Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund
Modupeola Fadugba
Modupeola Fadugba’s multimedia practice encompasses painting, drawing and socially-engaged installation. She explores the social history of communal swimming pools, within a greater context of visibility, access and representation. In Fadugba’s ongoing series Synchronised Swimmers, she continues to explore moving bodies, focusing on community and group dynamics, developing a new interest in interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists and local communities. As an avid and lifelong swimmer, her figures also represent her own challenges navigating the fluid landscape that is the art world.
Modupeola Fadugba has exhibited work at DAK’ART 2016, Dakar, Senegal; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria, among others. She was awarded the El Anatsui’s Outstanding Production Prize in 2014.
Modupeola Fadugba, How to do Double Platform Lift, 2016, acrylic, beads and gold leaf on canvas, 90 × 56 in. (228.6 × 142.24 cm).
Modupeola Fadugba, Synchronized Swimmers: Black See, 2018, acrylic, pencil, ink and gold leaf on burned paper, 66 × 51 in. (167.64 × 129.54 cm).
Modupeola Fadugba, Teach Us How to Shoki, 2017, acrylic, pencil, ink and gold leaf on burned paper, 48 × 60 in. (121.92 × 152.4 cm).
Modupeola Fadugba, Heads or Tails: Dr. Stella Adadevoh, 2017, acrylic, pencil, ink and gold leaf on burned paper, 69 × 60 in. (175.26 × 152.4 cm).
Residents from Nigeria
Past Resident2018: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Rajyashri Goody
Rajyashri Goody is a visual artist and ethnographer. Her practice is informed by her background in social science as well as her Dalit roots. Through the use of various media, including writing, ceramics, photography, video, and sculptural works made with found objects and food items, she attempts to decode and make visible instances of everyday power and resistance within Dalit communities in India. She is currently researching parallels and contrasts in foodways in the context of race and caste.
Rajyashri Goody has exhibited work at The Showroom, London; Harvard University, Cambridge; and Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, among others.
Rajyashri Goody, Joothan, 2018, Manusmriti paper pulp, turmeric, and acrylic, dimensions variable.
Rajyashri Goody, Namak Halal, 2017, rock salt and dried red chillies, 60 × 108 in. (152.4 × 274.32 cm).
Rajyashri Goody, Bhakar, 2017, ceramic, stainless steel, and dried red chillies, dimensions variable.
Rajyashri Goody, Is Hunger Gnawing At Your Belly?, 2017, text, 6 × 8 in. (15.24 × 20.32 cm).
Rajyashri Goody, Changing Room, 2017, 100 pairs of men's trousers and shirts, 1181 × 1181 in. (2999.74 × 2999.74 cm).
Past Resident2022: Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation2018: Creative Australia
Svetlana Bailey
Through installation, drawing and in-camera collage, Svetlana Bailey uses fruit to explore the flesh and gender of human embodiment throughout her work. She uses details and enlarging techniques to create new spatial and form/function relationships between fruit and the body.
Svetlana Bailey has exhibited work at Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland; and Artereal Gallery, Sydney; among others.
Svetlana Bailey, Without Kisses and Hugs, 2020, digital print on silk, 75.
Svetlana Bailey, Hugs, 2020, pigment print, 40 × 65 in. (101.6 × 165.1 cm).
Svetlana Bailey, Passion Berry and After Birth, 2020, pigment print, 40 x 43 in. each.
Svetlana Bailey, In Memory of Big Mike, 2019, pigment print, 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm).
Svetlana Bailey, Woman with Fruit, 2019, pigment print, 39 × 31 in. (99.06 × 78.74 cm).
Ground Floor Residents
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sujin Lim
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Simon Liu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation