Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Arts Council Korea
Sun Choi
Choi’s work has continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and searches for value beyond materiality. Choi applies invisible materials, such as breath, as well as other unconventional mediums involving the body. In recent years, he has obtained paints from social and environmental disasters.
Choi’s recent exhibitions include Song Eun Art Space, Seoul; Yokohama Triennale; and The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
Sun Choi, Meari, 2015, Ash from burnt dog, cat and human hair, 1,033 sq. ft. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
Shahidi Marnani’s recent work aims to facilitate dialogue concerning the issue of time. She employs alternative methods to create dialogue through the medium of text and video, applying the specifications of time-based media.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran and she lives and works in Tehran. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Tehran University in 2007. She has shown her work at The Print Shop, MoMA PS1, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Devi Art Foundation, India; Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran; design transfer gallery (UDK), Berlin; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; PØST, Los Angeles; and Regina Rex, New York.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Soliloquy III'' Part 3: ''Where the Stars Go'' by Marzena Sowa, 2013, Video documentary, 39:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: Creative Saskatchewan, Mackenzie Art Gallery
Zachari Logan
Through large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices, Zachari Logan evolves a visual language that explores the intersections between masculinity, identity, memory and place. In previous work related to his current practice, Logan investigated his own body as a site of exploration. In recent work, Logan’s body remains a catalyst, but no longer the sole focus. Employing a strategy of visual quotation, mined from place and experience, Logan re-wilds his body as a queer embodiment of nature. This narrative shift engages both empirical explorations of landscape and overlapping art-historic motifs.
Zachari Logan is a Canadian artist (born in 1980, Saskatoon) working mainly in drawing, ceramics and installation practices. Logan’s work has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. As an extension of his practice, Logan has attended residencies in Paris, rural Tennessee, Calgary, London UK and three times in Vienna; through project space Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 and Vienna’s Museums Quartier, quartier21: Artist in Residence Program. Recent projects include Eunuch Tapestry 5, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York; Folds, Angus-Hughes Gallery (London; Sisi-boy, Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Vienna; Fugitive Garden, Illingworth-Kerr, Calgary; and touring group exhibition Faceless, at De Markten in Brussels, Mediamadic in Amsterdam, and freiraum quartier21 International, Vienna.
Zachari Logan, Wild Man 3, 2013, Blue pencil on mylar, 22 × 42 in. (55.88 × 106.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
