Welcome June’s Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: June 4 — 30, 2026
Katie Shapiro
Los Angeles, California
Katie Shapiro’s practice explores the ineffable—making visible what cannot be seen. Her recent work focuses on themes of motherhood, deepening her ongoing investigation into perception, presence, and the unseen. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA in Photography from CalArts.
Shapiro’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent and past shows at institutions including Aperture Gallery, Kopeikin Gallery, Klompching Gallery, Christopher Grimes Gallery, and The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. Her work has appeared in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine.
Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, notably the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Huntington Library and Art Collection, the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, and the Amon Carter Museum Library.
Shapiro has held residencies at the Banff Centre in Canada and Bullseye Glass in Pasadena, and is slated to attend Mass MoCA next summer as an artist-in-residence. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Derek Chan
Ithaca, New York
Derek Chan is a writer and educator from Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MFA from Cornell University, where he was a university fellow, an editor of EPOCH journal, and a two-time recipient of the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize. He also earned First-Class Honours in Literary Studies and Psychology from Monash University, where he received the Arthur Brown Thesis Prize. He is currently a lecturer at Cornell University, where he teaches creative writing and academic composition. His work has appeared in New England Review, Adroit Journal, Best of Australian Poems, Australian Book Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, the Forward Prize (Best Single Written Poem), the Palette Previously Published Poem Prize, and has been recognized with awards and nominations from The Pushcart Prize, Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, and Best New Poets. He has also received residency fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
Rui Yamaguchi
Ishikawa, Japan
Rui Yamaguchi (b. 1991, Japan) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Kanazawa and Paris. He completed his master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art. Yamaguchi’s practice transforms subtle gestures and everyday objects into poetic and political metaphors, revealing the social structures embedded within daily life.
Yamaguchi’s work emerges from thorough research into urban contexts and history, combined with intimate interviews with individuals whose stories illuminate broader social conditions. His creative process extends across multiple media—text, dance, video, installation, and performance—creating dialogues between personal narratives and collective experiences. Through this interdisciplinary approach, he examines how ordinary moments carry extraordinary weight in understanding contemporary society.
His work has been exhibited in Japan and internationally. In 2024, he held a solo exhibition Swept Along, But Not Swept Away in Tokyo. Recent honors include Resident Artist at Singapore Art Museum (2025), Emerging Media Arts Creators Support Project by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2024), Next Young Artist Award Excellence Award (2024), CAF Contemporary Art Foundation Award Finalist (2023), and A-TOM ART AWARD Sonoaida Award (2022).
Recently, Yamaguchi has pursued collaborative research with research institutions and corporations, beginning with questions arising from his own creative practice. He expands his individual work through interdisciplinary collaboration, exploring new forms that link art and society while pursuing broader social implementation.
Oscar CHACON
El Paso, Texas
Oscar Chacon (b. 1984, El Paso, TX) is a Texas-based artist whose practice centers on the exploration of identity, particularly gender and sexuality, through drawing and collage. He investigates the ways desire shapes and reshapes our sense of self, using it to confront his past while imagining how to carry himself into the future.
Drawing is the foundation of his practice, which he expands through the use of collage, image transfer, pastel, colored pencil, and graphite. His slow and deliberate process allows him to layer multiple sources—studio portraits, found images, and personal drawings—into composite portraits that collapse time, memory, and experience. By layering, erasing, and reassembling, he brings different images and histories into conversation, creating works that reflect what it means to claim ownership of his identity, his body, and sexuality. By owning these parts of himself, he constructs representations of his truth that simultaneously expose what he isn’t and what he can become. His practice does not seek definitive answers; instead, it embraces ambiguity as a space for viewers to reflect on their own identities, desires, and sense of belonging.
Ken Craft
Dallas, Texas
I'm an artist based in Dallas, TX where I live with my partner and wife, Carolyn, and several pets. I recently retired from the fire service after 30 years. I was a Fire Captain and Paramedic. I loved being a firefighter but 30 years is just about all a person can take in that line of work. I maintained an art career alongside the fire service all those years, but the demands of being a full-time municipal firefighter didn't often allow for the type of devotion to art that I've desired and that I now-finally, have time for. In the fall of 2026 I'm going to graduate school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas for an MFA in painting. It's a 2 year program and I'm very excited to begin.
I'm primarily a painter working in watercolor and oil. I'm interested in natural history, people's histories and world events-big and small. I'm also influenced by art history, science and personal narrative. I hope to bridge universal concerns and interests with others. I'm greatly inspired by the literary fiction of authors like Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers and Percival Everett, where through their research and story telling they reveal rich and complicated worlds of interconnectivity between all life. At other times I'm reminded of the words of Carl Sagan in his documentary Cosmos when he asks, “who speaks for earth?” Sagan was making a plea that we become better stewards of our planet on behalf of all its inhabitants. It’s a massive theme, I know, and it's central to my current interests in art making.
karen langevin osorio
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Karen Langevin is a movement artist and Alexander Technique teacher. Her passion for the mind/body continuum and the natural world infuses both her art and pedagogy. Karen has a BA in Dance and Anthropology from Cal State Long Beach and her Alexander Technique certification from ACAT in NYC. Her work has been presented in New York City, Arizona, Puerto Rico, Denver, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, and focuses on exploring connections between science, nature, presence, and community. She has received grants from the Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico, The National Endowment for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, and commissions from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Recent works include TOUGH SKIN (2023-24), INTERview (2024), SMELL OF METAL, TASTE OF EARTH (in process). She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
SunYoung Park
Kansas City, Missouri
SunYoung Park is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in ceramics, based in Kansas City, MO. Her practice explores hybrid forms that blur boundaries between body, landscape, and object, drawing from personal memory and cross-cultural experience.
Combining clay with materials such as fabric, wood, and found elements, Park constructs sculptural works that shift between organic and constructed states. She treats surface as a generative structure rather than a passive skin, where image, material, and perception continuously inform one another, producing layered visual and spatial experiences.
Park’s work investigates how form is perceived and misread, inviting moments where objects approach bodily presence without fully resolving into it. Through this ambiguity, she reflects on processes of translation, displacement, and the instability of identity. During her residency at MASS MoCA, she will focus on drawing as a primary mode of inquiry, extending her sculptural concerns into two-dimensional space through mark-making, surface, and spatial translation.
She is currently an Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center at the University of Kansas and will be a Long-Term Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation from 2026 to 2028.
Yiyo Tirado-Rivera
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Yiyo Tirado-Rivera (San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a multidisciplinary artist holding a BFA in Design,Printmaking & Painting from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño (EAPD) in San Juan. His practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and design, exploring the tensions between landscape, economy, territory, and the body, with particular attention to coastal environments, processes of urban development, and ephemerality. Since his formative years, he has linked his artistic work with activism, understanding both as parallel and complementary practices.
In 2015, he co-founded, the independent space El Kilómetro in Santurce. Since then, it has operated as a platform for Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin American artists, producing over one hundred exhibitions and collaborations with hundreds of artists from Puerto Rico, its diaspora, and the region, consolidating a model of self-managed cultural production. He currently works as a graphic and exhibition designer at the Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar (MADMi).
His work addresses coastal landscapes, processes of development and touristification, the visitor economy, and the ways in which resources and territories—though shifting and fragile—are continuously capitalized upon. He often employs humor and subtle formal displacements to point to the contradictions between value, labor, and territory. He has exhibited in institutions and spaces across Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Spain, and the Dominican Republic. His work has been included in exhibitions such as Guest Relations, curated by Murtaza Vali at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai; No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane María (2022–2023), curated by Marcela Guerrero at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Tropical Is Political, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, presented at Americas Society (New York) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC-PR); and Caribe por Venir, curated by Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué, presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.
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