DANCE OUT EAST: DJAPO
MARIE BASSE-WILES (she/her)
AND OMARI WILES (he/him)
United States
Discipline: Dance/Music/Composition
In Residence: January 5-January 12, 2025
West African dance cultural icon Marie Basse-Wiles and her son, Ballroom Icon Omari Wiles (CATS: The Jellicle Ball) co-created Djapo bringing together dancers from the Maimouna Keita School of African Dance (MKSAD), founded by Basse-Wiles, and Les Ballet Afrik, founded by Wiles. For 32 years MKSAD has brought together the African diaspora in an annual conference and Basse-Wiles has trained generations of renown artists whose impact continues to resonate the world over, including tours to Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea. Her son Omari Wiles has followed in her footsteps while walking to the beat of his own drum, creating AfrikFusion informed by Afro Club Culture, Vogue, and West African dance.
Djapo is commissioned by Works & Process and has received Works & Process LaunchPAD residency support at Bethany Arts Community (2024) and The Watermill Center. The work created sequenced into an iterative performance at Works & Process at the Guggenheim on January 12, 2025.
MORIAH EVANS (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: January 29 – February 21, 2025
Moriah Evans positions choreography as an expansive social process. Drawing on somatic choreographic practices and feminist critiques of dance and visual culture, her works expand dance beyond the visible, to explore different ways of sensing ourselves and our relationships to one another. One work leads into the next, each forming a chapter in her ongoing process to inspire transformation–both physically and psychosocially–through action. Evans creates site-specific performances, theater productions, participatory installations, and curatorial projects. Recent works: Remains Persist (MOCA LA, CA, 2023; Performance Space New York, NY, 2022); Out of and Into: PLOT (Museion, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 2023); REPOSE (Beach Sessions, ΝY, 2021); Be My Muse (Pace Live, NY, 2021; Hirshhorn Museum, DC, 2018; FD-13 Minneapolis, 2017); Configure (The Kitchen, NY, 2018) and Figuring (SculptureCenter, NY, 2018). Evans was honored with (among others): a 2023-2024 Hodder Fellowship, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists. Evans was Editorial Director, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Movement Research Performance Journal (2013-2022); Tanzkongress Curatorial Advisor (2017-2019); Dance & Process Co-Curator (The Kitchen, 2016-2023). Evans has a BA in Art History & English, Wellesley College, and MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from UCSD.
Dance at The Watermill Center is made possible with lead support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels.
MONET HURST-MENDOZA (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Theatre
In Residence: January 29 – February 21, 2025
Monet Hurst-Mendoza is a playwright and TV writer from Los Angeles who lives in NYC. Her plays have been developed with The Alley Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre. She is an alum of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup, WP Theater Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has been in residency at MacDowell, Ucross, Stillwright, La Mama Umbria International, Millay Arts, The MITTEN Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Monet was a writer/producer for seasons 21-24 of Law and Order: SVU. Episodes she co-wrote won three Imagen Awards for positive portrayals of Latinos in media and a nomination for Mystery Writers of America’s 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award. She is currently under commission with Westport Country Playhouse and The Kennedy Center. Monet is a 2025 NYSCA Artist Grantee and a proud member of The Kilroys, The Dramatist Guild, and WGAE.
MELIH KIRAÇ (he/him)
Turkey
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: January 29 – February 21, 2025
Melih Kıraç is an Istanbul based dance artist and academic. His choreographic research centers around collaborative processes and modes of knowing and experiencing the world through archive, absence of places and bodies and improvisational structures. Choreographies include WELCOME (2015), HÂL (2016), Data Shadow (2020), Clouds could not simply be taken indoors for study (2022), How is everyone in Istanbul? (2023), Sunset Melodrama (2023), every night we are haunted by a dream (2024) and New skin for the old ceremony (2024) have been presented at venues such as Kaaistudio’s (BE), Sale Docks (IT), Les Brigittines (BE), Salt Galata (TR), sub (TR), ARTER (TR), Alan Kadıköy (TR), Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts (TR), Sakıp Sabancı Museum (TR) and Kundura Sahne (TR). He carried out collective activities with Istanbul’s independent troupe Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası (2014-2023). He is currently working as a research assistant in MSFAU Contemporary Dance Dept.
Dance at The Watermill Center is made possible with lead support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels.
SCOTT BLUEDORN (he/him)
United States
Discipline: Visual Arts/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: February 26 – March 28, 2025
Scott Bluedorn is a fine artist, illustrator and designer working in various media including painting, drawing, print process, installation and found-object assemblage. His work engages with the intersection of human and non-human culture in the anthropocene era defined by climate disruption and the alteration of environments by human agency; incorporating elements of myth, mysticism and the supernatural. Scott draws inspiration from cultural anthropology, surrealism, science, and nautical tradition, seeking to distill imagery that speaks to the collective unconscious through visual storytelling.
TSERING YANGZOM LAMA (she/her)
Canada/United States/Tibet
Discipline: Creative Writing
In Residence: February 26 – March 28, 2025
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES, won the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry and the GLCA New Writers Award, Fiction. Her novel also received nominations for The Giller Prize, Prix Émile Guimet, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Carol Shields Prize, The Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, The VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, Valley of Words Book Awards, and The Toronto Book Awards. Tsering holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. WE MEASURE is published in English in Canada, the United States, and India. Translations are available or forthcoming in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Arabic
RICHARD PASQUARELLI (he/him)
United States
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: February 26 – March 28, 2025
Richard Pasquarelli’s work creates a visual language that represents our physical reality as a manifestation of the psyche. Inspired by analysis of his own obsessive compulsions for perfection and order, Pasquarelli pursues a better understanding of the complex relationships between our environments and our minds.
Pasquarelli’s process includes research into psychology, mental health, philosophy, and the physical properties of nature. He also seeks out institutional, personal, and everyday spaces which exemplify the relationships he depicts. The interviews he conducts and the thousands of photographs he takes during his field research are integral parts of his practice.
Pasquarelli has exhibited his work globally and is included in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Detroit and Flint Institutes of Arts, US Library of Congress, Progressive Insurance, the DeWoody, MacAndrews & Forbes, and Zabludowicz Collections. Residencies and awards include MASS MoCA, Ucross Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Print Club of Cleveland, and public installations for the City of New York. Pasquarelli lives and works in New York City.
CAROLINE BRETON (she/her)
France
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: April 2 – May 2, 2025
After philosophy studies, she joined ERACM national school in Marseille, where she launched an artists’ collective that lasted 8 years, reaching national scenes. After 10 years performing in theatre with strong figures such as Yves-Noël Genod, Falk Richter, Christiane Jatahy, and Robert Wilson, she continued as a dancer, with shows by Marco Berrettini at Rencontres Chorégraphiques Paris, Chaillot national Theatre for dance Paris, Rome national Theatre and tours, Christophe Haleb, Simon Tanguy, Johanna Rocard. She also gave lectures on feminism at Gaîté Lyrique and created performance art solos at New Museum New York, Laiterie Strasbourg, Odéon national Theatre and Centre Pompidou Paris. She choreographed and performed several shows with Charles Chemin, at Ménagerie de Verre Paris, Scène nationale d’Orléans, Quartier d’Ivry national dramatic Center. In 2021, she created the dance piece De Natura Rerum at La Pop Paris, Plastique Danse Flore Versailles and Avignon Festival. She will create her next show EUPHORIA, a duet about the Sense of Wonder, March 5th 2025.
Dance at The Watermill Center is made possible with lead support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels.
