Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council
Timothy Manalo
Timothy Manalo approaches his work with a focus on representations of the body and place. Primarily working in sculpture, he explores the aesthetics of communal gatherings and the interactions between people, everyday objects, and the natural environment, creating new narratives and meanings. He views his work as an ongoing investigation into the visual languages that are built, transformed, and used to anchor people’s experiences with the physical world, impacting memory, identity, home, and movement.
Timothy Manalo has exhibited work at Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto; Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota; and Tufts University Art Galleries, Massachusetts, among others.
Timothy Manalo, Medriñaque and Ancestral Diet, 2018-19, polypropylene twine, gold foil fringe and sugar-plaster mix casts, 100 × 130 × 3 in. (254 × 330.2 × 7.62 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Phunkahwallah, 2021, cast papaya soap, wood and paint, 42 × 32 × 21/2 in. (106.68 × 81.28 × 6.35 cm)
Timothy Manalo, I've Seen The Elephant, 2021, marine vinyl, insulation foam, wood and ceramic, 53 × 84 × 100 in. (134.62 × 213.36 × 254 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Heavy Lifting Niño, 2022, wax and brown rice, 14 × 14 × 23 in. (35.56 × 35.56 × 58.42 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Land Be Mine, 2023, locally foraged clay, sand, sandstone, postcards, stickers, magnifying lenses, wood, felt and found metal stand, 47 × 47 × 50 in. (119.38 × 119.38 × 127 cm)
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2024: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga uses speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist tradition to investigate economies of visibility and disappearance. Her works examine questions of self-representation, preservation, appearance, and opacity through an interdisciplinary approach in which she typically reverses established identity politics of presence. Mujinga’s works deviate from a completely anthropocentric approach to understanding the ephemeral world we now occupy; as a result, the artist draws inspiration in how animals create survival tactics and adapt to hostile surroundings.
Sandra Mujinga has exhibited work at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Venice Biennale, Venice; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, among others.
Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, video, 1:00:28 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen and The Approach
Sandra Mujinga, Pervasive Lights, 2021, video, 16:15 min. Courtesy the artist, Croy Nielsen, The Approach, and MoMA
Sandra Mujinga, Closed Space, Open World, 2022, three-channel video installation with sound, animation drawn by Nancy Saphira, 10 min
Sandra Mujinga, Worldview, 2021, video, 3D animation by Justin Swinburne, 8 hours
Sandra Mujinga, Sentinels of Change & Reworlding Remains, 2021, installation, dimensions variable
Past Resident2024: International Visegrad Fund
Adrián Kriška
Adrián Kriška (he/him) is a Prague-based interdisciplinary artist, mountaineer, chef, and music enthusiast. His primary medium is textile design, through which he explores themes such as neofolklore, nostalgia, queerness, and mythology. His work often intersects with anarchist and queer theory.
Adrián Kriška has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia; Lunchmeat Festival, Czech Republic; and Diera do Sveta, Slovakia, among others.
Adrián Kriška, Untitled, 2024, leather, thread and wood, 35 × 45 in. (88.9 × 114.3 cm)
Adrián Kriška, Majorero, 2024, textile embroidery, 40 × 66 in. (101.6 × 167.64 cm)
Adrián Kriška, Feral Fauns, 2023, leather tapestry
Adrián Kriška, Chorts jerking off, 2022, leather tapestry
Adrián Kriška, Devil’s, 2023, embroidery
