Current Residents
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2025–May 31, 2025
Vision Fund, National Endowment for the Arts
Studio #305
Artist
Aryel René Jackson
Aryel René Jackson is a Black Afro-Creole film-based artist exploring land as a site of internal representation. Their visual essays blend film, soil, performance, and installation to examine critical race theories and memory. Raised in post-Katrina New Orleans, their work reflects ancestral wisdom and land’s role in knowledge transmission.
Aryel René Jackson has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; and Big Medium, Texas, among others.
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Aryel René Jackson, A Welcoming Place, 2020-22, film, 29:14 min.
Aryel René Jackson, Temporal Glimpse, 2024, acrylic, Texas topsoil, sand, creole accordionist alphonse "Bois Sec" ardoin, Marjis Allen (Grandma), flock, archival print, cyanotype, screenprint, acrylic-based cement patch, and varnish on panel, 18 × 18 × 11/2 in. (45.72 × 45.72 × 3.81 cm).
Aryel René Jackson, Learning to Soar, 2024, acrylic, pumice, sand, potting soil, Texas topsoil, cadets in ground school studying a radial aircraft engine (Air Force Historical Support Division, 1942), 7 × 5 × 15/8 in. (17.78 × 12.7 × 4.06 cm).
Aryel René Jackson, Buried Signals, 2024, wooden beams, Texas topsoil (chocolate loam), 84 × 84 × 84 in. (213.36 × 213.36 × 213.36 cm).
Aryel René Jackson, We are the [Hackers], Baby, [Hackers] are we, 2021, partition walls, botanical print, red paint, laminated wood flooring, pink armchair, white table, wooden side table, gold plated metal disk, planters, keyboard, speakers, television monitors, framed images of Juanita Brunson Jackson's mother and grandmother, as a child, as a student in secondary school, and during nursing school in Brooklyn covering between approximately 1890s until 1940s), circular rug, track lighting, floor lamp, foam, topsoil, tap floor, small suitcase, pillows, microphones, 9 min.
Residents from United States
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2025–May 31, 2025
Jane Farver Memorial Fund
Studio #306
Curator
Sebastián Vidal Mackinson
Sebastián Vidal Mackinson’s practice explores artistic approaches that challenge hegemonic narratives about Latin American art. He investigates artistic processes within an expanded cultural framework where literature, visual culture, politics, and theory intersect. His work focuses on the practices of migrant artists who critically engage with social realities, shaping a new and expanded geography of Latin America.
Sebastián Vidal Mackinson has curated exhibitions at Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Art Collection; Centro de Arte UNLP; and Museo Sívori, all in Buenos Aires, among others.
Emilio Renart, Alien, 2024, installation view. Fortabat Collection, Buenos Aires.
Agustín González Goytía, Retroespectrum, 2024, installation view. Linse, Buenos Aires.
Group exhibition, Relations end tragically, 2023, installation view. Centro de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires.
Group exhibition, Timeless Museum, 2021, installation view. Sivori Museum, Buenos aires.
Group exhibition, Ecologies, 2018, installation view. Sivori Museum, Buenos aires.
