NICOLE PASULKA (United States)
Discipline: Literature
In Residence: February 3-26, 2021
Nicole Pasulka is a writer from Chicago, Illinois, who now lives in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Harper’s, New York, Mother Jones, The Believer, and Oxford American. Pasulka has been a Google Journalism Fellow and received the I.F. Stone Award from the Nation Institute, now Type Media Center, and has a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on the Brooklyn drag performance scene, to be published by Simon and Schuster.
KYOKO HAMAGUCHI (Japan, United States)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: February 3-26, 2021
Kyoko Hamaguchi, born in 1989 and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a conceptual mixed-media artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice takes form in many different media including photography, sculpture, and installation. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York (2020) and a BFA from Tokyo University of the Arts (2015). She has shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and Japan, including at WhiteBox, New York; SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, 2019, and 2020, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. In 2020, she had her first solo exhibition at KOKI ARTS, Tokyo. She has received many awards including the Heisei Art Award, Art Plaza Prize, Ikuo Hirayama Award, and Ataka Award. Her work has been reviewed in Christie’s Education Magazine, Musée Magazine, Tokyo Art Beat, and Bijutsutecho. She has also curated multiple group shows in Tokyo and New York.
MATTHEW THURBER & BRIAN BELOTT (United States)
Discipline: Performance Art
In Residence: February 3-26, 2021
Brian Belott and Matthew Thurber are artists and performers based in New York City. They have worked together in various forms since 2010. Merging their interest in poetry, speech, glossolalia, improvisation, pranks, nonsense, and the gestalt of eternity, they have performed at the Serpentine gallery in London in 2016, as hosts of Belott’s People Pie Pool theater assemblage for Performa 2018, and have deployed their disruptive and chaotic tradition of verbal babble beauty to dozens of galleries and music shows, parties and parlors over the last decade. Newsstand, eyeglasses store, church and basement have all been sanctified by spectacles of performance by “Court Stenographer and Young Sherlock Holmes Jr.”
YUSHA-MARIE SORZANO (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, United States)
Discipline: Performance, Dance Theatre
In Residence: March 3 – April 2, 2021
Originally from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Yusha-Marie Sorzano has been a member of Ailey II, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Morphoses, TU Dance, and BODYTRAFFIC. She has performed as a guest artist with LA Dance Project and is currently a member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. As a choreographer, Ms. Sorzano has created works for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, New Century Dance Project, The Ailey School. She was a part of the creative team for NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the recipient of The Alvin Ailey Foundations New Directions Choreography Fellowship and a National YoungArts Foundation Artist In Residence. She is currently a dance research fellow at the New York Public Library Performing Arts Division, Co-Artistic director of Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, a part of the creative team for Jeannette: A New Musical, and a faculty member at California Institute for the Arts.
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 at our East End campus.
ZOE HITZIG (United States)
Discipline: Literature
In Residence: March 3 – April 2, 2021
Zoë Hitzig is a researcher and poet. She is the author of Mezzanine (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, New Yorker, Lana Turner, London Review of Books, Harper’s and elsewhere. She has also written prose for magazines like BOMB, WIRED, New York Review of Books and Prac Crit. Born in New York, she currently lives in Massachusetts.
LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ (Czech Republic)
Discipline: Performance, Music
In Residence: April 7 – May 7, 2021
Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, voice, hichiriki, synthesizer and tap dance). During her PhD. studies of composition at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (CZ), she has been a visiting scholar at Universität der Künste in Berlin (D), Columbia University in New York (USA) and lately at the New York University. In her recent work, she is interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes. She has been nominated on 2017 Herb Alpert Awards in Arts in category of Music, was commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium in 2017 and has become a Roulette resident artist in 2018. She has put together two ensembles – NYC Constellation Ensemble (focused on music behavior) and the OPERA Ensemble.
CANDACE HILL (United States)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: April 7 – May 7, 2020
Candace Hill is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, CAPS Fellowship, NEA grants, Beards Grant for Sculpture, and has published works with Printed Matter and Heresies. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Madre, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, The World Trade Center, Hills & Valleys, and with the Parrish Art Museum.
NAUFUS RAMIREZ-FIGUEROA (Guatemala)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: April 7 – May 7, 2021
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, works in drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. Ramírez-Figueroa reframes recent and historical events, to find new ways at looking at social, political and ecological conditions. Ramírez-Figueroa has participated in various solo and group exhibitions including The Sixth State, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2018); The House of Kawinal, New Museum, New York (2018); Shit Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017); VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2017); Incerteza Viva, 32 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (2016); Burning Down the House, and 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014). He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mies Van Der Rohe prize, the Franklin Furnace award, the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship (selected by Dan Graham), and the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellowship.
