Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Winsor & Newton
So Yoon Lym
So Yoon Lym likens her practice to the art of Taekwondo. She believes that making art is a philosophical commitment, similar to Taekwondo whose tenants are “courtesy, integrity, perseverance, patience, self-discipline and invincibility of spirit”.
So Yoon Lym (born 1967 in Seoul, Korea) moved to Uganda in 1967 until the age of 7. She came to live in Northern New Jersey in 1974, where she currently resides. Lym pursued her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a BFA in Painting and then at Columbia University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 1991. Since then, she has exhibited her work at the United States Embassy in Djibouti, Centro Provincal de Artes Plastica y Disenos in Santiago, Cuba, Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea, Studio Museum of Harlem, International Print Center New York, Paterson Museum and the Newark Museum, among many other places.
So Yoon Lym, Jhonathan, 2010, Acrylic on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2015: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Naveen Mahantesh
Naveen Mahantesh’s practice lies at the intersection of art, architecture and the city. He is involved in creative research with a love for urban life and an interest in providing alternative perspectives on the everyday in the city. Past projects have included working with teams of artists and curators engaging with ideas of placing art in the public realm while considering the city as a studio. His projects provide alternate perspectives for the banal routines, take inspiration from urban myths, and engage within the ecologies that the city thrives upon.
Naveen Mahantesh (born in 1985) is the principal architect of CRESARC based in Bangalore. His projects and propositions have been a part of Sarai-Reader-Exhibition’09 (2013) and Insert (2014), curated by Raqs media collective; Mediating Modernities (2013) at Srushti School of Design; design for change at TEDx-R.V.Vidyaniketan (2013), Bangalore; and FOA-FLUX-art|life|technology Symposium at Swissnex (2015). He received a grant from KHOJ (2013) for his collaborative project Ecologies of the excess, and as part of 080:30, he received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts Project560-Found space (2014) project that intimately situated art within the fabric of Bangalore City. He has been a City as Studio fellow(2013) at Sarai-CSDS., and a Visiting Faculty and critic for architectural design at design institutes in Bangalore including R.V School of Architecture and SIT, Tumkur.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Rikke Benborg and Naveen Mahantesh
July 21, 2015
Naveen Mahantesh, Placement 1.0 - 080:30, 2013, Intervention. Courtesy of the curator.
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
Shahidi Marnani’s recent work aims to facilitate dialogue concerning the issue of time. She employs alternative methods to create dialogue through the medium of text and video, applying the specifications of time-based media.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran and she lives and works in Tehran. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Tehran University in 2007. She has shown her work at The Print Shop, MoMA PS1, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Devi Art Foundation, India; Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran; design transfer gallery (UDK), Berlin; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; PØST, Los Angeles; and Regina Rex, New York.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Soliloquy III'' Part 3: ''Where the Stars Go'' by Marzena Sowa, 2013, Video documentary, 39:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Iran
Azita Moradkhani
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