Past Residents
Past Resident2017: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Damir Avdagic
Damir Avdagic is an interdisciplinary artist who uses performance, video and text to address issues of historical memory and identity. By collecting and performing dialogues that are circumscribed by a single historical event, Avdagic reflects on how history is passed, consciously or unconsciously, to the next generation, and its effects on cultural identity, nationality and the self. The historical background for Avdagic’s body of work is the civil war in former Yugoslavia (1991-1995) from which his family fled in 1993 to Norway.
Damir Avdagic (born 1987, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) obtained a degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and holds an MFA from The University of California in Los Angeles. Avdagic has exhibited internationally at Another Space, Copenhagen; KALA Art Institute, Berkeley; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; and Entree Galleri, Bergen, Norway, amongst others. He is the recipient of several grants and prizes, including The Fulbright Scholarship, the NORAM scholarship from Norway-America Association, and BKH’s Photo Art Prize.
Damir Avdagic, Prevodenje(Translation), 2014, SD-video and sound, 16:13 min
Damir Avdagic, Reenactment/Process, 2016, Video installation, Dimensions variable
Damir Avdagic, Reenactment/Process, 2016, Video installation, Dimensions variable
Past Resident2017: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Jia-Jen Lin
Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore the processes of catastrophic losses and how moderations of memories allow us to adapt to change.
Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin attended National Taiwan Normal University for a BFA in Western Painting and received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lin has participated in artist residencies at L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from several United States organizations including Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Jia-Jen Lin, Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore-Personal Security Fence, 2016, C-Print, 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Jia-Jen Lin, Sewing 18 Sweaters, 2012, Archival digital prints, Dimensions variable
Jia-Jen Lin, Sweeping the Earth with Wings Made of Rusty Knives, 2010, Live performance and sculpture, Dimensions variable
Jia-Jen Lin, Manufracture Series: Steel and Benjamin Moore, 2016, Stainless steel fence, C-Print, paint, painting tools and accessories, wooden pedestal, frame, and live performance, Dimensions variable
Jia-Jen Lin, The Archival Body, 2015, Sculpture, photography, video, Dimensions variable
Past Resident2017: Bureau VerbeeldingsKracht
Gracia Khouw
Gracia Khouw’s works explore language, both visual and auditory. She creates minimal geometrical arrangements in which our comprehension of letters and their symbolic meaning are disturbed. Khouw’s images float between purely geometrical designs and readable letters and symbols.
Gracia Khouw attended the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Khouw has exhibited at art spaces internationally including at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and at the Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, and her work is part of private collections around the world. She is represented by Galerie Hein Elferink.
Gracia Khouw, NB, 2017, wallpainting, 228 × 138 in. (579.12 × 350.52 cm)
Gracia Khouw, MANWRK, 2015, wallpainting, 254 × 98 in. (645.16 × 248.92 cm)
Gracia Khouw, Closed Circuit series / CC4, 2014, acrylic on dibond, 49 × 49 in. (124.46 × 124.46 cm)
