Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Creative Australia
Studio #210
Artist
Tom Polo
Tom Polo works across painting and installation, creating material forms that capture exchanges between people. His practice draws from a rich accumulation of social encounters, keen observations, and personal histories, recording the emotional and performative relationships between the self and others within social, theatrical, and psychological spaces. Through a blend of abstraction, text, and figuration, Polo explores how conversation and gesture become embodied acts of portraiture, simultaneously masking and revealing the complexities of our inner worlds.
Tom Polo has exhibited work at Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of South Australia; and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), all in Australia, among others.
Residents from Australia
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Feb 28, 2025
Guadalupe Phillips
Studio #211
Artist
Paloma Contreras
Paloma Contreras Lomas works across various media, including film, drawing, writing, sculpture, and video. Her practice explores themes such as the landscape as a witness in Mexico, autofiction, and class horror. Through a blend of research and humor, and by weaving together genres like horror and science fiction, Contreras Lomas creates installations that immerse viewers in narratives shaped by her vision of Latin American political historiography.
Paloma Contreras Lomas has exhibited work at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, among others.
Residents from Mexico
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Studio #212
Artist
Ulrike Königshofer
Ulrike Königshofer is a visual artist based in Vienna whose work explores the visibility of the world around us. Through technical arrangements, she finds new ways to capture the most ephemeral qualities, like the ripples on a lake. Her pieces draw our attention to aspects of reality that often go unnoticed, exploring the boundaries of what can be depicted and reflecting on the nature of images themselves.
Ulrike Königshofer has exhibited work at Camera Austria, Austria; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; and Halle für Kunst, Austria, among others.