it comes to an absent referent, and about the affective capacity of relationality in constituting what we agree on as reality. Her work is contingent on her belief that the reproduced image (photography) is a device of both indoctrination and emancipation, and that that mystical attribute is a defining character of any human language.

Erick Alejandro Hernández is an artist from Matanzas, Cuba living and working in New Haven, CT. He received his BFA in Painting from RISD and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Hernández’s practice is invested in exploring how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories. Revolving around overarching narratives such as a car crash or the death of a loved one, his paintings are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, assimilation and exile. Hernández has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Oxbow, Yaddo, Macdowell and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, among others. Recent group and solo exhibitions include Murmurs (Los Angeles), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles, CA), Perrotin (New York, NY), Yossi Milo (New York, NY), and Wilding Cran (Los Angeles)

Athena Quispe lives and works in Connecticut and was a recipient of the 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Quispe received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020, and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven in 2022. Her work has been written about in Editorial Magazine, Artsy, and Ocula Magazine. Quispe’s work has been shown at The Pit in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York; and Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. She recently finished a yearlong fellowship at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. Quispe is a current participant of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in Manhattan, NY.

Masha (Mariia Usova) is a Russian-Ukrainian visual artist. Her work investigates fundamental theoretical concepts and their precise artistic expression. The central themes of her research include psychoanalysis, theology, and continental philosophy. In her practice, Masha combines nuanced sensibilities with a devoutly disciplined aesthetic to create a reverently strict visual style. Her artwork presents the capacity of form to overwhelm with subtlety as it conveys discretion, and characterizes her uncompromising investigations of the concepts of the temporal and corporeal. Masha holds Liberal Arts degrees in Literature with highest honors from Smolny College and Bard College. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, concurrently enhancing her theoretical research at the European Graduate School.

Adriana FurlongSelena Kimball

Marty Koelsch

Georgie PayneMiriam Simun

Michelle (Weiqiu) Song

Kara SpringerYiying Wang

Eunsoo Yi

2022-2023

Francesca Altamura is a curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She currently works as Senior Curator at Acrylicize, a global art and design studio that creates and curates bespoke artworks, installations, and design schemes for Fortune 500 companies and other prospective clients. In 2021, she was one of the curators for the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the most ambitious international open call for curators under 35. She is formerly the Curatorial Assistant for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where she co-curated “Diedrick Brackens: darling divined” with Margot Norton, which traveled to the Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, in 2021. At the New Museum, she also curated presentations by Randa Maroufi (2020), Sydney Shen (2019), and Ahaad Alamoudi (2019), and has assisted on exhibitions by artists including Peter Saul, Daiga Grantina, Hans Haacke, Lubaina Himid, Marta Minujín, Nari Ward, Sarah Lucas, Thomas Bayrle, and John Akomfrah. She has also contributed to the group exhibitions “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement” (Phillips Collection, Washington DC), “The Same River Twice: Contemporary Art in Athens” (Benaki Museum, Athens), “Strange Days: Memories of the Future” (The Store X, London), and the 2018 New Museum Triennial: “Songs for Sabotage.” Her proudest moment during her tenure at the New Museum was co-organizing the New Museum Union – Local 2110 UAW, where she was part of the organizing and bargaining committees, and represented her colleagues as an elected delegate. Altamura holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Željka Blakšić AKA Gita Blak is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York City, originally from Zagreb, Croatia. She often collaborates with members of different subcultures, activists, singers, urbanists, and students, creating sites and praxis of collectivity. Over the last 15 years she created numerous projects addressing critical enquiries into the notions of collective, poetic and refusal. Blakšić makes performances, installations and 16mm films; additionally, she organizes workshops, lectures and makes publications which are often part of her exhibitions. What is presented is the politics of lived time and particular societal conditions. She presented her work at Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Recess Gallery, NYC; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Gallery Augusta, Helsinki; District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, Berlin; AIR Gallery, NY; Urban Festival in Croatia; Gallery of SESI, Sao Paolo; The Khyber Center for the Arts, Canada; MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai among others. She is currently a faculty at Fordham University and Fashion Institute of Technology.

Christine Bootes is a PhD student at the Institute of Fine Arts, where she is the Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow. Her research interests include the intersection of art, architecture, and globalization; lens-based media; and the history of institutions. She earned her MA in Art History from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne and has received support from the DAAD and the NYU Provost's Global Research Initiatives. Prior to entering her doctoral program Christine served as an assistant curator to Barbara Flynn, curatorial advisor to the City of Sydney in Australia, where she worked on large-scale public art commissions with artists including Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Junya Ishigami, and Pipilotti Rist, among others. She was also a 2021-22 participant in the Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Study Sessions at the Museum of Modern Art.

Gabrielle Figueroa is a second-year Master’s student in the Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Department at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. As a native New Yorker and former public school student, she is interested in the relationship between identity, education, and class within the NYC public school system. She has worked in research at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, the New York Blood Center and currently works at Cornell Tech as a research assistant for a research-practice partnership that brings computer science education to elementary school students in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Gabrielle earned her Bachelor’s in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Boston University and has completed extensive coursework in Sociology. Both of these experiences have contributed to the interdisciplinary nature of her work.

Brett Ginsburg, currently lives and works in New Haven, CT. He recently received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University (2022), attended the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (2022), and received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (2013). Ginsburg completed a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (2022). He is currently participating in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in Manhattan NY. His work has been included in exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY; Below Grand, New York, NY; Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Bunker West, Malibu, CA; and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY.

Kearra Amaya Gopee is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York, NY). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They render this violence elastic and atemporal--leaving ample room for the consideration and manipulation of its history, implications on the present and possible afterlives. In the spirit of maroonage, they have been developing an artist residency in Trinidad and Tobago titled a small place--after Jamaica Kincaid's book of the same name--due to begin in 2023. They hold a MFA from University of California, Los Angeles; BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University, and are an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Shoghig Halajian is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Directors at Human Resources LA, and previously was Assistant Director at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). She is co-editor of the online journal Georgia, which is supported by a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She has presented projects at the Hammer Museum and the ONE Archives at USC Libraries in Los Angeles; Le Magasin– National Center for Contemporary Art in Grenoble; Al Ma’mal Foundation for Art in Jerusalem, UKS in Oslo, among others. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Theory and Criticism with a Critical Gender Studies emphasis at University of California, San Diego, where her research explores contemporary queer aesthetics and performance through a critical race lens, focusing on artistic experiments with collaboration. In 2021 she was a Research Fellow at Ocean Space–TBA 21 in Venice, and is currently Visiting Professor in the Art and Art History program at Williams College, MA.

Fields Harrington is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He works across disciplines and media to investigate the social and political dimensions of race, value, and histories of science. The interweaving of vernacular and scientific idioms in his work probes systems of knowledge that determine how life is valued and distributed. fields received his BFA from the University of North Texas and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program for the 2019-2020 year. Fields Harrington is currently teaching at The New School, Parsons School of Design, and The Cooper Union.

Annabelle Heckler draws comics in solidarity with social movements, on stolen land (Brooklyn, NY).

Li-Ming Hu is an interdisciplinary artist from Aotearoa/New Zealand who is currently based in New York City. Often employing a carnivalesque sensibility, her work engages with the imperatives of our high performance culture, and draws on her past experiences in the entertainment industry to explore the relationships between cultural production and the construction of subjectivities. She has an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and attended residencies at the Wassaic Project, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Flux Factory NYC.

Christopher Kojzar received his BA from George Washington University and his MFA from the University of Maryland - Baltimore County. He has been awarded residencies at La Napoule Art Foundation (Mandelieu- la-Napoule, France), the Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD), the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) and worked with the Agency of Artists in Exile (Paris, France). The Deutsch Foundation and Maryland State Arts Council awarded he and his collaborators for their exhibition Renovations while the Baker Artist Award granted the group, known as strikeWare, an Interdisciplinary Artist Award in 2021. He is currently on fellowship at University of Vermont and collaborated on two public art sites. His ongoing project 'Plainclothes Agenda' was exhibited at Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), featured in the Washington Post, published with the New Media Caucus and presented at conferences across the United States.

