Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Danish Arts Foundation
Esben Weile Kjær
In his performances, installations and sculptures, Esben Weile Kjær examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in determining our experience of community and freedom.
Esben Weile Kjær has exhibited works at Arken-Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Mumok, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Esben Weile Kjær, HARDCORE FREEDOM, 2020, installation, Copenhagen Contemporary.
Esben Weile Kjær, HYPER!, 2022, performance, Museum Tinguely, Basel.
Esben Weile Kjær, BUTTERFLY!, 2023, painted bronze, Arken - Museum of Contemporary Art.
Esben Weile Kjær, Mirror, 2022, stained glass, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Esben Weile Kjær, Light dancer, 2023, mixed media, light and sound installation.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2024: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Carlos Quijon, Jr. is a Manila-based art historian, critic, and curator. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA) convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project, and has written exhibition reviews for publications such as Artforum, MoMA’s post, Queer Southeast Asia and ArtReview Asia. Quijon previously co-curated the exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia in Singapore, 2021, Manila, 2022, and Busan, 2022, and recently started the curatorial project Archipelagic Futurisms. In 2024, he will curate the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Carlos Quijon, Jr. has curated exhibitions at Vargas Museum, Philippines; ADM Gallery, School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore; and ASEAN Culture House, South Korea, among others.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., and land erodes into, 2023, exhibition.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Nothing human is alien to me, 2023, exhibition, 'A+ Works of Art,' Kuala Lumpur.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Synthetic Condition, 2022, exhibition, Vargas Museum, Manila. Presented in partnership with' A+ Works of Art,' Kuala Lumpur.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, 2022, exhibition, co-curated with Kathleen Ditzig and Sooyoung Leam, ASEAN Culture House, South Korea.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, 2022, exhibition, co-curated with Kathleen Ditzig, Vargas Museum, Manila.
Past Resident2023: Vision Fund
Alicia Grullón
Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.
Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.
Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 30 × 60 in. (76.2 × 152.4 cm).
April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).
Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).
Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).
Alicia Grullón, Breaking News, 2019, single channel video, 4 min.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217