Albee Fellows: Winter/Spring 2025
Visual Artists
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Louis Block: Louis Block (b. 1995 Cambridge, MA) is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent group shows include Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn; Below Grand, New York; Patient Info; Chicago, and Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. He is a frequent contributor to the Brooklyn Rail, and his writing has also appeared in Hyperallergic and Full Bleed Journal..
Kiah Celeste: Kiah Celeste (B.1994, Brooklyn, NY) is a multi-dimensional artist whose work has transcended fitting into one category or medium. Upon completing a BFA in Photography in 2016, Kiah moved into three dimensional production. She has completed artist residencies and exhibitions within the US and internationally including Lisbon, Barcelona, NYC, Chicago and Miami. In 2021, Celeste received the inaugural 21C Artadia Award in Louisville, KY. Her work has been acquired by the Speed Art Museum, KMAC Museum and the UK Art Museum. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, Burnaway, and ArtForum. Celeste currently prepares for a solo exhibition at Swivel Gallery in NYC and several art fairs in Europe. Lili Chin: Bio Coming Soon. Chambliss Giobbi: Chambliss Giobbi is an artist based in NYC. He has a BFA in music composition and theory. Having composed classical music for 18 years, he switched to visual art at 35 – a challenging but inevitable transition. Chambliss has worked in collage, sculpture, mixed media, and currently melted children’s crayons. He has exhibited at various galleries and institutions including Venus Over Manhattan, Fortnight Institute, Hallwalls, National Academy Museum, Katonah Art Museum and the John Kohler Art Center. His work is in several public collections, including the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (The Bunker), the Alain Servais Family Collection (Brussels), and the International Collage Center. He thinks of his work as questioning what we think of as familiar and settled business. Xingze Li: Xingze Li (b. Yan'an, China) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City at venues including Yi Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, and Hunter East Harlem Gallery. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Cathouse Proper in New York City, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen. Notable awards include artist-in-residence at the Marble House Project (VT) and 77ART (VT). His work has been reviewed in Whitehot Magazine and Two Coats of Paint and featured in Li Tang and Evergreen Review. Li earned his bachelor's degree in Oil Painting from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2019. Visit www.xingzeli.com for more. Christina Mesiti: Christina Mesiti is an artist working nomadically throughout the mountain west. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, she was a Fulbright scholar to Mexico and has shown in places including UCLA, Locust Projects, Tyler Park Presents. She has taught at Deep Springs College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Pepperdine University. When not making or teaching art, she is probably either hiking deep into the backcountry or teaching other people how to. In 2020, she co-founded the Emplacement Society, an open collective of people taking trips together outside to experiment with collective, somatic knowledge creation at the intersection of art and the environment. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Pia Murphy: Born in 1981 in Melbourne, Australia, Pia Murphy is an artist living and working from her home studio in Birregurra, South West Victoria. Murphy graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA) in 2004 with a major in printmaking and with a background in ceramics, Murphy has fully returned to painting. Her work evolves through a process of playful exploration and discovery reflecting a deep curiosity and a childlike delight in unexpected moments, allowing forms and dialogues to unfold. She was awarded the National Gallery Women’s Association Award in 2004 and has held exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney since 2009. In 2024 Murphy presented solo exhibitions in Melbourne at Nicholas Thompson gallery and Edwina Corlette gallery in Brisbane, with subsequent gallery representation. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, USA, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Martyna Szczesna: Martyna Szczęsna is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography and sculpture. Her work explores the expanded field of nature and urban surrealism wherein incongruous somatic effects point to fractured identities and ideological dissonance. Born in Olsztyn, Poland, Szczęsna immigrated to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Arts and Sciences and holds an MFA in Photography from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been supported by residencies at Penumbra Foundation, Yucca Valley Material Lab, Franconia Sculpture Park, Bullseye Glass, AZ West as well as the AIM program at the Bronx Museum. Select exhibitions include: Array, Penumbra Project Space, Portrait of a Landscape, Museo Sivori, Buenos Aires and The Third Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum, NY. Ella Wearing: Ella Wearing (b. London, UK) is a visual artist currently based in South Brooklyn, New York. Ella works at unpicking motifs and patterns that she collects from built environments. She plays with perceptual disorientation and shifting alignments by reshaping fragments from this inventory into drawings and other mixed media artworks. Ella received a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art in 2012 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2016. Since 2009, Ella has exhibited in multiple spaces in London, Glasgow, New Jersey, Chicago and New York. www.ellawearing.com Song E Yoon: Song E Yoon is a New York-based multi-media artist. She loves astronomy, history, the universe, and invisible things. Originally from Busan, South Korea, Yoon earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Pusan National University's Fine Art Department. She gained recognition as a regionally representative artist in a network of art exhibitions supported by the National Culture and Arts Support System and ARKO MUSEUM (ARKO) in 2011. Yoon has exhibited her work at major art museums across Korea and relocated to New York in 2013. She has held solo exhibitions at the New York Minded Gallery and collaborated with ART NYC in 2022. In 2024, she had a solo show 'Deviant sublime ' in Venezia, Italy, curated by ART NYC. Additionally, Yoon developed the theory of 'Intangible Art,' which she explored in her master's thesis titled 'A Study on the Invisible Dimension through the Media,' published by Busan National University Press. www.songeyoon.com |
Writers |
Davis Cowart: Davis Cowart is a New York based playwright and actor originally hailing from the small town of Bronwood, Georgia. He holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from The University of Evansville in Indiana. His work was previously workshopped at The Sewanee Writers' Conference and he is ecstatic to be a fellow at the Edward F. Albee Foundation.
