Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Karen Kraven
Karen Kraven’s work sets up unexpected encounters and juxtapositions between sculptures and images. She explores common themes that appear in sports, card games and hunting. Kraven is particularly interested in motifs of illusion and attraction.
Karen Kraven holds an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Recent solo exhibitions include 37 Fouettés, 8-11, Toronto; Flip Flop, Front Punch at Mercer Union, Toronto; Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, Darling Foundry, Montreal; A Mucker and a Grinder, Parisian Laundry, Montreal; and As Above, So Below, Centre CLARK, Montreal. Her work has also been shown at La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; and Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto. Kraven has participated in artist residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada, and Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro.
Karen Kraven, A Mucker and a Grinder, 2014, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Flip Flop, Punch Front, 2015, Mixed media.
Karen Kraven, Jasper, Elizabeth, Wilfred, Zeiss & William, 2014, Digital prints, 25 x 20 in. each.
Karen Kraven, Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah, 2015, Mixed media.
Residents from Canada
Jonas Nobel
Jonas Nobel is an artist and the co-founder of the artist/design/architect group Uglycute. Nobel works with sculpture and drawing based on historic texts and/or events. With texts as a starting point, he creates representations of historical events influenced by his ideas, personal associations, and reflections. Nobel’s body of work stems from an interest in material culture, both contemporary and historic.
Jonas Nobel graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden. Uglycute works toward expanding the concept of design by integrating professionals from other fields in the various undertaken projects. Uglycute has been featured in numerous international shows including 50th Venice Biennial, 2003, and Emscherkunst, Germany, 2013. Nobel has exhibited and created public commissions mainly in Scandinavia. He is represented by Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Jonas Nobel, Health and Care, 2014, Mixed media.
Jonas Nobel, Geological Gistory of Haninge Municipality, 2016, Photo wrapped furniture.
Jonas Nobel, Display of Loss This Play We Lost, 2010, Mixed media.
Residents from Sweden
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.
