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Iraq, Canada

Past Resident
2023: Canada Council for the Arts
2022: Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

Sukaina Kubba

Sukaina Kubba is a multidisciplinary and material-based artist whose work is strongly rooted in material and cultural research, story-telling, and drawing connections. Kubba works with industrial and packaging materials as signifiers and concrete indices, and explores traveling objects, textiles and vehicles as carriers of cross-cultural histories. She depicts rugs as peripatetic architectural components rolled and unfurled by nomads and migrants and put over sand, rocks, floors, and walls to denote a re-location.

Sukaina Kubba has exhibited work at The Next Contemporary, Toronto; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Ruth Owens and Sukaina Kubba
June 20, 2023, 6–7:30pm
This is a line drawing of an intricate carpet design done in black plastic filament, with a white background.
Sukaina Kubba, La Brioche, CMC, 2023, hand-drawn with PLA filament, 68 × 46 in. (172.72 × 116.84 cm)
red ink drawing on suspended flesh-coloured latex
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Ankaa, 2022, alcohol ink on flesh-coloured latex, 80 × 60 in. (203.2 × 152.4 cm)
Colourful reproduction of a rug fragment, embroidered on re-used plastic packaging
Sukaina Kubba, T80.0040, 2021, embroidery and sewing thread on PE-HD bag from an Amazon package, 22 × 26 in. (55.88 × 66.04 cm)
large black 3d drawing of a rug, in 3 parts
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Al-Qantoor, 2022, hand-drawn PLA filament, 67 × 46 in. (170.18 × 116.84 cm)
3d drawing of a rug fragment in two shades of green
Sukaina Kubba, Corners of Your Sky, Attawoos, 2023, hand-drawn PLA filament, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm)

Residents from Canada

Alice Wang

United States, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai
Studio #213

Antonietta Grassi

Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
2024

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.
Canada
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #222
United States

Past Resident
2023: Joseph Robert Foundation, Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation, South Arts

Artist

Ruth Owens

Ruth Owens situates the Black subject at the intersection of two relationships. She explores the human-human relationship, focusing on the racially determined relationships between members of the African diaspora and those of northern European origin, as well as the human-environment relationship, particularly the devastating effects of climate change on people with limited resources.

Ruth Owens has exhibited work at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina; and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Ruth Owens and Sukaina Kubba
June 20, 2023, 6–7:30pm
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
This is a painting of two light-skinned Black women dressed in white swimsuits and bathing caps sitting on a planter filled with tropical plants.
Ruth Owens, Deep End, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm)
Ruth Owens, Lucia, 2022, acrylic on paper, 66
Ruth Owens, Vietnam Opa, study, 2020, casein on paper, 81/4 × 8 in. (20.95 × 20.32 cm)
Ruth Owens, Bianca, study, 2022, acrylic on paper, 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Ruth Owens, Lessons Lost, 2020, acrylic, mylar, glitter and charcoal on paper , 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 cm)

Residents from United States

Ina Gerken

Germany, United States
RYAN LEE Gallery
Studio #302

Alice Wang

United States, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai
Studio #213

Frank WANG Yefeng

United States, China
ISCP ​Alumni Fund
Studio #303
Taiwan

Past Resident
2023: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Curator

Hung-Yen Chang

In her practice, Hung-Yen Chang explores and reexamines the relationship between artistic development and social context during and post the Cold War era through the writing, archive-collection, and curating, with the goal of rediscovering the momentum and reflections between of historical moments. As an art administrator, Chang is also interested in the generative system and trends of cultural institutions in contemporary urban spaces.

Hung-Yen Chang has curated exhibitions at Tainan Art Museum and Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, in Taipei, among others.

 

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Hung-Yen Chang, LIAO: Frontline/ Frontier, 2021, installation view. Curated by Hung-Yeng Chang
Hung-Yen Chang, Uneven Horizons: 1957-1983 The Internationalist Taiwanese Printmaking, 2020, installation view. Curated by Hung-Yeng Chang
Hung-Yen Chang, Uneven Horizons: 1957-1983 The Internationalist Taiwanese Printmaking, 2020, installation view. Curated by Hung-Yeng Chang
Hung-Yen Chang, Power! Concrete! Let's Build the Island's Modern Dream!, 2023, installation view. Curated by Hung-Yeng Chang
Hung-Yen Chang, Everyday Life and Landscapes of the Island: Betel Nuts, Bananas, Sugar Cane, and Palms, 2020, installation view. Curated by Hung-Yeng Chang

Residents from Taiwan

Huang I-Hsiang

A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.
Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2024

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2024

Yen-Yi Lee

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2023