PONTUS LIDBERG
(no pronoun preference)
United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary, Dance
In Residence: January 3-10, 2024
Pontus Lidberg is a choreographer, filmmaker, dancer and recipient of a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, who has firmly established himself as a visionary artist that merges dance and film. As a choreographer for the stage, Lidberg has created works for luminary dance companies around the world, including Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company and many more. His work has been commissioned and presented by festivals and venues including Montpellier Danse, Théâtre National de Chaillot and The Joyce Theater. His film, “The Rain” received numerous awards. His film, “Labyrinth Within” won Best Picture at the Dance on Camera Festival in 2012. His first feature film, “Written on Water” starring Aurélie Dupont, premiered at Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art in Montréal in 2021. Raised in Stockholm, Sweden, Lidberg trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He holds an MFA in Contemporary Performing Arts from the University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.
MORGAN BOBROW-WILLIAMS
(they/them)
United States
Discipline: Post Disciplinary
In Residence: January 31-February 23, 2024
Morgan Bobrow-Williams is a post-disciplinary artist from Augusta, Georgia, experimenting at the intersections of dance, performance, sound, film, design, and installation. They received a BFA in Dance at Marymount Manhattan College, have performed across the US and Europe, collaborating with Johannes Wieland, Shamel Pitts, and Maxine Doyle, composed music for solo and global works, and been an artist in residence at Merriweather District, Tanz Farm, and Triskelion Arts.
Installation works include: “THE RUNNING PROJECT: BLACK GLADIATOR” exploring blackness as gladiatorism and “FREEDOM-PHONE-4000,” on technology, agency, and non-causality. As a music artist under the name SUM1, they have independently released four music projects.
Morgan is currently immersed in an expansive post-disciplinary project called sTARBABY. Committed to pushing creative boundaries, their dedication to post-disciplinary work invites transformative artistic experiences.
CATHERINE CHEN
(she/they)
United States
Discipline: Creative Writing
In Residence: January 31-February 23, 2023
Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet living in Brooklyn. Their practice activates an architectural writing that is scaffolded by rituals of desire, mourning, and embodied labor. A Lambda Literary and Poets House fellow, they have received artist support and fellowships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Arts Center at Governors Island), Theater Mitu, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Monson Arts Center. Their poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Apogee, among others. They are the author of the poetry collection Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023).
GEORGIOS CHEROUVIM
(he/him)
United States, Greece
Discipline: New Media/Computer Animation
In Residence: January 31-February 23, 2024
Georgios’ work has been featured in festivals and venues worldwide, including Siggraph, Ars Electronica, South by Southwest, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Art Futura, Athens International Film Festival, and the Greek National Opera.
He graduated with honors and an award from the National Center for Computer Animation in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, he has worked as a creative and technical director in visual effects for feature films, TV, and Virtual Reality. Georgios teaches an animation class at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is a member of Onassis ONX, a mentor at NEW INC of the New Museum, an art resident of the Watermill Center and has served as a jury member for the ÉCU film festival and the Irish Film & Television Academy.
JOANA P. CARDOZO
(she/her)
United States, Brazil
Discipline: Performance/Visual Art/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: February 28-March 29, 2024
Joana P. Cardozo (b. Sao Paulo, 1979) is a Brazilian visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her art practice is rooted in rituals and spirituality, exploring ideas of mortality, domesticity, and identity through photography, mixed media, installation, and performance. Cardozo has most recently exhibited/ performed at Lois Lambert Gallery (Santa Monica), Helen J Gallery (Los Angeles), Bareiss Gallery (Taos), photo L.A. (Los Angeles), Texas Contemporary Art Fair (Houston), Koslov Larsen (Houston), and Rencontres d’Arles (France). Her projects have received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundação Nacional de Artes, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, among others. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2022). Cardozo is represented by Koslov Larsen in Houston.
