Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council
Timothy Manalo
Timothy Manalo approaches his work with a focus on representations of the body and place. Primarily working in sculpture, he explores the aesthetics of communal gatherings and the interactions between people, everyday objects, and the natural environment, creating new narratives and meanings. He views his work as an ongoing investigation into the visual languages that are built, transformed, and used to anchor people’s experiences with the physical world, impacting memory, identity, home, and movement.
Timothy Manalo has exhibited work at Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto; Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota; and Tufts University Art Galleries, Massachusetts, among others.
Timothy Manalo, Medriñaque and Ancestral Diet, 2018-19, polypropylene twine, gold foil fringe and sugar-plaster mix casts, 100 × 130 × 3 in. (254 × 330.2 × 7.62 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Phunkahwallah, 2021, cast papaya soap, wood and paint, 42 × 32 × 21/2 in. (106.68 × 81.28 × 6.35 cm)
Timothy Manalo, I've Seen The Elephant, 2021, marine vinyl, insulation foam, wood and ceramic, 53 × 84 × 100 in. (134.62 × 213.36 × 254 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Heavy Lifting Niño, 2022, wax and brown rice, 14 × 14 × 23 in. (35.56 × 35.56 × 58.42 cm)
Timothy Manalo, Land Be Mine, 2023, locally foraged clay, sand, sandstone, postcards, stickers, magnifying lenses, wood, felt and found metal stand, 47 × 47 × 50 in. (119.38 × 119.38 × 127 cm)
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2024: Vision Fund
Verónica Gaona
Verónica Gaona is a Mexican American multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by the current socio-political climate. She explores themes of architecture and migration, utilizing remnants of death and truck parts to represent the hybrid nature of remittance-built environments that span international borders. Gaona incorporates the perspectives of displaced and exploited communities, highlighting aspects of the diaspora such as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence. Her practice challenges traditional approaches to memorialization and seeks to subvert established power structures.
Verónica Gaona has exhibited work at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Lawndale Art Center, Texas; and Blaffer Art Museum, Texas, among others.
Verónica Gaona, to know and to dream at the same time, migrant metropolis, 2023-present, Ford F-150 body parts, aluminum sheets, archived prints on aluminum sheets, and vinyl, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, Spanning Worlds, 2022-present, steel rod, eight migrant caps, and Ford F-150 truck shattered polarized window glass
Verónica Gaona, Familia Gomez, 2024, caps and Ford F-150 truck tinted and translucent glass shards, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, To know and to dream at the same time, 2022-present, Ford F-150 body parts, aluminum sheets, archived prints on aluminum sheets, and vinyl, dimensions variable
Verónica Gaona, Northless, 2022, shattered Ford F-150 truck tinted window glass, and migrant caps and embroidered text, dimensions variable
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024: International Visegrad Fund
Adrián Kriška
Adrián Kriška (he/him) is a Prague-based interdisciplinary artist, mountaineer, chef, and music enthusiast. His primary medium is textile design, through which he explores themes such as neofolklore, nostalgia, queerness, and mythology. His work often intersects with anarchist and queer theory.
Adrián Kriška has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia; Lunchmeat Festival, Czech Republic; and Diera do Sveta, Slovakia, among others.
Adrián Kriška, Untitled, 2024, leather, thread and wood, 35 × 45 in. (88.9 × 114.3 cm)
Adrián Kriška, Majorero, 2024, textile embroidery, 40 × 66 in. (101.6 × 167.64 cm)
Adrián Kriška, Feral Fauns, 2023, leather tapestry
Adrián Kriška, Chorts jerking off, 2022, leather tapestry
Adrián Kriška, Devil’s, 2023, embroidery