Ramírez-Figueroa is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.
RACHEL DICKSTEIN & RIPE TIME (United States)
Discipline: Performance, Theatre
In Residence: May 12 – June 11, 2021
Ripe Time, is an Obie-winning theatre company founded in 2000 and led by director and deviser Rachel Dickstein. Our collective of affiliated artists develops and presents ensemble-based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. We tell stories from the inside out, using the language of memory and imagination to trace how women negotiate identity in the face of cultural constrictions. Inspired by the most searing writing of the past and the politics of the future, we create original multidisciplinary events for the 21st century celebrating the dreams and awakenings of women-identifying change-makers. Since 2000, Ripe Time has created eight large-scale ensemble works that have received three Obie Awards and nominations from the Drama Desk, the Drama League and the Joe A. Calloway Award for outstanding direction. Our work has been commissioned by BAM, CTG, Annenberg Center for the Arts and presented at BAM Next Wave Festival, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Rep No Boundaries, BAM-Fisher, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, The JCC in Manhattan, 3LD Art & Technology Center, the Ohio Theatre, PS 122, the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center, and LaMaMa, ETC, Ko Festival, and Voice and Vision.
TOMASHI JACKSON (United States)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: May 12 – June 11, 2021
Tomashi Jackson is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses the formal properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy to investigate the value of human life in public space. Her investigation into color perception as an aesthetic strategy began with a close reading of Josef Alber’s instructional text Interaction of Color, 1963. In this text, Jackson observed that the language used to describe the formal interaction of colors mirrored the language of racial segregation found in sources such as United States public policy documents, court proceedings, and other documents that shape the use of public space. Jackson’s investigation of the shared language around color, whether in reference to race or formalism, offers a narrative framework from which she constructs her own language of abstraction.
Jackson’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and Cooper Union, New York and has been a visiting artist at New York University. She completed the Skowhegan summer residency and was a Resident Fellow at ARCAthens, Athens, Greece in 2019. Jackson lives and works in Cambridge, MA and New York City.
Jackson is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center. This residency is presented in partnership with The Parrish Art Museum as part of their annual Platform exhibition.
THE WIDE AWAKES (United States)
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: June 23 – July 13, 2021
The Wide Awakes are an open-source network who radically reimagine the future through creative collaboration.
Niama Safia Sandy is a New York-based cultural anthropologist, curator, producer, educator and multidisciplinary artist. Her work across disciplines leverages history, the visual, written and performative arts, chiefly those of the Global Black Diaspora, to tell stories we know in ways we have not yet thought to tell them and to lift us all to a higher state of historical, ontological and spiritual wholeness in the process. Sandy is a co-founder of the Blacksmiths and an active member of the artists collectives Resistance Revival Chorus and Wide Awakes. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, School of Art.
Mikayla Scout Curtin b. 1996 is a NYC and CT based painter and multimedia artist. Her work focuses primarily on domestic imagery and family dynamics while implementing pattern, color, and layer to disrupt space. She has been a key organizer for the Wide Awakes since their inception in January of 2020, and continues to work with them as both an artist and activist.
Wildcat Ebony Brown is a Brooklyn-based artist with an experimental process, her work is vibrant and exhilarating through cross discipline of mixed media, installation and performance art, painting and collage. A founding member and key collaborator of the Wide Awakes, she conceptualizes and curates site specific activations.
Nour Batyne is a New York-based facilitator, creative producer, and educator whose work lies at the intersection of immersive storytelling, strategic foresight, and social innovation. Batyne is the founder of Disruptivist, a global community of artists who are amplifying the arts as a tool for social change and innovation, with the intention to challenge and transform the status quo.
CATHERINE GALASSO (United States)
Discipline: Performance, Dance
In Residence: July 14-25, 2021
Catherine Galasso is an independent choreographer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and ODC Theater in San Francisco, among others. In addition to being presented by venues such as Danspace Project in NYC, SFMoMA, Bibliothèque National de France in Paris and the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, Galasso also creates site-based performances for underground bank vaults, grand marble staircases, and apple orchards. Her 2018 ODC Theater commissioned Alone Together was awarded a San Francisco “Izzie” for Outstanding Achievement in Performance and heralded by Leah Garchik of the SF Chronicle as “a treasure chest so packed with jewels that the lid won’t stay down.” Recently, Galasso’s choreography has been featured in a number of theater and opera productions, for the US premiere of Das Wunder der Heliane (dir Christian Rath, 2019 Bard SummerScape), and for the internationally touring theater troupe TPO of Italy (COLORS, dir Davide Venturini, 2019 Brooklyn Academy of Music). She is the daughter of the late American composer Michael Galasso. She holds a European Baccalaureate from the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Venice, Italy, and a BA in Film from Cornell University. www.catherinegalasso.org
This residency is presented in partnership with Guild Hall.
