Current Residents
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Studio #204
Artist
Umber Majeed
Speculative fiction, collage, and digital interfaces are recurring formal and conceptual tools in Umber Majeed’s interdisciplinary art practice. He draws on architectural design and historical events specific to Pakistan to challenge entangled notions of nationalism, community, and identity within the framework of the modernist nation-state. Majeed is particularly interested in the temporal disjunctures of South Asia’s urban landscapes, using them as a springboard to imagine alternative futures. In his work, video and digital interfaces serve to collapse the boundaries between drawing, familial analog photography, and widely circulated stock imagery.
Umber Majeed has exhibited work at the Queens Museum, New York; Pioneer Works, New York; and Hayy Jameel, Saudi Arabia, among others.
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Umber Majeed, Timeline, 2024-25, matte self-adhesive vinyl and works on paper, 36 × 20 in. (91.44 × 50.8 cm).
Umber Majeed, Welcome to the Trans-Pakistan Pavilion, 2025, animation, vinyl, wood and vinyl, 20 × 36 in. (50.8 × 91.44 cm).
Umber Majeed, We can fix it, 2025, ceramics, decal and wood, 30 × 40 × 30 in. (76.2 × 101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Umber Majeed, Saath Haath, 2025, mixed media on paper and web-based AR, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Umber Majeed, Untitled, 2025, 3-channel video installation with sound and ceramics, 10 × 12 in. (25.4 × 30.48 cm).
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
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
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2025
Sherrill Collection of American Art Foundation
Studio #213
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 Prospect.6 Triennial, New Orleans; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina; and 21C Museum, Chicago, among others.
ruthowensart.comPast Residencies
Ruth Owens, Lay Me Down, 2020, oil on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm).
Ruth Owens, Lessons Lost, 2020, acrylic, mylar, glitter and charcoal on paper , 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 cm).
Ruth Owens, Bobolink, 2024, oil on canvas, 45 × 54 in. (114.3 × 137.16 cm).
Ruth Owens, Summertime Girl, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 × 64 in. (121.92 × 162.56 cm).
Ruth Owens, Deep End, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 × 60 in. (121.92 × 152.4 cm).
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
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
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2025
International Visegrad Fund
Studio #201
Artist
Markéta Adamcová
Markéta Adamcová views cities as symbolic spaces where personal and collective identities are continuously reshaped. Her work explores the intersection of personal narrative, poetic principles, and the spiritual dimensions of both natural and human systems. Rooted in painting, her artistic practice centers on the interplay between literature and visual language, using symbolic and abstract forms to convey personal stories. Through this approach, she invites viewers to navigate the space between the intimate and the universal.
Markéta Adamcová has exhibited work at Garage Gallery, Prague; INI Gallery, Prague; and Academy of Visual Arts – HKBU, Hong Kong, among others.
Markéta Adamcová, Snake Hiding, 2025, oil on canvas, 1911/16 × 235/8 in. (50.04 × 59.94 cm).
Markéta Adamcová, Reborn, 2025, oil on canvas, 201/2 × 285/16 in. (52.07 × 71.88 cm).
Markéta Adamcová, The You in You, 2024, oil on canvas, 47 × 63 in. (119.38 × 160.02 cm).
Markéta Adamcová, Insect's Dust, 2023, oil on canvas, 1911/16 × 1511/16 in. (50.04 × 39.88 cm).
Markéta Adamcová, Untitled, 2024, dry pastel and pencil on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm).
