Past Resident
2022: The Kettering Family Foundation

Artist

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

Vibrant Painting of a Black Woman relaxed while holding a Tea cup.

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).

Vibrant Painting of a Black Man in thought

Sydney G. James, The More it Glows, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).

Vibrant Painting of a Black Woman with her hands held high while holding paperwork blocking entry to red silhouetted people seemingly surrounding her,

Sydney G. James, You Shall Not Pass, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 53 in. (152.4 × 134.62 cm).

Vibrant portrait of a Black woman posed in the position of the classic "Girl With the Pearl Earring" while wearing a large pink old english earring.

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

Maya Jeffereis

United States

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

Ground Floor

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

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Argentina

Past Resident
2022: BARRO Arte Contemporáneo

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Lolo y Lauti with Kerry Doran

May 24, 2022, 6-7pm

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

11 performers as French fries sleep under a fried-egg-shaped duvet every day for the duration of ArteBa art fair.

Lolo y Lauti, Me Huevo Loca, 2019, performance. Courtesy of the artist.

Adaptation of Bizet’s opera shot in Panama City starring local drag queens as different versions of the title character. We then made a frame for it using iron and real flowers.

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.

Two drops of the artists’ sperm dancing to Selena Gomez, seen by an audience through a microscope.

Lolo y Lauti, Come Together, 2016, performance.

Residents from Argentina

Ulises Mazzuca

Argentina

Fundación Ama Amoedo

Studio #217

Sebastián Vidal Mackinson

Argentina

Jane Farver Memorial Fund

2025

Manuel Aja Espil

Argentina

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

2022

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Taiwan

Past Resident
2022: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Curator

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.