Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Vision Fund
Yoshie Sakai
Yoshie Sakai is a multimedia artist working with video, installation, sculpture and performance. Her videos and over-the-top immersive installations are centered on accessibility and nurturing human connection while critiquing capitalist productions of space and ways of being. As a subtly transgressive undercover cultural agent, she exposes the absurdities of manipulative social structures while humorously struggling and reveling in them as a participant. She draws on popular forms of entertainment and media to engage diverse audiences, especially those historically devalued, ignored, and seen as burdens.
Yoshie Sakai has exhibited work at Vincent Price Art Museum, California; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin; and Antenna, Louisiana, among others.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Björn Kämmerer
Björn Kämmerer creates sensuous yet rigorous visual explorations in 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm film, transforming captured imagery into abstract patterns with a strong emphasis on light and shape.
Björn Kämmerer has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Mumok, Austria; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2024: New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, 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, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha2023: 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, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation2021: Mondriaan Fund
James Beckett
James Beckett’s practice explores overlooked histories concerned with industrial development and the built environment. With a focus on the physicality of historically-laden objects, his works deal with cultural signs that shape our experience in the modern era. The approach considers proximity in the experience of subjects through tertiary bodies, and the implications of their given traces. Beckett activates objects in order to unpack their abstract and metaphysical potential, often employing the absurd and uncanny to form new perspectives on formative events.
James Beckett has exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, amongst others. His work is in collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is the winner of Prix de Rome Art & Public Space.
Ground Floor Residents
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, 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 Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Simon Liu
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