Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Canada Council for the Arts
Gwenessa Lam
Working across drawing and painting, Lam’s research delves into ancient archaeological objects and their potential to disrupt cultural categorizations. Using historical fragments as a framework, she examines broken accounts of the past, both personal and collective. By unraveling the logic of comprehensive historical narratives, she creates patterns and new ancestral lineages that enliven these fragments and their unexpected fractures. The result is a speculative narrative that foregrounds the fragment as a record of rupture and erasure.
Gwenessa Lam has exhibited work at Galerie de l’UQAM, Quebec; Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta; and Queens Museum, New York, among others.
Gwenessa Lam, Open Magic 1- Prospect, 2023, phosphorescent acrylic on canvas, 42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 cm).
Gwenessa Lam, Bronze Fragment 12, 2023, bronze, 4 × 6 in. (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
Gwenessa Lam, Bronze Fragment 10, 2023, bronze, 5 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.24 cm).
Gwenessa Lam, Ghost Fragment B24 (Freer Study Collection), 2023, acrylic and graphite on paper, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm).
Gwenessa Lam, Ghost Fragment B52 (Freer Study Collection), 2023, bronze, 20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2024: Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council
Timothy Manalo
Timothy Manalo approaches his work with a focus on representations of the body and place. Primarily working in sculpture, he explores the aesthetics of communal gatherings and the interactions between people, everyday objects, and the natural environment, creating new narratives and meanings. He views his work as an ongoing investigation into the visual languages that are built, transformed, and used to anchor people’s experiences with the physical world, impacting memory, identity, home, and movement.
Timothy Manalo has exhibited work at Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto; Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota; and Tufts University Art Galleries, Massachusetts, among others.
Timothy Manalo, Medriñaque and Ancestral Diet, 2018-19, polypropylene twine, gold foil fringe and sugar-plaster mix casts, 130 × 100 × 3 in. (330.2 × 254 × 7.62 cm).
Timothy Manalo, Phunkahwallah, 2021, cast papaya soap, wood and paint, 32 × 42 × 21/2 in. (81.28 × 106.68 × 6.35 cm).
Timothy Manalo, I've Seen The Elephant, 2021, marine vinyl, insulation foam, wood and ceramic, 84 × 53 × 100 in. (213.36 × 134.62 × 254 cm).
Timothy Manalo, Heavy Lifting Niño, 2022, wax and brown rice, 14 × 14 × 23 in. (35.56 × 35.56 × 58.42 cm).
Timothy Manalo, Land Be Mine, 2023, locally foraged clay, sand, sandstone, postcards, stickers, magnifying lenses, wood, felt and found metal stand, 47 × 47 × 50 in. (119.38 × 119.38 × 127 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2024: DOOSAN Art Center
Sungsil Ryu
Sungsil Ryu’s art delves into materialistic desires in contemporary Korea, shaped by a blend of traditional Korean Confucian values and the pervasive neoliberal global order led by the United States. Through the lens of black comedy and employing diverse mediums including video, installation, and performance, she reinterprets cultural phenomena with incisive commentary.
Sungsil Ryu has exhibited work at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Germany; Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea, among others.
Sungsil Ryu, BJ Cherry Jang 2018.9, 2018, single channel video, 11 min.
Sungsil Ryu, I'm Not Dead!, 2019, Motor and mixed media, 59 × 78 × 119 in. (149.86 × 198.12 × 302.26 cm).
Sungsil Ryu, BigKing Travel Ching Chen Tour - Mr. Kim’s Revival 2019, 2019, single channel video, 25 min.
Sungsil Ryu, Bigking Travel 2020, 2020, single channel video with user interaction, 15 min.
Sungsil Ryu, The Burning Love Song, 2022, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Residents from South Korea
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
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