Laura Serejo Genes and Kiyoto Koseki work together as a curatorial partnership based in New York. They produce exhibitions and programs for specific sites, building upon existing systems to draw new social, material, and historical connections. Laura and Kiyoto each participated in SOMA Summer and the Newburgh Community Land Bank Artist-In-Vacancy initiative where they developed public programs in collaboration with local organizations and businesses. Past projects have been presented outside of art institutions and in venues including moCa Cleveland, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh; American Medium, New York; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge; Time Farm Gallery, Cambridge; Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City; Bienal de las Fronteras, Instituto Tamaulipeco, Tamaulipas; Palácio Nacional de Belém, Lisbon; CAC, Torres Vedras; Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers; Etablissement d’en face, Brussels; NSK State-in-Time Pavillion, Venice; and Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo. Kiyoto and Laura are serving as Curators in Residence at the Abrons Art Center for the upcoming year and curating an forthcoming exhibition at the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Project Space in September 2023.

Naomi Lisiki is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A in Fine Arts from The Cooper Union in 2018 and her M.F.A in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2020. Dealing with themes of permutation and metamorphosis, Naomi’s paintings, mostly abstract, apply densely packed marks in vaguely symmetrical patterns. Both expressive and repetitive, they are meant to be markers of time and of sensorial experiences. She uses forms of geometry and color to emulate light and create large cosmologies. As a result, the paintings have an atmospheric effect, resembling landscapes, motifs of nature and algorithms. She engages with many disciplines (drawing, sculpture, installation) by her painting process, as the work does not have any “final form” but is meant to be in constant growth and change, becoming an object of research and discovery. Like the birth of a star or the formation of a seashell on ocean tides, she aims to formulate a creative process that feeds into itself and becomes its own natural phenomenon.

Jen Liu is a New York-based visual artist working in video, installation, dance performance, and painting, on diasporic Asian identities, postcolonial economies, speculative feminism and the re-motivating of archival artifacts. She is a 2022 recipient of the Hewlett 50 Art Commission, and is a past recipient of the Creative Capital Award, LACMA Art + Technology Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video, \Art Award from Cornell Tech, NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Art, and the Pollock-Krasner Award, among others. She has presented work at MoMA, The Whitney Museum, and The New Museum, New York; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Wien; the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; the Times Museum Guangzhou, Today Art Museum Beijing, and Shanghai Biennale, China; and the Singapore Biennial.

Lily Moebes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She uses painting, quilting, sculpting, and installation to explore how notions of safety, home, and mental health operate in the aftermath of early-life trauma. Her work challenges the idea that all traumas need correction by therapeutic institutions, considering instead the variations between bodies that may be celebrated and imagined rather than isolated and pathologized. Her work has been shown at venues including Venice Art Projects, Venice; Annenstrasse 53, Graz; Sotheby’s, New York; the Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn; Martha’s Contemporary Gallery in Austin; and Zonamaco, Mexico City. She earned her BA in art history from Barnard College in 2015 and her MFA in fine arts from Parsons in 2022. Moebes was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1992 and grew up between Austin and San Francisco.

Kayla Weisdorf's multidisciplinary, conceptual, often collaborative practice – whether concentrating on cinema, social media, or our relationship with beyond human nature – explores how desire is structured by dominant culture, and opens the imaginary to alternative flows of yearning. In her most recent and still ongoing project, Planting seagrass (2019–present), she grows the nature-based solution to the climate and biodiversity crises in the heart of NYC with the help of many partners, sensually demonstrating what the labour but also the pleasures of addressing these twin anthropogenic catastrophes might become if we open ourselves to the creative possibilities to remake society they engender. Weisdorf holds a BA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts, and was a studio participant in the 2018–2019 Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and virtually.

2021-2022

Natalie Frate's work looks at the intersections of art, literature, and material culture. Originally from Cleveland, OH, she has a BS in Sociology and Anthropology from Rochester Institute of Technology; an MA in Comparative Literature from SOAS, University of London; is a former fellow at the Academy of Korean Studies; and is currently working on an MA in Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at New York University.

Alexandra Iglesia is an artist who uses film, photography, and writing to reveal the contradictions and links between inherited trauma and loss to structures of gender, race, and migration. Their work pulls apart essentialist and reductive thinking to invoke questions that connect contemporary visual culture to larger historical narratives. Iglesia graduated in 2021 with a BA from Haverford College.

