Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Iliana Antonova
Iliana Antonova is a critic and independent curator whose practice examines the possibilities for alternative models of art presentation. By engaging with the exhibition as an open-ended structural armature, she foregrounds artistic practices invested in experimentation within these frameworks.
Iliana Antonova (born 1984, Bulgaria) is based in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Her writing has been published in numerous publications including Canadian Art, ETC revue de l’art actuel, and C Magazine. she co-founded the directed Silver Flag, an independent exhibition space, from 2009-2012, which featured solo exhibitions by artist such as Scott Lyall, Euan Mcdonald, and Sarah Greig, amongst others. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Astérides curatorial residency in Marseille, France, granted by Fonderie Darling, Montréal. Antonova holds a degree in art history from Concordia University.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2015: National Endowment for the Arts
Dylan Gauthier
Dylan Gauthier works at the intersection of new media, architecture, ecology, and critical urbanism. His work takes the form of soundtracks, publications, images, websites, videos, environmental research, and social sculptures. His research-based artistic practice explores the residues of temporary occupations, interventions in public space, invisible infrastructure, and utopian systems. Gauthier is a founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a social center and cooperative space located in a former diner in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and of the artist-activist-boatbuilding collective Mare Liberum.
Dylan Gauthier (born 1979, Santa Monica, California) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn, NY, where he has lived since 2002. Gauthier is co-founder of Mare Liberum, a longtime collaborator with Red76, and founder of Luncheonette, an art and social space located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work has been presented in museums and galleries including the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, MASS MoCA, The Walker Art Center, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, Parsons School of Design, Printed Matter Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, C.C.A.D., ISSUE Project Room, the Boston Center for the Arts, PsyGeoConflux Festival, Flux Factory, the Wassaic Project, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. He holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, where he currently teaches in the Film and Media Department.
Residents from United States
Mark Hilton
Mark Hilton’s practice is driven by a fascination with the passage between the impossible and the inevitable.
Mark Hilton has exhibited widely, including Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Spaces, Canberra; Galerie Petronas, Kuala Lumpur; The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and Careof, Milano. He has undertaken several residencies, including at Viafarini Galerie, Milano, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne and CoLab Projects, Texas. In 2014 the Michael Buxton Collection published Dontworry, examining Hilton’s practice with a key focus on his sculptural work with essays by Dr Chris McAuliffe, Maria Tumarkin and Jarrod Rawlins.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Keli Safia Maksud
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2024
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026