Welcome July’s Artists-in-Residence! (Late Session)
Meet this Month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: July 16 — 28, 2026
Ry Van Der Hout
toronto, Canada
Ry Van Der Hout (b. 1987, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates transformation through fragmentation and reflection, using glass and mirrors as both material and metaphor for queer experience and becoming. They create works that challenge how we see ourselves and our environment, inviting viewers to witness how breaking can reveal new possibilities.
Van Der Hout holds an MFA from Parsons at The New School and a BFA in Photography from Metropolitan University. Their work has been featured in Time Out NY, NBC News, E-Flux, Chelsea Times, and CBC. Recent solo exhibitions include "Mending Shards" (United Contemporary, 2024) and "To Reflect Everything" (Toronto Sculpture Garden, 2023). They have created public art for NYC Parks, the City of Toronto, and Nuit Blanche. Van Der Hout is the 2026 recipient of the Barbara Spohr Fellowship at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and has been awarded residencies at La Napoule Art Foundation (France) and Mass MoCA. They have been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts, and were awarded the Emerging Artist Award by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
Jade Song
Brooklyn, new york
Jade Song is an artist and the author of novels I Love You Don’t Die and Chlorine, which was lauded as “visionary and disturbing,” selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice, won the Alex Award and the Writer's Center First Novel Prize, and translated into five languages. Their next book, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is forthcoming 2027 from William Morrow.
They have received support and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, and the Black List, which selected their adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab.
Song's work explores the navigation between the true self and the sociocultural contexts denying that self existence. Influenced by Sinophone literary myths and diasporic community, they create speculative literary fiction prioritizing extremes of emotion over logical reasoning in order to embrace the rawness of human experience.
Song pole dances and lives in Brooklyn with too many books. They are at work on a novel about a lump.
Adam R. lEVINE
Leverett, MASSACHUSETTS
Adam R. Levine (b. 1978, London, England) is an artist working across film, projection, installation, and improvised electronic sound. His work treats image and sound as signals that can be layered, delayed, spatialized, and transformed across time and environment, drawing on ideas of drift, dub, estrangement, and parallax. Combining documentary observation with material and perceptual experimentation, his practice explores the relationships between architecture, landscape, atmosphere, memory, and technological mediation.
Levine’s recent work has increasingly focused on expanded cinema, projection environments, analogue film processes, and spatial sound systems, often constructing immersive situations in which image, sound, bodies, and space interact dynamically. His films and installations frequently engage with infrastructure, archives, environmental conditions, and collective forms of attention, treating projection and recording not simply as representational tools, but as processes of inscription, transformation, and re-encounter.
His films and videos have screened internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Barbican Centre, London; and festivals including Locarno, the Viennale, and DocLisboa. He is Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College.
JOANNA TAM
Jamaica Plain, MASSACHUSETtS
Joanna Tam is a Hong Kong-born visual artist who lives and works on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Wampanoag, the Nipmuc, and the Massachusett People, also known as Boston. Her interdisciplinary practice examines the issue of migration and one's physical and emotional connections to places through video, photography, performance, installation, and community engagement. Her ongoing body of work, Visibility Studies, unpacks the meaning of hypervisibility and invisibility pertaining to safety and vulnerability for folks whose identities do not align with societal norms.
Tam is the recipient of the Prilla Smith Brackett Award (presented by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College), the Collective Futures Fund's Sustaining Practice Grant, and the SMFA Traveling Fellowship. Her video, Reduction Study (Ping Pong), was awarded Best Art Film at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, UK. Tam's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions have been held at the the Boston Center for the Arts ‘s Mills Gallery; the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University; Regis College Fine Arts Center; Chrom VI in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. She has participated at artist residencies at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kala Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wedding Cake House.
Rini Yun Matea
Minneapolis, MINNESOTA
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Mni Sota Makoce)
Rini Yun Matea is an interdisciplinary and moving image artist raised in rural California and Guatemala. Matea’s research-based practice investigates archival, historic and mythic conceptions of language, race, time, disease and ecology. She engages experimental cinematography and sound, staging, found footage and archival materials to render socio-historical phenomena with sensory presence and speculative abstraction. Her work is informed by a manifold worldview situated in her Korean-Guatemalan and rural heritage, early childhood in Guatemala during its civil war, many migrations, and life-long illness.
Matea has received grants and awards from the McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation and the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections. She co-published two editions of the bilingual Spanish/English experimental broadside ‘Scorched Feet/Pies Quemados,’ which has been collected by the British Library and other archives. Matea has taught at University of the Arts, University of California Santa Cruz, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Carleton College.
grace sippy
Minneapolis, MINNESOTA
Grace Sippy is a printmaker and book artist based in Minneapolis, MN. She earned her BFA in Printmaking with Honors, at the University of Iowa, and earned her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Alberta. She has taught at the University of Alberta, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, as well as various workshops and demonstrations. She is a frequent instructor at Highpoint Center For Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN.
