Past Residents
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Studio #205
Artist
Antonietta Grassi
Antonietta Grassi’s paintings explore the intersections of textile, memory, and technology. Drawing inspiration from her personal history in the textile industry, Grassi creates multi-layered compositions that evoke the textures of woven surfaces, circuit boards, and obsolete machines. Influenced by modernist abstraction and women pioneers in computing, her paintings integrate thread-like lines with architectural forms to suggest a hidden system of knowledge. Grassi’s work reflects a personal engagement with cultural memory, feminine labour, and the evolution of analog and digital language.
Antonietta Grassi has exhibited work at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; Galerie Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Canada; and Katonah Museum, New York, among others.
Past Residencies
Antonietta Grassi, Chromafils, 2025, installation view . Centre d'exposition Michel et Jacques Auger, Quebec.
Antonietta Grassi, Compiler 3.0, 2022, oil and ink on linen, 61 × 60 in. (154.94 × 152.4 cm).
Antonietta Grassi, Pink Power Push, 2023, oil and ink on linen, 55 × 55 in. (139.7 × 139.7 cm).
Antonietta Grassi, Zip Blur, 2023, oil, acrylic and ink on linen, 53 × 53 in. (134.62 × 134.62 cm).
Antonietta Grassi, Portal, 2022, oil and ink on canvas, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Residents from Canada
Keli Safia Maksud
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: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Bob Kil
Bob Kil’s work reflects contemporary reality, serving as a mirror that blends the present with a detailed and often critical exploration of societal norms and the deeply rooted aspects of human experience and identity. Through repetition and meticulous notation, Kil contrasts subtlety with conventional notions of mastery, challenging the belief that complexity equates to skill. Instead, his work emphasizes the power and impact of refined, minimalistic imagery.
Bob Kil has exhibited work at Mudam Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.
Bob Kil, Traveller, 2024, collage, 115/8 × 83/16 in. (29.46 × 20.83 cm).
Bob Kil, Is, Bob, 2024, collage, 115/8 × 83/16 in. (29.46 × 20.83 cm).
Bob Kil, Trip, 2024, performance.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2024
Brenda Mallory
Texture and rhythmic repetition are central to Brenda Mallory’s abstract compositions and installations. By ‘sewing’ together soft fabric forms—primarily reclaimed materials—with industrial hardware, she explores themes of dominion, disruption, repair, and the interconnections within long-established natural and human systems.
Brenda Mallory has exhibited work at Gorman Museum of Native Art, UC Davis, California; Heard Museum, Arizona; and Portland Art Museum, Portland, among others.