LINDSAY MORRIS
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Visual Art/Journalism
In Residence: February 28-March 29, 2024
Lindsay Morris is a photographer known for documenting events in her personal life and surrounding community. Morris studied at the University of Michigan School of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The School for International Training, Nairobi, Kenya. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. Her works are held in the collections of The Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, and The Newport Art Museum, RI.
Morris is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp, and the upcoming documentary, ‘Mom, I’ve Got Something to Tell You.’ Morris’ first TED talk will be published in March 2024.
KATHERINE PROFETA (she/her)
Discipline: Dance Dramaturgy/Writing
RALPH LEMON (he/him)
Discipline: Dance/Visual Art
DARRELL JONES (he/him)
Discipline: Dance
United States
In Residence:February 28-March 29, 2024
Katherine Profeta (dramaturg), Ralph Lemon (choreographer/visual artist), and Darrell Jones (choreographer/performer) have collaborated on Ralph Lemon’s performance projects since 2002, when working on 2004’s Come home Charley Patton. Katherine is currently a Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has served as founding member/choreographer of Elevator Repair Service, as well as dramaturg to many choreographers. Ralph Lemon is a choreographer and visual/conceptual artist with a long and storied career in multiple disciplines, and recipient of multiple awards including a MacArthur and a National Medal of Arts. Darrell Jones is a two-time Bessie Award winner (for his work with Bebe Miller and his own work) and an Associate Professor of Dance at Columbia College.
SARA STERN
(she/they)
United States
Discipline: Interdisciplinary
In Residence: February 28-March 29, 2024
Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Their recent projects prod histories of urban development with speculative fiction. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Stern received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Fountainhead Fellowship in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and several residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In recent years, Stern has participated in the Fire Island Artist Residency (Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY), the Art & Law Program, the Artist Residency at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (West Rutland, VT), and the Object Movement Residency at The Center at West Park (New York, NY).
NÉMO FLOURET
(no pronoun preference)
France, Belgium
Discipline: Performance Art
In Residence: April 3-May 4, 2024
Némo Flouret, born in 1995, from Orléans (FR), based in Brussels, choreographer, performer and multidisciplinary artist. He develops site specific projects, performances crossing different mediums, usually in hybrid spaces outside theaters. Such as “900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century” (2021), a performance conceived for post-industrial/urban spaces, and “What we found in the solitude” (2019), a duet taking place in a tunnel. Since 2019 he has been collaborating with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, co-creating in close collaboration with Tessa Hall a solo as part of the “Dark Red Project” (2021) at the Fondation Beyeler (Basel), and the site specific project “FORÊT” (2022) that they co-signed for the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Festival d’Automne. He now starts a new project called Derniers Feux, fusing choreography, music, and pyrotechny, made both for the theater or for any other location. This project will premiere in la Comédie de Genève in June 2025.
Némo Flouret is a recipient of the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts at The Watermill Center.
NICOLÁS LANGE
(he/him)
Italy, Chile
Discipline: Theater/Creative Writing
In Residence: April 3-May 4, 2024
Nicolás Lange is a writer, performer and stage director from southern Chile. Based in Florence, Italy.
His texts have been translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese and French, and his work has been presented in more than 15 countries. His work works with a strong poetic and biographical register, to cover themes ranging from colonialism to systematic violence against sexual dissidence in South America.
Author of the winning book of the Literary Awards (2021, Chile) Caminamos porque amamos algo (CastoryPólux, 2023).
He has been resident artist at GORKI Theater (Berlin), KVS (Brussels), National Theater of Lithuania (Vilnius), Chateau de Monthelon (France) and Grand Theater Groningen (The Netherlands), Giornate del Respiro, (Sardegna, Italy), Teatro Cantiere Florida, and PARC: Performing Arts Research Center (Florence, Italy). His play YO SALVO LA MUERTE, is the opening play of the 21VOLTS Festival, Central Elétrica (Porto, Portugal), he is currently a playwright in the International Residency Program, representing the Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid. Currently is developing his new project at the Citè des Arts (Paris).
This residency is supported by Fundación Teatro a Mil.
TALLES LOPES
(he/him)
Brazil
Discipline: Visual Art/Design
In Residence: April 3-May 4, 2024
Talles Lopes (1997) is an artist and architect who graduated from the State University of Goiás (UEG). He lives and works in Anápolis, a city in the interior of Goiás situated between the planned cities of Goiânia and Brasília. Reviewing archives, atlases, architectural projects and exhibition catalogs, the artist has dedicated himself to investigating the landscape built on the periphery of modern thought in Brazil, as well as the suspicious relationship between the imaginary of modernity and colonial heritage.
The artist has taken part in exhibitions such as the 12th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial (2019), the “Brazilian Histories” exhibition (2022) at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, as well as the “Concretos” exhibition (2022) at TEA – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Spain), and was also awarded the EDP Prize in the Arts (2020), held at the Tomie Ohtake Institute. He has been a resident artist at the Delfina Foundation in London (2022), the URRA Project in Buenos Aires (2023) and most recently at the IPA – Institute for Public Architecture in New York (2023).
This residency is supported by the FUNARTE (Brazilian National Arts Foundation) Artistic Mobility Grant.
k Abram
(no pronoun preference)
United States
Discipline: Creative Writing
In Residence: May 8-June 7, 2024
k Abram is a poet and essayist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work has been supported by Blue Mountain Center, featured in the NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series, and recognized as a finalist for the BOMB Magazine Poetry Contest, Meridian Short Prose Prize, and Wabash Prize for Poetry. k’s writing can be most recently found in Meridian, The Offing, and Tupelo Quarterly. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and is a Lecturer in NYU’s Liberal Studies program.
A. J. BERMUDEZ (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Creative Writing/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: May 8-June 7, 2024
A. J. Bermudez is an award-winning author and filmmaker based in New York and Los Angeles. Her first book, Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, won the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Virginia Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Columbia Journal, Chicago Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Story, Hopkins Review, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. Her most recent screenwriting project, a feature film called My Dead Friend Zoe, will be released in 2024. She is a recipient of the Page Award, the Diverse Voices Award, the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has received support from the Banff Centre, the Cultural Association of Morocco, the Bethany Arts Community, the Cambridge Writers Workshop, and the Montalvo Arts Center. She currently serves as Editor of The Maine Review. Bermudez is also a former boxer and EMT, and her work gravitates toward contemporary explorations of power, privilege, and place.
RUPTURE
United States
Discipline: Dance/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: May 8-June 7, 2024
We are RUPTURE – a bi-coastal collective of queer performance artists situated in the unceded territories of the Ramaytush, Huichin, and Muwekma Ohlone peoples and Lenape peoples – regions colonially known as San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, California and New York City in the so-called “United States.”
Spanning the vastness of Black embodiment through our respective lineages of Afrolatinxdad, Afroindigenity, Afro-Filipinx and Afro-Caribbean identity, we are informed by a wide range of African-Americanisms sourced from Harlem, the Bronx, Oakland, Los Angeles, and the Deep South. The Bay Area, having a certain Black and Queer potentiality historically woven into its mythology, drew us here as it has our predecessors. Our work manifests and lives through study, podcasts, gatherings, retreats, community workshops, and performances as traditional diasporic strategies. Using somatic, theatrical, ritual, and experimental sound practices, RUPTURE explores the inextricably linked histories that exist in the “not yet” as an act of emergence.
jose e. Abad (They/Them), USA, Stephanie Hewett (She/They), USA, Gabriele Christian (They/Them), USA, Styles Alexander (They/Them), USA, Clarissa Rivera Dyas (She/They), USA
ELVIRA CLAYTON (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Elvira Clayton’s art responds to the lives of people who lived under American slavery. She uncovers stories buried within slave auction notices, plantation records, and other slave-era documents to illuminate hidden historical memories. “Through this process, I am honoring my own enslaved ancestors,” Clayton says.
Working in installation, performance, assemblage sculpture, handcrafts, printmaking, and community-engaging projects, she considers her pieces ritualistic vessels holding stories of lost and forgotten people.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. She is a 2023-2024 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident, an A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, and Robert Blackburn Studio Immersion Fellow. Clayton has been an artist-in-residence at The Women’s Studio Workshop, Residency Unlimited, The Anderson Center, and Blue Mountain Center.
Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, Clayton grew up in Houston, Texas, and currently lives in Harlem, New York City.
ONE LANDSCAPE COLLECTIVE
United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
One LANDSCAPE is a not-for-profit conservation organization founded by landscape planner and designer, Margie Ruddick in collaboration with composer and musicologist Martin Brody. ONE LANDSCAPE is a collective of performance and studio artists, scientists architects landscape architects, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and others working together with local communities to promote the conservation of wild landscapes and to shift the culture of conservation from one that objectifies nature to one that understands humans as integral to natural systems.
To do this, ONE LANDSCAPE integrates science, art, policy and community to develop sustainable conservation road maps, both on the ground through the actual mapping of landscapes, and metaphorically reimagine conservation and preservation of wild landscapes all over the world.
Our group residencies and workshops produce deep mapping that incorporate whole systems- ecologies, cultures, and economies, as well as visual sonic, and kinetic experiences.
We have begun to test these new ways of mapping in pilot projects in India and in the still unspoilt areas of Eastern Long Island.
MARGIE RUDDICK
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Landscape Planner and Designer
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
For over twenty years, Margie Ruddick has been recognized for her pioneering work in the landscape. Winner of the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in landscape architecture, Margie has forged a design language that integrates ecology and culture. Her transformative design for New York’s Queens Plaza has won awards for promoting a new idea of nature in the city, where storm water, wind, sun, and habitat merge within an urban infrastructure to create a more sustainable vision of urban life. The new waterfront at Stapleton, in New York City, brings the harbor and city together in a park with cove and tidal wetlands, catalyzing the revitalization of this historic Staten Island district. Trenton Capital Park restores the connection between the city and the Delaware. Margie’s international projects include the Shillim Institute and Retreat in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India; she has remained with the project as a member of the Institute’s board. She traveled to Chengdu, Sichuan, China in 1996 to lead a team designing the Living Water Park, the first ecological park in China, which cleans polluted river water biologically.
Margie has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Yale, Princeton, The University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, and Schumacher College in England.
MARTIN BRODY
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(he/him)
United States
Discipline: Composer
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Martin Brody is Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music (Emeritus) at Wellesley College. He served as the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome from 2007-10 and as Fromm Resident in Musical Composition at the Academy in 2001. He has received numerous awards for his musical compositions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Academy-Institute Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and commissions from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fromm Foundation, and numerous ensembles. He has written extensively about post-war modernism in music and currently serves on the editorial board of Perspectives of New Music and as President of the Stefan Wolpe Society.
Margie and Martin co-founded ONE LANDSCAPE with the mission to create collectives of conservationists, artists, activists, scientists, policy makers and others, working together to develop community-based conservation practices—protecting, healing and regenerating landscapes locally and throughout the world.
ANN DE FOREST
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Walking Writer/Artist
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Ann de Forest’s writing and her practice as a walking artist explore the resonance of place. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared most recently in Hippocampus, One Art, Quarter after Eight, Gyroscope Review and Royal Beauty, a collection of ekphrastic writing. Ann has documented stories of displacement for Al Bustan: Seeds of Culture, examined the bonds that develop between home health care providers and their patients in the book-length photo essay, Healing on the Homefront, and has walked the entire perimeter of Philadelphia with three other artists, initiating an ongoing collaboration to open up new conversations about margins and edges, the power of slow creative practice, and art as collective witness. She is the editor of Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022), an anthology of essays.
During her residency, Ann De Forest will traverse the Paumanok Path in partnership with advisors from the Shinnecock Nation.
