Past Residents
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Andrée Campbell’s interdisciplinary practice explores natural systems of the body, its environment and how this is subjectively translated through our senses, employing a wide variety of techniques and materials ranging from X-rays to ice to paint. Campbell’s malleable worlds inspire and connect in, as much as create gaps through, a layered look at memory, perception, identity and permanence as constructs that guide her practice and philosophy. Campbell subverts expectation, forcing questions to arise rather than providing answers. A background in art and science prompted the adoption of this open-ended approach intrinsic to her work. Continually questioning the world through the changing lens of global conditions has resulted in a range of work discussing long-standing investigations into areas of environmental science.
Naomi Andrée Campbell (born in Montreal, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn. Campbell’s work is found in permanent public collections including the MTA Arts for Transit, New York and The New York Public Library. She has contributed to American Artist, Artscape and Linea Art Journal and her work has been included in numerous publications including Art Students League of New York on Painting. Campbell has exhibited at Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York; Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Croatia and represented by Yellow Peril Gallery at SCOPE Miami and New York. She is a visiting critic at Vytlacil Residency Program and has been a guest speaker at Lehman College and Pratt Institute, and an instructor at the Art Students League of New York since 2007.
Test Name, Body for Elizabeth, 2012, Print on plexiglas mount, 30 × 50 in. (76.2 × 127 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ground Floor Residents
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Past Resident2015: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Natalie O’Donnell
Natalie Hope O’Donnell is a curator at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway and a project leader for Munch Museum’s offsite contemporary art projects, “Munchmuseet on the Move.” Past curatorial projects include the retrospective of Pushwagner at MK Gallery and the Boijmans Museum (2013); an exhibition of Norwegian film and video art of the 1990s at Atopia, Oslo (2013); and the First Supper Symposium with Pussy Riot, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti in Oslo (2014). Hope O’Donnell chairs the Norwegian Association of Curators and runs its lecture series together with Milena Hoegsberg and Leif Magne Tangen. She retains an interest in curating as a spatial practice, feminist and queer performative practices, and the exhibition as an historical and cultural construct.
Natalie Hope O’Donnell (born 1979, Oslo, Norway) holds a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford (2002) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London (2008) among other degrees in Legal Practice, Cultural Studies and History of Art. Her PhD at the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) is entitled Space as Curatorial Practice and investigates curators’ use of spatial strategies in the art galleries of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, outside Oslo, in the early 1970s. These included exhibitions in collaboration with architect Sverre Fehn and exhibition maker Harald Szeemann.
Natalie O’Donnell, Pussy Riot in Perspective with Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti, Discursive event. Courtesy of the curator.
Past Resident2015: Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Sejin Kim
Sejin Kim works with a variety of media apparatuses, including documentary realism and cinematic language to explore various and perplexing relationships between individuals and contemporary society. Her approach chronicles everyday anxiety and fear, loneliness and alienation, conflict and confusion, and other conditions an individual endures while negotiating their existence and identity in a society that sustains itself by placing limitations on its members.
Sejin Kim received an MFA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art in London and an MA in Film/TV from Sogang University in Seoul. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions including The Proximity of Longing, Cultural Station284 RTO, Seoul, 2014; Prizma Gallery, Istanbul, 2015; and 24hr City, Brain Factory, Seoul, 2009. Group exhibitions include A View from The Other Side, Media Art from Finland and Korea, Moonshin Museum, Seoul, 2014; Fluid City, Media Theater I-Gong, Seoul, 2014; The Shade of Prosperity, INIVA, London, 2012; Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2011, ICA, London; and S1 Art Space, Sheffield, 2011. She won Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2011 and The 4th DAUM Prize, 2006.
Sejin Kim, Day for Night, 2014, Single channel HD video, 6:52 min. Courtesy of the artist.
