Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries2021: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries2020: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and reflecting on global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical content, various themes; including family, love, loss, humour, mythology, and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Braunschweig; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, among others. In 2019, Adjani was the recipient of the inaugural Ritzau Art Prize via ISCP, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and the Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philantropy.
Events & Exhibitions
'Bursting Bubbles' Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm
‘Bursting Bubbles’ Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm
On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa
September 17, 2021–February 25, 2022
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Sara Cwynar, Red Film, 2018, video, 13:01 min.
Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold, 2017, video, 8 min.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2020: Vision Fund
LaMont Hamilton
LaMont Hamilton is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. In his practice, Hamilton deals with spiritual, ecological and subconscious themes through sound, installation, performance, poetry and lens based media.
LaMont Hamilton has exhibited work at The Kitchen; ISSUE PROJECT ROOM; and Schomburg Center; all New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
LaMont Hamilton, Evil N***** Part 2, 2018, performance at The Kitchen.
LaMont Hamilton, Untitled, 2020, performance still.
LaMont Hamilton, Five on the Black Hand Side, detail, 2013-current, photography, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
LaMont Hamilton, Evil N***** Part 1, 2018, still from performance at The Kitchen.
LaMont Hamilton, Untitled (research for To Hear the Earth Before the End of the World), 2019-ongoing.
