Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Celebrate the Studio
Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha’s work is a mapping of Asian Diaspora and possible spaces for queerness. He is interested in photographic imaging of Otherness. In his practice, he often rephotographs cutouts to create pictures that straddle between self-portrait, still life, and landscape. Kha’s work is a continuation of his mother’s photographs from 1984—a year after she fled Vietnam. His mother’s images depict gatherings, celebration, and liberation, whereas Kha’s picture making is performative and collaborative.
Tommy Kha has exhibited work at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland; International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion, Hyères, France; Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, among others.
Tommy Kha, Reunification (I), Brooklyn/Memphis, 2020, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
Tommy Kha, Assemblies I (Crying in Three Takes), 2020, archival pigment print on jigsaw puzzle.
Tommy Kha, Stops (I), Marsha P. Johnson Park, 2020, archival pigment print, 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm).
Tommy Kha, Constellations (XVIII), Whitehaven, Memphis, 2019, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
Tommy Kha, Constellations (XXI), Ridgewood/Fort Tilden Beach, 2020, archival pigment print, 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Sara Cwynar, Red Film, 2018, video, 13:01 min.
Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold, 2017, video, 8 min.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Anaïs Horn
Anaïs Horn lives and works in Paris and Vienna. In her practice she often interweaves literature/text and photography/video, exploring moments of intimacy with a special interest in topics such as liminality and coming-of-age. She observes people and their spaces, gently crossing borders, opening up the private and making intimacy a sensual experience. In the process, she investigates time, memories, transience, the body and its traces, the cautious intrusion of privacy, and the aesthetics of reality and fugacity. The artist book is an important medium for her work: her photo books Fading (DCV, Berlin), Je suis malheureuse et heureuse (Meta/Books, Amsterdam) and How do you feel about “Lou”? (in collaboration with Eilert Asmervik, Meta/Books) are published in 2020.
Anaïs Horn has exhibited work at MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; and Neue Galerie Institution, Graz, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Anaïs Horn, IN BETWEEN, 2019, photography, video, and installation.
Anaïs Horn, Triptyque Parisien, 2017, photography, text, and installation.
Anaïs Horn, Je suis malheureuse et heureuse, 2017–20, photography.
Anaïs Horn, Fading, 2013–19, photography, photocopy, and book spread.
Anaïs Horn, The sun had not yet risen, 2020, video.
