Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Creative Australia
Tom Polo
Tom Polo works across painting and installation, creating material forms that capture exchanges between people. His practice draws from a rich accumulation of social encounters, keen observations, and personal histories, recording the emotional and performative relationships between the self and others within social, theatrical, and psychological spaces. Through a blend of abstraction, text, and figuration, Polo explores how conversation and gesture become embodied acts of portraiture, simultaneously masking and revealing the complexities of our inner worlds.
Tom Polo has exhibited work at Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), all in Australia, among others.
Tom Polo, I still thought you were looking, 2019, painting installation, dimensions variable. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Tom Polo, free fall, 2022, painting installation, dimensions variable. 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Tom Polo, The Most Elaborate Disguise, 2019, 40 mixed media works on paper and acrylic wall painting, 478 × 158 in. (1214.12 × 401.32 cm). The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Tom Polo, If you want to, feel to, 2023, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 54 × 71 in. (137.16 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of AMES YAVUZ, New South Wales.
Tom Polo, other options (a mask for a mask), 2022, acrylic, Flashe and wax pastel on canvas, 77 × 83 in. (195.58 × 210.82 cm). Courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2024: Telos Foundation, Holtmann Collection
Charlie Stein
Charlie Stein’s work explores dominant cultural aesthetics and challenges traditional modes of perception in our digitized, visually overstimulated world. Through extensive research, she translates her insights into drawings, installations, sculptures, and paintings that address social structures, digital media, and communication. Her paintings reflect on contemporary aesthetics, creating a visual language that deconstructs and recontextualizes digital imagery. With degrees in fine art, sociology, and literature, Stein studied under Christian Jankowski and Rainer Ganahl. She is currently a visiting professor at HfbK Hamburg.
Charlie Stein has exhibited work at Manifesta 11, Zürich; Songjiang Art Museum, Shanghai; and SİNOPALE 6, Turkey, among others.
Charlie Stein, Recombining Realities, exhibition view, 2024, oil on canvas, dimensions variable.
Charlie Stein, Random Entities Paired Up (True Love), 2024, oil on canvas, 283/8 × 235/8 × 1 in. (72 × 60 × 2.5 cm).
Charlie Stein, Body With a View, 2024, oil on canvas, 311/2 × 393/8 × 1 in. (80.01 × 100 × 2.49 cm).
Charlie Stein, Portrait (Shoulder), 2024, oil on canvas, 551/8 × 987/16 × 1 in. (140 × 250.01 × 2.49 cm).
Charlie Stein, Still Life, 2024, oil on canvas, 153/4 × 1911/16 in. (40 × 50.01 cm).
Past Resident2025: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Amy Bravo
Amy Bravo blends icons from Cuban religious culture with hyper-personal stories to create a queer afterlife universe in the rough shape of the island of Cuba. Her collaged canvases feature irregular forms where she combines graphite drawings with painterly techniques. These drawings evolve into paintings, embroidery, and assemblage sculptures. This unique mix of techniques helps recompose a family lineage disrupted by exile, engage with her ancestors, and outline a mythical world.
Amy Bravo has exhibited work at Semiose Gallery, Paris; Swivel Gallery, New York; and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls
February 25–June 6, 2025
Amy Bravo, The Black Dog, Again, 2023, acrylic, lace, plaster, extensions, sewing needles, mannequin arms and found objects, 34 × 44 × 12 in. (86.36 × 111.76 × 30.48 cm).
Amy Bravo, Automaton 3.0 (Bull), 2024, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, lace, candles, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 211/2 × 41 × 47 in. (54.61 × 104.14 × 119.38 cm).
Amy Bravo, The 750 Mile Snake, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, rubber and embroidery on canvas, 100 × 74 × 3 in. (254 × 187.96 × 7.62 cm).
Amy Bravo, Automaton 4.0 (Bull-Remastered), 2024, found cabinet, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, plaster, thread, boxing gloves, christmas lights, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 52 × 81 × 52 in. (132.08 × 205.74 × 132.08 cm).
Amy Bravo, The Automaton Springs Out Fully Formed!, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, lace, photograph and embroidery on canvas, 68 × 80 in. (172.72 × 203.2 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217