Artists In Residence
Yi Hsuan Lai is a visual artist from Taiwan currently working in New York. She often creates sculptures to use as photographic subjects and places them in both constructed and domestic spaces to create surreal still life and self-portraiture photography. She views photography as the pictorial representation of one’s mental states. Her work presents the complexity of psychological experiences for fluid self-identity and Otherness.
Khalif Tahir Thompson, based in New York, has been making powerful work in his chosen styles of portraiture and figuration. His artistic practice includes painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, and paper-making. Thompson received his BFA from Purchase College and has since completed residencies at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and Trestle Art Space. Thompson is now exclusively represented by Black Art In America LLC.
Chun-Chieh Chang is an artist who was diagnosed with hearing impairment at an early age and from Taiwan, His work is influenced by Minimalism, especially the ideas which defines Minimalism as “to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features, or concepts.”
Sia Serafina is a New York-based mixed media artist. She uses visual art, and more specifically charcoal collage, to explore femininity, destruction, solitude, and the rebuild after trauma. Through her work, she illuminates both the abstractions and the realities of existing as an empowered womxn both inside and outside of her work in the erotic labor industry.
Benjamin Staker is a New York based artist and Writer. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in Seattle, Washington where he attended the University of Washington, receiving a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and Art History in 2014. Benjamin Staker has worked and lived as a model in Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo, before moving to New York to begin his art practice.
Joe Baker, a Filipino-American, explores narratives through the blood of technology.
With the feelings of a musician and the movements of a dancer, he reverse engineers hardware to discover new life.
This experimentation further defines his identity while fostering unique situations for individuals.
He invites his audience to be at the forefront of the process. It is their emotional connection that drives his performances.
Thomas Hecht Ribas is a Brazilian American sculptor. His work considers the human body through the eyes of the objects that we interact with. The artist’s process is one of critical thinking; allowing projects to develop through constructed methodologies. A structured approach establishes the framework for highlighting the addition of pseudo ‘janky’ subjective qualities.
Theo Trotter creates work that investigates the trans body as a palimpsest, through the marks of transformation and trauma that manifest on it. He approaches this work through mixed media and papermaking. His images walk the thin line between beautiful and disgusting. This dichotomy between beauty and disgust, or attraction and repulsion, represents both injury and healing. He graduated from Bard College in 2019, and has shown work in New York and elsewhere in the United States.
Past Artists In Residence