Grace’s latest body of work explores grief, loss, and healing through caregiving, mending, and forgiveness. Using collagraph prints made from her children's garments, she preserves traces of what once existed. Blind embossments and printed impressions evoke presence, absence, and memory. She incorporates various eastern papers and embroidery to mimic cloth, texture pattern, and garment stitching. Through printing and chine-collé, multiple versions of each image emerge, and together the works explore loss, memory, grief, and mending.
Grace has earned national and international recognition in her field, notably winning a Guanlan International Print Prize (2013), was named Winner of the 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Prints in Liège, Belgium (2015), Honorable Mention in the Mid-America Print Council Juried Members’ Show (2016), a juried Excellence Prize from the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017 in Japan, and was honored to be selected for the Minnesota based McKnight Fellowship in Printmaking in 2024.
WILLIAM TONEY
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA
William Toney is an artist, educator and arts organizer from Kansas City, Missouri. Toney currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He earned an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2024. He also holds a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2012. Toney has exhibited his artwork nationally, and he has also had solo exhibitions of his work at Automat Collective in Philadelphia, PA, as well as UMKC Gallery of Art and HAW Contemporary (both based in Kansas City, Missouri). William Toney has been the recipient of several local artist residencies and fellowships, including the Makerspace Residency at Temple University and the Charlotte Street Studio Residency.
Toney’s work is a lens-based, interdisciplinary practice that examines conceptual interpretations of modes of Black cultural production. By engaging with different methods of examining Blackness, ideas ranging from opacity to Afrofuturism, Toney deconstructs the notion of a singular Black experience.
BRIAR PINE
ALFRED, NEW YORK
Briar Pine is a Trans artist and educator whose interdisciplinary practice explores identity, masculinity, and natural resources in the American landscape. His practice is informed by being raised in the Northwoods of Minnesota, a region enmeshed in political conservatism, Christian Nationalism, hunting cultures, and resource extraction. Through photography, sculpture, and installation, he creates works that confront how the natural world and gender are mediated through cultural, technological, geopolitical frameworks. By evoking both speculative and documentary methods, his practice offers alternative modes of masculinities and ecological relationality.
Pine holds an MFA from Washington State University (2022) and a dual BA in Art and Journalism from the University of Minnesota (2018). His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Contemporary Calgary, Canada; New Bedford Art Museum, Massachusetts; Ditch Projects, Oregon; Charles Adams Studio Project, Texas; and Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, New York. He is currently living and working in Alfred, New York where he serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Alfred University.
Sopheak sam
Lowell, Massachusetts
Sopheak Sam (b. Khao-I-Dang, Thailand) is a Cambodian-American artist, writer, and researcher whose sensuous and spatial interventions distill postwar intimacies. Their expansive practice traces the afterlives and afterimages of refugeehood to grapple with fragmentary memories, histories, and spaces. Sam's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Pteah Chas (Phnom Penh, Cambodia); Kalm Village (Chiang Mai, Thailand); the Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul, MN); the Denison Museum (Granville, OH); Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery (Glasgow, UK); Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY); the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT); Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA); the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (Gloucester, MA), and Midway Gallery, Boston CyberArts, and Distillery Gallery (Boston, MA). Sam is a recipient of the Artadia Award (Boston, 2025) and a U.S. Fulbright Research Fellowship (Thailand, 2022–23). Sam holds an MFA from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and is currently based between Lowell, Massachusetts, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Yehwan Song
New York, New York
Yehwan Song (b. 1995, South Korea) is a New York-based artist working across kinetic installation, sculpture, and computational systems. Her practice explores how digital infrastructures translate bodies, languages, and environments into computable forms, and how these transformations reshape human perception and behavior. Through large-scale mechanical installations, she reconstructs the logic of digital systems as physical environments where water becomes an interface, collective gestures generate images, and architectural structures operate according to algorithmic principles. Rather than representing technology, Song materializes the invisible processes through which computation organizes contemporary life, examining what is preserved, compressed, or excluded as the complexity of the physical world is reduced into measurable signals.
Her work has been presented at the Helsinki Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial, the Asia Art Biennale, MMCA Korea, the Seoul Museum of Art, Science Gallery Melbourne, and Pioneer Works, among others. She has participated in residencies including Pioneer Works, La Becque, Edith-Russ-Haus, New Inc, and the ITP/IMA Project Fellowship.
