Summer 2024 Visiting Artists
Chie Fueki
Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is an recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund (2024), UMOCA's Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2025), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2004). Recent solo exhibitions include:Kinosaito, Verplank, NY (2024), UMOCA, Salt Lake City, Utah (2023), Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005, 2008, 2013, 2023);DC Moore Gallery, NY, NY (2022);Orlando Museum of Art,FL (2014),Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (2006, 2011);and BillMaynes Gallery (2002, 2003). She has public artwork at PS 92Q, QueensNY, and HHS Lerner Children Pavilion, New York, NY. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, CA; UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; and the Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Julianna Foster
Julianna Foster is an associate professor in the School of Art, Photography Program, Interdisciplinary/ Fine Arts, and Critical Studies Departments at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She earned a BFA in Design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2001) and an MFA in Book Arts + Printmaking from the University of the Arts. Foster has exhibited work nationally and internationally, in private collections across the country, and her photographs, essays, and interviews are included in many publications. The award-winning project, Geographical Lore, is a selection of photographic works considering how the natural world can be represented. Combining photographic images of the natural world and hand-made, assembled environments, a blend of the fabricated and the “real” image plays with ideas of memory and representation. She has collaborated with various artists on projects, including creating artist multiples, artist books, and a series of photographs and videos, and has self-published two books.
Bonnie Han Jones
Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narragansett.
Suneil Sanzgiri
Suneil Sanzgiri is an Indian-American artist, researcher, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, his work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across the Global South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history, local mythology, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa, India—where his family originates. His first institutional solo exhibition Here the Earth Grows Gold opened at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2023. His films have circulate widely at film festivals and art institutions across the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Doclisboa, Viennale, BlackStar Film Festival, Open City Docs, REDCAT, Menil Collection, Block Museum, MASS MoCA, moCa Cleveland, Le Cinéma Club, Criterion Collection, and many more.
Pamela Sneed
Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, performer and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams and Funeral Diva published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Art Net and more. Funeral Diva won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award and was recommended by The New York Times alongside Barack Obama’s memoir. Additionally in 2021, she was a panelist for The David Zwirner Gallery’s More Life exhibit, and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Columbia University, The New School, New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, DIA, NYU’s Center For Humanities. She has published in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Art Forum, The Academy of American Poets, The Brooklyn Rail, THEM, BOMB and most recently Poetry Magazine. She has appeared in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poems. Her visual work was featured at Leslie Lohman Museum, The Ford Foundation, Kates-Ferris and currently at The Lumber Room in Portland. In 2022, she had a solo show at Laurel Gitlen Gallery. She won the 2021 Black Queer Art Mentorship Award . She participated as a reader in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and was a narrator for Coco Fusco’s film, also in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. She has had keynotes at Yale University, Georgetown University and SAIC. She has won a BOFFO residency on Fire Island in August 2022. In March 2023, she premiered a solo performance A Tribute To Big Mama Thorton which broke a record at the Armory for the earliest a performance ever sold out. She will present a production of A Tribute to Big Mama Thorton at Joe's Pub in March 2024. In 2023 She won a Creative Capital Award in Literature. Her first book, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery was reissued by Fordham University Press in Oct 2023. Recently, she premiered a talk with Claudia Rankine at UC Berkeley and performed in Chicago in celebration of Sacred Spells by Assotto Saint. She has won a 2024 NYSCA grant for poetry, and is currently Visiting Faculty at the Whitney ISP.
Yamini Nayar
Yamini Nayar's work intersects assemblage and photography to construct moments of psychological space. In her practice the flattened photograph is the remaining vestige of a materially invested process in her studio that consists of physical construction, deconstruction, ruin, rebuilding, dwelling and recording - in no particular order. Her work explores alternate understandings of form and psyche through the built photograph.
Yamini Nayar lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Nayar has shown her work internationally including the Museum of Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Freud Museum London, Recontres d'Arles, Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, DeCordova Museum MA, Kiran Nadar Museum New Delhi, Sharjah Biennial in UAE, Saatchi Gallery UK, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India. Paris Photo and Frieze. Public collections include Solomon Guggenheim Museum NY, Kiran Nadar Museum, Rencontres d’arles Foundation, Queensland Art Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Hiscox and US Arts in Embassies, JP Morgan Chase. Publications include: 20th Century Indian Art, Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary, editors Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balaram (Thames and Hudson, 2022), Global Photography: A Critical History upcoming 2019, editors Heather Diack, Erina Duganne, Terri Weissman; Chandigarh is in India, edited by Shanay Jhaveri (Shoestring Publishers, 2016), Passages: Indian Art Today (Daab Media, 2014), Lines of Control, Partition as a Productive Space (Green Cardamom 2012), Unfixed: Postcolonial Photography in Contemporary Art (Jap Sam Books, 2013); Empire Strikes Back: Contemporary Indian Art Today (Saatchi) and Manual for Treason: Sharjah Biennial edited by Murtaza Vali (2011). Nayar's work has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, Art India, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Artpapers. Residencies and grants include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Art Academy of Cincinnati and NYU Visiting Artist Scholar. Nayar has received the Lightborne Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Scholarship, an Art Matters Foundation grant. Nayar holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an analyst-in-training at the Jung Institute, NY. Her work is represented by Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai and Thomas Erben, NY.
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