Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Rhode Island College Faculty Scholarship Major Grant
Frank WANG Yefeng
Frank WANG Yefeng works across various media, including 3D animation, video installation, sculpture, and writing. His migratory experience at a young age drives him to explore his reality as a multicultural individual. The estrangement of the origin and the absence of home turn “in-betweenness” into his constant dwelling. Ambivalent characters play essential roles in Yefeng’s works, where he explores the transmission of affect and the in-between states of nomadic subjects in both virtual and physical realms.
Frank WANG Yefeng has exhibited work at BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn; Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, China; and Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Frank WANG Yefeng in conversation with Xiaoyu Weng
December 18, 2024, 4–5pm
Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio
Through March 7
Homecoming Outdoor Screening
August 20, 2021, 8–9:30pm
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
Artists at Work: Frank Yefeng Wang in conversation with Danielle Shang
July 20, 2021, 4–5pm
Frank WANG Yefeng, BIRDS Volume II - Slow Spectre, 2021, 3D animation with sound, writing; outdoor billboards, 2:40 min., dimensions variable.
Frank WANG Yefeng, BIRDS Volume I, 2019, 3D animation, 4K single-channel video, 2.1 sound, writing, 12:52 min.
Frank WANG Yefeng, The House of the Solitary, 2020, 3D animation, 4K single-channel video, 2.1 sound, writing, loop.
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Whimsical Characters - Made Ready, 2021, 3D animation, public LED screens, loop.
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Groundless Protag, 2020, 3D animation, motion capture, loop.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2021: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
Shoji Kato
Shoji Kato works with diverse mediums including paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, and situations; at times, he employs sound, music, and moving images as well. This range reflects Kato’s multiscalar and multi-faceted approaches to the theme that he calls the ‘location of subjectivity.’ The artist explores ideas that are neither bounded to physical bodies and places. Moving between abstract and figurative thinking, Kato works with both solid and elusive materials to invite imagination and meditation about the interplay of collective movements and individual moments.
Shoji Kato has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Japan; and Beijing International Art Biennale, China, among others.
Shoji Kato, Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020, rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, silk fabric, and drill core sample from Onkalo, silk fabric: 110 × 1491/2 in. (279.4 × 379.73 cm), diameter of bedrock cores: 2 × 77/8 in. (5.08 × 20 cm).
Shoji Kato, Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020, rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, silk fabric, and drill core sample from Onkalo, silk fabric: 110 × 1491/2 in. (279.4 × 379.73 cm), diameter of bedrock cores: 2 × 77/8 in. (5.08 × 20 cm).
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions.
Past Resident2021: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Shaunak Mahbubani
Shaunak Mahbubani is a nomadic curator, writer, and arts organizer. They primarily pursue projects under the exhibition series ‘Allies for the Uncertain Futures’, focused on exploring the possibilities of socio-political, ecological and techno-evolutionary futures through the lens of non-duality. As a curator, they are interested in complicating boundaries between artwork and the viewer through participatory gatherings, diffusions, and the use of non-white cube spaces. They have also been collaborating with Vidisha-Fadescha as ‘After Party Collective’, since 2019.
Shaunak Mahbubani has curated at Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi; Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai; and Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, among others.
Shaunak Mahbubani, Saavdhaan: The Regimes of Truth, 2018, exhibition view at the Kalakar Theatre. photo by Polina Schapova.
Murari Jha, Fondle / चिकट, installation view at the Mumbai Art Room.
After Party Collective, some dance to remember, some dance to forget, 2020, 8:53 min. single channel video.
After Party Collective, Strictures of Violence, 2019, multimedia performance at the Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, 15 min.
