Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Departamento de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco
Itziar Barrio
Itziar Barrio’s interest and motivation for creating art springs from a personal need to react to and interact with reality. She has arrived at the understanding that human reality is not completely visceral or absolute, but it is an intricate psychological and intellectual construction, ever being re-created. When Barrio chooses an image, she takes into consideration not only the conscious worlds associated with the image but also the subconscious, societal, and sensational associations. She approaches the icon as a concept by maneuvering it through various abstract worlds and using many media, such as sculpture, painting, mural, and video animation. The repetition and extension of her original icons intomurals, animations, and drawings exemplifies the relationship that society has with everyday objects as recurring icons, whether those be practical objects embedded in our lives or abstract advertisement media creations. In this way she intends to bring up questions that are not overtly social or political, but that deal with the tendency of the human mind to create iconic and associative characters out of its surroundings and the effects of those associations on society.
Itziar Barrio (born 1976 in Bilbao) currently lives and works in New York City. She combines a wide range of media spanning the gamut of drawing, photography, video, animation and installation. She has been featured in solo shows internationally, including ARTIUM Museum, Spain; HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art and White Box, New York; Agenzia04 Gallery, Italy; Weekend Gallery and The Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin; Sala Libre Completo, Barcelona; and Catalogo General Gallery, Bilbao. She has also
participated in group exhibitions worldwide, including New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City, New York; Cervantes Institute, New York; Now or Never, Bogotá; Havana Biennial, Cuba; Pist Space, Istanbul; Art for Art’s Sake, Italy; Gdansk Academy of Arts, Poland; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York; 404 International Festival Postelectronic Art, Italy; The New Vision Cinema Series, New York; Gallerie Augenblick-raum für gegenwartskunst, Berlin; Paolo Boselli Gallery, Brussels; Art Tech Media International Forum, Spain; La Casa de America, Madrid; and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. Itziar Barrio has been the recipient of many grants, awards and nominations from major foundations and institutions including: Brooklyn Arts Council, First Prize Ertibil, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Basque Government Ministry of Culture, Bizkaia Executive Council, Gure Artea Biennial Prize and the Iberoamerican Videocreation Prize, MUSAC (Leon). She has been lecturing at Parsons, The New School for Design, Long Island University, Westchester Community College among others.
Itziar Barrio, Everybody Is Looking For Something, 2010, C-Print, 40 × 26 in. (101.6 × 66.04 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Itziar Barrio, The Blue Wall Project, 2011, Public video installation. Courtesy of the artist and the New Museum.
Itziar Barrio, At The Back, Behind The Parade, 2011, Multimedia installation artium. Courtesy of the artist and Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain.
Itziar Barrio, Kryptonite, 2011, Multimedia project. Courtesy of the artist and Cervantes Institute, New York City.
Itziar Barrio, Welcome To The New Paradise, 2009, Installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Creative Australia
Marian Drew
Marian Drew ‘s work focuses on the hybridisation of drawing and photography through studies in the studio, darkroom and landscape working to develop a language that acknowledges the dynamic relationship between photographer and subject exploited through extended exposure times. The constrained gesture of the photographer becomes interactive working to make the photograph in front of the lens. Drew reorientates and questions contemporary frameworks of history, place and the domestic.
Marian Drew is Associate Professor in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. She graduated from the Canberra School of Art and was awarded a German Government Scholarship studying Experimental Photography, at Kassel University. Since then she has held 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, the United States, France and Germany and contributed to over forty curatorial shows in Australia, China, Taiwan, Germany and the United States. She represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1992 and her first monograph was published in 2006 by the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Marian Drew, Wombat And Watermelon, 2005, Inkjet print, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Crow With Salt, 2003, Ink jet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Emu With Two Drawn Bowls, 2009, Inkjet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Lorikeet With Green Cloth, 2006, Ink jet photograph, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm).
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Loreta Ukshini
Loreta Ukshini, based in Pristina, Kosovo, graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Department of Painting in Pristina in 2006. Since then she has departed from the traditional practices taught at the school in order to address matters regarding the state of her country, often problematizing the relationship between citizen and state. By bringing forward matters that are sometimes uncomfortable, her performances, installations and sculptures aim to create awareness and initiate dialogue with its audience.
Loreta Ukshini, Public Toilets, 2010, Installation, 235/8 × 279/16 in. (60 × 70 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Loreta Ukshini, Hermetic Escape, 2010, Photo installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Loreta Ukshini, Loreta 1.60cm, 2010, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
