RESIDENTS
2026
Christian Michael Filardo
October 2026
Christian Michael Filardo is a Filipino American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Their work utilizes photography, poetry, sound, and sequencing to create complex visual narratives. They have released books with Bleu Acier Press, Friend Editions, Pomegranate Press, and have an album coming out on Chicago based Spectral Disc later this year. They most recently read poetry at Rectangle Room in the New York City last month. During their residency, they worked on writing and recording audio for an upcoming collaboration with artist and musician Lee Noble.
Christian Michael Filardo.
Sonja Thomsen
Sonja Thomsen. Two Schools (still frame detail), 2026 - ongoing.
October 2026
Sonja Thomsen is a Milwaukee-based artist whose twenty-year practice uses light as a tool for intergenerational collaboration with women whose contributions to art history were absorbed into other people's legacies. Working in photography, large-scale installation, kinetic sculpture, film, and artists' books, she builds new material vocabularies from sustained archival research. Her current project, Two Schools, is a multi-channel film and installation examining Lucia Moholy and Hazel Larsen Archer, the photographers whose images built the canonical records of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. She has exhibited at the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin; the Reykjavik Museum of Photography; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the Walker Art Center Library, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was the 2025 Josef Breitenbach Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and is Full Professor Adjunct in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Dee Clements
September 2026
Chicago-based artist Dee Clements works in sculptural basketry, ceramics, and painting, with interests in ethnography, feminism, and craft. During her residency, she is focused on new sculptural paintings that explore decorative arts, nature, and the human impact on the planet.
Dee Clements' work has been included in recent exhibitions at Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami), Nina Johnson Gallery (Miami), R + CO (New York) and Kasmin (New York).
Dee Clements.
Patrick mohundro
July - August 2026
Patrick Carlin Mohundro makes “work adjacent to painting and sculpture: objects, perhaps, ideas, maybe. Hammers pass through glass, candles flop and smell like flesh coated in Speed Stick®, porcelain simulates canvas while stained glass stands in for paint.”
Mohundro is from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and lives in New York. He holds an MFA from Hunter College (2019). Mohundro is the founder of P.A.D., a platform that stages pop-up exhibitions in SoHo and beyond. Patrick will open a two-person exhibition with Ilana Harris-Babou at Essex Flowers in New York on September 12th. His practice reflects a deep commitment to collaboration and collective making.
Patrick Carlin Mohundro. Vertical Construction with Mirror and Glass, 2026. Mirror and glass. ½ x 132 in.
Patrick Carlin Mohundro. Stacked Color, 2026. Stained Glass
½ x 132 in.
chang sujung
July - August 2026
Chang Sujung’s work draws from narratives of everyday life, human migration, absurd dreams, and language (especially English idioms). Since moving to the US from South Korea, Chang has explored questions of belonging and concepts of home. For the artist, “The body itself is a highly organized container, one that depends on other containers—clothing, architecture, and the surrounding environment. This has led to projects that reimagine garments as sculptural forms. Sleeves and shirt cuffs become sites of intimacy and reflection, while skirts emerge as shapeshifting structures that transform into vessels.”
Chang Sujung was born in Seoul and moved to the US in 2014. She lives in New York City. Chang received her MFA from Hunter College (2017) and BFA from Ewha Womans University, Seoul (2013). Her recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Alteration at Laura the Gallery, Houston (2025), Detour: cul-de-sac at International Waters, New York (2022) and 88.61 lbs at Hesse Flatow, New York (2020). Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions including at 56 Henry, Marinaro, Helena Anrather, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, among others
Chang Sujung. Mobile Observer, 2024 (open). Watercolor, cotton, button. 2.75 x 3 x 2.5 in.
Chang Sujung. Mobile Observer, 2024 (closed).
2024
Luis Mejicanos
July 2024
Luis Edgar Mejicanos (b. 1995, Miami, FL) studied at Fordham University in New York City, where he earned a Dual BA in Visual Arts and Art History. He attended the renowned Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music in 2018, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023. He has participated in art residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, and The Lighthouse Works. Mejicanos has exhibited in New York City, Miami, and Chicago.
Luis Mejicanos. Pizarra, 2023 (detail). Oil on canvas. 50 in x 74 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Luka Carter.
Luka Carter
June 2024
Luka Carter (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is an interdisciplinary artist who lived on a boat for three years in Rockaway Beach, NY, a trailer in Bolinas, CA and plenty of places in between. The friends and community that he finds in each of these places has allowed for a strong, beautiful network of friendship and artistic collaboration, similar to what futurists might call tentacularity - “about life lived along lines, not at points, not in spheres.” With a background in construction and cooking, Luka has a knack for making space for art in overlooked or interstitial spaces–– including an outhouse, abandoned lot, and a van. His practice spans zines, furniture, tattoos, ceramics, clothing, and installations. He recieved a BA from Colorado College and an MFA from the University of Georgia and has been an artist in residence at Eureka!, Chautauqua School of Art, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch. Recent exhibitions include Baba Yaga Gallery (Hudson, NY) SCOPE Art Fair (Miami), Baltimore Print Fair, and Manitou Art Center.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas
June 2024
Keioui Keijaun Thomas is a New York-based artist. She creates live performance and multimedia installations that address blackness outside of a codependent, binary structure of existence. Her performances combine rhapsodic layers of live and recorded voice, slipping between various modes of address, to explore the pleasures and pressures of dependency, care, and support. By centering self and communal care in real-time, Thomas’ practice aims to build bridges of understanding and community. Thomas has presented work both nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ; JOAN, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Participant Inc.; Knockdown Center; Performance Space New York
Keioui Keijaun Thomas. Come Hell or High Femmes: The Journey of the Dolls, 2022. Performance.
Anna Wehrwein
2024
Anna Wehrwein is an artist originally from the Boston area. She received her BS in Art and BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, West Branch Literary Journal and ArtMaze Magazine. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg (New York, NY), Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) Collar Works (Troy, NY), and Troost Gardens (Kansas City, MO). She has been an artist in residence at VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and MacDowell, for which she was awarded the 2019 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship. She currently lives in Columbia, MO where she is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Missouri and the co-founder/director of stop-gap projects.
Anna Wehrwein, Shared Color (John's Tapestry), 2023.
Oil on Paper, 30 x 22in,. Courtesy of the artist.
AO Roberts
June 2024
AO Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and musician based in Treaty 1 territory, Winnipeg. They create sculptural sound installations and performances that contend with the voice, illness, disability, and belief within capitalism. Roberts has shared their work in the UK, Cuba, USA, and Canada with recent presentations including, Send + Receive Festival of Sound Art, Plug In ICA STAGES Biennial, SOUND/IMAGE 22.
A 2022 MacDowell Fellow and 2021 National Gallery of Canada Sobey Longlist awardee and inaugural resident at Minneapolis' Dreamsong Gallery, A former member of a string of noise and punk bands (Wolbachia, Hoover Death, Kursk), Roberts is a frequent musical collaborator who now primarily records with the solo experimental electronic project VOR. In 2023, experimental label Makade Star released VOR’s debut full-length recording, Ruminant. Roberts holds an MFA in Sculpture from California College of the Arts and a BFA Hons. in Sculpture from the University of Manitoba.
Studio view. Courtesy of the artist.
Edgar Arceneaux
in collaboration with The Walker Art Center + MCAD
June 2024
Invited for a residency in collaboration with The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles) works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and video; often exploring connections between historical events and present-day truths. Arceneaux has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as The Kitchen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Vera List Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria.
Edgar Arceneaux, Skinning the Mirror (Summer 4), 2024.
Acrylic paint, silver nitrate, glass on canvas. 38 x 27 in. Courtesy of the artist.
2023
Photo: Sayge Carroll. Courtesy of the artist.
Gabrielle Civil
in collaboration with Franconia Sculpture Park
June 2023
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over 40 original solo and collaborative performance works around the world.
Recent works include “…hewn & forged….” at the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2016); “_______ is the thing with feathers” at “Call & Response: Experiments in Joy” (2014); “Say My Name” (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls)” (2014); and “Fugue (Da, Montréal),” at the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (2014). Her writing has appeared in Small Axe, Obsidian, Asterix, Rain Taxi, and other publications.
