Past Residents

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Canada

Past Resident
2019: Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

Walter Scott

Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across comics, drawing, video, performance and sculpture. Contemporary questions of representation, cultural production, popular culture and narrative construction are central to his practice. His comic series, Wendy, chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist in a satirical version of the contemporary art world.

Walter Scott has exhibited work at Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; and Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, among others. 

Events & Exhibitions

Walter Scott: The Pathos of Mandy
December 10, 2019–March 6, 2020
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Artists at Work: Walter Scott and Borjana Ventzislavova
September 24, 2019, 6:30–8pm
Walter Scott, Wendy Excerpt, 2011, digital image, 81/2 × 51/2 in. (21.59 × 13.97 cm)
Walter Scott, Narratives From Home, 2018, fabric, plaster, wood, wire, and string, 29 × 35 × 7 in. (73.66 × 88.9 × 17.78 cm)
Walter Scott, Slipping On The Missing X, 2019, installation view at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, dimensions variable
Walter Scott, Symbols of Paradise, 2015, digital print on vinyl, 35 × 55 × 4 in. (88.9 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm)
Walter Scott, Wendy, publication excerpt, 2014, Digital image, 211/16 × 25/16 in. (6.86 × 5.84 cm)

Residents from Canada

Antonietta Grassi

Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #208

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.
Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #222

Kara Springer

A hanging wall work consisting of deep purple prints of high resolutions scans of clay hanging over a poplar wood rod mounted on the wall.
Canada, Barbados
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #305
Estonia

Past Resident
2019: Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center

Artist

Laura Põld

Laura Põld’s work deals with territory and place. She seeks to combine specific histories, or qualities of a given location, with her art. She works mainly with clay and ceramic sculpture, textile and embroidery, wood and painting, weaving them together with natural, context-specific and interdisciplinary elements, often engaging in collaborative endeavors.

Laura Põld has exhibited work at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn, Estonia; le lieu unique; Nantes, France; and Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Laura Põld, Natural Shelter, detail, 2019, installation, dimensions variable
Laura Põld, Burrows. Flights, detail, 2019, clay, ceramics, wood, glass, and the book "Meeting the Universe Halfway" by Karen Barad, dimensions variable
Laura Põld, Burrows. Flights, detail, 2019, ceramics, 19 × 70 × 17 in. (48.26 × 177.8 × 43.18 cm)
Laura Põld, Dre Britton and Ingrid Allik, How to Live: Virtual Biographies, 2018, installation, dimensions variable
Laura Põld and Johna Hansen, Serving Makes Place, 2016, installation and performance, dimensions variable

Residents from Estonia

Karel Koplimets

Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Studio #211

Helena Keskküla

“Moss Doesn’t Grow…” is a series of works about a not-so-mythological woman’s journey to become a stone carver. The works draw inspiration from Estonian mythology and revolve around Linda, the mother of the Estonian hero Kalevipoeg. Linda has found a new life and voice in contemporary Amsterdam, while struggling with a big boulder in the middle of her bedroom.
Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
2023

Taavi Suisalu

Part of the show 'Attention figures' at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia
Estonia
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2022
Canada

Past Resident
2019: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Curator

Chloé Grondeau

Chloé Grondeau is a Montreal-based curator and author. Her curatorial projects position art as critical discourse. In her work, she explores frameworks of art transmission and production, and creates contexts and situations of collaboration. Grondeau is director of Diagonale Art Center, a member of the International Association of Art Critics, and on the Board of Directors of Triangle Canada (Triangle Network).

Chloé Grondeau’s has presented curatorial projects at Mains d’Œuvres, Paris; La BF15, Lyon; Maison des Arts de Laval, among others. 

Events & Exhibitions

2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Chloé Grondeau, AUTEURS PRÉSUMÉS, 2015, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, AU LOIN UNE ÎLE, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, Jeu et diversion, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, CONVERSATIONS Montréal/Lyon, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Chloé Grondeau, PATTERN, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable

Residents from Canada

Antonietta Grassi

Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #208

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.
Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #222

Kara Springer

A hanging wall work consisting of deep purple prints of high resolutions scans of clay hanging over a poplar wood rod mounted on the wall.
Canada, Barbados
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #305