Nicolas Lafon
Artist name: Nicolas Lafon Dates of residency: May Born: 03-24-1981 Hometown: Pessac Lives and works: Paris URL: http://nicolaslafon.free.fr/ Education: MFA, Art School of Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2006 BFA, Art School of Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2003 BIO/ STATEMENT: “Nicolas Lafon is interested in the ways of appearance and deletion of the artwork. That moment when art […]
Micha Das Bach
Artist name: Micha Das Bach Dates of residency: May – October Hometown: Germany Lives and works: Cologne / exPanded Artfields as an Ethnologist URL: https://twitter.com/ete_uwu http://www.youtube.com/user/eteUWU Education: 1982, Studium der Freien Kunst, FHS, Cologne; 1984, Environmental Media, Royal College of Arts, London; 2006, Humboldt + Freie Universitat, Berlin Ethnology, Culutural Science, Film-Theater Science; 2007 guest […]
Manuela Viera-Gallo
Artist name: Manuela Viera-Gallo Dates of residency: May – August Born: 1977 Hometown: Santiago, Chile Lives and works: New York, NY URL: www.mvieragallo.com Education: MFA, Fine Arts, Catholic university, Santiago ,Chile 2000 BIO/ STATEMENT: Born in Rome in 1977 during the exile of her parents, Viera-Gallo returned to Chile in 1984 to study art at […]
Dominique Paul
Artist: Dominique Paul Dates of residency: May – July Born: 1967 Hometown: Montreal, Quebec Lives and works: Montreal, Quebec and New York URL: http://www.dominiquepaul.net Education: 2009, Doctorate in the Study and Practice of Arts, University of Quebec in Montreal (thesis to be published by Art Le Sabord Editions); 2000, Master of Fine Arts, Research in […]
Cho Mi Young
Artist name: Cho Mi Young Dates of residency: May – July Born: 1974 Hometown: Seoul, Korea(South) Lives and works: Seoul, Korea(South) URL: www.miyoungcho.net Education: MFA, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, 2002; BFA, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, 1997 BIO/ STATEMENT: Based in Seoul, Korea, Cho Mi Young works in sculpture and installation. Prompted in part by the political, social […]
Søren Engsted
Artist name: Søren Engsted Dates of residency: May – July Born: 1974 Hometown: Ringsted, Denmark Lives and works: Copenhagen URL: www.engsted.com Education: MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2011 BIO/ STATEMENT: “Søren Engsted arranges space in a very concise manner. By letting the volumes and objects, meanings and voids oscillate aggressively, perception and […]
Pawel Grobelny
Artist name: Pawel Grobelny Dates of residency: May Born: 1979 Hometown: Poznan, Poland Lives and works: Poznan, Poland URL: www.pawelgrobelny.com Education: 2014 – present: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, PhD; 2005; Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Mater Study ; Lyon, Faculty of Public Space and Design; Paris, LVMH and Pont Neuf scholarships. BIO/ STATEMENT: particular […]
Pedro Gallego
Artist name: Pedro Gallego Dates of residency: April Born: 1988 Hometown: São José dos Campos – Brazil Lives and works: São Paulo, Brazil URL: http://pedrogallego.weebly.com/ BIO/ STATEMENT Brazilian artist Pedro Gallego humorously and ironically challenges different ways of constructing fiction in media and their impact on the collective imagination, its desires and ideals. By decontextualizing visibly […]
Alice Miceli
Artist Name: Alice Miceli Dates of Residency: April – June Born: 1980 Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lives and works: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil URL: https://workdocumentation.wordpress.com/ Education: 2005: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, M.A., History of Art and Architecture, Brazil. 2002: ESEC, Ecole Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques, B.A., Cinema, Paris, France BIO/ STATEMENT: Alice Miceli was born and raised in Rio […]
Aldo van den Broek
Artist: Aldo van den Broek Dates of residency: March-May Born: 1985 Hometown: Amsterdam Lives and works: Berlin URL: http://www.aldovdbroek.com/ BIO/ STATEMENT: Aldo van den Broek was selected to participate in the Beautiful Distress residency project with support from Residency Unlimited. Beautiful Distress is a Dutch initiative that uses art in an attempt to open up the world of psychiatry and battle the stigma […]