Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund, Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Kiluanji Kia Henda
Kiluanji Kia Henda employs a surprising sense of humour in his work, which often hones in on themes of identity, politics, and perceptions of postcolonialism and modernism in Africa. Practicing in the fields of photography, video, and performance, Henda has tied his multidisciplinary approach to a sharp sense of criticality. A profound springboard into this realm comes from growing up in a household of photography enthusiasts. Furthermore, his conceptual edge has been sharpened by immersing himself in music, avantgarde theatre, and collaborating with a collective of emerging artists in Luanda’s art scene.
Kiluanji Kia Henda (born 1979, Luanda, Angola) is a self-taught Luanda-based artist, working with photography, video and performance. He has had exhibitions at institutions including Tate Liverpool, 2017; SCAD Museum, Savannah, 2016; Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 2016; National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2015; Tamayo Museum, Mexico, 2012; and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012. He participated in the 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York; Dakar Biennale, 2014; Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2007; Venice Biennale, 2007, and the Luanda Triennale, 2007. He is winner of 2017 Frieze Artist Award and the 2012 National Prize of Art and Culture, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Luanda, Angola.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Last Journey of the Dictator Mussunda Nzombo Before the Great Extinction (Act II), 2017, inkjet print on cotton paper, 59 × 88 in. (149.86 × 223.52 cm).
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Baby Lonia, 2008, inkjet print on photographic paper, 47 × 47 in. (119.38 × 119.38 cm).
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Redefining the Power II (with Shunnuz Fiel), 2011, inkjet print on photographic paper, 59 × 39 in. (149.86 × 99.06 cm).
Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Merchant of Venice, 2010, inkjet print on photographic paper, 59 × 39 in. (149.86 × 99.06 cm).
Kiluanji Kia Henda, This Is My Blood, 2016, installation with 2000 iron bars painted in red-blood, dimensions varibale.
Past Resident2017: BARRO Arte Contemporáneo
Nicanor Aráoz
In his practice, Nicanor Araoz attempts to push the boundaries of materials in search of intermediate emotional states. He uses the mediums of drawing, installation and other formats through which accumulation, assembly, dissection and other dissimilar operational gestures come into play, combining a faulty system of references. Araoz’s work explores themes related to Spiritism, monstrosity, sculpture techniques during the last Argentinian military dictatorship, materials of industrial consumption, and negative feelings as spaces of political enunciation.
Nicanor Araoz (born Buenos Aires, 1981) lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended the National University of La Plata and Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires. Araoz produces objects, installations and sculptures using comic books, Internet imagery and romantic mythologies as his reference points. His most recent works include Glotica, Barro Arte Contemporaneo, 2015 and Antologia Genetica. Esculturas y estudios encadenados, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2006-2016.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Nicanor Araoz and Marius Ritiu
July 25, 2017, 6:30–8pm
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2015, sheet steel, wood, marble, plaster cast, acrylic, polyurethane foam, and neon, 83 × 48 × 395/16 in. (210.82 × 121.92 × 99.82 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2011, foam and neon, 7811/16 × 415/16 × 415/16 in. (199.9 × 104.9 × 104.9 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled. No light view., 2015, cast, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, neon, and sheet steel, 96 × 48 × 235/8 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 59.94 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2015, plaster cast, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, neon, and sheet steel, 96 × 48 × 235/8 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 59.94 cm).
Past Resident2017: Toby Devan Lewis
Didier William
Didier William is a painter and printmaker. His objects are collaged, carved, painted, and drawn to produce a painting surface that resists the rigidity of his materials. He draws from memory, oratory and historical archives to reimagine narratives of the black diaspora.
Didier William is originally from Port-au-prince, Haiti. He received his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art; The Fraenkel Gallery, San Fransisco; Frederick and Freiser Gallery, New York; and Gallery Schuster, Berlin. He was an artist in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, and has taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. William is currently the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Didier William, Ezili tourjous konnen, 2015, acrylic, wood carving, and pastel on panel, 38 × 36 in. (96.52 × 91.44 cm).
Didier William, Dancing, Pouring, Crackling and Mourning, 2015, acrylic, wood carving and collage on panel, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).
Didier William, I see you, We all see you, 2015, collage and wood carving on panel, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Didier William, His Life Depends on Spotted Lies, 2014, acrylic, wood carving, and pastel on panel, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm).
Didier William, Everything is You Under the Sun, 2015, acrylic, pastel, and collage on panel, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217