Meet the Studios at MASS MoCA’s
March 2022 Artists-in-Residence!
March 2 - 29, 2022
Feda Eid
Quincy, Massachusetts
Feda Eid is a Lebanese-American visual artist. Her work explores the expression of heritage, tradition, culture, identity and the often tense but beautiful space between what is said, what is felt, and and what is lost in translation. She captures these emotions through her bold use of color, textiles, adornment and pop culture linking the past and present. As the daughter of Lebanese immigrants who fled the country's civil war in 1982, Feda is guided by her family's journey and her own childhood growing up as a Muslim in the US. She believes in the telling of personal narratives to broaden our perspectives and to ultimately help us feel the universal emotions that connect us all.
Angela Eastman
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Angela Eastman is a multi-disciplinary artist who weaves together knowledge of traditional craft techniques with a place-based approach to making to create work that engages with material and ecological histories. Her experiences working on farms and teaching workshops in ceramics and fiber arts have led her to believe in the simple power of people getting to know each other, and respecting the land they are living on, while working with their hands. Angela is currently working with foraged kudzu vines to create baskets and woven sculptures.
Angela holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in Studio Art from Colorado College, and completed the two-year Core Fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts.
Luiza Folegatti
North Adams, Massachusetts
Luiza is a Brazilian artist based in North Adams (USA). She spent five years in Berlin (Germany) integrating artistic practice, teaching, and social advocacy work around the rights of women immigrants. Luiza’s artistic practice focuses on gender and migration, and she applies photography, video, performance, and visual anthropology methods. She also designs and facilitates photography workshops for youth and women groups and strongly believes in projects that combine photography, education, and community building. Currently she is producing a photo essay about mothers and daughters and their experience with migration, as well as experimenting with photo books formats.
Photo credit: Sasha Pedro.
Lani Asuncion
Boston, Massachusetts
Lani Asuncion (they/she) is a Boston based multimedia artist working within public spaces to create socially engaged art by weaving a visual language guided by historical research, community engagement, and experimental performance in relation to their identity as a queer multiracial Filipinx. They use new media technologies as a tool to encourage conversations to magnify connections that work to facilitate healing in the face of cultural violence, oppression, and ancestral intergenerational trauma narratives.
Photo credit: Henri Cole
Naoe Suzuki
Waltham, Massachusetts
Naoe Suzuki (she/her) is a visual artist, born in Tokyo, Japan, now based in Waltham, Massachusetts. She works primarily in drawing and text to explore humankind’s relationship to and history with ourselves, the environment, and our planet.
Suzuki received her MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has been awarded grants by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council (two times), and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (two times), Artist's Fellowships, Inc., and Puffin Foundation. Her residency fellowships include Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Millay Colony for the Arts, Jentel, Studios at MASS MoCA, and Tokyo Wonder Site. Suzuki was an Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2016–2017. Dancing has also been an important part of her life and she practices Gaga movement every day. She has been dancing together with her 85-year-old parents on Zoom every night for the past year during the pandemic.
Yi Hsuan Lai
New York City, New York
Yi Hsuan Lai (b,1988) is a visual artist from Taiwan and works in New York. She has recently completed her MFA from School of Visual Arts in Photography, Video and Related media. Her past background in graphic design and documentary for theatre established her art process through performance, staged self-portraiture, installation, and sculpture-based photography. Her oeuvre explores the multi-layers of self as well as the experiment of the representation of sensation through physical materiality used to build up imagination of her mind.
Her work has been shown in Anonymous Town SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2020, New York), In visible space in Here Art (2020, New York), Body language in Deer studio (2020, New York), WONDER FOTO Day (2019, Taiwan), Break a leg in Photo emphasis Suger gallery(2019, Fayetteville). She has been the recipient of SVA alumni scholarship award (2020), SVA scheimpflug Award (2020), SVA MFA Photo Alice Beck-Odette scholarship (2020, 2019, 2018).
Mariana Ramos Ortiz
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mariana Ramos Ortiz is an interdisciplinary artist working between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Providence, Rhode Island. Their practice revises the imperial and colonial relationship the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico. Their recent work articulates relationships between legibility as a remnant of colonialism, play as a tactic for resistance, and how these strategies construct the experience and perceptions of the colonial subject and landscape.
Grace Clark
Brattleboro, Vermont
Grace Clark is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Southern Vermont. She graduated from the Perpich Center for Arts Education (2011), Minnesota State University Moorhead (BFA, 2015), and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (MFA, 2021).