Past Residents
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Mu Li
Mu Li works with video, photography, installation and performance art. His work transcends the boundaries of the artist by broadening his personal understanding of art through the works themselves. Everyday life also plays an important role in Li’s work, in which a relationship between the environment, the general public, and the artist is established. Often, the boundaries between art and life are questioned by the artist’s personal experiences portrayed in his work.
Mu Li (born 1974, Feng County, Jiangsu Province, China) lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from the Suzhou School of Art and Design, Suzhou, 1995 and the Academy of Art of Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2001.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Mu Li, Blued Books, 2008-2009, Photography, video, drawing, installations, and text. Courtesy of the artist
Mu Li, New Job, 2010, Contract, photography, and interview. Courtesy of the artist
Mu Li, Present, 2009, Photography, video, sound, and letters. Courtesy of the artist
Mu Li, My Questions, 2010, Installation, video, and interviews. Courtesy of the artist
Mu Li, Unfamiliar, 2009, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from China
Frank WANG Yefeng
Studio #303
Past Resident2012: Ontario Arts Council
Vessna Perunovich
Vessna Perunovich’s practice encompasses drawing, performance, video, sculpture, painting and installation. Individual yet nonetheless interrelated, her work is defies a simple categorization. Perunovich’s subject matter grapples with issues of personal intimacy and societal constructs; her work is autobiographical and at the same time universal. It dwells, emotionally and philosophically, on the subject of boundaries, both physical and psychic, orchestrating a fine balance between confinement and content. Perunovich’s works are connotations of meanings, suggesting that they can wear the conceptual clothing necessary to expressing inexpressible feelings for things that are inexplicable.
Perunovich (born former Yugoslavia) is a Toronto-based visual artist and has exhibited at international biennales in Cuba, Albania, Portugal, UK, Montenegro and Greece. Her survey solo exhibition, Borderless, recently toured galleries and museums in countries of the former Yugoslavia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Serbia and Museum of Contemporary Art Republic of Srpska in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Her recent exhibitions include, Neither Here Nor There, at Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Borderline, at Angel Gallery in Toronto, Canada; performance project, The Web, at Grimmuseum in Berlin, Germany and video installation, Open Ended, as part of HT&B exhibition in Hamilton, Canada. Perunovich is the recipient of many grants and awards including the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts award in 2005 and the Chalmers Development Grant in 2011.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Meiya Cheng & Vessna Perunovich
June 19, 2012
Vessna Perunovich, I Hug the World and the World Hugs Me Back, 2003-ongoing, Performance. Courtesy of the artist and Tate Modern
Vessna Perunovich, Infinite Wall, 2006, White elastic thread, 288 × 132 in. (731.52 × 335.28 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Vessna Perunovich, Currency, 2007-2011, Sculptural and video projection, elastic bands, staples, and metal frame, 180 × 120 in. (457.2 × 304.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Vessna Perunovich, Wounding, 2002-2011, Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Vessna Perunovich, Homage to Mother, 2009, Graphite, 216 × 108 in. (548.64 × 274.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2012: MAC- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Anton Cabaleiro
Anton Cabaleiro explores the relationship between new technologies and society through digital means. His work includes the different phases of the creative process, from graphic design stages to the final audiovisual result. In his single-channel videos and video installations he mixes several techniques, such as motion graphics, animation and augmented reality, to combine real and virtual elements within the same environment. He employs concepts from landscape design, anthropology, philosophy and mass media theories to create a synthetic, clean, compact and direct work; paying special attention to how the various real and virtual layers interact with each other.
Anton Cabaleiro (born 1977 in Spain) received a MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York; a MS in Landscape Design from Columbia University, and a PhD in Art, Design and Technology at the Complutense University, Madrid. Past exhibitions include the Bronx Museum Biennial, New York; Armory Show, New York; New York University, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Times Square Public Space Projects, New York; Under the Bridge Festival, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, Spain; the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, Spain; ARCO International Fair of Contemporary Art, Madrid; The Cervantes Institute, Beijing; Marisa Marimon Gallery; Marlborough Gallery; and the Loop International Fair of Video, Barcelona.
Anton Cabaleiro, Study for Synchronized Landscape, 2011, Drawing, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Anton Cabaleiro, Study for Suspended Landscape, 2011, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Anton Cabaleiro, Study for Digital Landscape, 2009, Drawing, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Anton Cabaleiro, Synchronized Landscapes #01, 2011, Video installation, 60 × 96 in. (152.4 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Anton Cabaleiro, Study for Synchronized Landscape, 2011, Photograph, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
