Past Residents
Yuki Higashino
Yuki Higashino explores a variety of topics through his work, including the influence of digital technology on our visual culture, immigrant identity, and the conflict between language and picture. Higashino combines several aesthetic standards, such as those of photography, calligraphy, and film, to create his own distinctive pictorial lexicon.
Yuki Higashino has exhibited work at Mumok, Vienna; Last Tango, Zurich; Contemporary Art Factory, Kyoto; Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna; and The Brno House of Arts, among others.
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 5, 2020, acrylic paint on plexiglass, 151/8 × 111/4 in. (38.42 × 28.57 cm).
Yuki Higashino, After Josef Sudek 1, 2020, acrylic on acetate, 57/8 × 101/4 in. (14.92 × 26.03 cm).
Yuki Higashino, Notebook 6, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 151/8 × 111/4 in. (38.42 × 28.57 cm).
Yuki Higashino, Sundborn, Summer 1, 2021, acrylic on plexiglass, 131/4 × 235/16 in. (33.65 × 59.26 cm).
Yuki Higashino, The Poundbury Horror, 2020, HD video with sound, 18 min. .
Residents from Japan
Past Resident2020: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Mohammed Al-Atiq
In his practice, Mohammed Al-Atiq uses simple elements, ordinary tools and at times cheap materials to create pieces that explore the ideas of time and place. He is also interested in building unusual connections between the work and the audience.
Mohammed Al-Atiq has exhibited Qatar Fine Art Society; Complesso Monumentale, Rome; and Avesta Cafe del Arto, Frankfurt, among others.
Mohammed Al-Atiq, Lightning the Darkness 1, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Mohammed Al-Atiq, Lightning the Darkness 2, 2019, mixed media, 51 × 76 in. (129.54 × 193.04 cm).
Mohammed Al-Atiq, Predictions 1, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 254 × 254 in. (645.16 × 645.16 cm).
Mohammed Al-Atiq, Lightning the Darkness 3, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 254 × 254 in. (645.16 × 645.16 cm).
Mohammed Al-Atiq, Lightning the Darkness 4, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 64 × 64 in. (162.56 × 162.56 cm).
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2020: 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, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Shahpour Pouyan
In his practice Shahpour Pouyan explores power, domination, and possession through culture. He transforms political issues into a monument of poetic and visual form. The repetition of mistakes and errors is one of his main concerns, and he reflects this by bringing historical aesthetics and mediums to his art practice. He grapples with materials provided from the political world and historic documents; the poetic qualities of power and the human condition inspire him.
Shahpour Pouyan has exhibited work at Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, China; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; and The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, among others.
Shahpour Pouyan, Incarnation of the Body Politic, 2018, wood, steel, plaster and black paint, 192 × 120 × 83 in. (487.68 × 304.8 × 210.82 cm).
Shahpour Pouyan, We Owe This Considerable Land to the Horizon Line, 2018, high fired ceramic, wooden plinth and acrylic paint, dimensions variable.
Shahpour Pouyan, When The Pigs Fly, 2017, ceramic studio tools and facilities, convey belt, and 100 hand made ceramic pigs, dimensions variable.
Shahpour Pouyan, Untitled, 2017, dimensions variable, Persian armor, chainmail, steel, brass, rust, dirt and soot.
Shahpour Pouyan, Jacob's Ladder, 2014, performance still.
Ground Floor Residents
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sujin Lim
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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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