Past Residents
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–May 31, 2026
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, 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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Maksud’s practice traces the intersections of space, power, and memory, through installation, sound, and sculpture. Engaging archival fragments and embodied material processes, her work examines the violence and power embedded within systems of representation and standardization—interrogating how such systems present themselves as universal languages of experience, while denying and othering those whose realities fall outside their constructed sameness.
Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at CUE Art Foundation, New York; Goodman Gallery, Cape Town; and Videobrasil, São Paulo, among others.
Past Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Keli Safia Maksud, Worried Notes, 2025, mixed, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, Worried Notes, 2025, mixed, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, mixed, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2021, mixed.
Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2015, mixed.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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
Sujin Lim
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, 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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2024: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Bianca Argimón
Bianca Argimón takes a multidimensional approach to explore societal nuances, challenges, and oddities, creating a dynamic space for paradoxical situations and metaphors. She incorporates visual elements in her work to create puzzles that challenge viewers to understand her unfolding narratives, and adds kafkaesque aspects into her sculpture and installation to reinvent familiar objects. She has recently delved into filmmaking, producing her debut short film ‘Sol y Sombra’, widening the scope of her artistic research.
Bianca Argimón has exhibited work at Palais Tokyo, France; Fondation Lambert, France; Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Bianca Argimón, Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum, 2022, last fast pencils on arches paper, 90 × 63 in. (228.6 × 160.02 cm).
Bianca Argimón, Piano piano si va lontano, 2023, last fast pencils on arches paper, 59 × 44,5 in. (149.86 × 44,5 cm).
Bianca Argimón, Eve & Adam XXI, 2022, last fast pencils on arches paper, 34 × 51 in. (86.36 × 129.54 cm).
Bianca Argimón, Zen Garden, 2022, mixed media, 197 × 118 in. (500.38 × 299.72 cm).
Bianca Argimón, Tang Ping, 2023, mixed media lamp.
Valentina Furian
Valentina Furian’s practice explores the connection between reality and fiction, pushing the boundary between this duality. Her research is focused on the existing relationship between humans and natural beings; examining the worth of the wilderness, animal and human domestication as a kind of power. As a result, her landscapes are frequently filled with non-human performativity.
Valentina Furian has exhibited work at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris; and Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Valentina Furian, Ciacco, 2021, video installation, 2-ch HD video, 5.1 Dolby sound.
Valentina Furian, Centauro, 2023, HD video and stereo sound.
Valentina Furian, 55, 2019, video installation, 2-ch HD video and 8-ch audio.
Valentina Furian, 55, 2019, video installation, 2-ch HD video and 8-ch audio.
Valentina Furian, Drago, 2021, video installation and 2-ch HD video.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
