Past Residents

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Year
Residency Program
Resident Type
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Jamaica, United States

Past Resident
2022: Jane Farver Memorial Fund, New York City Council Member for the 33rd District Stephen Levin, New York City Council Member for the 34th District Antonio Reynoso, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council

Curator

Petrina Dacres

Petrina Dacres is an independent curator and founding member of Tide Rising Art Projects, an organization created to support and promote contemporary Caribbean art and film. Her work and research focus on Caribbean art; African diaspora art; public sculpture and memorials; and memory studies. 

Petrina Dacres has organized exhibitions at The Clemente Art Center, New York; The National Museum, Jamaica, Kingston; and National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, among others. Dacres is the Head of Art History at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Events & Exhibitions

Sharon Norwood's Drawing Room
March 24–May 27, 2022
Sharon Norwood’s Drawing Room
March 24–May 27, 2022
Tide Rising Art Projects, Transformation: Images and Objects in Relation, 2021, exhibition poster.
Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest, Victorian Jamaica, 2018, "Keeping Alive Before the People's Eyes This Great Event': Kingston's Queen Victoria Monument," book essay.
Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, EN MAS: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, 2016, "The Poetics of Death and Visibility: Introducing Ebony Patterson's Invisible Presence, Bling Memories," catalogue essay.
Petrina Dacres, Uprising: Morant Bay, 1865 and its Afterlives, 2015, National Museum of Jamaica, Kingston.
Petrina Dacres, Edna Manley: Into the Sun, 2015, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica.
Switzerland

Past Resident
2022: Canton de Vaud, Service des Affaires Culturelles

Artist

Philémon Otth

Philémon Otth’s artistic practice revolves around challenging questions of time and temporalities, history and histories, material and immaterial, transparency and opacity. He is interested in exploring sites and situations by questioning the implications of images and objects within their spatial and socio-historical contexts. Otth approaches these ideas through configurations of form and language, displacement and shifting strategies.

Philémon Otth has exhibited work at CAN – Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel; Plymouth Rock, Zürich; and Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, all Switzerland, among others.

Philémon Otth, Engawa (side by side, end to end), 2020, wooden platform and canvas pieces, dimensions variable.
Philémon Otth, Break Out, 2021, iron bars and paint, dimensions variable.
Philémon Otth, time for a better world, 2020, beach towel, 271/2 × 1013/16 in. (69.85 × 27.43 cm).
Philémon Otth, He made friend with the bees and they let him know the secrets of the Sun, 2018, cocktail, wooden structure, and bottle, 1511/16 × 1511/16 × 59 in. (39.88 × 39.88 × 149.86 cm).
Philémon Otth, very veto very vero, 2016, glass, canvas, wood, floor dirt, and local honey, dimensions variable.

Residents from Switzerland

Sara Sjölin

Sweden, Switzerland
Danish Arts Foundation
2024

Okka-Esther Hungerbühler

Germany, Switzerland
Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2024

Pascale Birchler

Switzerland
Pro Helvetia, Atelier Flex - Kanton Zug
2024
United States

Past Resident
2022: Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Artist

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang creates multi-media sculptures and installations that explore the absurdity and violence inherent in both human nature and identity construction. The artist’s own Puerto Rican background, along with the historical and material culture of the Caribbean region, serve a prism through which he synthesizes ideas around race, nationality, tradition, and socioeconomics through visual representation.  

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang has exhibited work at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, MoMA PS1, and El Museo del Barrio, all New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Zemi is a teddy bear made out of recycled US army uniforms. The surface of the bear is entirely covered with silver-grey zinc and gold beads, pearls and lapis lazuli stones. It was inspired by the Beaded Zemi in Rome's Pigorini Museum, one of the finest surviving examples of Taino art produced before the disappearance of this culture in 16th century. Tainos were the principal inhabitants of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Florida before the settlement of the region by Spanish colonists. Similar to a fetish object, the Beaded Zemi represents a supernatural character with coexisting Taino, African and European features.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Zemi, 2017, recycled United States military uniforms, lapis lazuli beads, turquoise beads, pearl beads, zinc beads, metal beads, gold plated beads, thread, and zipper, 24 × 22 × 131/2 in. (60.96 × 55.88 × 34.29 cm).
Truth consists of an airtight receptacle filled with an ongoing archive of Weird but True columns from New York tabloids. It’s a physical ‘hard drive’ that comments on the fragility of preserving history on digital servers, databases and clouds that depend on unsustainable sources of energy.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Truth, 2020, desiccator, newspaper clippings, and plexiglass column, 56 × 26 × 9 in. (142.24 × 66.04 × 22.86 cm).
I have made a series of artworks using recycled military uniforms as a canvas or support for responding to our recent American wars. These artworks were inspired by a subculture among American combat veterans where ex-service members deconstruct and transform their uniforms into artworks as therapy for PTSD. I was interested in expanding this practice as a way to honor the collective memory which transcends borders of the nation-state and honors the mutual bonds of war among all sides.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Blood Ocean, 2019, recycled United States military uniforms, coral, lapis lazuli beads, turquoise beads, mother of pearl beads, jade beads, imitation pearls, military buttons and pins, enamel pins, safety pins, cotton thread, and wood, 76 × 52 × 2 in. (193.04 × 132.08 × 5.08 cm).
Bug consists of a weatherproof hard-case for electronic equipment commonly used in the military. A traditional pattern stitched by an Afghani artisan on the back of a military shirt is stretched across the case. A digital microscope is focused on a microchip embedded inside.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Bug, 2018, recycled United States military uniform, digital microscope, motherboard, cotton thread, and weatherproof protective hard case, 22 × 20 × 17 in. (55.88 × 50.8 × 43.18 cm).
Blotter is another airtight desiccator box filled with an archive of the NYPD daily blotter clipping which ended its daily run in the printed paper in 2017.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Blotter, 2017, desiccator, New York Police Department daily blotter clippings, and plexiglass shelf, 14 × 81/2 × 7 in. (35.56 × 21.59 × 17.78 cm).

Residents from United States

Laura Lappi

Finland, United States
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Studio #201

Ailyn Lee

United States, South Korea
Anonymous
Studio #210

Angel Lartigue

United States
Vision Fund
Studio #217