Past Residents
Past Resident2022: The Kettering Family Foundation
Sydney G. James
Sydney G. James’ work consists of figurative paintings and drawings on a multitude of surfaces of which are a direct reflection of her. Using paint, graphite, and in some cases actual footprints of viewers and passerby, the current and evolving body of work that she has created consists of images of “strong” black women in vulnerable scenarios that may be figurative or literal. These portraits and murals seek to reposition this narrative of the Black woman’s visibility.
Sydney G. James has exhibited work at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor; and M Contemporary Art, Ferndale, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Sydney G. James, Serving Tee, 2021, mural, latex, and aerosol paint, 480 × 192 in. (1219.2 × 487.68 cm).
Sydney G. James, I Am Efya, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 60 in. (121.92 × 152.4 cm).
Sydney G. James, The More it Glows, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).
Sydney G. James, You Shall Not Pass, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 53 in. (152.4 × 134.62 cm).
Sydney G. James, Girl with the D Earring, 2020, mural, latex, and aerosol paint, 960 × 1296 in. (2438.4 × 3291.84 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2022: BARRO Arte Contemporáneo
Lolo y Lauti
Lolo y Lauti are a duo of performance artists. Their multidisciplinary practice reimagines the Argentine queer archive, destroyed by military dictatorships and institutional machismo. Coded popular media and local art history are appropriated and restaged in pieces incorporating comedy, video, objects and contemporary opera.
Lolo y Lauti has exhibited work at MAC Panamá, Panama City; BARRO Arte Contemporáneo and Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, both Buenos Aires, among others.
Lolo y Lauti, Me Huevo Loca, 2019, performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Lolo y Lauti, Carmen, 2018-2021, single-channel video and sculpture, 66 × 44 × 11 in. (167.64 × 111.76 × 27.94 cm).
Lolo y Lauti, 100 Bandejas de McDonald's, 2013-2015, 99 McDonald’s trays, 19 × 63 × 25 in. (48.26 × 160.02 × 63.5 cm).
Lolo y Lauti, Perfect Lives, 2016, opera staging at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires.
Lolo y Lauti, Come Together, 2016, performance.
Residents from Argentina
Past Resident2022: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Alice Nien-Pu Ko
Alice, Nien-Pu Ko is a curator and writer. Her curated and co-curated works include Tony Oursler: Black Box (2021), SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2019), Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and Self (2018), Flags, Transnational–Migrants and Outlaw Territories (2016), Reverse Niche–Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge (2013).
Alice, Nien-Pu Ko has presented exhibitions at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung; Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo; and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Hong Kong, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Tony Oursler, Lock 2, 4, 6, 2021, retrospective at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts., Lock 2, 4, 6, 2021, video installation, dimensions variable.
Tony Oursler, Obscura, 2021, video installation, dimensions variable.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Chai Siris, Sunshower, 2019, Installation view at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, dimensions variable.
Jing-Shan Lang, Chun-Ming Ho, Su-Chen Hsu, Chao-Tang Chang, Chun-Te Hsieh, Yu-Fu Yang Jun-Yin Chiu, Cheng-Po Chen, Hsia-Yu Chen, Chieh-Jen Chen, Yin-Ju Chen, Fu-Sheng Ku, Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and Self, 2018.
Hikaru Fujii, Kum So-Ni, Kao Jun-Honn, Au Sow-Yee, Flags, Transnational – Migrants and Outlaw Territories, 2016, installation view at Tokyo Wonder Site., dimensions variable.