RUTH KEMNA (she/her)
Germany
Discipline: Music/Dance/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: April 2 – May 2, 2025
Ruth Kemna is a violist, performer and director. She studied viola and applied theater at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London and the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She performs internationally at festivals, philosophical and political summits, in transnational music theater productions and creates performative compositions. In her work, she is mainly concerned with the possible forms of contemporary written music, often in large spatial installations, as well as with the bodies of musicians and instruments and their connection to society, politics and nature. Ruth Kemna has worked with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Hamburger Camerata, Orchester im Treppenhaus and Ensemble Mediterraneo and is a member of the activist music theater collective Group 50:50 between the DR Congo, Switzerland and Germany. She is the founder of the Serendip Project, a nomadic group of artists who realize performances, concerts and installations in unusual places. She lives between Palermo, Vienna and the family farm in Germany.
RAÚL RIQUELME HERNÁNDEZ (he/him)
Chile
Discipline: Playwriting/Performance Art
In Residence: April 2 – May 2, 2025
Raúl Riquelme Hernández (1996) is a Chilean performer, playwright, and screenwriter. He studied at Universidad de Chile and has worked as an artist across various media since 2016. In 2018, he was selected for the Royal Court Theatre workshops in Latin America, and in 2020 he won the “Delirios en Cautiverio” showcase at the Chilean National Theatre with his play Dinosaurios en mi ventana. He has worked in urban performance with the Complejo Conejo collective, premiering works both in Chile and abroad. With them, he also curated the Memento Mori: Animitas del diseño escénico chileno (Memento Mori: Shrines of Chilean Scenic Design) stand at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. As a screenwriter, he worked on the series No me sigas for La Vieja Rara production company. He is about to premiere Dinosaurios en mi ventana, under the direction of Daniel Marabolí. Additionally, he has participated in international residencies such as the Santa Fe Art Institute (United States, 2024) and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2024/2025). He likes science fiction and comedy.”
This residency is supported by Fundación Teatro a Mil
JURA SHUST (he/him)
Belarus/Germany
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: April 2 – May 2, 2025
Based in Berlin, Jura Shust explores the relationship between ritual and escapism. Intrigued by semantic polysemy, informational intoxication, and primal aspiration for an out-of-body experience, he reflects on how the mythological overlaps with the technological. Revising the linear and circular temporalities, Shust juxtaposes an archaic worldview with a futuristic perspective. Exploring the renewal cycle within organic decomposition and artificial synthesis, he is focused on the relationship between the human psyche and the natural world. Based on scientific research, the artist’s practice merges various forms to construct mental landscapes illuminated by ethnoreligious beliefs and flooded by biopolitics.
A’BENA AWUKU-LARBI (she/her)
Ghana
Discipline: Creative Writing
In Residence: May 8 – June 6, 2025
A’bena Awuku-Larbi (Beah Batakou) is a Ghanaian lawyer, writer, and social justice advocate. She co-authored The Ocean Between Us and edited anthologies on gendered violence and climate justice. A Mo Issa Workshop alumnus (2021), her work appears in Libretto Magazine, Lolwe, and more. A’bena is a runner-up for the 2023 Adinkra Poetry Prize and co-founder of Happy Monthlies, tackling period poverty in rural Ghana.
LESLIE CUYJET (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Dance/Interdisciplinary
Leslie Cuyjet is an award-winning performer and choreographer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her dances often integrate text, video, and live performance while interrogating the performing body, personal legacy, and dance history. Mostly known as a performer, she is also a writer and editor, as well as a co-founder of the Authentic Movement collective, Duvet, which all play an ongoing role in shaping her interdisciplinary artistic practice. Her tenure in New York is decorated with performances and collaborations with Jane Comfort, Cynthia Oliver, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro, Will Rawls, David Gordon, NARCISSISTER, and Kim Brandt among others. Cuyjet’s work has been presented at The Kitchen, The Shed, MoMA PS1, The Chocolate Factory, and Center for Performance Research. Recent honors include Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, and an Outstanding Choreographer/Creator “Bessie” Award for her 2021 work, Blur.
Dance at The Watermill Center is made possible with lead support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels.
