Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Saeeda Albadr
Saida Albadr is a multidisciplinary artist working with mixed media paintings and digital artworks. She specializes in using modern and contemporary art approaches to highlight and enrich Qatari identity, culture, environment, and legacy.
Saida Albadr has exhibited work at International Action Art, Greece; ZeeArts, Dubai; and International Meeting of Kasbah Artists, Spain, among others.
Saeeda Albadr, Six Mountains of Doha, 2022, mixed media on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Mother land, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 357/16 × 471/4 in. (89.99 × 119.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Diversity-patterns1, 2022, digital painting printed on canvas, 393/8 × 291/2 in. (100 × 75.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, incenses, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 1911/16 × 357/16 in. (50.01 × 89.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Life 2, 2021, acrylic colors on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2024: Celebrate the Studio
Vincent Chong
Vincent Chong is a queer gender-nonconforming Chinese American artist working in performance, painting, drawing, Chinese calligraphy, and seal carving. Their work explores the intersection of traditional culture with contemporary queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color community in Brooklyn, New York.
Vincent Chong has exhibited work at Skanes Konstforening, Sweden; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and La MaMa Galleria, New York, among others.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, Hay Fever, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm).
Vincent Chong, lungs filled with liquid breeze, 2023, oil in linen.
Vincent Chong, Psychic Simon, 2023, oil on linen, 68 × 48 in. (172.72 × 121.92 cm).
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2025–May 31, 2026
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, 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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking and embroidery. Maksud’s practice is concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their impact on memory and identities. Through her work she strives to destabilize established narratives in order to reveal state fictions.
Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Video Brasil, Brazil; and Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, Mali, among others.
Past Residencies
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2014, mixed media installation, vlisco Hollandaise wax fabric, bleach, soap, and water, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, Provisional Notes on Freedom, 2021, light, sound and sculptural installation, 15 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2020, 4-channel sound installation on prayer mat.
Keli Safia Maksud, They Try Their Tongues, 2022, light, sound and sculptural installation, 8 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, embroidery on carbon paper, light and sound installation.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
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
Sujin Lim
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, 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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation