Albee Fellows: Winter/Spring 2025
Visual Artists
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Tania Alvarez: Tania Alvarez was born in Seville, Spain, in 1983 and currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. Alvarez is a mixed-media artist focusing on painting, textiles, and sculpture. She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2017) and a BFA from Pratt Institute (2005). Recent solo exhibitions include Through Painted Panes, CHART Gallery, NY, New York (2024); and P.O.V., Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2020). Her work has been included in various group exhibitions at Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY; Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY; Galeria Belard, Lisbon, Portugal; The James Castle House, Boise, ID; CHART Gallery, New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; McNay Print Fair, McNay Museum, San Antonio, Tx; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Sulk Gallery, Chicago, IL among others. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and was an artist-in-residence at the
James Castle House in Boise, ID; The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY; The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. Alvarez’s works are in the permanent collections of the University Art Museum at the University at Albany and the Boise City Department of Arts and History in Boise, Idaho. www.taniaalvarez.com Josue Bessiake: Josue Bessiake (b. 2002) is an Ivorian-American painter working across media. At the core of his practice is an interest in the structure of things. Treating his studio like a living laboratory to investigate what he terms "the ingredients of a phenomenon." Influenced by his experience as a second-generation immigrant and itinerant upbringing, his work reflects his desire to connect with his environment. Using painting methods to fabricate forms with paint, wooden supports, or found objects, he makes references to scale and memory. and collective consciousness, In a process involving repurposed material, disassembly, and repair, Bessiake's works arrive at an image or an object that is familiar yet foreign; a moment of deja vu. Bessiake has presented work at The Ballinglen Museum of Art (2025), the New York Academy of Art (2024), and The Charles Wright Museum (2025). Nadia Coën: Nadia Coën is an multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, born and raised in Zimbabwe, with generational ties to Austro-Hungary, Syria, Egypt. Coën’s experiential time based practice explore the intersection of architecture, poetics, light, and ephemera. Housed under the umbrella name The Inclining Experiment, Coën has produced a large body of work: architectonic light installation environments, time-based /text-based projections, works on paper, artist books/printed matter and artifact assemblages. Coën is a two-time MacDowell Colony resident and has exhibited at numerous venues such as The Drawing Center, White Columns, Exit Art, the Guggenheim Lab, and the Whitney Museum. She was a resident at ArtEventura Residency in Andalusia, Spain in 2023, and returned the summer of 2024. She was recently awarded the Emily Harvey Foundation Residency in Venice, Italy for 2025. Pioneering the 1980s East Village Art Movement, Coën co-founded two seminal artist-book collectives: YOUR HOUSE IS MINE and ANTI-UTOPIA. YOUR HOUSE IS MINE is a curated protest project with over 50 artists, responding to social unrest, homelessness, gentrification, and the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s. It is held in collections including MoMA, The Whitney, Getty, Centre Pompidou, Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Coën has a secondary practice in creating Narrative Spaces/ Exhibition Design and has co-created museum exhibitions such as at the Civil Rights Museum, MoCADA, the Alice Austen House Museum. She is currently developing two legacy museums in Kingston, Jamaica. Tielin Ding: Born in 1996 in Chongqing, China. Tielin Ding is a wanderer, observer and mixed-media artist currently based in New York. He graduated from MFA in photography and related media at Parsons School of Design, The New School in NYC with a bachelor's background in architecture engineering at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He exhibited his works at UCCA and Swatch Art Peace Hotel in China, Site Santa Fe/Brand Library/Compound Yucca Valley/Garrison Art Center/KinoSaito/The FLAG Art Foundation/Halsey McKay Gallery/Rema Hort Mann Foundation/McColl Center/Bemis Center in the U.S. Noorderlicht International Photo Festival in Netherlands and Reclaim Award in Germany. Past residency he attended includes Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, Abbott Watts Photography Residency at Monson Arts, Nars Foundation Satellite Residency on Governors Island, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation residency, Sitka Center, Millay Arts, VCCA and Volland Foundation. He had his solo exhibition "The Sound-truck of" at Nars Foundation in Brooklyn in 2023 and "It's Going to Rain" at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT in 2025. Kati Gegenheimer: Kati Gegenheimer (b. 1984, Bucks County, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, where she is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She received a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2013 and a BFA in Printmaking and Art History from the Tyler School of Art in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, New York, NY, 2024, North Orange, Montclair, NJ, 2022 and Gross McLeaf, Philadelphia, PA, 2021. Gegenheimer's work has been featured in Create Magazine, Maake Magazine and I Like Your Work Podcast and has been reviewed in Impulse Magazine and Title Magazine. She is the recipient of a Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, Yaddo Artist Access Grant and a smART Ventures Grant from the Office of Arts and Culture in Seattle, WA, and has been granted artist residencies at The Edward F. Albee Foundation, The Goldey House Artist Residency, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and a Pollock-Krasner Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work has recently been acquired by the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she will present her first museum exhibition, We've Only Just Begun, a solo presentation curated by Leah Triplett. Gegenheimer is represented by Kristen Lorello, New York, NY. Jen Harris: Jen P. Harris (b. 1977, USA) holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Queens College, City University of New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY; CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA; and Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY; Essex Flowers, New York, NY; and Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Honors include the Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Puffin Foundation Grant, Pollock-Krasner Grant, and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her works are in numerous public and private collections and are featured in TEXTILES x ART, published by Thames and Hudson in 2025. Harris is represented by Abattoir Gallery in Cleveland, OH. Lee Hill: Lee Albert Hill is a Texas-based multidisciplinary artist, architect, and writer whose work engages visual art, spatial thinking, and cultural inquiry. From his Fort Worth studio, where he has worked for more than twenty-five years, Hill brings an architectural sensibility to painting shaped by four decades as a registered architect after graduating from the Texas Tech University School of Architecture in 1986. Since 2000, he has pursued a dedicated studio art practice and contributes regularly as a freelance writer for Texas Architect magazine. Hill is represented by the legendary William Campbell Gallery in Fort Worth, a cornerstone of contemporary art in Texas since 1974. His work is held in public and corporate collections, including the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, American Airlines, Dublin's TIFCO Hotel Group, and SAMTX Investments in Austin, as well as in numerous private collections throughout Texas, California, Colorado, New York, and New Mexico. MaryKate Maher: MaryKate Maher is a multidisciplinary artist born in Philadelphia, PA in 1979. She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from Arcadia University and also studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Maher has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Franconia Sculpture Park and Socrates Sculpture Park. Exhibitions have included Kaliner Gallery, NY; Hesse Flatow, NY; Gold/Scopophilia, NJ; JEFF, TX; MoCA Westport, CT; A.I.R. Gallery, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NY; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA; Triangle Arts Association, NY, with international exhibitions at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Germany, Takt Berlin/Leipzig, Germany and CICA Museum, South Korea. Her work has been written about in Artsy, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, L Magazine, BOMB, Art Zealous and ANTEmag. Maher lives in Brooklyn, NY. Dustin Metz: Dustin Metz (b.1984 Philadelphia PA) is a painter whose work bridges the sacred and the everyday, drawing on the traditions of portrait, still-life and landscape painting. Metz holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) and a BFA from Tyler School of Art, (Elkins Park, PA). Metz was a co-founder of the artist-run gallery Ms. Barbers (Los Angeles, CA). His paintings have been exhibited at Hunter Shaw Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA), Jeffery Deitch (New York, NY), The Bunker Artspace (Miami, FL). He has been a MacDowell Fellow (Petersborough, New Hampshire) and an artist in residence at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), as well as a student at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine). Metz works in a studio space shared with a native plant nursery in the El Sereno neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Herion Park: Herion Park is a Korean American visual artist, sculptor, and fashion designer. She is currently a visual arts professor at Hillsborough College in Tampa, Florida. After immigrating to the United States, Park earned a BFA in Painting and Fashion Design and an MDes in Fashion, Body and Garment from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in numerous significant exhibitions and received prestigious residency invitations from The Vermont Studio, Hambidge, and Yaddo. Integrating varied media, her work is informed by the immigrant experience and the spiritual and biological ties of family. As a naturalized citizen, Park transmutes personal challenges and the experiences of her immigrant students into her art. Her current work explores sorority and motherhood through forms inspired by spiritual contemplation and familial memories. Park has lived in Seoul, Chicago, New York, Miami, and Baltimore; she now resides in Sarasota County, Florida. Jim Shrosbree: Jim Shrosbree received an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Montana and a BFA in Painting from Boise State University. He has work in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Edythe and Ely Broad Museum, Des Moines Art Center, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Mint Museum, and Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Shrosbree has been a visiting artist at art institutions including Cranbrook Academy of Art, NYU, UC-Davis, Bard College, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, Penn State University, Alberta University of the Arts, University of Illinois, and University of Iowa. He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (Midwest Fellowship). Residency fellowships include Yaddo, MacDowell, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and Knox College. He is Professor of Art at Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa where he lives and works. Luisa Turuani: Luisa Turuani is an Italian multidisciplinary artist who received her MFA degree from Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. She joined numerous residencies, including the Monson Arts (USA), Duplex AiR (Lisbon), Millay Arts (USA), Dialogos Part Seven (Kenya). She won several awards and grants: the Italian Council, the nctm e l’arte Fellowship, the Arte Laguna Special Prize, the AccadeMibact Prize, the Combat Prize, and the Nocivelli Prize. Most significant exhibitions are Group Exhibition (Adolfo Pini Foundation, Italy), Travel Diary (snark.art, NY), Artagon Live (Paris), the UK Young Artists Biennale (Notthingham) and GQ – Passion for the Path of Art (Cardi Gallery, Milan). Her practice focuses on the possibility of making duration tangible, exploring how it influences human relationships. With the intention of rising questions instead of giving answers, her works offer a poetical way to face the fears and the obsessions typical of current society. https://www.luisaturuani.it/ |
Writers |
Hugo Dos Santos: Hugo dos Santos was born in Lisboa, Portugal, and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of Reduction in Force (Bauhan Publishing, 2026), winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, and Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories. He is the translator of Homecoming (Arquipélago Press, 2024) and A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), a staff pick at The Paris Review Daily. His writing moves through questions of diaspora, labor, precarity, and memory, often tracing how personal and collective histories are shaped by displacement and economic pressure. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Common, Barrelhouse, Hobart, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Disquiet, and lives in New Jersey.
Honokee Dunn: Bio coming soon... Kim Katzberg: Kim Katzberg is a New York City-based NYIT Award winning writer and performer who creates darkly comedic theatrical works. The NY Times described Katzberg’s work as “Audacious… Rich with emotional truth… Katzberg has a gift for writing her own material.” She has performed original work at HERE, The Bushwick Starr, Ars Nova, BAX, The Brick Theater, La MaMa, Wild Project and Dixon Place. Strays won the 2016 NYIT Award for “Outstanding Original Short Script.” Strays is published in The Best American Short Plays, 2015-2016. Katzberg’s Dad in a Box won the 2019 NYIT Award for “Outstanding Solo Performance.” Her TV Pilot advanced to the Quarterfinalist Round in the 2024 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest and to the Semi-Finalist Round in the 2025 Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. Katzberg was a Lead Artist in a Project Week Residency at Mercury Store in 2025. She received an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. Cee Lavery: Cesario ("Cee") Lavery is an illustrator and research-driven writer/comics-maker living and working on the island of Tiohtià:ke, or Montréal. His current project is DER EYDES, an ongoing serialized graphic work about an old Kafka book, a state-suppressed psychiatrist, and a family mystery. DER EYDES has been supported by a Canada Council for the Arts Research & Creation Grant, a Microgrant for Cultural and Creative Exploration from the Museum of Jewish Montréal, and a handful of residencies and fellowships. It is distributed by the wonderful Sheer Spite Press. When not drawing, writing, or reading, Cee moonlights as a comics-and-zine-making workshop facilitator and guest lecturer on zine history. He likes black licorice, black coffee, hand-lettering, and sea breezes. Leslie McIntosh: Leslie McIntosh is writing toward the other side of Black interiority. Leslie's debut volume of poetry, within-group variance, was selected by Terrance Hayes for the 2025 Changes Book Prize (Changes Press, 2026). Leslie's writing has been supported by the Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hawthornden Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Millay Arts, The Watering Hole, Zoeglossia, and more. Leslie's poems have appeared in Adi Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Fourteen Hills, Indiana Review, Obsidian, Ploughshares, the anthology In The Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy, and widely elsewhere. Leslie has presented literary art across the country as a featured guest at universities, literary festivals, national poetry slams, and other convenings since 2005, but currently calls home a rowhouse on the stolen land of the Munsee Lenape, presently known as Jersey City, NJ, USA. Mckensi Scy Pascall: Mckensi Scy Pascall (they/she) is a multi-disciplinary writer and performing artist from Trinidad and Tobago. At fifteen, she moved to Long Island, New York and since she embarked on that journey, it's been her mission to honor the Indigenous, the Enslaved and the Immigrants. She views time as if it were layers of the Earth and writes like an archaeologist, digging beneath the surface to find remnants of truths that lead to story. She uses writing as a vessel of connection and empathy and knows that it can be an immense force against oppression. Mckensi has an MFA in Creative Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University (2024) and a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College (2022) kensiscy.com @mckensii aegor ray: aegor ray is a writer, freak, and organizer for the decriminalization of sex work based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. aegor has received generous support from granters like the Waterers and the Jerome Foundation, and residency opportunities from Tofte Lake Center and the Anderson Center at Tower View. aegor was an arts writing fellow for MNArtists.com, a platform of the Walker Arts Museum, and wrote, co-directed, and performed in DAKSHINA, a multimedia performance, for Red Eye Theater's New Works 4 Weeks Festival in June 2025. His writing interests span queer and trans desire and terror, empire and its long-arching shadows, and the experiences of consuming and being consumed. aegor is a Sagittarius. TW Sia: T. W. Sia (he/him/his) was born in Yangon, Myanmar and raised all over. He holds an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and is studying at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of Pegasus Physician Writers and hosts Oasis (a creative writing collective). Previously at Stanford, he has also taught creative writing classes/workshops and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Anastomosis. In his poetry, he examines homes and everything that enters and exits, including himself and his past. He maintains a deep belief in imagination. His previous work can be found in Tab Journal, Mud Season Review, and elsewhere. His work has won awards, including Pushcart nominations. Irene Villasenor: Irene Villaseñor (Aeta, Chinese, Ifugao, and Purépecha) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work examines Indigeneity, bi-societal experience, and the ways institutions authorize, translate, and circulate knowledge. Her practice engages questions of legitimacy, care, and community accountability across cultural, civic, and archival contexts. She began her career as a young producer at the Educational Video Center and later joined American Documentary | P.O.V., where she focused on youth audience development and grassroots education. Her intrapreneurial work contributed to the expansion of P.O.V.'s community engagement strategies and to the organization's receipt of a MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. Her work has been supported by Atlantic Center for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lambda Literary, Santa Fe Art Institute, Tin House, VONA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her poetry manuscript Get Lost Colonizer: Erasures from the Future was runner-up for the Center for Book Arts' 2024 Annual Chapbook Contest. She currently serves as an advisor to National Museums Northern Ireland, sits on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Advisory Committee on Cultural Engagement, and is an appointed member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' New York State Advisory Committee. Ava Woolf: Ava Woolf is a queer, neurodiverse writer interested in the transformative power of narrative, image, and ritual. Her debut novel, House of Ash, (published by Abrams under her former name), explores the gothic as a vehicle for speaking about isolation, grief, and ancestral trauma. Her current work, Dead Days, is a coming of age novel set in 18th Century Poland that addresses queer trauma, animate belonging, and our present-day culture's denial of death. Dead Days has been supported by multiple artist grants, and a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. Woolf holds a BA in English Literature, and a BA(Hons) in History of Art, Design, & Visual Culture. She lives in a creaky old house in Newfoundland with a good friend and an indeterminate amount of rescue cats. She also writes personal essays exploring queerness, culture, animism, mythology, ecology and ritual. https://avawoolf.substack.com/ James Yu: James Yu is a writer based in Oakland, California. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his fiction has appeared in Guernica, Juked, Ninth Letter, and The Brooklyn Review, and he's received fellowships from MacDowell and Oatmeal Creek. He is slowly working on a collection of short stories. Magdalena Zemanova: Magdalena Zemanova is a writer, editor, production designer, and anthropologist working across film, publishing, and research-based creative practice. She holds a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a cum laude diploma in Journalism from Prague. Her work bridges analytical research with visual storytelling through ethnographic methods, writing, and concept-driven design. She has published extensively in Czech and English, focusing on art, architecture, history, and social topics. She is the author of Knights Without a King (NLN, 2014), a popular science book on modern identities based on original field research and photography, and the experimental book-object Weightless (2019). Since 2012, she has worked internationally as an art director and production designer on feature films, television series, documentaries, and commercials. She is a member of the Production Designers Collective. Learn more at www.magdalenazemanova.com. |