CAL FISH
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(They/Them)
United States
Discipline: Sound Artist
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Cal is a multi/non-disciplinary artist from Sea Cliff NY. Musical and sonic exploration has always been at the center of both their art practice and social life and they began performing at Brooklyn diy venues around 2012 at places like Death by Audio and 285 Kent in the band Turnip King. Since, Cal has performed solo song and dance all around the country and in parts of Europe with a synthesis of flute, tape loops, movement, homemade instruments, and sculpture. Cal currently lives and works in Brooklyn making custom clothing/soft sculpture, teaching art/technology classes to kids, and performing and organizing regularly. They are collaborating with Kyle Marshall Choreography as sound artist/designer and a resident artist/manager at the Living Gallery.
BECCA RODRIGUEZ
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(they/them)
United States
Discipline: Sound + Visual Artist
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Becca Rodriguez is a Florida-raised artist living in Atlanta, Ga. Their creative practice reflects on and is informed by the intersection of speculative fiction and prefiguration: how learning and dreaming about worlds within and beyond our own can affix us in them presently. Fluvial eggs, vessels, and ephemeral ecosystems are persistent motifs in their work across many disciplines: ceramic, sound, video, drawing, printmaking, papermaking, and bioplastic research.
Becca received their BFA from the University of North Florida in 2017. They are a collective member of Side Clay Studio in Atlanta, Ga. They have taught a variety of media ranging in clay, printmaking, papermaking, and natural dyeing over the years in different areas of Atlanta and North Florida.
Recently, Becca was a research volunteer at the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta, Ga, assisting in conservation practices, specifically from egg to fully metamorphosed frog or salamander in the foundation’s nursery. Their ceramic table-top game, “Metamorph”, has been installed on the Emma Wetlands of the Blue Heron Nature Preserve near Amphibian Foundation’s Metamorphosis Meadow and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia.
During their time at The Watermill Center Cal and Becca will make an acoustic map and oral history of the region.
CECIL HOWARD
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Landscape Designer + Artist
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Cecil Howell is a landscape designer and artist, whose expansive practice includes visual art, design, and landscape architecture. Her work is an exploration of the land: how it emerges over millennia, how we are shaped by it, and how, especially through design and science, we understand and inform the land around us.
After 9 years of working for multiple award-winning firms, including Hargreaves, Future Green, and Margie Ruddick Landscape, Cecil created her own studio and collaborative: Object + Field, in order to expand her practice beyond the built environment and into artistic explorations of the human imagination.
At The Watermill Center, Cecil will reimagine landscape maps in visual forms.
CONSTANTINE BAECHER
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(he/him)
United States
Discipline: Choreographer + Dancer
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Constantine Baecher is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in New York, splitting his time between Europe and the US. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Denmark’s Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (CICC) and Artistic Advisor to the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival.
Constantine is an active freelance choreographer having created works for companies such as the Royal Danish Ballet, Cross Connection, and KUNST-STOFF San Francisco among others, and spent 7 seasons as resident choreographer of New Chamber Baller NYC. From 2003-2012 Constantine performed with the Royal Danish Ballet and Gross Dance, Amsterdam. Currently Constantine tours internationally with the Paris based Carolyn Carlson dance company.
Constantine has received grants from The Danish Arts Council and Wilhelm Hansen Foundation as well as the 2011 Albert Gaubier Award for contribution to dance in Denmark.
REBECCA WALDEN
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Choreographer + Dancer
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Rebecca began her professional career with Nevada Ballet Theatre and Columbia Classical Ballet. Since moving to New York, she has danced with Armitage Gone! Dance, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Ballet Inc, Connecticut Ballet, Encounters Dance, Azoth Dance Theatre, Encounters Dance, and Nishikawa and Artists, among others. Rebecca has also performed in the works of Constantine Baecher, Sidra Bell, Hee Ra Yoo, Folawole, Richard Arnold Isaac, Ja’Malik, and Daniel Mantei Keene.
Rebecca received a classical ballet training from from Pavlovich Dance School and Southeastern School of Ballet in Columbia, SC, going on to receive her high school diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a concentration in ballet. She trained in contemporary dance through Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet Professional Training Program and continues to be coached by Nadege Hottier, director of Premiere Division Ballet.
