Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Uwa Iduozee
Uwa Iduozee is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Helsinki and New York. Iduozee works with narratives that opens new visual representations and understandings towards identities: his work focuses on expanding the ways in which contemporary society understands blackness by challenging this traditional framework. History of Afro-Finnishness and Black identities are recurrent topics in his recent work.
Uwa Iduozee has exhibited work at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, and will be exhibiting at the Helsinki Biennale 2021.
Events & Exhibitions
2021 Spring Open Studios
April 27–April 28, 2021
Uwa Iduozee, Sunny from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Chauncey from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Edod, 2017, archival pigment print, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm).
Uwa Iduozee, Khadra from They Walked on Water, 2019, archival pigment print, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm).
Residents from Finland
Past Resident2021: Canada Council for the Arts
Anaïs Castro
Anaïs Castro is a curator and writer based in Toronto and New York. She is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective The Department of Love. She is an editorial member of Daily Lazy and publishes regularly in esse art + opinions, Espace, and this is tomorrow.
Anaïs Castro has co-curated exhibitions at La Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal; Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts; and R E I T E R | Prospects, Berlin among others.
Nakeya Brown, Marilou Craft, Erika deFreitas, Stanley Février, Amartey Golding, Manuel Mathieu, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Over My Black Body, 2019, exhibition view. co-curated with Eunice Bélidor at La Galerie de l'UQAM.
Andrea Acosta, Larissa Fassler, Mila Panic, and Nina Wiesnagrotzki, Ground Control, 2019, exhibition installation view. Exhibition co-curated by Anaïs Castro and Verity Seward at R E I T E R | Berlin prospect.
Isa Carrillo, Alex Coma, Hector Jimenez Castillo, OMSK Social Club, Marigold Santos and Jennifer Murphy Stewart Hall Art Gallery, and Pointe-Claire, Mystic Toolkit, 2020, exhibition view at Stewart Hall Art Gallery.
Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran, and Steven Warwick, The Department of Love, 2019, performances. Performances co-curated by Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra, and Anaïs Castro at Art Night London 2019.
aaajiao, Diego Ascencio, Ramiro Avila, Richard Brautigan, Feng Chen, Quiet Kate, Mountain River Jump!, Klara Ravat, Evelyn Taocheng-Wang, Alvin Tran, Steven Warwick and Xu Zhen, The Department of Love, 2018, exhibition view, dimensions variable. co-curated with Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra and Tiange Yang at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2021: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Daniel Ramos
Daniel Ramos creates 3-dimensional sculptures, large-scale collages, and mixed media installations. Early on in his career, Ramos decided that the people in his life–family, friends, co-workers–would be the subjects of his work. He uses photography as a vehicle to amplify their presence in the world, and has recently began moving beyond the single image convention of picture making.
Daniel Ramos has exhibited work at Artpace San Antonio and Center for Photography at Woodstock, among others.
Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, How Many Generations Does It Take To Be Treated As A Human Being?, 2020, collage made with silver gelatin prints and inkjet prints on various Mohawk papers.
Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, Pilo In Leaves, 2016, photography.
Daniel Ramos, My Mother, My Father and Uncle Ramiro On The Way To Monterrey, 2000, photography.
