Past Residents
Past Resident2011: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Eunice Adorno Martínez
Eunice Adorno Martinez’s photographic documentary work focuses on the dynamics of migration, music, identity, youth, and traditions. She seeks conceptual and discursive routes for a visual poetry on migration and explores concepts such as trajectory and reunion. Her current project focuses on Mexican migration in neighborhoods of New York City, considering identity, tradition and festivities of Mexican youth. Martinez is exploring ways in which young people meet and interact with other generations, social groups and cultural norms.
Eunice Adorno Martinez lives and works in Mexico City and her photography has appeared in a wide range of publications, including national magazines and photography journals. She is the recipient of the 2010 Jovenes Creadores Grant Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes for her series Fraum Blam, and has an upcoming publishing project with Fabrica editorial de España.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Past Resident2011: Artadia
Cecil McDonald, Jr.
Cecil McDonald, Jr. is most interested in the intersections of masculinity, familial relations, and the artistic and intellectual pursuits of black culture that emanate from the two. Through photography, video, and text, McDonald is seeking to investigate and question the norms and customs that govern our understanding of each other, our families, and the myriad of societal struggles and triumphs. In his latest body of work Looking for Baldwin, putting the word in the street, he works with the seminal essay A Stranger in the Village as his inspiration. McDonald investigates notions of artist practice and travel coupled with notions of masculinity and race. He imagines the return of the celebrated author to the place where this often referenced essay was conceived and executed.
Cecil McDonald, Jr. studied fashion, house music and dance club culture (not in any particular order) before receiving a MFA in Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where he currently serves as an adjunct professor. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with works in the permanent collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bank of America, and the Joyce Foundation. McDonald has received honors from the Midwest Voices & Visions Award, the 3Arts Teaching Artist Award and the Lucerne, Switzerland, Residency, awarded by The Swiss Benevolent Society.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Xiaowei Chen and Cecil McDonald, Jr.
August 23, 2011
Cecil McDonald, Jr., Black As A Metaphor, 2010, Digital C-Print, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Cecil McDonald, Jr., I Have Read Your Words Before, 2010, Digital C-Print, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Cecil McDonald, Jr., What Does Whiteness Want, Digital C-Print, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Cecil McDonald, Jr., Because Of Giovanni's Room, 2010, Digital C-Print, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Cecil McDonald, Jr., The Village Knows My Name, 2010, Digital C-Print, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Tang-Wei Hsu
Tang-Wei Hsu (born 1980 in Changhua, Taiwan) currently lives and works in Taipei. He obtained an MFA in Architecture at the Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu’s paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture and public art.
Hsu’s solo exhibitions include Sphere of Planetesimals, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2011; Evolutionism, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008; Dredging up the drift, ITPARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006; Fantasy, the Art Center of Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2005 and Follower, SLY Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004. Group
exhibitions include Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan, 2009; CIGE 2009, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China, 2009. Hsu was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Artist Abroad Subsidy, 2009 and the National Culture and Arts Foundation Creative Subsidy, 2009.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space No.1, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 63 × 44 in. (160.02 × 111.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Unknown World Of Distance, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 44 × 63 × 13/8 in. (111.76 × 160.02 × 3.56 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space, 2008, Installation, 157 × 551 in. (398.78 × 1399.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Monster Of My Imagine, 2010, Mixed media, 118 × 295 × 98 in. (299.72 × 749.3 × 248.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Strange Stars No.11, 2010, Ink on paper, 47 × 94 in. (119.38 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