Rebecca’s choreography has been performed by New Chamber Ballet, konverjdans, and Premiere Division Ballet, in New York, Italy, and Germany.
Rebbeca has a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University’s School of General Studies
Constantine and Rebecca’s work at the Watermill Center will focus on interpreting tidal patterns of local waterways through choreographed movement.
TANYA MARCUSE
ONE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Photography
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Tanya began making photographs as an early college student at Bard College at SImon’s Rock. She went on to study Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin and earned her MFA from Yale. Her photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman Museum. In 2002 she received a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue her project Undergarments and Armor.
In 2005, she embarked on a three part, fourteen year project, Fruitless I Fallen I Woven, moving from iconic, serial photographs of trees in Fruitless to lush, immersive, allegorical works in Fallen and Woven. Thephotographs in Woven are as large as 5 x 13 feet. Fueled by the Biblical narrative of the fall from Eden, these related projects use increasingly fantastical imagery and more elaborate methods of construction to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium.
Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. Tanya’s books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies, (NazraeliPress, 2012) and Fruitless I Fallen I Woven (Radius Press, 2019) and INK (Fall Line Press, 2021). She teachesPhotography at Bard College.
At The Watermill Center, Tanya Marcuse will create photographs investigating the imperiled natural world in ornately constructed tableaux.
JAMES ROMM
(he/him)
United States
Discipline: Author
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, NY.
He specializes in ancient Greek and Roman culture and civilization. His reviews and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, the Daily Beast, and other venues. He has held the Guggenheim Fellowship (1999-2000), the Birkelund Fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library (2010-11), and a Biography Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center of the City University of New York (2014-15).
At The Watermill Center, Tanya Marcuse and Jamie will create photographs investigating the imperiled natural world in ornately constructed tableaux.
VICKY COLOMBET
(she/her)
United States/France
Discipline: Visual Arts/Painter
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
American-French born artist, Vicky Colombet, lives and works between New York City, the Hudson Valley and Paris.
With a career spanning over three decades, Vicky Colombet’s abstract paintings, works on paper, prints, fine art photography, and architectural glass projects exist in conversation with various art historical movements—from traditional Chinese Painting to Abstract Expressionism.
Colombet has lived and maintained studios in Paris, the South of France, Barcelona and the Cévennes before finally settling in New York City, where she has a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Colombet now divides her work time between her studios in New York City, the Hudson Valley and Paris.
Vicky Colombet is the Recipient of the Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant (2001) and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2014). A member of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan since 2004, she became an American Citizen in 2013.
Vicky Colombet will explore The Watermill Center’s landscape and abstraction through painting.
SHELLEY NICOLE
(she/her)
United States
Discipline: Music/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: September 24-October 17, 2024
Shelley Nicole is a transformational healer using the power of love and the energetic magic of music to shift the world. She is a songwriter, vocalist, composer, actress and founder of Shelley Nicole’s blaKbüshe. Shelley Nicole has released three albums, “she who bleeds…,” “The Quick & Dirty EP” and “I Am American.” Her music is forged from rock, funk and soul’s connective tissue, empowering women to reclaim their cultural identity and personal agency.
Shelley Nicole has performed from London to Los Angeles and graced a myriad of stages including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and The Apollo Theater. As a featured member/conductor of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, founded by the late culture critic Greg Tate, Shelley has toured throughout Europe and the US. Shelley recently presented “Punanny Politixxx: Hindsight is 2020” at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, is a co-collaborator on “Priestess of Twerk: A Black Femme Star Temple + Wisdom School” premiering in 2024 and toured with “Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Opera.” Shelley is excited to bring her gifts to the fall artist-in-residence cohort at The Watermill Center.
