Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Canada Council for the Arts
Jérôme Havre
Jérôme Havre’s multidisciplinary practice concentrates on issues of identity, communities and territories through an investigation of the political and social aspects of life. Havre uses a myriad of tools and methods to make tangible the conditions of identity within situations of social transformation.
Jérôme Havre studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and currently lives and works in Toronto. He has exhibited in many institutions in Europe, Africa and North America. Recent shows include Talking Back, Otherwise, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto; Paradis: La fabrique de l’image, espace d’art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Martinique; Land Marks, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario; Liminal (Necessity and accident), The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ontario; Reiteration, Art Gallery of Ontario; Poetry of Geopolitics, Koffler Gallery, Ontario. He has been awarded grants from various Canadian arts councils.
Jérôme Havre, Magnifique Isolation, 2009, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Six Degrees of Separation, 2014, Chalk and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Necessite et Accident (Liminal), 2016, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Untitled, 2016, Photography, Dimensions variable.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2017: The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund
Liam O'Brien
Liam O’Brien’s practice explores the ambiguity of freedom and construction of individuality under late capitalism. Using personal experience, theoretical texts, and intuition, O’Brien interrogates the influence of social, political, and religious ideologies in shaping individual hierarchies of value. Usually presented as single-channel videos, O’Brien’s work oscillates between performance documentation and more elaborate, pseudo cinematic constructions. Themes of futility and absurdity are recurrent in his works, which contemplate a broad range of subjects including employment, drug use, mortality, technology, and intimacy.
Liam O’Brien (born 1987, Australia) lives and works in Melbourne. O’Brien graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Photography and First Class Honors in 2010. In 2013, O’Brien undertook a residency at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, completed a commission for Artbank’s Performutations video series, and was named the recipient of the Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. Recent solo exhibitions include Cold Comforts, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, and Selected Works, Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Group exhibitions include NEW16, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary; and GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. O’Brien is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Liam O'Brien, Futility #1 (detail), 2009, Archival pigment print, 205/16 × 513/16 in. (51.56 × 130.05 cm).
Liam O'Brien, Domestication, 2014, High definition single-channel video, 10:15 min.
Liam O'Brien, I'm Too Drunk To Tell You, 2011, High definition single-channel video, 10 min.
Liam O'Brien, Possessions, 2016, High definition single-channel video, 14:21 min.
Past Resident2017: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Ayesha Kamal Khan
Ayesha Kamal Khan’s work hovers in the anxiety of displacement. She addresses the tensions of polarity using impressions of provisional nomadic structures. She uses a variety of mediums including sculpture, video, drawing. Her more recent work is primarily installation based and is subject to change according to the site in question. Khan uses the language of provisional nomadic structures that assert their unreliability in their means of construction. She exaggerates these temporary solutions to claim land. The work looks for a balance, admitting in itself the lack thereof.
Ayesha Kamal Khan graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 2011, and earned an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 2015. She lives and works between Brooklyn and Lahore. Khan has been exhibited at art institutions internationally, including the Queens Museum, and participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015.
Ayesha Kamal Khan, Sharing Ground, 2015, 58 second stop-motion animation, looped, Dimensions variable.
Ayesha Kamal Khan, Following, 2015, Used orange cooler, philips tube light, small blue cooler, transparent straw, and stuffed black plastic bag, Dimensions variable.
Ayesha Kamal Khan, This May Fall (Huffing and Puffing), 2014, Red bricks, white enamel, clothes line, hooks, nails, green bending wire, black metal pedestal fan, extension cord, and electricity, Dimensions variable.
Ayesha Kamal Khan, Only a Fall Can Save, 2014, Marker on paper, 24 × 28 in. (60.96 × 71.12 cm).
Ayesha Kamal Khan, This May Fall (Chairlift), 2015, Monarch rocking chair, mangos, clothes line, yellow marigolds in red and white flower pots painted (big and small), graphite on paper, white cushions, used green soap bar, green bending wire, nails, and hooks, Dimensions variable.