Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: November 19 — December 15, 2026
Elizabeth Burden
Tucson, Arizona
Elizabeth Burden is a multidisciplinary artist blending studio work with social practice. She uses a variety of media in a process she calls artistic archivy to reflect on geographies, imaginaries, and vestiges of the future/past/present of Black life. She is intrigued by the pull of archives, the construction of histories, ephemeral inheritances, the role of memory and narrative, and the ways we make sense of it all.
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellow at Arizona State University.
Ms. Burden holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Yongwon Kim
Seoul, South Korea
Yongwon Kim is a visual artist whose practice explores the evolving relationship between nature and humanity through collage, installation, and moving images. Drawing on the philosophy of traditional East Asian landscape painting, she investigates how landscapes are perceived, transformed, and remembered across time. Her work centers on the idea of documenting disappearing landscapes, tracing the changing ways in which landscapes exist through the intersections of history, memory, and environmental transformation.
Through site-specific research and experimentation across media, Kim explores landscapes as repositories of time, memory, and traces of what has been lost. Her recent projects engage with sites shaped by geological forces, environmental disasters, and ecological transformation, including the volcanic landscape of Katla in Iceland; Lahaina, Maui; Jeju Island; and Taipei, Taiwan. Rather than documenting disappearance as an endpoint, she seeks to understand how landscapes continue to transform beyond loss, carrying the memories of what once existed while revealing possibilities for renewal. Through indigo-dyed silk, gold pigments, lace collage, embroidery, glass, and moving-image installations, she translates these encounters into visual records that reflect the fragile yet enduring relationship between nature and human experience.
Kim has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including Ways the Landscape Draws Breath Again (2026, Namu Seoul), Landscapes Beyond Time (2024, Yeulmaru Art Center), and Ways of Mourning the Landscape Lost (2023, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art). Her work has been exhibited at numerous museums and art institutions in South Korea and abroad. She has participated in international artist residencies, including I-Park Foundation (USA), SÍM (Iceland), and AIR 3331 (Japan), and has received support and recognition from Arts Council Korea, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and other institutions. She completed her doctoral coursework in Fine Arts at Hongik University and holds an MFA from Sungkyunkwan University.
Sève Favre
La Conversion, Switzerland
Of Swiss and Belgian origin, Sève Favre was introduced to the arts at an early age through the pedagogy of Arno Stern, rooted in freedom, sharing, and a non-judgmental approach to creative expression.
She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, installation, and digital media. Working across mixed-media techniques, she creates interactive artworks on canvas with digital extensions, as well as site-specific installations and participatory experiences that invite audiences to engage with the work in personal and sensory ways.
Her practice explores the relationships between emotion, colour, materiality, memory, and perception, with a particular interest in environmental and social change. Through the integration of physical and digital elements, Favre creates immersive works that encourage viewers to become active participants rather than passive observers.
Sève Favre has exhibited in Switzerland and abroad (HongKong, Italy, Argentina, South Korea ...) in Museum ( Centro de Arte UNLP, CICA Museum, Swisswallpaper Museum…), Biennale (Bienalsur 2021, Larnaca Biennale) or Galleries (De Filippo Contemporary/Galeria Nueva, SPARC/ATopos...). She has taken part in international art residencies such as at La Paternal Espacio Proyecto in Buenos Aires, Domaine de Boisbuchet (France), Pedvale Art Park and Museum (Latvia), Studio at MASS MoCA (USA), Vermont Studio Center (USA) or VCCA (USA). In 2020, she was nominated for the 14th Arte Laguna Prize in the installation and sculpture section. In 2024, she was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, installation section and she presented a solo show at “Fondation WRP” in Geneva. She recently exhibited at the PS122 Gallery in New York and also took part in a three-month Research Art Residency at the Swiss Wallpaper Museum. In 2026, she participated in DesignTO and developed two exhibitions in Switzerland, exploring the relationships between invasive plant species, wallpaper, and botanical history.
Amalya Megerman
Somerville, Massachusetts
Three key throughlines shape my practice: intergenerational trauma, the geopolitical forces behind state violence, and historical Jewish responses to oppression. I create performance, installation, video, and sculpture using traditional Jewish ritual, organic material, and recurring themes of body, family, hypervigilance, and security. My work directly references diasporic protective practices, rituals, objects, and symbols that Jews have used over centuries to confront today's urgent crises and to create new means of collective resistance and healing. My work challenges the notion that true safety can be achieved through state violence, while examining what it means to be complicit within systems built on daily, mundane violence. I aim to construct a visual language that resists Jewishness being subsumed within nationalism and which affirms that Jewish safety is necessarily bound up in the well-being of all peoples.
By making work that ties my family’s history of escaping dangerous conditions for Jews in Europe to contemporary geopolitical issues, I highlight the patterns of state violence across time, geography, and culture. Through this work, I hope to stand in solidarity with colonized peoples and others facing state oppression today.
I graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2016, where I studied Anthropology, Visual Arts, and Chinese Language and Culture. I have shown work domestically and internationally in 25+ exhibitions and received 7 residencies and 4 awards to support my work. Since 2023, I have been a member of Zero Space Collective. Over the last several years, my practice has been moved from New Jersey, to Beijing, Xinjiang, Brooklyn, and Massachusetts.
Karen Middleton
North Chesterfield, Virginia
Karen Middleton (b. 1990, Easton, Maryland) is a Richmond-based fiber artist, U.S. Army veteran, and quilter who pulls her quilts off the wall and the bed, building three-dimensional forms that occupy space. Her work examines the subtle pressures enacted through behavior, language, and systems of control. Ambient and often invisible, these systems profoundly shape how people move through the world. Middleton focuses on that proximity and what it means to live with force that is anticipated but has yet to occur. The quilt’s association with care provides an entry point into juxtaposed experiences of control and discomfort. Function operates as both cover and canvas and the physical transformation of the familiar quilt disrupts the viewer’s expectations attached to it. Working with sheer fabrics, lace, and cotton, she places familiar sewing materials, quilting techniques, and structures into unfamiliar forms. These soft and delicate materials become strong, structured objects that carry weight and hold space. Middleton works within quilting traditions, while using these conventions to challenge expectations around what a quilt is and what it can be. Her work remains recognizably rooted in quilting traditions, even as the forms of her quilts are different, creating conditions where contradictory forces can be experienced, rather than resolved.
Karen Middleton holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, a M.S. in Textiles from North Carolina State University, and is pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2027). Her award-winning work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD, the Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona, The Maria V Howard Center in Rocky Mount, NC, the Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, The Residence of the Ambassador for the European Union to the United States, Washington DC, and the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs. She teaches community workshops and college-level sewing and quilting courses across Richmond, VA and the Washington, D.C. area, fostering process-based learning that centers personal expression and material exploration. She also serves as President of the Sew n Sews Chapter of the Richmond Quilters Guild.
Fatima Kaleem Khan
Lahore, Pakistan
Fatima Kaleem Khan (b. 1999) is a visual artist whose practice examines discipline as it weaves through the home, the school, and the soap opera in Pakistan. Her work attends to how these sites of social reproduction converge at the military-industrial complex, which maintains deep stakes in both education and media. Working primarily in drawing, she reworks stills from television and institutional social media to explore the friction between drama and discipline, referencing the ‘fabrication’ of state-sanctioned virtue through materials like synthetic hair, collage, and embroidery.
Her exhibitions include the Busan Biennale (2026); the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Richmond; Asia NOW, Paris; Ways of Being, Toronto/Mumbai; and Focal Point, Sharjah Art Book Fair. Her work has been shown at Method Art Space, Delhi; and through collaborations with the National College of Arts, Lahore. She is the recipient of a residency at Gasworks (London) and the Virginia Commonwealth University Fellowship at The Studios at Mass MoCA.
Lindsey Filowitz
Boston, massachusetts
Lindsey Filowitz is an image-based interdisciplinary artist. She was born and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Her work addresses transformation (physical, emotional, social), societal pressures and confines, states of political duress, and the impact of images on culture. Their conceptual framework is informed by intersecting Peruvian-American, Jewish, queer, afab, ailed, and passing identities. Lindsey has exhibited throughout the Bay Area, New York, Boston and Los Angeles, as well as internationally. They received a BFA in Photography from Bard College in 2011 and a MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Lindsey is based between Brooklyn, Boston, and the Bay Area.
JinJin Xu
Brooklyn, New York
JinJin Xu is an artist and poet whose interdisciplinary practice threads mis/remembrance and self/erasure, unearthing censored memories, linguistic rituals, and collective utterance.
Melding installation, moving image, and poetry, her site-responsive practice inhabits temporal mediums and hybrid spaces—an air raid shelter in Singapore, an opium warehouse in the former East India Company, a Kobe hotel bathroom, a cult mansion in the Hudson Valley, the mast of the first Chinese-built cargo ship, an abandoned Macau casino.
JinJin has exhibited internationally at the Shanghai Biennial, the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, the Macau Biennial, the How Art Museum, the Immigrant Artist Biennial, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Bazaar Art China, Academy of American Poets, and more.
Her poetry collection, Against This Earth, We Knock, won the Noemi Press Book Award and is forthcoming in Spring 2028. Honors include the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award, finalist selections for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the National Poetry Series, and she was named by Forbes China as one of the 100 Most Influential Chinese in 2024.
A Thomas J. Watson Fellow, she holds MFAs from NYU (Poetry, Lillian Vernon Fellow) and Bard College (Moving Image, Diversity Fellow). During her Watson year, she recorded taboo utterances across four continents with mothers experiencing unusual forms of dislocation.
Amir Khadar
Otsego, Minnesota
Amir Khadar is a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis, MN. Their work builds worlds and mythologies through drawing, textiles, beadwork, digital media, and design. Their work blends stories, memories, dreams, and speculative symbolism to illuminate the unseen and visceral forces of lived experiences. Amir’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Oakland Museum of California, Anacostia Community Museum, Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, and the London School of Economics. Amir has been awarded Residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Tyler School of Art, and the Wassaic Project.
Inspired by Black diasporic, ecological, and queer frameworks, Khadar also engages art as a liberatory force, collaborating with nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and communities to explore justice, collective imagination, and new ways of being through art and design.
Sandy Pool
Winnipeg, canada
Dr. Sandy Pool (she/they) is a queer essayist, poet, and Professor of Creative Writing. Their debut poetry collection, Exploding Into Night, was shortlisted for Canada's most prestigious literary prize, The Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Pool’s second book, Undark: An Oratorio, received nominations for multiple awards, including the Trillium Book Award for Poetry an Alberta Book Award, and a Toronto Arts Award. Their third book, If Body/Freedom, a collection of lyric nonfiction essays, has been supported by a number of fellowships and residencies, including at Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Mass MoCA, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Siena Art Institute, and the Dora Maar House in France. Essays from this collection have appeared in The Best Canadian Essays 2024 and were named Notable by The Best American Essays 2024, and recently won Gold at the 2024 National Magazine Awards. In addition to her publications, Pool has taught Creative Writing at universities in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Notably, she has taught poetry and lyric essay in the M.A. program at the University of East Anglia. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature , and divides her time between Canada and Europe.
