Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund
Ferguson Amo
Ferguson Amo works across various mediums, including hyper realistic drawings, installations, and mixed media. Originally from Koforidua, Ghana, the artist explores contemporary African identity in the diaspora and examines the intricate details of history and experiences of cultural diffusion, and its assimilation, through representation. Through each work, Amo asks “how as an audience, can we move the image of black bodies and ‘blackness’ toward emancipation?”
Ferguson Amo has exhibited work at VisArts, Rockville; Kente Royal Gallery and The Immigrant Artist Biennial, both New York City, among others.
Ferguson Amo, RGBlackLivesMatter, 2020, pen, embroidery, plastic, and kente cloth on paper, 30 × 39 in. (76.2 × 99.06 cm).
Ferguson Amo, Dual Self, 2018, pen and gold leaf on paper, 45 × 45 in. (114.3 × 114.3 cm).
Ferguson Amo, Black on black, 2019, pen and marker on watercolor paper, 90 × 60 in. (228.6 × 152.4 cm).
Ferguson Amo, Contingent Identity Cards of the African Diaspora, 2019, pen and gold leaf on paper, 16 works, 19 × 22 in. (48.26 × 55.88 cm) each.
Ferguson Amo, sistas wisdom, 2017, pen and embroidery on paper, 90 × 45 in. (228.6 × 114.3 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
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, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 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, 144 × 96 in. (365.76 × 243.84 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
Joiri Minaya
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, 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, Jerome Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2021
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Darian Longmire
Darian Longmire remixes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and re-invents them into new color ways. He explores painting, drawing, printmaking and mixed media, from an abstract point-of-view. He uses physics and space travel are used as a cite for abstraction and political commentary.
Darian Longmire has exhibited work at Opalka Gallery; Albany Center Gallery; and State University of New York at Albany all Albany, New York, among others.
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 1, 2020, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 48 × 32 in. (121.92 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 2, 2021, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Darian Longmire, Black Spectrum 1, 2020, mixed media on museum board, 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm).
Darian Longmire, Satellite Abstraction 3, 2019, collage on paper, 24 × 32 in. (60.96 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Passing Through, 2021, mixed media on mulberry paper, 47 × 20 in. (119.38 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201