Xaviera Simmons / USA – Artist in Residence
Xaviera Simmons completed a Bachelors degree in Photography from Bard College in 2004, after having spent two years of pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. In 2004-2005, she participated in the studio…
Sylvie Degiez & Wayne Lopes / Switzerland + USA – Artist in Residence
Sylvie Degiez Sylvie Degiez is a composer and music educator who’s work has been presented in NYC at the Kitchen, Summer Stage series, Makor/92stY, BAM and in Europe. She is a pioneer in…
Sivan Gur / USA + Israel – Artist in Residence
Born in Berkeley, California, Sivan Gur-Arieh was educated at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem where she studied painting and sculpture. From there she went to Columbia College – Chicago, earning a Masters…
Ramak Fazel / Iran + USA – Artist in Residence
Born in Iran and moving to the United States with his family, Ramak Fazel’s biography has always dealt with traveling. After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering, he changed his life’s direction and…
Michael Paul Britto / USA – Artist in Residence
Michael P. Britto is a film & video renegade. He uses his camera to scream out life’s absurdities and pay homage to the mundane. A student of graffiti art and hip-hop culture, Britto,…
Leor Grady / Israel – Artist in Residence
Leor Grady is an Israeli-born visual artist and an independent curator. He graduated from The School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem in 1996 and in 1997 moved to NYC where he has been…
Ella Ben-Aharon, Matthias Neumann, Adi Shniderman / Israel + Germany – Artists in Residence
Ella Ben-Aharon Israeli-born Ella joined the “Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company 2” after serving in the Israeli Air-Force. She moved to California to further her studies in dance, production, and bodywork. She then earned…
Carolyn Salas & Adam Parker Smith / USA – Artists in Residence
Carolyn Salas Carolyn Salas was born in Los Angeles and now lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from the College of Santa Fe and MFA from Hunter College in 2005….
Annabel Daou / Lebanon – Artist in Residence
Annabel Daou’s recent solo exhibitions include “Sex and Politics” at Conduit Gallery, in Dallas, TX, “a book of hours” at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and “America” at Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York….
Andrea Loefke / Germany – Artist in Residence
………..once upon a time there was a world: whimsical, humorous, credulous, intimate, alien, glittering and obscure. In Loefke’s work, fictional narratives, dream worlds with anchors in the real, occupy a space between familiarity…
