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Greece

Past Resident
2023: ARTWORKS

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Sofia Stevi

Sofia Stevi is an artist living and working in Athens. Her paintings depict flowing interpretations of materiality in a universe where dreams are a construct of everyday experiences, bodies are in flux, chance takes on permanent substance, and time and space collide.

Sofia Stevi has exhibited work at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Onassis Foundation Stegi, Greece; and The Benaki Museum, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world)
Sofia Stevi, The Guardian, 2023, acrylics on cotton fabric, wall painting, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world), 2023, three double sided paintings, acrylic on cotton fabric, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Song without an ending, 2022, ink and actylic on cotton fabric, handpainted cotton and leatherette pillows, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Turning forty winks into a decade, 2017-2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Spine Books (Skoliosis 004, Skoliosis 002, Kyphosis 001), 2009, mould-made cotton paper and thread, dimensions variable

Residents from Greece

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands
Mondriaan Fund
Studio #219

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Warp, video installation, mixed media, variable duration, 2022. Co-commissioned and co-produced by LIAF and TBA21 Academy. Developed in the context of a residency on the research vessel Helmer Hanssen. View at Fantasmagoriana, LIAF 2022, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
Photo Kjell-Ove Storvik. C.sy the Artist

Italy, Greece
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024

Iria Vrettou

‘Daemonic Ecran Vivant’ is a moving portrait based on the concept of Tableau Vivant. The piece operates on specific hand drawn animated loops. The emphasis is placed on the movement of bodies, human, non-human, and more-than-human. It investigates how such movements can be perceived as dance for various concepts & species and the atmospheres that these create. If we consider life cycles as an expression of symbiosis then we can easily discern a ritual of perpetual transformation: the choreography of life. Image #2
Greece
ARTWORKS
2022
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
DOK Leipzig film festival, Extended Reality: DOK Neuland. THX 4 Nothing, AR show at Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
Nikita Shokhov, Dragzina, 2022, AR volumetric video performance, 15 min
Still from
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, 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)

Residents from United States

S Emsaki

Digitized VHS tape from the artist’s family archives, documenting first graders' inaugural school day in 1996 in an American-built suburb on the northern outskirts of Isfahan, Iran. Pathé Newsreel from National Archives Catalog, capturing British Petroleum’s first prosperous oil strike in the Middle East in Masjed Soleyman at the foothills of Zagros Mountains in 1908.
United States, Iran
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
Studio #203

Nifemi Ogunro

United States
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #217

Amy Bravo

A found object sculpture of a woman holding a black dog.
United States
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #204
United States

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, 60 × 30 in. (152.4 × 76.2 cm)
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.
April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
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, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
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, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 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

S Emsaki

Digitized VHS tape from the artist’s family archives, documenting first graders' inaugural school day in 1996 in an American-built suburb on the northern outskirts of Isfahan, Iran. Pathé Newsreel from National Archives Catalog, capturing British Petroleum’s first prosperous oil strike in the Middle East in Masjed Soleyman at the foothills of Zagros Mountains in 1908.
United States, Iran
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
Studio #203

Nifemi Ogunro

United States
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #217

Amy Bravo

A found object sculpture of a woman holding a black dog.
United States
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #204