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2024
Luis Mejicanos. Pizarra, 2023 (detail). Oil on canvas. 50 in x 74 in. Courtesy of the artist.
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.
Courtesy of the artist.
Luka Carter +
Keioui Keijaun Thomas
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.
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.
Studio view. 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.
Edgar Arceneaux
in collaboration with The Walker Art Center
June 2024
Edgar Arceneaux, Skinning the Mirror (Spring), 2024.
Acrylic paint, silver nitrate, glass on canvas. 38 x 27 in. Courtesy of the artist.
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.
His work has also been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum, Performa 15 and Whitney Museum, New York; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art in Oslo, Norway; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among other venues.
Arceneaux's work resides in such collections as the Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Arceneaux attended the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2001), Fachhochschule Aachen (2000), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1999), and Art Center College of Design (BFA, 1996).
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, Arterial, 2022 (detail), Handwoven plant fibers, petrochemical-derived dyes and monofilament. 86 x 112 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
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. Her artwork has been featured in the New York Times, Colossal, National Resource Defense Council’s onEarth Magazine, Surface Design Journal, American Craft, Ecotone, The Journal of Data Visualization, and is included in the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Honors include an Illinois Artist Fellowship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Serenbe Fellowship, Windgate Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, SciArt Bridge Residency for cross-disciplinary collaboration, a residency at New York’s Museum of Art and Design, and grants from the Puffin Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, and Oklahoma Arts Council. She has taught at California College of the Arts and Penland School of Craft and been a visiting critic at schools throughout the US. Weinberg received her MFA from California College of the Arts and an interdisciplinary MA (Textiles & Social Theory) and BA (Peace Studies) from New York University. She currently lives and works in Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Maria Kozak
Maria Kozak, The Joy of Being Alive, 2022. Oil on canvas, 78 x 112 in.
June 2022
Maria Kozak is a painter and new media 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 drawings and paintings are 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.
In 2004, Thein presented her first solo show at the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF) in Japan. From 2004 on, she continued developing and performing work, showing at TIPALive (2005) in Taiwan, Asiatopia in Thailand (2005/2007/2008), 8 Open International Performance Art Festival in Beijing (2007), Small East Asia Co performance art event hosted in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Toyama, Japan (2008), and the 7*11d Performance Art Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Thein exhibited her second solo painting show at the Espace art gallery in Bangkok (2005) and then at the Hermes’ Ear Art Exhibition at the Nitrianska Gallery in Slovakia and Budapest (2006). She held her third solo exhibition at the Balance Art Gallery in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She was an invited speaker at the Asia House Art Gallery in London, where she presented “The Myanmar Performance Art Scene: challenges faced by Myanmar Artists” during the September demonstrations of 2007. She was awarded The Elizabeth J. McCormack and Jerome I. Aron Fellowship in connection with the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) in residence with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York.
She has also exhibited her works at Point B Gallery, Brooklyn, ISCP Open Studios, and the United Nations Plaza. Her awards and residencies include Art Omi, the Sea Change Residency, and GAEA Foundation. She is a fellow of the Art Initiative Tokyo (AIT) in Tokyo, Japan. In 2008, Thein and artist Richard Streitmatter-Tran debuted the collaborative architectural, mixed-media installation September Sweetness at the Singapore Biennale.
She has given artist presentations at several universities and institutions, including the School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), Massachusetts College of Art, Brown University, Princeton University, New School, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb (NIU), University of Minnesota, and the Open Society Institute (OSI) in New York. Numerous international art presses, including Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Yishu, C-Arts, Strait Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, have profiled Thein’s artistic practice for its candid portrayals of the conflicts and contradictions of the artist’s socio-political environment.
In addition to being an artist, Thein is the co-founder and director of the Sunflower Art Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar. As co-founder and director, she has developed several initiatives and organized several art exhibitions and fairs, including showcases of children’s art in Myanmar and Cambodia and shows for psychiatric patients.
As an advocate for art, education, and creative expression, she has been a vocal critic of the restrictive curricula in Myanmar (Burma). She has taught art to children for 15 years and serves as an editor for a youth magazine in Yangon. In 2021, she co-founded the Association for Myanmar Contemporary Arts (AMCA) with fellow Myanmar artists and friends in New York. In 2023, she became a member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists. In 2017, director Min Min Hein documented Thein’s artistic practice and life in the short film Listen.