Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Canada Council for the Arts
Anaïs Castro
Anaïs Castro is a curator and writer based in Toronto and New York. She is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective The Department of Love. She is an editorial member of Daily Lazy and publishes regularly in esse art + opinions, Espace, and this is tomorrow.
Anaïs Castro has co-curated exhibitions at La Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal; Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts; and R E I T E R | Prospects, Berlin among others.
Nakeya Brown, Marilou Craft, Erika deFreitas, Stanley Février, Amartey Golding, Manuel Mathieu, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Over My Black Body, 2019, exhibition view. co-curated with Eunice Bélidor at La Galerie de l'UQAM.
Andrea Acosta, Larissa Fassler, Mila Panic, and Nina Wiesnagrotzki, Ground Control, 2019, exhibition installation view. Exhibition co-curated by Anaïs Castro and Verity Seward at R E I T E R | Berlin prospect.
Isa Carrillo, Alex Coma, Hector Jimenez Castillo, OMSK Social Club, Marigold Santos and Jennifer Murphy Stewart Hall Art Gallery, and Pointe-Claire, Mystic Toolkit, 2020, exhibition view at Stewart Hall Art Gallery.
Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran, and Steven Warwick, The Department of Love, 2019, performances. Performances co-curated by Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra, and Anaïs Castro at Art Night London 2019.
aaajiao, Diego Ascencio, Ramiro Avila, Richard Brautigan, Feng Chen, Quiet Kate, Mountain River Jump!, Klara Ravat, Evelyn Taocheng-Wang, Alvin Tran, Steven Warwick and Xu Zhen, The Department of Love, 2018, exhibition view, dimensions variable. co-curated with Olivia Aherne, Paulina Ascencio, Celina Basra and Tiange Yang at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2021: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Daniel Ramos
Daniel Ramos creates 3-dimensional sculptures, large-scale collages, and mixed media installations. Early on in his career, Ramos decided that the people in his life–family, friends, co-workers–would be the subjects of his work. He uses photography as a vehicle to amplify their presence in the world, and has recently began moving beyond the single image convention of picture making.
Daniel Ramos has exhibited work at Artpace San Antonio and Center for Photography at Woodstock, among others.
Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, How Many Generations Does It Take To Be Treated As A Human Being?, 2020, collage made with silver gelatin prints and inkjet prints on various Mohawk papers.
Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, Pilo In Leaves, 2016, photography.
Daniel Ramos, My Mother, My Father and Uncle Ramiro On The Way To Monterrey, 2000, photography.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2021: Celebrate the Studio
Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha’s work is a mapping of Asian Diaspora and possible spaces for queerness. He is interested in photographic imaging of Otherness. In his practice, he often rephotographs cutouts to create pictures that straddle between self-portrait, still life, and landscape. Kha’s work is a continuation of his mother’s photographs from 1984—a year after she fled Vietnam. His mother’s images depict gatherings, celebration, and liberation, whereas Kha’s picture making is performative and collaborative.
Tommy Kha has exhibited work at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland; International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion, Hyères, France; Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, among others.
Tommy Kha, Reunification (I), Brooklyn/Memphis, 2020, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
Tommy Kha, Assemblies I (Crying in Three Takes), 2020, archival pigment print on jigsaw puzzle.
Tommy Kha, Stops (I), Marsha P. Johnson Park, 2020, archival pigment print, 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm).
Tommy Kha, Constellations (XVIII), Whitehaven, Memphis, 2019, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
Tommy Kha, Constellations (XXI), Ridgewood/Fort Tilden Beach, 2020, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).