THE DAXOPHONE CONSORT (United States)
Discipline: Music
In Residence: August 17-24, 2021
Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom, comprise the world’s only daxophone consort. A thin hardwood strip played with a bow, the daxophone was created by the German improviser/inventor Hans Reichel in 1987. The instrument’s sound, somewhere between a cello and badger, ranges from furtive gurgles and delicate whistles to wild screams. At Watermill the trio is working on a new interpretation of John Cage’s Ryoanji, to be released later this year on a recording for Mode Records.
MATTHEW CRAVEN (United States)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: September 15 – October 8, 2021
Matthew Craven is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work centers around found imagery combined with hand-drawn geometric patterns. He has shown in galleries all over the world including, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Switzerland. His work has been reviewed in notable outlets including The Huffington Post, Art Critical, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2017, he was the artist-in-residence for the Marfa Myths Festival. Anthology Editions just released PRIMER, the first monograph of MatthewCraven’s work.
Utilizing found images from textbooks along with his own geometric patterns, Matthew Craven’s collages and illustrations seek to create a new handmade universe, juxtaposing imagery from different cultures and time periods to celebrate commonalities. Photographs of archaeological remains and the natural world are overlaid on colorful textiles drawn on the back of vintage movie posters, to create a hypnotic and mesmerizing vernacular of symbols and designs. Craven’s art reconfiguration of traditional historical narratives inspired by obsessive formations.
MARTHA HINCAPIÉ CHARRY (Colombia)
Discipline: Performance, Dance
In Residence: September 15 – October 8, 2021
Martha Hincapié Charry is a Colombian BIPOC artist, choreographer, performer, and independent curator, based in Berlin. Charry is a Pina Bausch Fellow. She studied dance in her home country and dance theater at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch. Her creations have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She has received several awards and scholarships.
She has danced at the Wuppertaler Tanztheater, Stadttheater Münster, Bochumer Schauspielhaus, Theater Aachen, as well as in numerous independent productions with artists such as Okwui Okpokwasili, Asad Raza, Stefan Brinkmann, Sasha Waltz, Teodor Currentzis, Jochen Sandig, The Rundfunkchor, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Thomas Fiedler, Alessandra Pirici or Bob Wilson, a.o.
She is artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin festival and associate curator of Radial System Berlin, La Sierra Artist Residency, and the Bienal de Danza de Cali, Colombia. In her artistic and curatorial practice, she reflects on the processes of decolonization experienced by artists migrating to Europe or as part of local utopias, opening a space for dialogue between continents, generating a transdisciplinary reflection on the human body, (de)colonialism, indigenization, as well as on the critical relationship between humans and nature and the visible and the invisible world.
Special thanks to Goethe-Institut for their support of this residency.
DUKE RILEY (United States)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: September 15 – October 8, 2021
Duke Riley’s work addresses the tension between individual and collective behavior, independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, and the conflict with institutional power. He examines transgression zones and their inhabitants through drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions, infiltrations, and video structured as complex multimedia installations. Riley combines populist myths and historical obscurities with contemporary social and environmental dilemmas, connecting past and present, drawing attention to unsolved issues. Throughout his projects he profiles the space where water meets the land, traditionally marking the periphery of urban society, what lies beyond rigid moral constructs, a sense of danger and possibility. Riley has had solo exhibitions at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; and the Havana Biennial, among many others. He has received numerous awards and commissions, including a Percent for Art commission, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and the MTA Arts For Transit commission for the Beach 98th Street Station renovation. Born in Boston, he received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, before moving to New York, settling in Brooklyn, and earning his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. In the spring of 2016, Riley partnered with Creative Time and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to produce the public art sensation, ‘Fly By Night’, which was completely reimagined in 2018 as a tribute to the role of pigeons in WWI, produced by 1418Now and the London International Festival of Theater in the historic community of Thamesmead.
Riley is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.
ROBERT FIESELER (United States)
Discipline: Literature
In Residence: October 20 – November 23, 2021
Robert W. Fieseler is a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year” and the acclaimed nonfiction author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation — winner of the Edgar Award and the Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Queer literary icon Andrew Holleran reviewed Tinderbox as “far more than just a history of gay rights,” and Michael Cunningham praised it as “essential reading at any time.” Fieseler is currently working on his second nonfiction book, entitled American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State (Dutton, 2022), which received a Robert B. Silvers Foundation Grant for Work in Progress. A Chicago-born writer, he currently lives with his husband and dog in New Orleans.