Iris Ward Loughran is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. They have a BA in Urban Studies and Planning from University of California San Diego and an MFA in Visual arts from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University with full tuition scholarship. She has shown at Wild Project, Zimmerli Art Museum, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, and LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University. Inspired by science fiction, non-binaryism, land art, and fluxus, their work often takes the form of a public installation or action.

Katy Pinke is an artist, actor, and performance maker based in New York. Her practice spans installation, assemblage, painting, musical composition, video, writing, performance, curation and community facilitation. She has shown work with Echo Arts Initiative, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, and ABC No Rio; premiered original performance work at Tate Xchange at Tate Modern; Tsinghua University, Beijing; Dixon Place, NY; Interrobang Festival, NY; Summerhall at Edinburgh Fringe; and Betonest Arts Residency, Berlin; and participated in performance pieces at the Royal Academy of Arts; ARCO Madrid; Frieze London; The Ryder Gallery; and with Global Committee at Garis & Hahn Gallery on the Bowery in NYC; and Lilac Co Theatre at The Segal Center in NYC’s Prelude Festival; as well as performed in films screened at Moscow MOMA and Frieze London. She hosts a nomadic community art event called ‘Foolishly Use the Force and Ride the Chariot.’ Her work explores the intersection of collective and personal mythic imaginations, dreams, and language. She holds a BA from Princeton University in China Studies and Translation, and an MFA from Rose Bruford College (London) in acting. Website: www.katy-pinke.com

Alicia Riccio draws from diarisitic, cultural, and historical sources to explore the fluid and fragile nature of what makes up our individual character and collective selves. Their interdisciplinary practice spans time-based media, sculpture, text and image formats in order to explore sociopolitical issues that intersect with their own biography, such as queer representation, illness, loss, and the resiliency and evolution of one’s identity. Recent exhibitions include Estudio Marte 221, Mexico City, MX, Rinomina, Paris, FR, Galería Agustina Ferreyra LLC, San Juan, PR. Bargain Spot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and New Art Center, Newton, MA, US. They received a BFA from SMFA at Tufts University and are currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) is an artist who employs material exploration and manipulation of fabric through weaving techniques, smocking, lens-based media, rasterization, upholstery, among other methods. Her work functions as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor, especially in their relationship to gender and digitization. Safir holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking. She has exhibited recently at Baxter St at CCNY, SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery, Lyles & King, Pentimenti Gallery and TW Fine Art. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Textiles Art Center in Brooklyn. Safir lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Sydney Shavers is an artist whose work appraises preconceived notions & concepts of value. Her work uses deceptive camouflage to infiltrate systems both digital & ‘IRL’, and expose the ways power constructs understanding, mediates perception, and prescribes limits to reality. She employs viral media across her performance-based works to provide a pause in the understanding of what we take seriously and what we choose to ignore. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea (We Were Already Gone), the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (un/mute), The Catskills in Tribeca (A Gathering), Chicago, Mumbai, Seattle, and online spaces including Transfer Gallery & left.gallery’s exhibition, Pieces of Me. She has developed & led educational programs such as IRL Constellations: Social Media, Algorithms & Pop Culture for Drawstring Magazine's LEARN and co-developed The Role of the Artist & A Sense of Place for CUNY Hunter College. Shavers has participated in residencies & projects including UN/MUTE 10002 with the European Union National Institutes for Culture & Undercurrent Gallery, ACRE, and HATCH projects at Chicago Artists Coalition. She lives and works in NYC.

Ambika Trasi is an artist, curator, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multidisciplinary, research-based practice considers the coloniality of power within images and sites. She is interested in the roles that memory, language, and technology play in identity-making, community-building, and unlearning in the diaspora. Recent curatorial projects include Salman Toor: How Will I Know, co-curated with Christopher Y. Lew at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and A Space for Monsters at Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia. Trasi’s professional experience spans a range of spaces in the field: from collaborative platforms, to feminist art collectives, to arts institutions. As managing director and curatorial assistant of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) from 2013-2017, she worked on projects such as Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015); THINKING CURRENTS, Seattle Art Fair (2015); and four iterations of ACAW’s performance forum FIELD MEETING, hosted at Asia Society (2014 & 2016), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015), the 56th Venice Biennale (a collateral event, 2015), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2016). As a board member of the South Asian Womxn’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) from 2015-2019, Trasi was an exhibition manager for shows held at Queens Museum (2016) and Abrons Art Center (2017). She holds a BFA from New York University with a minor in South Asian studies. Website: https://www.ambikatrasi.com/

2019-2020

Adrienne Bennett is an artist currently based in New York City.

Marina Caron is an independent curator, writer and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently associate programming director for LC Queisser gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was a founding member of C&O curatorial group, who organized exhibitions in Berlin and Cologne from 2015-2018.

Nadine Käser Cenoz is an Argentine-Swiss artist based in Brooklyn and mainly working in drawing. In her ongoing series of drawings „The Truth Is“ she explores the psychic and political complexities of displacement. She addresses issues of representation, sedimented imageries, narrative and autofiction, all of which are very much linked to the medium of drawing. She earned her MFA in Fine Arts after receiving her Bachelor and Master of Science in Architecture at ETH Zürich.

Danny Greenberg is an artist, printmaker and writer based in New York City. His work is composed between the spoken word and the page, the print and the vignette, using language to empower an audience. He received his BFA from Washington University in St Louis in Printmaking with a minor in Writing, MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Print Media, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include if one thing matters, then everything matters two at Muted Horn Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio and Beauty is a Thing of Guilt Forever at Tuttle Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. His performative lecture "He Will Not See Me Stopping Here" was recently performed at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Her work engages with familial archives to explore specifics of Pakistani state and urban infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. She participated in the 2016-17 Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut and is the recipient of fellowships including Refiguring Feminist Futures – Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018); and The Digital Earth, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19). Majeed lives and works in New York and Lahore.

Tatiana Mouarbes is a curator and grant maker focused on supporting artists working at the intersection of arts and social change. She is the Project Head for Culture and Art, the Open Society Foundations’ program dedicated to advancing diverse artistic practices and strengthening locally led cultural spaces around the world. Since joining Open Society in 2016, Tatiana has organized and helped launch diverse initiatives providing holistic support for artists and cultural activists globally, including the Soros Arts Fellowship and Art at Open Society public program series. Tatiana was the recipient of the Joan Lazarus Curatorial Fellowship at The Artist's Institute (2016), Hunter College Art Galleries Curatorial Fellowship (2015), the Kossak Research Grant (2015), and was a participant in the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut (2014/2015). She has held previous positions at the Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, among others. She holds a MA in Art History from Hunter College and a BA in Art History and Critical Theory from Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.

Emily Nelms Perez is an artist currently based in New York City

Alex Strada is an artist and educator based in New York City. Her work has been shown at the Anthology Film Archives, Socrates Sculpture Park, Goethe-Institut, Museum of Moving Image, The Jewish Museum, National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, and on the screens of Times Square with Time Square Arts’ Midnight Moment. Strada’s work has been written about in Artsy, Vice, and The New Yorker. She received a B.A. from Bates College in 2010, an M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2016, and she was a 2018-2019 studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is adjunct faculty at Fordham University and Columbia University.

Thuto Durkac-Somo is an American writer and filmmaker. His writing on the art and technology of video cameras has appeared in Real Life Mag. Thuto graduated in 2019 with an M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia University. His thesis focused on the architecture and narratives of playing virtual cities.

Sille Storihle is an artist and educator working with moving images. Their recent projects deal with neurodiversity - exploring subjective renderings of ADHD - as well as an ongoing body of work in dialogue with queer archives and pasts. Together with Liv Bugge they run FRANK, an Oslo-based platform established to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender, desire and sexuality. They hold a BFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from California Institute of the Arts and is currently an assistant professor at Nordland Art and Film School. Storihle has exhibited at Kunsthall Oslo, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Oslo, Performa; New York, the Sharjah Biennial and the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, among others.

Catalina Tuca. Multidisciplinary Visual artist, educator and independent curator born and raised in Santiago, Chile. Through installation, photography, and video, she re-creates fictional spaces using the expressive potential of objects, to explore the intersections of identities, memory, and time. Her interest is to locate and understand the geo socio-political whole we inhabit, in which tradition, globalization, and technologies collide and intertwine. After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching Visual Arts from Lower to High school, and Latin American Film in higher education. In 2012 and 2014 she co-founded and co-directed Oficina Barroca Gallery and CANCHA_Santiago Residency Program. She participated in art residencies in Japan, Colombia, and the United States. In 2016 she moves to the US to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University. She was a member at NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program and a resident at NARS Foundation, NY, 2019. She is co-founder and co-director of CABO Residencies in Santiago, Chile. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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American Artist is an interdisciplinary artist whose work extends Black radicalism and pedagogy into a context of networked virtual life. Their practice makes use of video, installation, new media, and writing to reveal historical dynamics embedded within contemporary culture and technology. Artist attended the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist. They are a resident at Abrons Art Center and a 2018-2019 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship.

Michaela Bathrick is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn. Her work is primarily concerned with the production of social and cultural constructs and how such systems build and are built by their subjects. Michaela graduated in 2015 with a BA in fine art from UCLA.

Vered Engelhard (Lima, 1993) is an interdisciplinary practitioner based in New York City. Their written work ranges across verse, translation, art criticism, and critical theory. They have been published at Columbia University Law Blog, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Kunstmuzik, as well as catalogues with the Museo Amparo, Museo de Arte de Lima, and Guggenheim. Their compositions has been performed in venues like New York Academy of Music, H0l0, Areté Gallery, Brackish, 2016, among others. They hold a Masters in Art History from Columbia University.

Terike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Haapoja’s large scale installation work, publications, writings and political projects investigate the mechanics of othering with a specific focus on issues arising from the anthropocentric world view of western modernism. Haapoja represented Finland in the 55 Venice Biennale with a solo show in the Nordic Pavilion, and her work has been awarded with several prizes, including ANTI prize for Live Art (2016), Dukaatti-prize (2008) and Ars Fennica prize nomination. Gustafsson&Haapoja, Haapoja's collaboration with writer Laura Gustafsson has been awarded with Finnish State Media art award (2016) and Kiila-prize (2013). Haapoja is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and NYU, New York.

Jordan Jones uses printmaking, painting, and drawing as tools to pose questions. Across these mediums, Jones investigates the ways we relate to one another. In the process, social structures both real and imagined are diagrammed, rendering them visible and challenging their function and utility. These wider interests have most recently focused themselves into an investigation into whiteness. The work pursues a set of key questions: What is the function of whiteness visually? How can one make whiteness read as non-normative? What does white guilt look like? What would it mean for whiteness to claim itself? The works use the unit of the white, male body to answer these questions. His body takes on a variety of forms: linear outlines, realistically rendered portraits, and the ambiguous tube-man/ghost bodied/phallus/Klansman figures. Drawings and paintings explore large-scale interpersonal relations and the intimacy, violence, and indifference they can contain. Jones’ prints function as anecdotes to her larger works, engaging in tangential, oftentimes humorous, narratives.

Allie Mularoni is a media studies researcher and practitioner whose work investigates the convergence of artistic and medical praxis. She focuses on the intersection of phenomenology, disability studies, and feminist science.

Orlee Malka’s work is concerned with diasporic conditions, language, and fields of belonging. Her continued practice is in drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and performance. Probing the material parameters of those mediums and their formal constraints. Her work considers the possibility of art-making in a state of catastrophe, when making the work itself reimagined spaces of collapse. Additionally, her work is engaged with registering a critical gaze on exactly how the aesthetics of the visible are formed, and on the material afterlives of communal forms of displacements. 2018 MFA, Columbia University, New York

Lila Nazemian is an independent curator based in New York. In 2017, she was the U.S. Projects Director at CULTURUNNERS, where, on behalf of the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), she managed a Saudi artist residency in New York and supported national institutions such as Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, for their exhibitions of Saudi contemporary art. Prior to this, she was the Curatorial and Special Projects Associate at Leila Heller Gallery New York for five years where she helped organize over 15 exhibitions including solo shows by artists such as Hadieh Shafie, Shiva Ahmadi and Reza Aramesh, and the group exhibition Calligraffiti which explored relationships between Islamic calligraphy and Western movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Lettrism, and Graffiti writing. Her latest exhibition, On Echoes of Invisible Hearts, opened in Berlin in September 2018, and featured work by artists in Yemen and the diaspora. Recent independent curatorial projects include: Spheres of Influence , the first show of Arab contemporary art in Iran at Tehran’s Mohsen Gallery in April 2016 which received critical recognition from Artforum.com , ArtinAmerica.com , and Vice.com ; This is Not an Image and Out Among the Stars, co-curated with Ava Ansari, featured artists Peyman Shafieezadeh and Sara Ouhaddou at Detroit’s Red Bull House of Art in June 2015. She received a B.A. in Middle Eastern History from Scripps College, California, and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from N.Y.U., New York.

Emilio Martínez Poppe is a transdisciplinary artist working across installation, performance, video, and web-design. Their work evokes lived legacies of belonging as a resistance to the gentrification of bodies, identities, public spaces, and intimacies. Emilio earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and was a recipient of the SOMA+CU 2016 Scholarship for research in Mexico City. They have exhibited their work at Abrons Arts Center, the Queens Museum, CUE Art Foundation, Flux Factory, and Pratt Institute in New York; and Framer Framed, Side Room, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, in Amsterdam, NL. Emilio is currently an artist in residence at Abrons Arts Center and has been an artist in residence at Pratt Institute’s Project Third, a participant in the EmergeNYC program at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a Create Change Fellow at The Laundromat Project, and a member of NEW INC at the New Museum. Emilio is a member of BFAMFAPhD.

Joe Riley (b. 1990) is an artist, researcher, fabricator, and educator. He has participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program (2016-17), Art & Law Program (2018), and was a student organizer with Free Cooper Union. He has a BFA from Cooper Union (2013) and teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art and Steven's Institute of Technology. Alongside Audrey Snyder he is a current participant in the Fresh Kills Field R/D program, a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018-19), and participant in the Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program (2018-19).

Ana Rivera is an artist, musician, and writer from Bogotá currently based in New York. She has a BA in Art History from the Universidad de Los Andes, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Since 2012 she has been working as co-founder and collaborator of several collectives and artist-run spaces focused on generating alternative platforms for the production, exhibition, and discussion of emerging art and music in Bogotá, such as Rat Trap and Mercadito Mentidero.

Jean Carla Rodea is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Mexico City and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, performance, photography, video, and sculpture. Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multi-media installations and performance. Rodea is invested in understanding how time is insistently constructed through memory and how these memories whether embodied or recorded in spaces are documented and re/constructed. Archival research – whether it takes place in an institution or her personal archive – often leads her to draw from fiction and speculative history around documents, physical traces, and spaces. Rodea has performed extensively and shown work at Roulette, Carnegie Hall, BRIC, Knockdown Center, Judson Church, Danspace, Center for Performance Research, Panoply Lab, Rio ll Gallery, The Clemente, El Museo de Los Sures, to mention a few.

Audrey Snyder is an artist and chef based in Brooklyn, NY. She has toured the United States by bicycle, sailed aboard Futurefarmer's Seed Journey, and was a chef with Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. Audrey received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (2013). She is a collaborator with the collective Futurefarmers and alongside Joe Riley she is a current participant in the Fresh Kills Field R/D program, a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018-19), and participant in the Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program (2018-19).

Justin Sterling (b. 1992) born and raised in Houston, Texas - New York City-based visual artist that began his practice as a painter and sculptor. Justin later found interest in a broader range of mediums and later received his Masters in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts from Parsons. His chosen medium is the city, that he appropriates to create a metaphorical relationship with the urban and the domestic, which in turn becomes a catalyst for social, political, and environmental discourse and activism. Sterling has shown work at BRIC in Brooklyn, NY; Foundation Francois Schneider in Wattwiller, France; CampoBase in Turin, Italy, Our Neon Foe Gallery in Sydney, Australia; Panopoly Performance Lab in Brooklyn, NY; 1980 Performance Space New York, New York; University of Rochester in Rochester, NY; and the Australian American Association (AAA) in New York, NY.

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