Current Residents
Current Resident: May 1, 2025–Jul 31, 2025
Icelandic Art Center
Studio #205
Artist
Melanie Ubaldo
Melanie Ubaldo creates monuments to unbelonging. Her artistic practice constitutes an examination of profound intersectionality through autobiography. Her works are characterized by vulnerable autobiographical narratives surrounding racism, prejudice, power, and discrimination. Using diverse media, her large-scale installations address themes of home, memory, poverty, displacement, immigration, and identity. Despite their scale, her works simultaneously convey a delicate quality, mirroring the fragility and precariousness of their subject matter.
Melanie Ubaldo has exhibited work at The National Gallery of Iceland; Akureyri Art Museum; and Reykjavík Art Museum, all in Iceland, among others.
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Melanie Ubaldo, HJÚKRUN, 2024, performance.
Melanie Ubaldo, TRAPO, 2023, painting, site specific installation.
Melanie Ubaldo, Completely Tasteless, 2023, acrylic on wall, site specific installation.
Melanie Ubaldo, Don't Come Crying to Me, 2023, mixed media.
Melanie Ubaldo, PUTI, 2021, performance.
Residents from Iceland
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #212
Artist
Hermes Payrhuber
Hermes Payrhuber’s world is perennially in motion: within its fluid borders objects get transformed, values exchanged, contexts overlapped. He aspires to use art to catalyze a variety of meanings. The work then becomes both the point of departure and the terminus of an endless journey through the spirals of memory, setting in motion an alliterative principle: the memories unfold like an accordion and rhyme with each other freely.
Payrhuber has participated in exhibitions across Europe and the United States including Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria; Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago; New York Public Library, New York; Dimitrios Antonitsis Hydra School Project, Hydra, Greece; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York.
Hermes Payrhuber, Abwesenheitsnotiz, 2005, assemblage and photo paper.
Hermes Payrhuber, Mimetic abject taido, 2016, softsculpture, fabric and wood.
Hermes Payrhuber, Like the name of the poet written on water, 2015, 23k gold gilded shoe tree.
Hermes Payrhuber, Alter ego, 2023, animal hair, thread, wood and glass.
Residents from Austria
Current Resident: Apr 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025
DOOSAN Art Center
Studio #216
Artist
Sinae Yoo
Sinae Yoo explores themes of alienation and servitude under capitalism through a range of media, drawing from advertising and video games to craft an aesthetic that is both seductive and consuming. She received the Aeschlimann Corti Award in 2016 for her debut solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Langenthal. Her work is part of the Seoul Museum of Art collection and has been exhibited at the Swiss Art Awards, CCA Futura, and the Serpentine Gallery. In 2023, she was awarded the Frieze Seoul Stand Prize and the DOOSAN Arts Award.
Sinae Yoo has exhibited work at FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague; Serpentine Gallery, London; and Kunsthalle Bern – Contemporary Art, Switzerland.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2025
April 25–April 26, 2025
Sinae Yoo, Derivative Messiah, 2024, single channel video, sound, 4K, ceramic, wood, and mixed media.
Sinae Yoo, Petrichor, 2021, single channel video, 4K and stereo, 90 × 108 × 30 in. (228.6 × 274.32 × 76.2 cm).
Sinae Yoo, Untitled #3 (Petrichor), 2020, acrylic and watercolor on paper, 103/8 × 165/16 × 13/16 in. (26.42 × 41.4 × 2.03 cm).
Sinae Yoo, Penpal, 2023, oil on linen canvas, 315/8 × 11613/16 in. (80.26 × 296.67 cm).
Sinae Yoo, Untitled #5 (Petrichor), 2020, acrylic and watercolor on paper, 193/8 × 295/16 × 7/8 in. (49.28 × 74.42 × 2.29 cm).