HAUI™ (he/they)
X MONICE PETER (she/her)
Canada
Discipline: Theatre/Opera/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: May 8 – June 6, 2025
HAUI™ is an award-winning mixed media artist directing, devising, and designing cross-disciplinary work for stage and screen. Notable achievements include the feature-film MixedUp (OUTtv), the immersive Private Flowers (Toronto History Museums), and directing his libretto Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White, praised as “a rare world premiere from the Canadian Opera Company marking a new entry in the country’s essential operatic canon” (Globe & Mail). Published by Playwrights Canada Press, HAUI™ served as the 2024 artist-in-residence for the City of Guelph, creating the audiovisual piece Aunt Harriet. He looks forward to continuing development on his upcoming projects in New York at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center and through a Chalmers Fellowship Grant to Cuba and Jamaica. As a producer, HAUI™ is part of OYA OBAC’s Producers Incubator.
Monice Peter is a multifaceted artist in theatre, film, and sustainability. Her notable stage credits include The Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, and Arts Club. On-screen, she’s had leading roles on Lifetime, CBC and the CW Network. Monice’s behind-the-scenes work includes Assistant Director for Matilda and upcoming on Legally Blonde (Theatre Calgary/Citadel Theatre). As playwright-in-residence at Vancouver’s Urban Ink, she’s developing Burnt Cork while dramaturging Four In The Morning (HAUI™). A BCIT Sustainable Business Leadership graduate, Monice pursues interdisciplinary studies at UBC.
ROSS WIGHTMAN (he/him)
United States
Discipline: Music/Sound/New Media
In Residence: May 8 – June 6, 2025
Ross Wightman is a New Haven based sound artist from New Jersey whose work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. He repurposes and deconstructs found instruments, augmenting them with 3D printing, robotics, and machine learning to compose works that investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre and resonance. At Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he teaches a variety of media studies, computer music and composition courses, and leads electroacoustic improvisation ensembles.
For this Residency at The Watermill Center, Ross will be developing his invention, Fiddle Henge, a robotically controlled array of four violins mounted on a 24” bass drum that is played by a motorized acrylic disk. Inspired by the mechanical musical instruments and automata from the turn of the 20th century, Fiddle Henge serves as a medium to conjure rhythmically dense mechanical textures and microtonal sonorities that flicker between harsh noise and spectrally lush drone.
RUTH CHILDS (she/her)
United Kingdom/United States/Switzerland
Discipline: Dance/Performance Art
In Residence: May 23 – June 6, 2025
British-American dancer and choreographer Ruth Childs was born in 1984 in London. She grew up in the USA where she studied dance and music. In 2003 she moved to Geneva to finish her training with the Ballet Junior de Genève. Following this, she worked with many choreographers including La Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Marco Berrettini and Yasmine Hugonnet. In 2015 she started working on a revival project of the early works of her aunt, Lucinda Childs. In 2014 she founded her company Scarlett’s to develop her own work through dance, performance, and music. Scarlett’s favors intimate and collaborative artistic processes, cultivating intuition and the indefinable. Her first stage piece with Stéphane Vecchione, The Goldfish and the Inner Tube, premiered in April 2018. She then created two soli fantasia (2019) and Blast! (2022.) In 2021 she received a scholarship from the Centre culturel suisse. Paris and La Becque to collaborate with Cécile Bouffard on a research project called Delicate People. In 2024 her first group piece Fun Times. Ruth is currently one of the artists in residence at Arsenic (Lausanne) and the associated artist at CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (2023-2024).
Dance at The Watermill Center is made possible with lead support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels.
ALESSANDRO DI LORENZO (he/him)
Italy/France
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: September 23-October 16, 2025
Alessandro Di Lorenzo (b. 1997) is an artist originally from Matera (Italy), now based in Paris. His work merges sculpture, drawing, installation and video, and unfolds in a hybridized space at the crossroads of the real, the imaginary and the symbolic. His approach is linked to an art of metamorphosis, constantly evoking an encounter with a sensitive environment that generates new possibilities for co-dependence.
