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Current Resident: Aug 1, 2024–Jan 31, 2025

The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund

Studio #217

Artist

Amy Bravo

Amy Bravo blends icons from Cuban religious culture with hyper-personal stories to create a queer afterlife universe in the rough shape of the island of Cuba. Her collaged canvases feature irregular forms where she combines graphite drawings with painterly techniques. These drawings evolve into paintings, embroidery, and assemblage sculptures. This unique mix of techniques helps recompose a family lineage disrupted by exile, engage with her ancestors, and outline a mythical world.

Amy Bravo has exhibited work at Semiose Gallery, Paris; Swivel Gallery, New York; and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, among others.

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A found object sculpture of a woman holding a black dog.
Amy Bravo, The Black Dog, Again, 2023, acrylic, lace, plaster, extensions, sewing needles, mannequin arms and found objects, 34 × 44 × 12 in. (86.36 × 111.76 × 30.48 cm).
A found object sculpture using household objects to depict a girl who is morphing into the shape of a bull.
Amy Bravo, Automaton 3.0 (Bull), 2024, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, lace, candles, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 211/2 × 41 × 47 in. (54.61 × 104.14 × 119.38 cm).
A painting depicting figures in various forms of transformation into a snake, with a sculptural snake wrapping around it's base.
Amy Bravo, The 750 Mile Snake, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, rubber and embroidery on canvas, 100 × 74 × 3 in. (254 × 187.96 × 7.62 cm).
A sculpture made from a China cabinet with found objects and sculptural additions, including boxing gloves and a bull's head.
Amy Bravo, Automaton 4.0 (Bull-Remastered), 2024, found cabinet, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, plaster, thread, boxing gloves, christmas lights, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 52 × 81 × 52 in. (132.08 × 205.74 × 132.08 cm).
An irregularly shaped painting depicting two conjoined figures, with one's head wrapped in flames, over a coffin.
Amy Bravo, The Automaton Springs Out Fully Formed!, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, lace, photograph and embroidery on canvas, 68 × 80 in. (172.72 × 203.2 cm).

Residents from United States

Jude Griebel

Canada, United States
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #301

Dana Agal

United States, Qatar
Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Studio #209

Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi

United States, Mexico
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #303
Sweden, Switzerland

Past Resident
2024: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Sara Sjölin

Sara Sjölin’s practice encompasses film, speech, performance, and installation. Her work delves into comedy rooted from tragedy, transforming feelings of anxiety and discomfort into moments of affection and laughter through art. Shaped by the serendipitous events within her conceptual frameworks, her pieces develop in an inherent way, often diverging from her initial intentions and interpretations.

Sara Sjölin has exhibited work at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; SALTS, Switzerland; and CPH:DOX, Denmark, among others.

Jettes Dinerskole is a comedy that takes place between a guest teacher and the evening school students from Fyn's Laboratory for Young Art. We follow a script meeting and the location (Jette's Diner), where the recordings become, simultaneously, the students' short film and Sara Sjölin's work; a film about a workshop on making film.
Sara Sjölin, Jettes Dinerskole, 2024, video 5.1 installation, 30 min.
Min Englefisse was made for June Art Fair (Basel), with two accompanying performances. The recordings that were shot during the performances will result in two additional video pieces which will be shown at CHART (Copenhagen Art Fair).
Sara Sjölin, Min Englefisse, 2024, video, 27:12 min.
In THE FLOOD, Sjölin projects anthropomorphic biographical anecdotes onto wild animals from an episode of National Geographic.
Sara Sjölin, THE FLOOD, 2023, video/performance, 18:57 min.
Sara Sjölin retells the tragicomic story of her destructive, failed relationship with an ex­boyfriend in great detail in ‘Sportcast 2’, to the images of an old football match between arch­rivals Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF played out in its entirety.
Sara Sjölin, Sportcast 2, 2022, video, 01:51:07 min.
In Sjölin’s first Sportscast, Sweden meets Switzerland during the World Cup in football 2018. As a dual citizen, Sjölin felt entitled to provide the game with an alternative commentary track, but the lack of interest in the sport allows her to go off track with anecdotes from her childhood, which alternates between humor and seriousness.
Sara Sjölin, SPORTSCAST, 2019, video, 01:53:32 min.

Residents from Sweden

Tony Karlsson Savci

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215

Tora Schultz

Denmark, Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
2024

Hanni Kamaly

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
2023