Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Departamento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco
Itziar Barrio
Itziar Barrio’s interest and motivation for creating art springs from a personal need to react to and interact with reality. She has arrived at the understanding that human reality is not completely visceral or absolute, but it is an intricate psychological and intellectual construction, ever being re-created. When Barrio chooses an image, she takes into consideration not only the conscious worlds associated with the image but also the subconscious, societal, and sensational associations. She approaches the icon as a concept by maneuvering it through various abstract worlds and using many media, such as sculpture, painting, mural, and video animation. The repetition and extension of her original icons intomurals, animations, and drawings exemplifies the relationship that society has with everyday objects as recurring icons, whether those be practical objects embedded in our lives or abstract advertisement media creations. In this way she intends to bring up questions that are not overtly social or political, but that deal with the tendency of the human mind to create iconic and associative characters out of its surroundings and the effects of those associations on society.
Itziar Barrio (born 1976 in Bilbao) currently lives and works in New York City. She combines a wide range of media spanning the gamut of drawing, photography, video, animation and installation. She has been featured in solo shows internationally, including ARTIUM Museum, Spain; HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art and White Box, New York; Agenzia04 Gallery, Italy; Weekend Gallery and The Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin; Sala Libre Completo, Barcelona; and Catalogo General Gallery, Bilbao. She has also
participated in group exhibitions worldwide, including New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City, New York; Cervantes Institute, New York; Now or Never, Bogotá; Havana Biennial, Cuba; Pist Space, Istanbul; Art for Art’s Sake, Italy; Gdansk Academy of Arts, Poland; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York; 404 International Festival Postelectronic Art, Italy; The New Vision Cinema Series, New York; Gallerie Augenblick-raum für gegenwartskunst, Berlin; Paolo Boselli Gallery, Brussels; Art Tech Media International Forum, Spain; La Casa de America, Madrid; and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. Itziar Barrio has been the recipient of many grants, awards and nominations from major foundations and institutions including: Brooklyn Arts Council, First Prize Ertibil, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Basque Government Ministry of Culture, Bizkaia Executive Council, Gure Artea Biennial Prize and the Iberoamerican Videocreation Prize, MUSAC (Leon). She has been lecturing at Parsons, The New School for Design, Long Island University, Westchester Community College among others.
Itziar Barrio, Everybody Is Looking For Something, 2010, C-Print, 40 × 26 in. (101.6 × 66.04 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Itziar Barrio, The Blue Wall Project, 2011, Public video installation. Courtesy of the artist and the New Museum.
Itziar Barrio, At The Back, Behind The Parade, 2011, Multimedia installation artium. Courtesy of the artist and Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain.
Itziar Barrio, Kryptonite, 2011, Multimedia project. Courtesy of the artist and Cervantes Institute, New York City.
Itziar Barrio, Welcome To The New Paradise, 2009, Installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
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