PAULA AROS GHO (Chile)
Discipline: Performance, Theatre
In Residence: October 20 – November 23, 2021
Paula Aros Gho is a Chilean theater artist formed as actress and theatre director at the University of Chile BA (2002) and MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, England (2007). She is currently directing, writing and teaching for theater, instances in which she develops interdisciplinary projects based on the notion of performativity with emphasis on process as creative ideology. Her main focus is on the relationship and co-presence between artists and audiences. She has presented recognized experimental and interdisciplinary theatre performances, which combine theoretical and field research processes, thus integrating experiences and recordings related to everyday life. Her aim is to create works that involve social habits of linkage between human beings, the environment and the media.
GOZDE ILKIN (Turkey)
Discipline: Visual Art
In Residence: October 20 – November 23, 2021
Gözde İlkin, studied painting at the Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University and master’s degree at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. As a material she works on different domestic fabrics such as table clothes, curtains, etc. that are characterized the identity and give some details about the social process as a kind of memory objects. She uses these fabrics as stages or a space that allow her to install her motifs and images onto. Her motifs and drawings on fabrics depict today‘s cultural information, political and social relationships and gender issues. Selected solo exhibitions include “As the roots spoke, the cracks deepen” MAC/VAL Val-De- Marne Contemporary Art Museum, Paris (2019) “Organized Habitation” Galerie Paris- Beijing, Paris, “The Trap” Gözde İlkin at Gypsum Gallery in Cairo (2016) “Stained Estate” at Françoise Heitsch Gallery in Munich (2015) “Please Clear the Dance Floor” at artSümer Gallery in Istanbul (2010)
Selected group shows include “Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning” 13th Gwangju Biennial, Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala (2020-2021) “The Event of a Thread: Global Narratives” in Textiles, Istanbul Modern (2019); 15th Istanbul Biennale “A Good neighbour” Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset (2017); Spaceliner Curated by Barbara Heinrich at Arter in Istanbul (2015); Hyper Real The Passion of the Real in Painting and Photography Curated by Susanne Neuburger and Brigitte Franzen at MUMOK in Vienna (2010).
NENE HUMPHREY (United States)
Discipline: Interdisciplinary
In Residence: November 4-23, 2020
Nene Humphrey’s work ranges from sculpture, drawing, and photography to video, installation and collaborative performance. Throughout her practice she returns repeatedly to subjects that interest her- neuroscience, crafts and communal singing as well as the collaborative possibilities between art, music and science.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries since coming to New York in 1979. Exhibitions include the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Mead Museum, Amherst, MA, Palmer Museum, PA, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Sculpture Center, PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY.
Humphrey has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Brown Foundation, and Anonymous was a Woman among others. Her work has been written about in numerous publications including The New York Times, Art in America and ArtNews and Sculpture Magazine.
Since 2005 she has been artist in residence at the Joseph LeDoux neuroscience lab at NYU where her work has focused on explorations of the brain mechanisms underlying human emotions.
BENJAMIN BENNETT & MICHAEL FOSTER (United States)
Discipline: Performance, Music
In Residence: November 30 – December 17, 2021
Saxophonist Michael Foster & percussionist Ben Bennett have been performing as a duo for nearly 10 years. Using the saxophone and drum duo as a starting point, their work seeks to probe and prod the history and limitations of the tradition of the free jazz duo by interjecting elements of performance, silence, space, and density. Their collaborative work serves as an aspirational outlet for their shared interests in Zen meditation, performance art, pranks, and as a critique of performative acts of catharsis. They have toured the US and Europe extensively, having performed at Roulette, Issue Project Room, Brötz, Watermill Center, Oberlin, Bard, and many other venues large and small. In addition to their work as a duo, they often collaborate with Ben Gerstein, Jacob Wick, Joanna Mattrey, Brandon Lopez, Nate Wooley, and others.
PAWEL ALTHAMER (Poland)
Discipline: Visual Art, Performance
In Residence: November 30 – December 17, 2021
Pawel Althamer (b. 1967, Warsaw, Poland) works predominantly in sculpture, collaborative action, installation and performance art. Interested in social and artistic transformation, Althamer makes work that reimagines reality in an attempt to subtly shift conventional perceptions—social, political, psychological. Althamer’s solo exhibitions include Lentos Museum in Linz (2020); Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (2019); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2014); Secession, Vienna (2009); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2007); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006), and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (2002). Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace (2013); Gwangju Biennial, South Korea: Mainbo–10,000 Lives (2010); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007); Berlin Biennial: Von Mäusen und Menschen/Of Mice and Men (2006), and the Istanbul Biennial (2005). In 2004 he won the Vincent Award, hosted by the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Althamer is a recipient of the 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at The Watermill Center.