Welcome March’s Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: March 12 — 24, 2026
Spring Ulmer
ESSEX, NEW YORK
Spring Ulmer is the author of Benjamin’s Spectacles (selected by Sonia Sanchez for Kore Press’s 2007 First Book Award); The Age of Virtual Reproduction; Bestiality of the Involved, and Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April (selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of Tupelo Press’s 2022 Dorset Prize). Her translation of Yannis Ritsos’s Exercises 1950-1960 was released in 2025 by Ugly Ducking Presse. Her monograph Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts: The Agency of the Extracted is available now, published by Routledge.
Michelle Min Sterling
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Michelle Min Sterling is the New York Times bestselling author of Camp Zero. She teaches literature and writing at Berklee College of Music, and has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Born in British Columbia, Canada, she now lives in Cambridge, MA. Her writing has been translated into ten languages.
Danielle Lazarin
new york, new york
Danielle Lazarin is the author of the story collection BACK TALK, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. Her writing has been published in places such as The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, The Cut, Literary Hub, performed as part of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts, and honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Millay Colony for the Arts. She writes and teaches in her native New York.
“I’m currently working on both a novel and a short story collection, both of which are primarily set in domestic spaces and family units, where the tension between our private and public selves is most acute, particularly for women whose public selves are always under scrutiny, bodily and morally. In my work, I’m interested in the resonance of women’s choices and actions in these public and private spheres, the ways trauma moves into the body, and disrupting and undermining the male gaze on our collective narratives.”
aricoco
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
aricoco (Ari Tabei), born and raised in Tokyo, is an interdisciplinary artist, based in NYC. After earning her MFA from University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in 2007, she moved to NYC to exhibit and perform extensively in the city. She was awarded LMCC Creative Engagement Fund in 2020 and New York City Artist Corps Grant in 2021 to continue working on her socially-engaged collaborative project PIPORNOT, which had been launched in 2016. Recently, she has joined the Repair Cafe El Barrio as the community's artist liaison to help develop their new educational programming.
aricoco is interested in how human communities might form and thrive without centralized leadership and power privilege. Exploring the non-hierarchical system of social insects (especially ants) and their biological altruistic characteristics within their female-dominated society, she attempts to acknowledge her paradoxical phobia for insects and challenge her own vulnerability as a human, drawing a parallel with the life of an insect. Through creating environments for habitation, sculptural garments/bags and masks that serve as her protective gear, she disguises herself as an insect, performing a ritualistic play of surrendering her “powerless” body to the habitat.
sHANI sTRAND
loS angeles, california
Shani Strand is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video and installation to consider ungovernability in a post-colonial and globalized world. She is one half of Sucking Salt, a project that archives Caribbean architecture and aesthetics to diversify architectural history and to assert the Caribbean as a site of material importance and a major intersection of various cultures and colonial histories.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Harkawik, LA (2024); Rachel Uffner, NY (2024); Deli Gallery, CDMX (2023); Rachel Uffner, NY (2022); and HOUSING, NY (2021). She has performed at The Broad, Los Angeles (2022) and held residencies at Automata (2022) and Interstate Projects (2018). She has been published by CARLA (2024), The Avery Review (2023) and Pin-Up Magazine (2021). She has lectured at Santa Monica Community College (2024), Wesleyan University (2024) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (2022). Strand received her BFA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tyna Ontko
Boiceville, NEW YORK
Tyna Ontko is an artist and writer from the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state, an area which influences her interest in handicraft futurism and rural infrastructure. She considers the act of making sculpture as a form of sorting which aids her in bringing to light the experience of living between publics whose methods for setting boundaries, communally agreed upon superstitions, and algorithms for making meaning mark unconscious thought and affect daily trajectories.
Tyna is a 2025 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, holding an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media. Her work has been exhibited with the Institute of Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA, Kunsthalle Kohta in Helsinki, Finland, and Below Grand Gallery in New York, NY among others. Residencies attended include those with the Queer Ecologies Research Collective at Mildred's Lane (Narrowsburg, NY), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). She has work included in the publications Curious 9 (forthcoming), Are.na Annual Vol. 7, and Provenance Research. Tyna was the recipient of a 2024/25 Cy Twombly Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and in 2022 was a finalist in the open medium category for the Neddy Artist Award through Cornish College of the Arts.
Casey Fletcher
MADISON, WISCONSIN
As an artist working with performance, dance, video and text, Casey Fletcher is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Vermont and currently based in Madison, Wisconsin. His practice interrogates notions of Blackness in America, global histories of Christian faith and practice, and the pathophysiology of life-threatening allergies. At the center of these disparate themes is a concern with what human beings owe each other through comparisons to that which is considered the inhuman. Fletcher’s strategies of representation are informed by Trinh T. Minh-ha’s notion of “speaking nearby” in which things are named by what they are not rather than what they are. He does so to avoid assuming the role of expert or advocate to instead take on the role of liaison and storyteller. The stories relayed in his practice encourage viewers to bypass conclusions in order to foster inquiry towards and reflection.
Gabriela Passos
DALLAS, TEXAS
Gabriela Passos is a Dallas-based visual artist and multimedia storyteller whose work centers on labor, migration, and community-driven storytelling. A first-generation Brazilian-American, her practice is shaped by bilingual, immersive, and collaborative approaches to documentary work, often integrating project-specific materials and spatial interventions alongside photography and video.
She holds an M.A. in New Media Photojournalism from The George Washington University and works across photography, video, and installation. Building in America is her ongoing flagship project, expanding into exhibitions, public installations, and participatory spaces that foreground immigrant voices and lived experience while prompting viewers to confront their implicit biases around the labor we value and the infrastructures we overlook.
Monika Lin
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA
Monika Lin’s work interrogates social-political themes emphasizing various frameworks - imperial and colonial legacies; cultural constructs; labor; ecologies of the Anthropocene; the social relevance of art through dialogue, collaboration and relational experience; and questions of myth and materiality. She is particularly interested in the way materials and collaborative experiences can challenge hierarchical structures and creates spaces to invite people to make art together. She has lived and worked in Shanghai since 2006 and recently moved to Philadelphia (May 2022). She now divides her time between Philadelphia and Shanghai. She is an Associate Arts Professor of Visual Arts at New York University Shanghai where she teaches art praxis and theory and runs Pollinator, an arts and activity space focusing on community-based projects, a local artist in residency program, and collaborative art-making in Philadelphia.
Jacobo Alonso
Morelia, MEXICO
Jacobo Alonso is a Mexican artist whose work explores the opacity and versatility of the concept of the "Body" and its displacements across various contexts and disciplines. His practice challenges conventional boundaries, examining how the body interacts with and adapts to different environments and cultural frameworks.
Alonso’s work has been showcased internationally in countries such as Mexico, Finland, the United States, Iceland, England, Hungary, Italy, France, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Ukraine, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Germany, South Korea, Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands, and China. He has participated in prestigious artist residencies, including Banff Creative Centre in Canada, MASS MoCA the Studios, ART OMI, Vermont Studio Center and BBAX Gallery in the USA, Viarco and Córtex Frontal in Portugal, SÍM Residency in Iceland, Serlachius Residency and ARTELES in Finland.
Alonso has won a number of international awards, including the Special Prize at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea, the Sally Yunis Award for Innovative Use of Materials at Fibertart International in the USA, and the Career Award for Paper Performance at the Lucca Biennale in Italy.
In Mexico, Alonso completed Bachelor's degrees in Computer Systems and Fine Arts and studied at the University of Rennes 2 in France. He is a member of the National System of Creators FONCA (Sculpture, 2020–2023) and was a beneficiary of the Young Creators FONCA program in 2016–2017.
