Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Vision Fund
Miatta Kawinzi
Miatta Kawinzi is a Kenyan-Liberian-American multidisciplinary artist working with sculptural installation, still and moving images, the voice and body, gesture, language, objects, space and sound to explore practices of re-imagining the self, identity, place, and culture through abstraction and poetics. Their work engages interior and exterior landscapes to illuminate themes of inter-connectivity, hybridity, diaspora, and queered temporalities. Kawinzi’s practice is informed by embodied research and an investment in the language of gesture as an expressive tool.
Miatta Kawinzi has exhibited work at PS122 Gallery; The Africa Center; and CUE Art Foundation, all in New York, among others.
Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, four photographic prints on fabric, dimensions variable.
Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, archival pigment print.
Miatta Kawinzi, SHE GATHER ME, 2021, HD color video, 16mm color film transferred to video with two-channel audio, three wooden rocking chairs and silver mylar floor, dimensions variable.
Miatta Kawinzi, Soft is Strong, 2021, installation view, CUE Art Foundation, New York.
Miatta Kawinzi, Libration, 2019, HD color video projection, four-channel sound, elastic and thread, dimensions variable.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2024: Danish Arts Foundation
Esben Weile Kjær
In his performances, installations and sculptures, Esben Weile Kjær examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in determining our experience of community and freedom.
Esben Weile Kjær has exhibited works at Arken-Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Mumok, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Esben Weile Kjær, HARDCORE FREEDOM, 2020, installation, Copenhagen Contemporary.
Esben Weile Kjær, HYPER!, 2022, performance, Museum Tinguely, Basel.
Esben Weile Kjær, BUTTERFLY!, 2023, painted bronze, Arken - Museum of Contemporary Art.
Esben Weile Kjær, Mirror, 2022, stained glass, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Esben Weile Kjær, Light dancer, 2023, mixed media, light and sound installation.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2024: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Carlos Quijon, Jr. is a Manila-based art historian, critic, and curator. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA) convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project, and has written exhibition reviews for publications such as Artforum, MoMA’s post, Queer Southeast Asia and ArtReview Asia. Quijon previously co-curated the exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia in Singapore, 2021, Manila, 2022, and Busan, 2022, and recently started the curatorial project Archipelagic Futurisms. In 2024, he will curate the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Carlos Quijon, Jr. has curated exhibitions at Vargas Museum, Philippines; ADM Gallery, School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore; and ASEAN Culture House, South Korea, among others.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., and land erodes into, 2023, exhibition.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Nothing human is alien to me, 2023, exhibition, 'A+ Works of Art,' Kuala Lumpur.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Synthetic Condition, 2022, exhibition, Vargas Museum, Manila. Presented in partnership with' A+ Works of Art,' Kuala Lumpur.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, 2022, exhibition, co-curated with Kathleen Ditzig and Sooyoung Leam, ASEAN Culture House, South Korea.
Carlos Quijon, Jr., Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, 2022, exhibition, co-curated with Kathleen Ditzig, Vargas Museum, Manila.
