Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Winsor & Newton
So Yoon Lym
So Yoon Lym likens her practice to the art of Taekwondo. She believes that making art is a philosophical commitment, similar to Taekwondo whose tenants are “courtesy, integrity, perseverance, patience, self-discipline and invincibility of spirit”.
So Yoon Lym (born 1967 in Seoul, Korea) moved to Uganda in 1967 until the age of 7. She came to live in Northern New Jersey in 1974, where she currently resides. Lym pursued her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a BFA in Painting and then at Columbia University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 1991. Since then, she has exhibited her work at the United States Embassy in Djibouti, Centro Provincal de Artes Plastica y Disenos in Santiago, Cuba, Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea, Studio Museum of Harlem, International Print Center New York, Paterson Museum and the Newark Museum, among many other places.
So Yoon Lym, Jhonathan, 2010, Acrylic on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2015: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Bastian Muhr
The boundary between picture and nonpicture is constantly readjusted in Bastian Muhr’s large-scale systematic drawings, (…). No drawing constitutes a completely regular pattern; otherwise it would be a nonpicture, like wallpaper. Nor do these drawings convey distinct images but move along the boundary between no-longer-picture to not-yet-picture and being a picture after all. This is not only due to their systematic composition but also to their workmanship. Inspecting the hand drawing more closely reveals its essential features, its slight deviations from any standardization. (…) These drawings resemble an organism that regularly grows yet with slight variables, with small organic variations in the system. (Excerpt from text by Dieter Daniels, “The System as Motif“, 2014)
Bastian Muhr (1981 in Braunschweig, Germany) loves to draw. He grew up in Berlin and moved to Leipzig in 2004 to study Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) where he graduated in 2010. Since then, he has exhibited regularly in Germany and abroad. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Drawings, Museum Wiesbaden, 2016; and Folge der Linie bis zum Elefanten, Galerie b2 Leipzig, 2014. Muhr’s works are in the collections of Berlin State Museums / Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; Dresden State Art Collections/Kunstfonds, Dresden; German Federal Bank, Frankfurt; and Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria.
Events & Exhibitions
2016 ISCP Benefit Auction
September 21–October 5, 2016
Bastian Muhr, Untitled (BM1407), 2014, Multicolored pencil (rainbow pencil) on paper, 51 × 40 in. (129.54 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
Shahidi Marnani’s recent work aims to facilitate dialogue concerning the issue of time. She employs alternative methods to create dialogue through the medium of text and video, applying the specifications of time-based media.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran and she lives and works in Tehran. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Tehran University in 2007. She has shown her work at The Print Shop, MoMA PS1, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Devi Art Foundation, India; Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran; design transfer gallery (UDK), Berlin; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; PØST, Los Angeles; and Regina Rex, New York.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Soliloquy III'' Part 3: ''Where the Stars Go'' by Marzena Sowa, 2013, Video documentary, 39:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
