Past Residents
Past Resident2025: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Umber Majeed
Speculative fiction, collage, and digital interfaces are recurring formal and conceptual tools in Umber Majeed’s interdisciplinary art practice. She draws on architectural design and historical events specific to Pakistan to challenge entangled notions of nationalism, community, and identity within the framework of the modernist nation-state. Majeed is particularly interested in the temporal disjunctures of South Asia’s urban landscapes, using them as a springboard to imagine alternative futures. In her work, video and digital interfaces serve to collapse the boundaries between drawing, familial analog photography, and widely circulated stock imagery.
Umber Majeed has exhibited work at the Queens Museum, New York; Pioneer Works, New York; and Hayy Jameel, Saudi Arabia, among others.
Umber Majeed, Timeline, 2024-25, matte self-adhesive vinyl and works on paper, 36 × 20 in. (91.44 × 50.8 cm).
Umber Majeed, Welcome to the Trans-Pakistan Pavilion, 2025, animation, vinyl, wood and vinyl, 20 × 36 in. (50.8 × 91.44 cm).
Umber Majeed, We can fix it, 2025, ceramics, decal and wood, 30 × 40 × 30 in. (76.2 × 101.6 × 76.2 cm).
Umber Majeed, Saath Haath, 2025, mixed media on paper and web-based AR, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Umber Majeed, Untitled, 2025, 3-channel video installation with sound and ceramics, 10 × 12 in. (25.4 × 30.48 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2025: Leon Polk Smith Foundation
Grace Rosario Perkins
Grace Rosario Perkins is a self-taught Diné/Akimel O’odham painter interested in disassembling her personal narrative through layered words, objects, colors, and signs. She has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2023) and the Curanderismo Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico, studying folk medicine. She is represented by Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis and currently studying herbalism with the Empress Karen Rose (NYC).
Grace Rosario Perkins has exhibited work at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; de boer, California, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2025 Fall Open Studios
November 14–November 15, 2025
Grace Rosario Perkins, Disposition 2 Long Orange Finger Nails, 2024, acrylic, flashe, spray paint and peony on canvas, 58 × 73 × 11/2 in. (147.32 × 185.42 × 3.81 cm).
Grace Rosario Perkins, Going, Going, 2025, acrylic, spray paint, enamel, mother of pearl, turquoise, black jet and sterling silver on canvas, 70 × 67 in. (177.8 × 170.18 cm).
Grace Rosario Perkins, They Thought You Would Be Taller, 2024, acrylic, spray paint, sand, ocotillo, green thread, milk thistle, dandelion, boldo leaf, plastic, paper, cotton t-shirts, permanent marker, photograph, string, duct tape and ash on canvas, 77 × 104 × 1 in. (195.58 × 264.16 × 2.54 cm).
Grace Rosario Perkins, Prayer, Tarot, rNb, and Kissing, 2024, acrylic, spray paint, paper, sand, cicada and flower essence on canvas, 54 × 751/2 × 2 in. (137.16 × 191.77 × 5.08 cm).
Grace Rosario Perkins, I Wrote Drafts to Talk 2U, and Well, Here We Are, 2023, acrylic, spray paint, cut canvas, roses, sage, tinsel and sand on canvas, 46 × 65 × 11/2 in. (116.84 × 165.1 × 3.81 cm).
Residents from United States
Ruth Owens
Ruth Owens situates the Black subject at the intersection of two relationships. She explores the human-human relationship, focusing on the racially determined relationships between members of the African diaspora and those of northern European origin, as well as the human-environment relationship, particularly the devastating effects of climate change on people with limited resources.
Ruth Owens has exhibited work at Prospect.6 Triennial, New Orleans; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina; and 21C Museum, Chicago, among others.
Ruth Owens, Lay Me Down, 2020, oil on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm).
Ruth Owens, Lessons Lost, 2020, acrylic, mylar, glitter and charcoal on paper , 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 cm).
Ruth Owens, Bobolink, 2024, oil on canvas, 45 × 54 in. (114.3 × 137.16 cm).
Ruth Owens, Summertime Girl, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 × 64 in. (121.92 × 162.56 cm).
Ruth Owens, Deep End, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 × 60 in. (121.92 × 152.4 cm).