Her performance memoir, Swallow the Fish was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms Press in 2017 and her second book Experiments in Joy was released February 15, 2019.
2022
Tali Weinberg
August 2022
Tali Weinberg creates weaving, sculpture, and drawing in response to worsening climate crisis, tracing relationships between extraction and illness; personal and communal loss; and corporeal and ecological bodies. She combines plant-derived fibers and dyes, petrochemical-derived medical materials, climate data, and abstracted landscape imagery to explore the inextricability of ecological and human health. Weinberg’s work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. She has participated in exhibitions at the Griffith Art Museum (Australia), Zhejiang Art Museum (China), 21C Museum in Oklahoma City, Denver Botanic Gardens, University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (PA), Center for Craft (NC), Dreamsong (MN), and Form & Concept (NM), among others.
Tali Weinberg, Arterial, 2022 (detail), Handwoven plant fibers, petrochemical-derived dyes and monofilament. 86 x 112 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Maria Kozak
Maria Kozak, The Joy of Being Alive, 2022. Oil on canvas, 78 x 112 in.
June 2022
Maria Kozak is an artist living and working in upstate New York and Warsaw, Poland. Her family emigrated to the US in 1983 at the height of martial law and she grew up navigating the two cultures. Her work reflects intuitive expressions of her inner world based loosely on society, nature and the sublime. They are about the absurdity of being a human, the dark comedy and the parts of the unconscious mind that we normally try to hide or ignore. There is always a duality present in the process whether it's a battle between darkness and light, control and surrender, stillness and movement, or the real and artificial. Her virtual work is about the tension between repetition and change as we renegotiate what it means to be human in the digital age; as the boundaries between ourselves and others are constantly being redrawn. She is always seeking levity and connection.
Anocha SuwichakornponG
Film still from Overseas (2012) co-directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong and Wichanon Somumjarn.
Courtesy of the artist.
in collaboration with FD13 +The Walker Art Center
March 2022
Anocha Suwichakornpong a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and producer whose work is informed by the socio-political history of Thailand. She was a DAAD resident, Berlin (2021) and was Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University (2018-2020). Her films have been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto; and Olhar De Cinema, Brazil, among others. She is the recipient of the 2019 Prince Claus Award, the Silpathorn Award (2019), and her feature, By The Time It Gets Dark(2016), was awarded Best Picture and Best Director from Thailand National Film Association, making her the first woman to be awarded.
Anocha Suwichakornpong was in Minneapolis for a month-long residency with FD13, in partnership with the Walker Art Center, during which the artist premiered the newly commissioned performance, FREETIME, at the Walker Cinema stage on March 19, 7PM. In addition, the Walker screened two of Suwichakornpong’s recent films—By the Time it Gets Dark (Friday March 11, 7PM) and Come Here (Saturday, March 12, 7PM).
Lucy Ives by Will Matsuda
LUCY IVES
2022
Lucy Ives is the author of three novels: Impossible Views of the World; Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World; and Life Is Everywhere. She is the 2023–2025 Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Literary Arts at Brown University.
2021
Film still of Chaw Ei Thein from Min Min Hein’s documentary film Listen (2017). Courtesy of the artist.
Chaw Ei Thein
March 2022
CHAW EI THEIN (b. 1969, Yangon, Myanmar) is a visual and performance artist.
Currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Thein is a longtime proponent of political change in her home country of Myanmar and has remained a central figure in its contemporary art community despite her spatial separation. Since the February 1st coup that threw Myanmar into turmoil, she has worked tirelessly to support her fellow artists and the Civil Disobedience Movement in hopes of restoring power to the country’s democratically elected leaders through peaceful protest. Her artworks interpret her struggle against the oppression of expression and the impact of social transformation. From an early age, she received artistic recognition, securing numerous international art awards, museum and gallery shows, and res- idencies. With her father, artist Maung Maung Thein, as her art teacher and mentor, Thein developed a diverse art practice comprising painting, installation, and performance.