Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.

Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón

November 28, 2023, 6–8pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.

Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 30 × 60 in. (76.2 × 152.4 cm).

April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).

Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).

Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 36 × 60 in. (91.44 × 152.4 cm).

Breaking News is a short video looking at the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Through the point of view of Jaquin Caal Maquin, the first child reported to have died while in ICE custody, I re-imagined her as the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees proposing new resolutions calling for no ICE presence, open borders and control of the UN by indigenous people of the global south and Western Hemisphere.

Alicia Grullón, Breaking News, 2019, single channel video, 4 min.

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

2025

Donate

United States

Past Resident
2023: ipureland

Artist

Nikita Shokhov

Nikita Shokhov’s virtual practice delves into the human condition, exploring issues such as whiteness and blackness, queer phenomenology, carnivalesque, religions, and technology. Shokhov uses spatial computing to create lens-based media ranging from traditional photography to volumetric cinematic forms. Employing a documentary approach, his works engage critical thinking, philosophy, political and social agendas.

Nikita Shokhov has exhibited work at Loop Barcelona, Spain; The Watermill Center, New York; and World Press Photo, Amsterdam, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Nikita Shokhov, Dragzina, 2022, AR volumetric video performance, 15 min.

Still from "Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend" VR film

Nikita Shokhov, Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend, 2021, VR 360 interactive film, VR experience, 1h 15 min.

Scan | Klaxon, exhibition view at 11.12 Gallery, Moscow, 2020

Nikita Shokhov, Scan, 2020, slit scanning digital photography, dimensions variable.

FADA: House of Madness, The 23rd Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction, New York, 2016

Nikita Shokhov, Ice, 2016, immersive video installation, 60 min.

Nikita Shokhov, Utrish, 2013, color analog photography and digital print, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm).

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

2025

Donate

Latvia

Past Resident
2023: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Jeffrey Rosen, Misako & Rosen Gallery

Artist

Līga Spunde

Līga Spunde creates multimedia installations that intertwine personal stories with deliberate fiction. The work’s content determines it’s physical form, prompting the artist to a variety of media and materials in her installations. Her own experiences are expanded through the interpretation and utilization of recognizable characters. Spunde’s art can be found in public and private collections around Europe.

Līga Spunde has exhibited work at Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Spain; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia; and Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia, among others.

Līga Spunde, A Panic Attack on A Sunny Day, 2023, installation view, mixed media installation, Friday Gallery, Spain. Photo by Dibudibus.

Līga Spunde, Lilies of the Valley / Tribute to A Tired Girl, 2022, installation view, silkscreen prints and 3D prints, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia. Photo by Madara Kuplā.

Installation view of Cybervikings of Mars. Mixed media installation. 427 Gallery Riga, Latvia, 2021

Līga Spunde, Digital Native, 2021, 3D print, plexiglass, plasticine and wood.

Līga Spunde, There's No Harm In Any Blessings, 2020, installation view, mixed media installation, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Latvia.

Līga Spunde, When Hell Is Full the Dead Will Walk the Earth, 2019, installation view, mixed media installation, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia.