Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Oct 31, 2024
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #201
Artist
Amy Ching-Yan Lam
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer whose work explores personal and communal histories, approaching them through intuition and necessity. Her practice is rooted in absurdity—where humor and sadness meet, or where the line between them blurs, creating a sense of instability. She primarily works in poetry, site-specific projects, and installation. Her publications include Property Journal (forthcoming, 2024), Baby Book (2023), and Looty Goes to Heaven (2022). Born in Hong Kong, Amy now lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.
Amy Ching-Yan Lam has exhibited work at Eastside Projects, United Kingdom; Seoul MediaCity Biennale, South Korea; and Richmond Art Gallery, Canada, among others.
Residents from Canada
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Nov 30, 2024
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
Studio #203
Artist
S Emsaki
S Emsaki works to deconstruct and disrupt East-West subject-object positions through video, drawing, and multimedia installations that incorporate found and provisional elements. Born and raised in an American-built suburb on the outskirts of Isfahan, Iran, Emsaki’s practice challenges the legacies of petro-imperialism by engaging with marginalized archives and intimate histories of both human and non-human subjects. Emsaki was a participant in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in New York and holds an MFA from Yale University and a BA from UC Berkeley.