Dante Fuoco: Dante Fuoco is a queer multidisciplinary artist from Pittsburgh, Pa. The creator of two solo shows (more recently, SEAL), Dante has had theater work produced at Under St. Marks, Dixon Place, Brick Aux, Torn Page, and Moss Arts Center, among other places. Their poetry and non-fiction writing is published in (or forthcoming from) Split Lip Magazine, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, MAYDAY, and elsewhere. Dante is a nationally recognized educator who has worked in a variety of roles over the last 12 years, including special education teacher, restorative justice facilitator, non-profits program manager, DEI consultant, curriculum developer, and swim coach. Dante lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Mark Blane. Bret Johnson: Bret Johnson is a playwright, brat, caregiver, and artist, self-taught in the ways of impolite society. He is Middle-Aged, a Chicagoland native, pervert child of the Southwest, and a New Yorker; he lost his 20s to the city. Kicked out of multiple prestigious universities, Bret finally graduated from the New School. He occasionally publishes gobbledygook on Bob Dylan. Toni Kochensparger: Toni Kochensparger was born in Kettering, Ohio and now lives in Ridgewood, New York, where they write jokes on trash that they find in the street. Their short stories have appeared in Kelp Journal, Bulb Culture Collective, and The Writing Disorder. Their plays have premiered in New York, Chicago, North Hollywood, Ohio, and Houston. They run Kissing While the Radio, a bimonthly reading series at KGB Bar in the East Village. They once fully wet themselves in sixth grade. For more, please visit linktr.ee/gothphiliproth Kristen Leigh: Kristen Leigh (b. 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist, whose primary medium is literary art. She writes nonfiction and poetry, often recreating patterns from dance, music, and textiles craftwork into constraints for her essays and poems. Thematically, she explores the relationships humans have with the natural world through the lens of autoethnographic pedagogy. She has been supported by residencies and fellowships throughout South America and Western Europe, yet her current work in progress focuses on the diverse landscapes and ecosystems of the North American continent, with the throughline of mapping her own emotional interior as she grieves the sudden loss of her teenage daughter. Her work has appeared in The EcoTheo Review, The Los Angeles Review, Figure-1 Journal, among others, and she is cofounder of slips slips print journal of literature and art. She is represented by Susan Canavan at Waxman Literary Agency in New York City. www.kristenleigh.space Ocean Ocean: Ocean is a disabled poet, novelist, and visual artist living in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry, essays and fiction are known for their resuscitation of the mythic and their contribution to literary animism. His visual arts, informed by proto-language and asemia, have shown throughout the country. For selections of his work, navigate to: www.mirrorflower.org & @mirrorflower_ocean Naz Riahi: Naz Riahi (she/her) is a multidisciplinary Iranian writer, filmmaker and performer. Her work, grounded in writing, explores the spaces, opportunities and humor of outsiderness, informed by her experiences as an Iranian immigrant. Her writing has been published in A Public Space, Harper's Bazaar, Food & Wine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, Catapult, The Fader, Guernica and more. She was named a Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces of Independent Film and is the recipient of a Vimeo Staff Pick, Vimeo Best of the Year Award and NoBudge Film of the Year. She created the dialogical art project, Bitten. In recognition Naz was invited to the Obama White House. An essay she wrote about the experience received public praise from President Obama. Naz has performed original work at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA), The Broad museum, Dynasty Handbag's Weirdo Night, Mortified, Not Funny and as part of the One Archives Circa Festival. Naz holds an MFA from the New School in creative writing, has been a fellow at Yaddo and The Foundation Jan Michalski and is the recipient of a NYFA City Artist Corps Grant and The MAP Fund 2024 Grant for performance. She is currently at work on a novel and teaches anti-racist and queer-centered writing courses: www.nazriahi.com/classes Brian Shuff: Brian Shuff is a writer from Los Angeles, California by way of the Arizona desert. His first book, About Grief, was published in 2010 and has been translated into multiple languages. His work is also featured in the anthology Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family. Currently, he teaches at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine and contributes regularly to Décor Maine, writing features focused primarily on sustainable architecture. He lives with his wife and stepson on Portland’s Munjoy Hill. Charlotte Slivka: Charlotte Slivka is a New York City native who currently lives in Brooklyn. Her work explores the intersections of nonfiction, poetry, art, and media to discuss memory, mental health, and family. She received the 2022 Bette Howland Prize in nonfiction and her winning essay was published in A Public Space. Her work has also been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Surf Twenty Magazine, Public Seminar, and 12th Street Journal. She received her MFA in nonfiction and poetry from The New School and is the Editor-in-Chief of LIT Magazine, the graduate literary journal of the Creative Writing Program. She is mom to a miraculous human, and even though she got scared out of the ocean years ago after seeing Jaws in the movie theater when her own mother had begged her not to, she finally tried surfing in 2018. thegoodbutter.carrd.co/ Katie Tandy: Katie Tandy is an interdisciplinary essayist, editor, and playwright whose work examines the body as a battleground for politics, an obsession with reproductive technology, and art's power to interrogate systems of power. An unlikely serial entrepreneur, Katie has co-founded three feminist digital media publications including The Establishment (which reached over a million readers monthly during its three-year run), and PULP Magazine (a bold exploration of sexuality and reproductive rights that concluded in 2020). A veteran alt-weekly journalist, Katie has reported for newspapers across New York and the Bay Area, delving into everything from architecture and amnesia to just what it means to "sound white." As a playwright celebrating modern adaptations of classics — from Aristophanes to Ovid — Katie has staged her work at the Berkeley Art Museum, CounterPulse, and Z Space in San Francisco. Katie holds a Master's degree in 20th-century literature from Brooklyn College and lives and writes in Echo Park, Los Angeles where she is working on her first novel. |