2016 Posts
Tomahawk GreyEyes

Tomahawk GreyEyes

The Foundation is pleased to provide residency support to  Tomahawk GreyEyes, who will spend time at the Vermont Studio Center in 2016 to develop new work. Mr. GreyEyes is an interdisciplinary artist from the Navajo Nation who uses site-specific installations, print,...

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Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis

The Foundation is pleased to provide residency support to  Jeremy Dennis, who will spend time at the Vermont Studio Center in 2016 to develop new work. Mr. Dennis' digital photography often references common depictions of indigenous people from cinema and popular...

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Nicholas Rivers

Nicholas Rivers

The Foundation is pleased to provide residency support to Nicholas Rivers, who will spend time at Santa Fe Art Institute in 2017 to develop new work. Mr. Rivers' artwork moves between the universal and the specific and reflects a search for experience,...

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Victoria Fu

Victoria Fu

Victoria Fu's artwork reflects on the status of the moving image and conditions of spectatorship in today's digital age. The artist writes, "My moving image installations exploit, exaggerate and simulate optical effects of light and space as meditations on sight,...

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Raphael Montañez Ortiz and LAXART

Raphael Montañez Ortiz and LAXART

Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for an exhibition of historical works—sculpture, film, and video—and a new performance by Raphael Montanez Ortiz (b. New York, 1934). The exhibition will revisit the artist’s dynamic practice—which is drawn from...

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

As an artist­-archivist, Kameelah Janan Rasheed often creates work with found objects, textual fragments, orphaned audio, and other historical residue excavated from sources ranging from flea markets to institutional archives to dumpsters. Ms. Rasheed writes, "Haunted...

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Faheem Majeed

Faheem Majeed

Faheem Majeed often looks to the material makeup of his South Shore neighborhood in Chicago and surrounding areas as an entry point into larger questions around civic-mindedness, community activism, and institutional racism. As part of his studio practice, the artist...

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Elizabeth Tubergen

Elizabeth Tubergen

Elizabeth Tubergen's sculptures appear to function as singular, formed images in space, referencing notions of the universal through borrowed monumental, architectural, domestic, and athletic forms. At the same time, these objects follow the logic of...

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Christine Gedeon

Christine Gedeon

Reinventing maps and architectural spaces has been a focus of Christine Gedeon's work, who was born in Aleppo in 1973, and immigrated to the US in 1976. Writing about her string sculpture, entitled,  "Syria..as my mother speaks" the artist describes "an interactive...

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