2024 Artists In Residence
Alicia Adamerovich
Kadar Brock
Christopher Daharsh
2023 Artists In Residence
Sabina Vajrača
Filmmaker, Sabina Vajrača (b. 1977, Bosnia and Herzegovina) immigrated to the U.S. in 1994 as a war refugee. She started her professional career in theatre, writing, directing and producing plays at The Lincoln Center, SITI Company, and Shakespeare & Company. In 2005 Sabina ventured into the world of film by directing and producing the critically acclaimed feature documentary BACK TO BOSNIA. The film premiered at the AFI Fest, screened at over 30 festivals worldwide, winning Director’s Choice at the Crossroads Film Festival, and is featured in the top 100 of the greatest films directed by women by the BBC. It's currently streaming on multiple platforms, including Amazon.
Hana Ward
Hana Ward (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) makes paintings and ceramic works that explore themes of identity, introspection, and transformation. Appearing both ethereal and visceral, Ward weave together moods, motives and narratives to depict Black and Brown feminine figures who reflect and dream, creating their sovereign worlds from the inside out. These multitudinous visions of unfolding self-actualizations are sometimes sheltered in the solitude of domestic space and other times liberated into landscapes. Influenced by anticolonial histories, spiritual texts, and cycles of the natural world, as well as the canon of art history, Ward’s work excavates the inner dimension to discover a world where one’s sovereignty is in the here and now.
2022 Artists In Residence
Francisco Masa
Francisco Maso is an AfroLatinx visual artist living and working in Miami. Maso’s artwork delves into the contemporary understanding of socially shaped “unconscious behaviors” and challenges what is accepted by society as natural, necessary, and normal. Key projects include: Post PostProduction Project (2012-2015), that explored the audiovisual piracy phenomenon and its social implications; Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces, a geometric archive of striped polo shirts worn by the undercover political police in Cuba; and Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies, a study of the positions assumed by dissident bodies in relation to “police control dispositive.”
Asim Waqif
Delhi-based Asim Waqif studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. After initially working as an art-director for film and television he later started making independent video and documentaries before moving into a dedicated art-practice. His recent projects have attempted a crossover between architecture, art and design, with a strong contextual reference to contemporary urban-design and the politics of occupying/intervening/using public spaces. His artworks often employ manual processes that are deliberately pain-staking and laborious while the products themselves are often temporary and sometimes even designed to decay. He has worked in sculpture, site-specific public installation, video, photography, and more recently with large-scale interactive installations that combine traditional and new media technologies.
Thank You To The Newark Museum of Art For Supporting Our 2021 Artists In Residence
Nadia Liz Estela
Nadia Liz Estela’s work examines how identity is constructed through migration and memory. Her mixed-media pieces, which often incorporate textile and sculptural elements, references the different layers of migration, including uncovering that which is often invisible. She keenly explores the aspects of life and society- its norms, morals, and indoctrinated labels that we know exist but do not acknowledge.
Linn Meyers
Linn Meyers makes meticulous drawings that hinge on the unique and imperfect quality of the hand-drawn line. She welcomes the slippage that occurs with the slightest involuntary movement of her body, and the delicate patterns that emerge over time. She works on a monumental scale when creating site-specific wall drawings, and on a more intimate scale when creating drawings and lithographs. (Photo Credit: Shep Lewin)