Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Winsor & Newton
So Yoon Lym
So Yoon Lym likens her practice to the art of Taekwondo. She believes that making art is a philosophical commitment, similar to Taekwondo whose tenants are “courtesy, integrity, perseverance, patience, self-discipline and invincibility of spirit”.
So Yoon Lym (born 1967 in Seoul, Korea) moved to Uganda in 1967 until the age of 7. She came to live in Northern New Jersey in 1974, where she currently resides. Lym pursued her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a BFA in Painting and then at Columbia University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 1991. Since then, she has exhibited her work at the United States Embassy in Djibouti, Centro Provincal de Artes Plastica y Disenos in Santiago, Cuba, Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea, Studio Museum of Harlem, International Print Center New York, Paterson Museum and the Newark Museum, among many other places.
So Yoon Lym, Jhonathan, 2010, Acrylic on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Sara Ouhaddou
Artistic trends – in architecture and design – evolve in a globalized world exposed to a broad spectrum of influences. Sara Ouhaddou is interested in specific local circumstances, determined by cultural, historical and geographical conditions. Her project MadinMedin looks at the transformation of local crafts in Morocco, and re-conceptualizes the relationship between local and cultural identity within a globalized context. Alongside this, the project considers the survival of traditional crafts in modern Moroccan society.
Sara Ouhaddou (born Morocco) graduated from the Ecole Olivier de Serres in Paris. Her research looks at the diverse problems facing craftsmen now in Morocco including the difficulties in the generational transmission of knowledge, and the need to put in place guilds in a context where mass tourism has gradually confined exceptional craftsmen to the realization of objects without quality.
Sara Ouhaddou, Bou-Oumlil, 2015, White wool and fabric, 59 × 78 in. (149.86 × 198.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Morocco
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
Shahidi Marnani’s recent work aims to facilitate dialogue concerning the issue of time. She employs alternative methods to create dialogue through the medium of text and video, applying the specifications of time-based media.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran and she lives and works in Tehran. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Tehran University in 2007. She has shown her work at The Print Shop, MoMA PS1, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Devi Art Foundation, India; Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran; design transfer gallery (UDK), Berlin; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; PØST, Los Angeles; and Regina Rex, New York.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Soliloquy III'' Part 3: ''Where the Stars Go'' by Marzena Sowa, 2013, Video documentary, 39:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Iran
Azita Moradkhani
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation