Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Pola Art Foundation2021: Pola Art Foundation
Saya Irie
Saya Irie’s work is inspired from everyday life and its ties to the distant past. Irie modifies objects by means of reduction, working with books, photographs, banknotes, and soaps, amongst others objects. Her practice is based on the idea that life continues to exist in an imperceptible sphere even after its external form disappears.
Saya Irie has exhibited work at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Setouchi Triennale, Shōdoshima, Kagawa, Japan; and Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, among others.
Saya Irie, Kannon Dust (Kukurihime), 2016, Japanese hanging scroll and eraser shavings, figure: 7 x 4.7 x 2.4 in.; hanging scroll: 24 x 71 in
Saya Irie, Mau Dust, 2016, charm and eraser shavings, figure: 5 x 6 x 2.4 in., charm: 20 x 28 in
Saya Irie, Mary Dust, 2020, Kapanese hanging scroll and eraser shavings, figure: 2.4 x 1.7 x1.5 in.; hanging scroll: 16 x 9.4 x0.6 in
Saya Irie, Disny Dust, 2015, children's book and eraser shavings, figure: 5 x 3.5 x 2.3 in., book: 7.8 x 12 in
Saya Irie, Jyashouten Dust, 2019, Japanese hanging scroll, cardboard boxes, and eraser shavings, 90 x 70 x 12 in
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund
Lizania Cruz
Lizania Cruz uses audience participation to investigate notions of being and belonging within the public sphere. Using objects such as books, zines, installations, happenings, video, and photography, she invites a diverse range of communities to co-create collaborative artworks. Through research, oral history, and active participants, the projects she develops aim to highlight pluralistic narratives about migration and race.
Lizania Cruz has exhibited work at Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha; El Museo del Barrio and CUE Art Foundation, both New York City, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Publishing from an Immigrant Perspective
August 23, 2022, 6:30–8pm
Past, Present and Future: The Life of a Project
June 7, 2022, 6:30–8pm
Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor
April 8–August 26, 2022
Lizania Cruz and Zachary Fabri in Conversation with Alison Kuo
March 29, 2022, 6–7:30pm
Lizania Cruz, Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City, 2021, books, posters on rice sacks with stamp letters, installation view at CUE Art Foundation, 2021. Photo by Adam Reich
Lizania Cruz, ¡Se Buscan Testigos! [Looking for Witnesses!] Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021, photographic documentation of happening, 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm). Photo by Neha Gautam
Lizania Cruz, Happening We the News, 2018, public intervention, dimensions variable
Lizania Cruz, Maria — Flower for Immigration, 2017, archival digital-C print, 96 × 144 in. (243.84 × 365.76 cm)
Lizania Cruz, Obituaries of the American Dream, 2020-2021, installation view at El Museo del Barrio's “ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21” , dimensions variable
Residents from Dominican Republic
Past Resident2022: Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation2013: The Arthur Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Bundith Phunsombatlert’s recent projects trace the unseen paths of immigrants and their immigration stories through real and imagined landscapes. By merging contemporary technologies with traditional forms of media, the artworks offer a unique definition of new media art defined not simply by the use of technology, but by revealing a fresh new meaning of something old. His work seeks to explore ways that individuals connect with their personal backgrounds and cultural identities to reinvent traditional interpretations of history.
Bundith Phunsombatlert has exhibited work at Auckland Triennial Institution; New Zealand; Guangzhou Triennial, China; and Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia, among others. Currently, his projects are on exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Stone Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, all in New York.
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Crossing the Border: Beneath the Blue Sky, ongoing, Cyanotype on fabric mounted on museum board, hung on cable lines, 7 × 4 1/4 in. each
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Memory, Market and Migratory Transition, 2015/2017/ongoing, electronic media (total of forty-nine video clips from seven locations in NYC played based on the mechanic system of View-Master stereoscopes and reels), variable dimensions
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Memory, Market and Migratory Transition, 2015/2017/ongoing, electronic media (total of forty-nine video clips from seven locations in NYC played based on the mechanic system of View-Master stereoscopes and reels), variable dimensions
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Sunny Garden in Blue: Stories from the Caribbean to Brooklyn, ongoing, digital and cyanotype versions, 14 1/4 × 20 in. each
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Returning Dialogue: Fragments of Blue and White Porcelain (Transatlantic Slave Trade Series), 2019, digital printing transfers on porcelain, 27 × 16 × 2 in. (68.58 × 40.64 × 5.08 cm)
Ground Floor Residents
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation