Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan is a first generation Malaysian-Chinese artist, writer, and educator from the American South. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the displaced Chinese diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements, incorporating their elemental properties into her processes. Working across disciplines, she combines experimental alternative photographic processes and ceramics with video projection and archival photography. She is deeply fascinated by how the not so distant histories of racial exclusion, erasure, and extractive environmental capitalism lay the foundation for everyday, lived contemporary experiences of the Asian American diaspora. By untangling the roots of our origins, her work seeks to revive and reckon with lost histories and lives, and their implications on race and environment, so that by knowing where we come from, we can envision a new future for ourselves.
Website: www.kristiana-chan.com, IG: @kristi_chan
PRINT + PAPER: 2022-2023 RESIDENTS
Conner Darling
Conner Darling is an installation artist and occasional farm hand originally from the suburbs of Houston. He received a bachelors in percussion performance from the University of Michigan and has since transitioned to focusing on visual art. His work turns towards the local landscape in an attempt to illuminate our place in it.
Website:https://connerdarling.com IG: @connerdarling
Satpreet Kahlon
Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, organizer, and educator based in Seattle, WA. She is co-founder of yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives, an organization that has supported over four hundred artists in the Pacific Northwest with over $2 million of opportunities since its 2017 founding. Her studio practice has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Mellon Foundation, Critical Minded, Artforum, Hyperallergic, the Magnum Foundation, and others.
Satpreet won the 2022 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial Curatorial Excellence Award, where she will have a solo show in 2023.
Website: www.satpreetkahlon.com
V. Maldonado
V. Maldonado is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance curator, and writer who lives and works in Portland, OR.
Born in 1976 in Changuitirio, Michoacan, Mexico, Maldonado grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley of California in a family of migrant field laborers. They received their BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Art (2000), their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (2005), and is exclusively represented by Froelick Gallery, Portland OR. Maldonado’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR.
Deploying both traditional media including painting, printmaking and drawing alongside contemporary strategies such as performance, installation and intervention, Maldonado expresses the power of identity to author experience and perception.
Jenene Nagy
Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in the Inland Empire. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in Los Angeles, Portland, New York, and Berlin. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Oregon Arts Commission, Colorado Creative Industries, the Ford Family Foundation and in 2016 a nomination for the United States Artist Fellowship. Nagy's work is held in several permanent collections including the Portland Art Museum and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.
Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions. From 2011-12 she was the first Curator-in-Residence for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon.
Website: www.jenenenagy.com
sadé powell
sadé powell is a native new yorker and antidisciplinary artist exploring fugitivity, legibility, and interobjectivity through poetry and collage. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1940s mechanical typewriter to gesture towards dissemblance as proximity and relation to otherwise potentialities.
sadé holds a ma in performance studies at nyu tisch. her first-ish chapbook wordtomydead is forthcoming in ugly duckling presse.
Vivian Sming
Vivian Sming is an artist-publisher based in the Bay Area, who produces a wide range of artists’ books through their publishing studio Sming Sming Books. Formed in 2017, the studio experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Sming is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper, and is committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.
website: smingsming.com IG: @smingsmingbooks
Anie Toole
Weaving and natural dye are at the core of Anie Toole’s transdisciplinary studio practice that extends into printmaking, clay, and sound explorations. Her work materializes translanguaging through craft-based practices and research.
Currently based in Quebec City, she holds an MFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a Fine Craft diploma in Constructed Textiles from La Maison des métiers d’art de Québec, and a BSc Honours in Mathematics from the University of Ottawa. She exhibits across North America and was awarded residencies at Penland School of Craft and Vermont Studio Center.
Website: https://anietoole.com IG: @anietoole
