Welcome March Artists-in-Residence!
Meet this month’s artists-in-residence!
This March we welcome two cohorts to the Studios at MASS MoCA.
Residency residency sessions run:
February 26 - March 10, 2025 - meet the cohort!
March 12 - March 24, 2025 - meet the cohort!
In residence February 26 - March 10:
Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. It was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and featured in Oprah Magazine’s annual Favorite Things Issue. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, Catapult, Ploughshares, LitHub, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Baltimore Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Catapult. She is the recipient of writing awards, residencies, and fellowships from Tin House Summer Workshop, Community of Writers, The Brown Handler Residency, In Cahoots, The Writers Grotto, The Writing Salon, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
Former poetry co-editor at Women’s Voices for Change and a current reader at Bull City Press’s INCH, Amanda is a high school English teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
Headshot by Clementine Nelson.
Carmen Lizardo
Kingston, new york
“My immigrant experience shapes how I address the subject matter in my work centered on displacement from my homeland, the search for identity, and
cultural heritage. I aim to situate these personal experiences within a global context, drawing connections to overlooked histories and emphasizing the importance of creating space within the broader narrative of American culture. Through autobiographical references, my work reflects my metamorphosis and hybridization while acknowledging the fragmented narrative of belonging.”
Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983) is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, curator, scholar, and educator. Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity, integrating community engagement into the heart of projects. By world-building through multimedia installation works and nontraditional concert experiences/musical interventions, Lanzilotti’s works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect. Uplifting others by crafting projects that support both local communities and economy, the work inspires hope to continue.
Lanzilotti was honored to be a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for with eyes the color of time (string orchestra), which the Pulitzer committee called, “a vibrant composition . . . that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.”
Other honors include a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Award in partnership with Te Ao Mana, Empowering ʻŌiwi Leadership Award (E OLA), and Native Launchpad Advancing Indigenous Performance Award. Lanzilotti has received additional distinguished fellowships & residencies through The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Casa Wabi, Bogliasco Foundation, the Merwin Conservancy, the McKnight Visiting Composer Residency Program, and the MacGeorge Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.
Photo by Laura Banchi
Linda Mickens
Hamden, connecticut
Newark-born and Connecticut-based, Linda Mickens is a self-taught artist and retired registered nurse who has recently dedicated herself to creating art full-time. My art is an act of reclamation—of history, memory, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. Rooted in storytelling and activism, my work transforms the discarded into something sacred, layering textures, colors, and materials to reveal the resilience of the human spirit. Using recycled and reclaimed materials I construct narratives that honor those often left out of history, amplifying voices that deserve to be heard.
I am drawn to themes of ancestry, spirituality, and remembrance. In “God Bless Their Soles – Angels Are Everywhere”, I reflect on the unseen angels among us, using worn shoes as symbols of journeys taken, struggles endured, and legacies left behind. My “A Seat for the Soul” bench project extends this vision into public spaces, creating sanctuaries where stories are shared, remembered, and honored.
Art, for me, is more than a visual experience—it is an emotional and communal one. It invites engagement, reflection, and dialogue. My work is not meant to be passively observed; it asks to be felt, questioned, and carried forward. Through my practice, I seek to remind people that history is not just something we inherit—it is something we create, together.
lucia reissig
Rhinebeck, new york
Lucia is an Argentinian/Guatemalan artist based in NYC whose work explores the memory of the body and objects through care, domestic work, informal labor, and food politics. Focusing on sculpture, she uses cooking-inspired materials and techniques to investigate textures, colors, and compositions. Her practice also spans installations, rituals, and photography, blending politics, food, and affections. She trained in DIY spaces, the Programa de Artistas (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2017/18), and the Escuela Incierta (Lugar a Dudas, 2018), earning her MFA in Sculpture from Bard College (2024). She contributed to artist-run projects and published Sticky Floors with HambreHambreHambre in 2021.
Headshot by Tirco Matute
Michael Hambouz
Brooklyn, New york
Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hambouz received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH, and has been awarded two residencies with Wassaic Project in upstate New York. Solo/two-person exhibitions include Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), Calico (Brooklyn, NY), chashama (New York, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Future Fairs (New York, NY), Kayrock (Brooklyn, NY), The Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI), Neighbors (New York, NY), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), Spring/Break Art Show (NYC), Troutbeck (Amenia, NY), and a 20-year survey exhibition at Antioch College in 2018. Select group exhibitions include Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York, NY), The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, (Bangor, N. Ireland), Club Rhubarb (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Projects (New York, NY), Dominique Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK), The National Arts Club (New York, NY), Northern-Southern (Austin, TX), Print Center New York (New York, NY), and Standard Space (Sharon, CT). His work has been featured in Artnet News, Design Milk, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Two Coats of Paint, and Vice among others, and can be seen in the collections of Antioch College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Niles History Center, and NYU Langone Medical Center.
Tahiel Jimenez Medina
minneapolis, minnesota
Tahiel Jimenez Medina (he, they) is an award winning Queer Colombian first-generation immigrant writer director.
In resistance to cultural erasure and imperial currents, Medina’s poetic visions preserve and recognize tender living migrant memories, fragmented identities due to displacement, and the haunting revelations of our dreams, grounded in reverence for his beloved mama Soraya, and the migrant mothers who flee patriarchal violence towards safety and care.
Medina screens his films on accessible pavement cracked public parking lots for his intimate chosen family and community to gather, and dream together. Furthermore, his visions captivated audiences at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and BAM among others.
Other recognitions include The Apichatpong Weerasethakul Playlab, The UFO Film Lab supported by BAM, The Jerome Fellowship, The Jerome Media Production Grant, The McKnight Fellowship and many more. He has projects available on PBS.org and PBS App. Medina directed the first season of the immigrant food cooking show NO BORDERS, JUST FLAVORS for United We Dream, the biggest immigrant-youth led network in the country. It was then featured on NPR, NBC News, Remezcla, and awarded two Golden Telly Awards, an Anthem award, and multiple Shorty Impact Awards.
He currently leads Mamá Papaya, an immigrant led arts organization dedicated to nurture and cultivate QTBIPOC filmmakers in the midwest.
in residence March 12 - 24:
Autumn Samone
Charlottesville, virginia
Autumn Samone uses her identities as a black American to explore tensions existing in, and pushing against, systems that are designed to contain an individual's state of being. By its nature, the constant flux between being inside and outside a system unfolds itself in her work. Themes of absent place and porous confinement find themselves emerging as a mirror to her lived experience. Architectonic motifs, vegetative imagery and flesh adjacents serve as proxies that are used to describe the material conditions of the psyche’s tenuous existence.
Samone is currently an Aunspaugh Fellow at the University of Virginia where she graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art in 2024
Elaine Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. She holds an MFA from the University of California Davis, a BFA in Painting, and a BA in Humanities from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work explores identity, displacement, and ways to capture memory and yearning through the passage of time and light. Her work involves cyanotypes and long exposures addressing the fluidity and blurriness of memory and time. It expands across painting, sculpture, and time-based media creating films that create community through its exploration and reclamation of Vietnamese heritage. Through durational walking performances and site-specific work, she acknowledges the transitory and cyclical nature of searching and wandering as the works evoke timeless, placeless displacement and invoke a desire to enter a portal that could take one elsewhere.
Her work has been exhibited at Root Division (San Francisco, CA), the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (Davis, CA), Roxie Theater (San Francisco, CA), Brea Gallery (Brea, CA), 2727 Gallery (Berkeley, CA), State of CA Building (San Francisco, CA), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA), Praxis Space (Singapore), and Foundation Obras (Portugal) among others. She has been an artist in residence at World of Co in Bulgaria (2021), LaSalle Tropical Lab in Singapore (2023), and Foundation Obras in Portugal (2024). She is currently the Blau-Gold Teaching Fellow (2024/2025) at Root Division and is also an independent curator, curating Conversations in Identity with Asian Creatives Network at the Salesforce Tower (San Francisco, CA), Sacred Strands at i19 Gallery (Orange, New Jersey), and is a member of Gallery 2727 Arts Collective in Berkeley, CA.
Enrique Rosas
mexico city, mexico
Enrique Rosas is a transdisciplinary artist of international scope, born in Mexico City in 1972. He seamlessly merges visual arts, film, architecture, painting, and technology, delving into memory, perception, and consciousness in the digital age.
A pioneer in computational visualizations, Rosas contributed to the design and authored the visualizations for the Biblioteca José Vasconcelos competition (2003) in Mexico City, and developed the virtual reality model for the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2009) in Paris. His work has been exhibited in renowned venues such as Museo Jumex, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Xiaozuo Museum of Art in China, and the Institut Culturel du Mexique in Paris. His pieces are part of collections across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including the Fundación Cuervo, Fundación Cultural Televisa, and the Ministry of Culture of China. In 2024, his exhibition 'Feu Nouveau' was featured during the Paris Olympic Games, solidifying his global presence.
Rosas has lectured at prestigious institutions, including the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work redefines the relationship between art and technology, expanding the boundaries of image, time, and memory in a world undergoing transformation.
Central to his practice is the concept of 'Cosmonautica,' a personal philosophy and creative methodology that envisions the artist as a cosmonaut navigating inner and outer universes. Through this approach, Rosas investigates the dynamics between information, matter, and energy, seeking to dissolve boundaries between disciplines and open portals to new dimensions of experience.
His ongoing project, 'Holobiographies,' aims to redefine human legacy through AI-generated interactive portraits, blending physical, cognitive, and emotional layers of identity. This initiative reflects Rosas' commitment to preserving and expanding human narratives in the digital age.
Artist photo by Tomas Casademunt
Farshid Bazmandegan
los angeles, california
Bazmandegan’s work explores the intersection of memory, violence, and the material world to examine the complexities of exile and displacement. Through his practice he looks at how Western imperial interests have shaped the lives of many in the Middle East, including his own. By delving into personal, political, and historical narratives, Bazmandegan reflects on the idea of a body without a home in the landscape of exile.
Living as a Middle Eastern refugee in a post 9/11 socio-political reality, he is investigating the constant state of having to negotiate his position and place within Western society. He is interested in exploring the ways in which individuals or collectives navigate these contradictory forces and develop strategies for resilience.
Farshid Bazmandegan was born and raised in Iran. He is an Iranian-American artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. Bazmandegan received his MFA in sculpture from UCLA and his BA in visual arts from UC San Diego.
Joanne Dugan
New york, new york
Joanne Dugan is a New York City-based photographer and visual artist who explores the intersections between analog photography, painting, sculpture and mindfulness. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Her work focuses on photography as a physical medium and on seeing as a dynamic, cognitive process that connects people through shared, contemplative viewing experiences. Dugan’s one-of-a-kind images, collages and sculptures are made from Cyanotype, Silver Gelatin and other traditional light-sensitive photographic materials and are Informed by Buddhist principles and her ongoing mindfulness meditation practices.
Dugan's work was recently acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for their permanent collections. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Japan. Publications include The New York Times T Magazine, the Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. Dugan was recently awarded residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peaked Hill Trust and the Abbott Watts Residency for Photography and was a finalist for the Meijberg Art Prize at Unseen Amsterdam.
She has taught at the International Center of Photography in New York City, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and lectures at institutions throughout the US and abroad.
Headshot by Carolina Porras-Monroy
Martín Wannam
Durham, North carolina
Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) is a visual artist and educator whose work critically examines Guatemalan's historical, social, and political climate, focusing on dissident perspectives and freedom dreaming for the cuir individual. He works from an equatorial perspective on the intersection of brownness and wildness using the foundation of iconoclasm and the aesthetic of maximalism through the tools of photography, sculpture, and performance exploring the individual and collective impact of immigration, systematic structures, utopia, and family.
He received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in the Spring of 2020, a Diploma in Contemporary photography from La Fototeca (GT) in 2016, and a BA in Graphic Design from the Universidad Rafael Landivar (GT) in 2015. Wannam has exhibited nationally and internationally, including various group and solo shows in Guatemala, The United States, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Korea. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at UNC Chapel Hill and part of the Fronteristxs Collective, a collective of artists fighting for migrant justice and the abolition of the prison industrial complex.
Monica Rodriguez Medina
Puerto Rico
Monica Rodriguez Medina (b.1980, Puerto Rico) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose research-based practice examines the ways in which narratives about historical events are created, preserved, and disseminated. Rodriguez received a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in 2005 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2011. In 2012-203 Rodriguez was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. Rodriguez has exhibited her work internationally, group exhibitions include Contemporary Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; 19th Contemporary Art Festival Video Brasil, São Paulo; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, Mexico among others.
Nancy Kuhl
Bridgeport, connecticut
Nancy Kuhl’s fourth full length collection of poetry, On Hysteria, was published in 2022; other recent books include Granite (2021) and The Birds of the Year (2016). She is Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Red Rae
baltimore, maryland
Red Rae (they/them) is a multimedia performer. They imbue their projects with playful sincerity while examining ideas of perception and transformation, often through the lens of trans futurity. Red has performed all over the country, including Murmurs LA, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Vox Populi, WOW Theater NYC, and the Museum of Human Achievement. They have been awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship, they were a 2023 Sondheim Prize semifinalist and are a 2024 Rubys Grantee. This is their second residency at Studios at Mass MoCA. They are obsessed with portals right now.
Sahar Khraibani
brooklyn, new york
Sahar Khraibani is a writer and artist whose writing has appeared in Montez Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Magnum Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Project, and Hyperallergic among others. They are a recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellow at The Poetry Project and a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. Sahar teaches at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College and is currently a Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program.