His most recent works are conceived as speculative docu-fictions and are often presented as an interdependence of humans and non-humans, biological forms, modern and ancestral technologies that change composition and evolve. They provoke an investigation of certain vernacular rites and marginal realities in southern Italy, revealing the role that some alternative cosmogonies play in our society and stimulating a new understanding of the dynamics that regulate our relationship with the multiplicity of possible realities.
NATALIA LASSALLE-MORILLO & ENSEMBLE
Puerto Rico
Discipline: Theatre/Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: September 23-October 16, 2025
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (Puerto Rico) is an artist whose research-based practice reconstructs memory and history through a transdisciplinary and participatory approach. Merging theatrical performance, experimental film and installation, her work decentralizes canonical and colonial narratives through collaborations with non-professional performers, artists and researchers. Natalia’s projects develop across localities and narratives, exploring Caribbean collective memory and the material and spiritual trajectories that have shaped families and relationships impacted by the imperialist oppression in that region. Bringing theater-based methodologies into the camera, she rehearses an alternative historiography that revises collective relationships to the past and simultaneously foregrounds the creation of new mythologies.
Her work has been exhibited in venues such as RedCat (Los Angeles), Amant (NY), Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum (NY), 22a Sesc_VideoBrasil Biennial (São Paulo) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. She has been a fellow at the Smithsonian and a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Pioneer Works (NY), and Fonderie Darling (Montréal).
EDISON PEÑAFIEL (he/him)
Ecuador/United States
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: September 23-October 16, 2025
Edison Peñafiel is an Ecuadorian-born, Miami-based visual artist whose work explores the cycles of history, migration, and societal power dynamics through large-scale immersive installations. With a background in fine arts from Florida International University, Peñafiel’s practice is known for blending video, animation, and sculpture to create spaces that challenge perceptions and invite viewers to question established norms. His visual language is influenced by German Expressionism and the pervasive presence of surveillance, as well as Latin American protest music and magical realism, merging these elements into a powerful commentary on the experiences of marginalized communities.
Peñafiel’s installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Bass Museum, Atchugarry Art Center, and Sabrina Amrani Gallery in Madrid. His 2021 installation MARE MAGNVM won acclaim in Spain and Florida, with its accompanying documentary receiving a regional Emmy. Recent recognitions include being a finalist for the 2024 Coined in the South Biennial at the Mint Museum and a nomination for the United States Artists Fellowship.
SANGWOO YOO (he/him)
South Korea
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: September 23-October 16, 2025
Sangwoo Yoo, born in Seoul, is an artist who explores how natural objects are redefined and objectified in cultural contexts, highlighting the essential values lost in the process. As a sculptor, he creates sustainable materials that embody life and mortality, incorporating them into his work to reflect social and environmental realities and inspire change. He received his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the United States and a BFA in Environmental Sculpture from the University of Seoul in Korea.
Yoo has received the Eldon Danhausen Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center Residency, MASS MoCA Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. He was nominated for the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship and the MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture at SAIC. He won the Kumho Young Artist Award, second place in the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, and the grand prize at the Hoguk Art Exhibition.
Sangwoo is set to hold solo exhibitions at the Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul and RHAA Gallery in Chicago. He has previously held solo shows at Comfort Station and SITE Gallery in Chicago, as well as Dos Gallery and Red Brick Gallery in Seoul.
DALE GOING (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Creative Writing/New Media
In Residence: October 22-November 21, 2025
Dale Going’s poetry collection, The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster, is forthcoming in 2025 as the Codhill Press Guest Editor selection, as is For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings, a chapbook from Albion Books. Her previous collections are The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press) and As/of the Whole (SFSU Award, selected by Brenda Hillman). Her work has been supported by Fund for Poetry, California Arts Council, and Residency Fellowships at Yaddo, Wedding Cake House and Djerassi. New poems appear in VOLT, Interim, and New American Writing, among others. She lives in Manhattan and the Adirondack Park of upstate New York.
SPANGLISH SH!T
SAMORA LA PERDIDA (she/they)
JOSIAH HANDELMAN (he/him)
PALOMA SIERRA HERNANDEZ (she/they)
MOBÉY LOLA IRIZARRY (they/them)
MATTHEW ZWIEBEL (he/she/they)
United States/Puerto Rico
Discipline: Theatre/Opera
In Residence: October 22-November 21, 2025
SPANGLISH SH!T began as a TEDxTalk about poet Samora la Perdida’s journey to reclaim the forgotten Spanish of her childhood. After receiving an outpouring of support from immigrant children hungry to learn their mother tongues, she was inspired to transform her talk into a bilingual musical. She turned to composer friends Mobéy Lola Irizarry (bandleader of New York’s Premier Trans Salsa Band, Las Mariquitas), Josiah Handelman (hip-hop recording artist J Baby Smooth), and Matthew Zwiebel (BMI Musical Theater Composer), to set her poems to an “evolucionario hybrid sound.” Rounding out the team is Puerto Rican dramaturg Paloma Sierra (Pittsburgh’s Emerging Poet Laureate).
SPANGLISH SH!T is produced by En Garde Arts and has been developed with support from Berkeley Rep, the Princess Grace Foundation, NYSCA, Antenna Cloud Farm, and YoungArts. In 2025, SPANGLISH SH!T will be in residency at the Pocantico Center and be the first recipient of Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Artist Labs residency.
KAT THOMPSON (she/her)
United States/Jamaica
Discipline: Visual Arts/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: October 22-November 21, 2025
Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist working in Virginia. Thompson works with photography, textiles, collages, and installations then combines these mediums to explore notions of Afro-Caribbean selfhood within the African Diaspora. Being of Jamaican heritage, Thompson confronts her dual identity through recent projects that depict traces of her family’s journey through personal and found materials. Her focus is to uncover stories that mirror parts of ourselves back to us, including our histories, current realities, and future possibilities. Her works have been exhibited at Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA) Visible Records (Charlottesville, VA), the Fenwick Gallery and Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Reston, VA). She was a recipient of the Young Alumni Commissioning Award, College of Visual and Performing Arts: George Mason University (2021-2022) and she is currently a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow (2023-2025) in Washington DC.
Thompson received her BFA in Photography from George Mason University and her MFA in Photography + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University.
ALMOND ZIGMUND (she/her)
United States
Discipline: Visual Arts
In Residence: October 22-November 21, 2025
Almond Zigmund received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, in New York and Paris and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she studied art theory and criticism with the MacArthur Award-winning critic, Dave Hickey.
Almond Zigmund makes large scale installations, sculptures, works on paper and paintings. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in public and private collections. She has done several public and private site-specific installations, including at the Parrish Museum of Art, CMA in New York and The University of LaVerne in California. She has completed two public commissions for the NYC Dept of Transportation, and large scale murals at the The Whitman Walker Health Center in Washington DC, Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, and at One Financial Plaza in NYC as part of the Brookfield Arts program. She most recently completed a commission for a public sculpture with the US State Department Art in Embassies Program in Paraguay and is working on one for Bella Abzug Park.
Artist Photos © Moriah Evans by Michael Kirby Smith, Melih Kıraç by Aslı Bostancı, Scott Bluedorn by Jayme Gershen, Caroline Breton by Chloé Bellemère, Ruth Kemna by Neda Navaee, Raúl Riquelme Hernández by Vicente de la Cuadra, Leslie Cuyjet by Maria Baranova, HAUI™ by Marla Warner (Rebel Howl Studios), Monice Peter by Charlie Gallant, Ross Wightman by Nico Cadena, Ruth Childs by Marie Magnin, Alessandro Di Lorenzo by Giuseppe De Santis, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo by Xiaoyue, Kat Thompson by Carolina Porras-Monroy, and Almond Zigmund by Lovis Ostenrik. All photos are courtesy of the artists.
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