Past Residents
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.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2025: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Bryan Fernandez
Bryan Fernandez is a Dominican-American artist from Washington Heights, New York, whose practice centers on the visibility of marginalized communities from his cultural background. As an Afro-Dominican, he has observed the lack of authentic representation of his demographic in white media. In response, Bryan creates large-scale figurative mixed media works that tell the stories of his people, challenging colonial and anti-Black narratives.
Bryan Fernandez has exhibited work at The Shed, New York; Bronx Museum, New York; and New Image Art, Los Angeles, among others.
Bryan Fernandez, Cansado Por el Dia, 2024, oil pastel, cardboard, yarn, denim, xerox paper, decorative fabric, shirt, acrylic paint, relief print on Fabriano paper, and tobacco.
Bryan Fernandez, Jajaja Jajaja Jajaja, 2024, oil pastel, cardboard, yarn, denim, xerox paper, decorative fabric, shirt, acrylic paper, relief print on Fabriano paper, found stickers, paper clay, milk crates, rope, led lights, aluminum foil, and tobacco on wood panel.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201