Current Residents
Past Resident2023: Artis
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin
Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin are a Tel Aviv-based collaborative duo working together since 2012. Their artistic practice is the outcome of their collective intuition; they follow their instincts to create works that combine absurdity and humor with history, sexuality, and fantasy. Their work is frequently rooted on an inner joke or ironic anecdotes from their daily lives that mix into widespread critical claim. They use with such as fabric, wood, metal, and ceramic to create sculptural dolls and large-scale drawing installations.
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin have exhibited work at Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Summlung Philara, Düsseldorf; and ZONAMACO Art fair, Mexico City, among others.
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Virginia Woolf, 2017, fabric and teeth, 16 × 8 × 4 in. (40.64 × 20.32 × 10.16 cm).
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Bile, 2023, installation view at Israel Museum, Jerusalem, wood, fabric, watercolor and ink on paper.
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Riding the Hills, 2022, wood and color pencil, 20 × 31 × 7 in. (50.8 × 78.74 × 17.78 cm).
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Maalal, 2016, installation view at Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, oil pastel and gouache on paper.
Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Pinhas, 2015, installation view at Kibbutz Gallery, Israel, photograph, back screening on fabric, PVC, 18 etchings and blue neon.
Residents from Israel
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2023–May 31, 2025
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, 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
Tamen Pérez
Tamen Pérez employs non-linear storytelling as an approach in her painting, printmaking, and photography to critique Western notions of time and history as universal creations. She re-mediates images that explore the history of perspective and its relationship to the creation of space and subjecthood. Pérez holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Tamen Pérez has exhibited work at Lyles and King Gallery, New York; Y2K Gallery, New York; and Stadium Galerie, Berlin; among others.
Tamen Pérez, Silver Capsule, 2023, acrylic, flashe, worn clothes and smashed usb cable on fitted bedsheet, 102 × 96 in. (259.08 × 243.84 cm).
Tamen Pérez, Untitled (AC vents), 2023, digital photograph of a cyanotype, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm).
Tamen Pérez, L Train Parallax, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 31/2 × 5 in. (8.89 × 12.7 cm).
Tamen Pérez, Reclining Monkey-form Jar, Costa Rica, AD 800-1350, Gift of Frederick and Jan Mayer, Art of the Ancient Americas Collection, Denver Art Museum, 2020-2021, acrylic on linen, 21 × 18 in. (53.34 × 45.72 cm).
Tamen Pérez, Mono Chorotega en Ancient Costa Rica, 2021, acrylic on linen, 24 × 20 in. (60.96 × 50.8 cm).
Ground Floor Residents
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Sarah Zapata
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Sasha Wortzel
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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Past Resident2023: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Hanna Stiegeler
Hanna Stiegeler draws inspiration from historical and contemporary photographic material, including prints, textiles, and installation. Her works delve topics such as feminism, consumerism, psychology, and explore the surfaces of advertising and fashion.
Hanna Stiegeler has exhibited work at Sweetwater, Berlin; Goethe Institute, Paris; and Piloto Pardo, London, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Hanna Stiegeler, Shopping Addict, 2022, installation view, UV-Print on Alu Dibond, dimensions variable.
Hanna Stiegeler, Curiosity Gap (Depression I), 2021, pigment and gouache Screenprint on paper, 57 3/4 × 42 in. (57 3/4 × 106.68 cm).
Hanna Stiegeler, No., 2023, pigment and gouache screenprint on canvas, 41 7/8 × 30 1/8 in. (41 7/8 × 30 1/8 cm).
Hanna Stiegeler, Content Creation, 2019, gouache screenprint on paper, 41 7/8 × 30 1/8 in. (41 7/8 × 30 1/8 cm).
Hanna Stiegeler, Il figlio mistero, 2019, installation view, screenprint on paper and glass, gouache and acrylic.
