Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi’s curatorial work focuses on collective practice that emerged after the 1990s throughout the world.
Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi is a writer, curator and researcher currently based in New Delhi. He is Exhibitions Coordinator at Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi. Mopidevi is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Recent curatorial projects include In the Presence of Others, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi, 2017 and The Third Meaning: Giuseppe Stampone–Sarnath Banerjee, Italian Cultural Centre, New Delhi, 2016. He was also Assistant Curator of This Night Bitten Dawn, Gujral Foundation, New Delhi, 2016.
Past Resident2017: Brisbane City Council, Arts Queensland
Tess Maunder
Tess Maunder’s practice revolves around the notion of the curatorial. This includes forms of curatorial mediation beyond the scope of traditional models of exhibitions, and formats such as public programs, research methodologies, editorial work, publications and other discursive platforms.
Tess Maunder is an Australian-born international curator, writer and researcher. She obtained her degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Her projects to date largely focus on the politics of the Global South, engaging mostly with the Asia-Pacific region. She was awarded the MPavilion|Art Monthly Writing Award and the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists Fellowship for curatorial research. Exhibitions include Folds of Belonging, Brisbane, 2017 and the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Why Not Ask Again, 2016–2017. Maunder regularly contributes to international publications, academic journals and catalogues.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Past Resident2017: Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Gian Maria Tosatti
Gian Maria Tosatti creates environmental installations. His projects are usually long-term investigations of topics related to identity. Tosatti focuses on exploring the idea of cities as analogies of their inhabitants’ soul. He is currently developing a project in New York City called I’ve already been here, reflecting on the value of a single human life in this moment of history.
Gian Maria Tosatti (born Rome, 1980) began his career in performing arts in 2002 at Teatro Era-Centro Sperimentazione e Ricerca Teatrale. In 2005, he undertook research at the confluence of architecture and visual arts, which has since inspired all his subsequent site-specific installations. Tosatti is working on two projects, Fondamenta, based on the identification of contemporary age archetypes and Le considerazioni…, dedicated to the enigmas of personal memories and the traces that humans leave behind. His work has been shown at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Naples; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; American Academy in Rome; and Museo Villa Croce, Genoa.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024