Past Residents
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Mu Li
Mu Li works with video, photography, installation and performance art. His work transcends the boundaries of the artist by broadening his personal understanding of art through the works themselves. Everyday life also plays an important role in Li’s work, in which a relationship between the environment, the general public, and the artist is established. Often, the boundaries between art and life are questioned by the artist’s personal experiences portrayed in his work.
Mu Li (born 1974, Feng County, Jiangsu Province, China) lives and works in Shanghai. He graduated from the Suzhou School of Art and Design, Suzhou, 1995 and the Academy of Art of Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2001.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Mu Li, Blued Books, 2008-2009, Photography, video, drawing, installations, and text. Courtesy of the artist.
Mu Li, New Job, 2010, Contract, photography, and interview. Courtesy of the artist.
Mu Li, Present, 2009, Photography, video, sound, and letters. Courtesy of the artist.
Mu Li, My Questions, 2010, Installation, video, and interviews. Courtesy of the artist.
Mu Li, Unfamiliar, 2009, Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from China
Alchemyverse
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, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2023
Past Resident2012: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Hector Arce-Espasas
Hector Arce-Espasas uses images that are inherent to the geographic and cultural milieu of the tropics. He appropriates and transfigures some of these images in order to transgress their current symbolic meaning in a sensuous play of conflicting alliances. The images lure and repel while playing with the idea of the pineapple as the easily attainable commercial fruit of ‘tropical paradise’.
Hector Arce-Espasas (born 1982, San Juan, Puerto Rico) completed an MFA at Hunter College, 2011. Following this, Arce-Espasas was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. He has also participated in various exhibitions including the Swiss Institute’s Dark Fair, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon; Marvelli Gallery, New York; Contemporary Art Society; London; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee; and University Galleries at Illinois State University.
Hector Arce-Espasas, Welcome To Paradise, 2011, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Hector Arce-Espasas, Pineapple Ewer, 2011, Ceramic with palladium glaze, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Hector Arce-Espasas, P.D. Come Fly With Me, 2011, Inkjet on fabric and wood, 79 × 108 in. (200.66 × 274.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Hector Arce-Espasas, P.D. Come Fly With Me, 2011, Inkjet on fabric and wood, 79 × 108 in. (200.66 × 274.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Hector Arce-Espasas, Sheltering Sky, 2009, Fabric, mattress and acrylic on canvas, 60 × 72 × 40 in. (152.4 × 182.88 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2012: Creative New Zealand
Kate Newby
Kate Newby’s work is guided by a desire to address the world around her as directly as possible. Newby’s actions engage with conditions of actual space, taking place in varied environments such as galleries and museums, parking lots and footpaths, and through hand-written signs and artist books. Newby typically uses elements of her immediate environment that give evidence to the everyday use of a place or space as an inhabited or occupied site, but that can also be used to interrupt, reconsider, or challenge an environment’s norms. Newby’s spatial adjustments and interventions range from large-scale sculptural directives, such as concrete or brick walls, floor-to-ceiling screens, curtains, and adjustable panel structures, to barely visible marks, stains, and small temporal murals.
Kate Newby’s (born 1979, Auckland, New Zealand) recent solo exhibitions include Do more with your feeling, SUNDAY art fair, London (Hopkinson Cundy booth), 2011; I’m just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2011; I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland, 2011; and Crawl out your window, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, 2010. Selected group exhibitions include Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2011; Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara, 2011; The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2009; and Show me, don’t tell me, Witte de With, Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels, 2008. In recent years Newby has participated in residency programs such as: Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work This is not a Play, with Geoffrey Farmer, Banff Centre, Banff, 2010; Künstlerhäuser, Worpswede, 2010; SOMA, Mexico City, 2010. Newby regularly publishes and contributes to artist publications.
Kate Newby, You're in This Somewhere, 2010, Site work. Courtesy of the artist and Artspace. Photo courtesy of Alex North.
Kate Newby, All Parts. All the Time., 2011, Rocks and acrylic paint, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Kate Newby, Crawl out Your Window, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst GAK. Photo courtesy of Peter Podkowik.
Kate Newby, Do More with Your Feeling, 2011, Rocks, rope, and cement, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Kate Newby, Walks with Men, 2011, Mortar, glazed ceramic rock, bronze, and silver pebbles, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, New Zealand Art Now and City Gallery, Wellington. Photo courtesy of Kate Whitley.