JAMIE DIAMOND
(she/her)
United States
In Residence: October 23-November 22, 2024
Jamie Diamond is a performance artist, photographer and filmmaker living and working in NY. Since 2008, Diamond has been an active professional visual artist and educator in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, mounting national and international exhibitions. At the core of her work is the evolving nature of human connection and intimacy. Her work has been the focus of exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Hong Kong, and Milan, and presented in group shows at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Museum für neue Kunst, Germany; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany; Trapholt Museum, Denmark; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Bronx Museum, New York, NY; amongst others. Diamond is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship Award in Photography, Artist in Residence at The Bronx Museum, Mana Residencies program, LMCC Swing Space residency & Work Space residency and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award. Diamond’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, artnet, AnOther Magazine, Whitewall, Muse Magazine, Aperture, Hyperallergic, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Artsy, among others.
YUKI KOBAYASHI
(he/him)
Japan
Discipline: Performance/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: October 23-November 22, 2024
Yuki Kobayashi (b. 1990, Tokyo, Japan) is Visual / Performance Artist. He received BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Fine Art in 2014 and MA from Royal College of Art, Performance and Painting in 2016. Kobayashi founded and organises the Performance Platform “Stilllive” since 2019.
In the work, Kobayashi explores the neutrality of gender and questioning racial stereotypes, looking into human relations, the resonance between restriction and fluidity in time and space with using his own body. His action-based performance seek to reveal the authenticity of the human condition, working with the unexpected and the spontaneous to discover the invisible. Questioning both power and restrictive social codes towards a more uncertain world of freedom and equality.
Kobayashi has participated world widely to the exhibition, festival, theater and stage, also working collaboratively in the photography, film. He has invited by several residencies includes CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) (Hong Kong, 2023), Eaton HK (Hong Kong, 2022). Recently he received the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Individual Fellowship Visual Art Grant Award in 2023.
JOANNA MATTREY
(she/her)
Discipline: Music
Joanna Mattrey is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist whose work blends installation, video, sound, and movement. Her compositions use multimedia elements to strengthen and extend the transmission of the works, creating visual and sonic environments to more deeply convey the themes of transformation, memory, social connection, loss, and spiritual journeys. Grounded in bodywork, Mattrey creates embodied performances centered on ceremony and ritual. For this upcoming project, she will be joined by architect, James Kennedy.
Through his work with Leroy Street Studios over the past decade, Kennedy has been responsible for the design and realization of numerous projects, collaborating with builders and craftspeople across New York. The pair have collaborated on several of Mattrey’s installations, notably the illuminated lighting and sculptural cocoons for ‘Weaver’ and the four gateways installation from Mattrey’s large-scale work, ‘Arrhythmia’.
LUCIEN SHAPIRO
(he/him)
United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: October 23-November 22, 2024
Lucien Shapiro was born in 1979, in Santa Rosa, CA. He attended San Francisco Academy of Art University and received a BFA in 2003. Shapiro is a multi-faceted artist whose work spans across sculpture, performance, and film. Shapiro’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at museums, festivals, galleries, and art fairs. Shapiro’s work is process-focused and common themes include portals, repetition, a meticulous attention to craft, self-healing, and the transformation of forgotten objects into interesting and symbolic relics.
OMAR TATE
(he/him)
United States
In Residence: December 2nd – December 20th, 2024
Omar Tate (he/him) is a chef, poet, visual artist, and cofounder of Honeysuckle Projects, a multifaceted food company that focuses on the nuanced cultures and cuisines of the Black diaspora. His work serves to engage us in deeper understanding of the contextual relationships between food, storying, emotion, and place. His integrated practices examine and imagine timetables that are simultaneously past, present, and future in the sharing of our collective human experience. He focuses on time and the context within those scapes to offer new perspectives on equitable outcomes for Black peoples in real time.
Omar has emerged as a visionary and a leading thinker on the restaurant industry’s cultural development. He specifically focuses on the interrogation of race and ethnicity to tear down structural barriers through his practices. In 2020, Omar was named chef of the year and Honeysuckle named pop up of the year by Esquire Magazine . In 2021 Time Magazine named Omar as one of the 100 innovators to watch as part of their Time100Next list.
Omar Tate is a recipient of the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts at The Watermill Center.