Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Sara Cwynar, Red Film, 2018, video, 13:01 min.
Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold, 2017, video, 8 min.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Past Resident2020: 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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Civan Özkanoğlu
Civan Özkanoğlu’s interdisciplinary work traces the everyday. He is interested in seemingly mundane stories and daily absurdities and how they converge in public space, mass media, the art world, and in the realm of politics and collective memory. His practice has increasingly moved from photography to other visual, sculptural and performative interventions that tend to the conceptual tensions within artistic production and the exhibition forms it enables.
Civan Özkanoğlu has exhibited work at SALT, Istanbul; National Academy Museum & School, New York; and Istanbul Modern, among others.
Civan Özkanoğlu, As We All Know, 2016, performance.
Civan Özkanoğlu, In Person, 2014, photography.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Deleuze This Deleuze That, 2015, neon installation.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Ilan Olunur, 2018, text installation.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Non Guilty, 2012, photography.
Ground Floor Residents
Bundith Phunsombatlert
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Svetlana Bailey
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Wieteke Heldens
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Mondriaan Fund, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Past Resident2020: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical contents and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).