Past Residents
Past Resident2025: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
S Emsaki
S Emsaki works to deconstruct and disorient East-West subject-object positionings through video, drawing, and multimedia installations incorporating found and provisional elements. Born and raised in Isfahan, Iran, Emsaki’s practice unsettles the legacies of petro-imperialism by engaging with marginalized archives and intimate histories of human and non-human subjects. Currently based in NYC, Emsaki is an alum of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and holds an MFA from Yale University and a BA from UC Berkeley.
S Emsaki has exhibited work at Westbeth Gallery, New York; San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco; and Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Massachusetts, among others.
S Emsaki, crude education, 1908-ongoing, video (digitized film & VHS), 11 min.
S Emsaki, matter of time, 2024, UV-cured inkjet print on foraged Pleistocene clay, repurposed cardboard, and plastic pallet, 37 × 37 × 12 in. (93.98 × 93.98 × 30.48 cm).
S Emsaki, some things last a long time, 2022, wild-caught squid ink on existing architecture, dimensions variable.
S Emsaki, Oct 22 - Race Point, 2022, graphite and wild-caught squid ink on paper, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm).
S Emsaki, divided sea, 2020, (etching) ink on Kitakata paper, 171/2 × 211/2 in. (44.45 × 54.61 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2024: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Ulrike Königshofer
Ulrike Königshofer is a visual artist based in Vienna whose work explores the visibility of the world around us. Through technical arrangements, she finds new ways to capture the most ephemeral qualities, like the ripples on a lake. Her pieces draw our attention to aspects of reality that often go unnoticed, exploring the boundaries of what can be depicted and reflecting on the nature of images themselves.
Ulrike Königshofer has exhibited work at Camera Austria, Austria; Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; and Halle für Kunst, Austria, among others.
Ulrike Königshofer, Sunlight Traces, 2014, burn traces on paper, 4 × 19 in. (10.16 × 48.26 cm).
Ulrike Königshofer, Graphs, 2022-2023, silver gelatin prints, 19 × 15 in. (48.26 × 38.1 cm).
Ulrike Königshofer, Cast of Water, 2021, installation, 47 × 39 × 39 in. (119.38 × 99.06 × 99.06 cm).
Ulrike Königshofer, Shades of Glass, 2020, framed Photogram, 9 × 19 in. (22.86 × 48.26 cm).
Ulrike Königshofer, Empty Walls, 2023, pencil on paper, 39 × 55 in. (99.06 × 139.7 cm).
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2024: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Irina Lotarevich
Irina Lotarevich’s sculptural practice emerges at the intersection of her personal experience and broader systems. She primarily works with metal fabrication and casting techniques, creating sculptures with minimal yet intricate forms that reference architecture, bureaucracy, labor, language, and parts of her own body, as well as the conditions of the material’s production and circulation.
Irina Lotarevich has exhibited work at Sophie Tappeiner Gallery, Vienna; FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and Belvedere 21, Vienna, among others.
Irina Lotarevich, Compressed Structure, 2024, brass, 37 × 14 in. (93.98 × 35.56 cm).
Irina Lotarevich, Modular Body (container ship cross-section), 2023, steel, aluminum and metal shavings, 68 1/2 × 62 × 15 1/2 in in. (68 1/2 × 157.48 × 15 1/2 in cm).
Irina Lotarevich, Housing Anxiety 6, 2022, aluminum, stainless steel screws and locks and keys, 59 × 39 × 2 3/4 in in. (149.86 × 99.06 × 2 3/4 in cm).
Irina Lotarevich, Overtime and Pedagogy, 2023, steel, metal residue from bandsaw, plexiglass and rust, 30 3/4 × 9 1/2 × 9 in. (30 3/4 × 9 1/2 × 22.86 cm).
Irina Lotarevich, Stuffed Cells, 2024, brass and stainless steel, 2 1/2 × 16 × 3 in. (2 1/2 × 40.64 × 7.62 cm).
