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,...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide support for the residency of Mexico City-based artist Fritzia Irízar , who looks at the emotional, economic, and cultural values assumed by objects, interrogating the systems that propagate, authenticate, and sustain such...
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...
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...
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...
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a new site-responsive installation by Abigail DeVille that will premiere as part of "Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1966–2017," a group exhibition organized by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis...