Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Kunststiftung NRW
Lars Breuer
Lars Breuer creates large wall works that underscore the global political landscape of crisis. His compositions address the language of authority and the shifting instability of meaning and significance in contemporary life. Breuer works with language and comprehension, while striving for order in his wall works, balancing not just the architecture of the wall but the space that separates the public from the private and the past from the present.
Lars Breuer (born 1974, Aachen, Germany) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Solo exhibitions include Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany; Galleri Kant, Denmark; Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany; SchauOrt Gallery, Switzerland; and Temporary Gallery, Cologne. His works have been included in group exhibitions at Museum Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; Pori Art Museum, Finland; Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Poland; Museum Morsbroich, Germany, KIT/ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; ZKM/Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany; Sydney College of the Arts, Australia; and the 10th Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania.
Past Resident2016: Manitoba Arts Council
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest’s practice is concerned with the representation of cultural hybridity, in particular his Eurasian heritage. Through his work in painting and mixed media installation, he takes a critical perspective to provide a voice to those negotiating mixed identities.
Kevin Ei-ichi deForest is a Eurasian Canadian painter and installation artist. He received an MFA from Concordia University and is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art at Brandon University, Manitoba.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2016: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Yi-Kuan Lin
Yi-Kuan Lin’s artistic practice explores how individuals physically deal with the world. Her work features exquisitely detailed pen drawings on paper that depict muscles, organs, skin wrinkles, tree bark, leaf veins, and petal textures in a suffocating mass of forms. Her recent body of work documents the changing dynamic between the body and nature.
Yi-Kuan Lin (born Tainan, Taiwan, 1981) graduated from the Department of Art Education at National Hualien Teacher College, Taiwan, 2004. Her recent solo exhibitions include: The Thinking Tree in Meditation, Der-Horng Art Gallery, Tainan, 2015; Handscape, BF Gallery, Taipei, 2011; and Hand, Wu-Chi Art Studio/Blacksnail, Tainan, 2011.