QINMIN LIU (China)
Discipline: Visual Arts, Dance
In Residence: February 3-28, 2020
Qinmin Liu holds a MFA from School of Visual Arts and a BFA in Dance from San Francisco State University with graduate honor and Department Honor. Her works have been shown at institutions such as: San Francisco Asian Art Museum; Zhuzhong Museum; Airport Biennial; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Sichuan Art Institute; American Dance Festival. Solo Exhibition at Beijing Mocube space; Solo performance at Chambers Fine Art Gallery. In 2017, Qinmin launched Angelhaha airline. In 2019, Qinmin was invited to participate in the Ural Industrial Biennial.
YAPCI RAMOS (Spain)
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: February 3-28, 2020
Born on the island of Tenerife in 1977, Yapci Ramos is a visual artist living and working between Barcelona, Canary Islands and New York. She earned her Masters in Creative Documentary from the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and studied at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts & Design London (CSM). Her work has also been shown in museums, art centers, galleries, festivals and institutions in numerous countries including at the CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Galería Na Solyanke, Moscú; Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; CCET Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa; CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Musée d’Histoire la Medecine, París; Galerie Magda Danysz, París; EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo; Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna.
This residency is supported in part by Canarias Crea.
SAINT GENET (United States)
Discipline: Performance
In Residence: March 4-30, 2020
Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell is an American déclassé from Reno, Nevada, currently living in the grey area of legality in Vienna, Austria where his company Saint Genet, currently resides. -drcm as Saint Genet creates large-scale works that range from symphonies and experimental plays in abandoned buildings, museum reflecting pools, boxing matches in filthy alleyways, rooftop performances atop doomed domiciles, marathon traversals of foreign spaces, ether induced 8 hour “madness opera”, grandiose architectural wakes, and sublime blood fueled social reckonings. These pieces are neither purely plays or performance art commodity; neither complete spectacle or didactic diatribe. They are works that are vanishing.
CANDACE HILL (United States)
Discipline: Interdisciplinary Arts, Literature
In Residence: March 4-30, 2020
REGINA PARRA (Brazil, United States)
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: October 21 – November 5, 2020
Regina Parra has a MFA in Art History from Faculdade Santa Marcelina and a BFA in Fine Arts from FAAP. She also studied Theater and worked in the field with Antunes Filho (1929-2019) for many years. The connection between the performing arts—especially Greek tragedy—is present in her production as a visual artist. Her experience in directing actors and creating sets for the theater becomes evident in her videos, compositions, and performances. Painting, video and performance are the main poetic instruments Parra uses to address issues like resistance and subversion. Her works have been shown at institutions such as the Jewish Museum (NY), Pablo Atchugarry Art Center (Miami), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Shiva Gallery (NY), PAC_Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan), Museu Nacional (Lisbon), OnCurating Project Space (Zurich), MASP, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Pivô, CCSP, Parque Lage, Paço das Artes, Fundação Marcos Amaro, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (all in Brazil).
TAHIR KARMALI (Kenya)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: October 21 – November 23, 2020
Tahir Carl Karmali (b. 1987) born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya – Brooklyn, NY based visual artist began his practice as a painter and sculptor. Karmali’s interest in photography started while traveling through East Africa and South East Asia – later received his Masters in Photography at SVA. His attention to material and process is integral to how he communicates narratives centered around global environmental, political, and socioeconomic factors. Karmali has exhibited in Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn; United Photo Industries, Brooklyn; and Circle Art, Nairobi.
PAIGE MAZUREK (United States)
Discipline: Film, Photography
In Residence: October 21 – November 23, 2020
Paige Mazurek was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland and currently lives in Portland, Maine where she is studying audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, part of the Maine College of Art. Her exploration takes place across multiple mediums including lens based media, sound, collage, drawing and sculpture. She is drawn to ideas of the everyday, family, and the broad interconnectedness of all things. Paige previously worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Video Producer and Editor. She earned a BFA in 2011 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University. She is an aspiring jill-of-all-trades, loves riding / wrenching motorcycles, and driving on unfamiliar roads at night.
This residency is part the YoungArts and The Watermill Center Mentorship Residency. Inaugurated in 2020, each year an alum from YoungArts: The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists is awarded a residency at The Watermill Center, where they are given the chance to develop their practice and receive guidance from one of Watermill’s esteemed alumni.
ZEINAB SHAHIDI MARNANI (Iran)
Discipline: Film, Photography
In Residence: October 21 – November 23, 2020
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1983 and currently lives and works in Tehran and New York. She has a Bachelor of Visual Communication from Tehran University, and holds a MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art. She was a recipient of Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, and DutchCulture’s Shared Cultural Heritage Matching Fund in 2019. Zeinab was a Inga Maren Otto Fellow at The Watermill Center in 2016. In 2015, she received Art Jameel and Edge of Arabia’s second annual artist residency program fellowship at The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. In 2013 she was a resident at Akrai Residency program in Italy. She was also a recipient of the The Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship from Yale University in 2011. Her work has been exhibited at Museum of Moscow, Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Cargo in Context in Amsterdam, Tehran Museum of contemporary Arts, Yarat Contemporary Art space in Baku, ALLGOLD at the MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York, Kunstraum Alter Wiehrebahnhof in Freiburg, Thomas Erben Gallery in New York, design transfer gallery (UDK) in Berlin; Devi Art Foundation in India, Azad Art Gallery in Tehran, Emrooz Art Gallery in Isfahan.
This residency is part the YoungArts and The Watermill Center Mentorship Residency. Inaugurated in 2020, each year an alum from YoungArts: The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists is awarded a residency at The Watermill Center, where they are given the chance to develop their practice and receive guidance from one of Watermill’s esteemed alumni.
CLAIRE WATSON (United States)
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: October 21 – November 23, 2020
Claire Watson was born in Amarillo, TX. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980, and an MFA in Sculpture at Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia in 1984. Her awards and honors include a Residency Fellowship at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in 2019, a Studio Residency at MASS MoCA in 2018; a Fellowship in Sculpture from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2007; and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1990. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, and has been exhibited by folioeast, East Hampton, NY; and at venues that include Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY; Art Helix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; and Art in General, NYC, among numerous others. Since 1996 she has lived and worked in Water Mill, New York, where she raised two sons with her husband, artist Stephen Laub.
RESCHEDULED DUE TO COVID-19
Due to the temporary shutdown of The Watermill Center caused by the impact of COVID-19, the following artists have had their residencies rescheduled to 2021/2022.
Artists-in-Residence : Martha Hincapié Charry (Colombia), Matthew Craven (United States), Rachel Dickstein & Ripe Time (United States), Paula Aros Gho (Chile), Nene Humphrey (United States), Gözde İlkin (Turkey), Courtney Leonard (Shinnecock), Nicole Pasulka (United States), Marie de Testa (Mexico, France), Lucie Vítková (Czech Republic)
Inga Maren Otto Fellows: Pawel Althamer (Poland), Ville Anderson (Finland), Tomashi Jackson (United States), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala)