Meet the Studios at MASS MoCA’s
May 2022 Artists-in-Residence!
May 11 - June 7, 2022
Eun Young Cho
YongIn, South korea
Choey is a constant traveler between cultures with an ongoing curiosity for what changes beyond borders and what is left in between. Her interdisciplinary practice is inspired by such transformative experience of inhabiting two world views entwined with the experience of language and signs. She explores the process of language production, transfer of meaning, and linguistic theories. In her practice, she reinterprets the visual sign to expand their capacity of signification. The central framework of her practice is inseparable to translation theory; thus, she works as a language trainer and a part-time translator. Choey is currently based in US and South Korea.
Monika Plioplyte
Chicago, Illinois
Monika Plioplyte is a multi-disciplinary artist merging printmaking, sculpture, performance, and photography. Born in Lithuania, Plioplyte grew up in Boston, MA. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (‘12) and an MFA in Print Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (‘19). Her work explores existential narratives that are intimately linked to storytelling through the physical body, with an emphasis on ancient symbology, personal rituals, and the processes of the handmade. She is a recipient of a number of awards and fellowships including the Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Travel Award for printmakers, Blanche E. Colman Award, Professional Development Track Grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, John W. Kurtich Foundation Travel Grant, The Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center, and Studios at MASS MoCa Residency. Plioplyte currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Katherine Patterson
Glen Falls, New York
Katherine Patterson was born in Bangor, Maine and raised in Lowville, NY. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA at New Hampshire Institute of Art. There she studied drawing, painting, and photography and in so doing discovered her personal themes of landscape, time, and memory. Her work has been shown at the Zabriskie Gallery and Phoenix Gallery in Manhattan and Brooklyn Artist's Gym, Momenta Gallery, MicroMuseum and NurtureArt Gallery in Brooklyn. Regionally, she has shown her work at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY, Saratoga Arts Center, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, Pelham Art Center, and Chautauqua Institute among others. She currently lives in Glens Falls, NY with her husband and two young sons and teaches art and design at SUNY Adirondack and Waldorf School Saratoga Springs.
Johanna Robinson
Brooklyn, New York
Photo Credit by: Sara Laufer
Johanna Robinson is a Brooklyn-based artist whose paintings employ humor, absurdity, and irony to undermine anthropocentrism— or the belief that human beings are the center of the universe, an idea proliferated by the Western art canon. Her paintings present curious menageries of creatures and objects entangled in nebulous webs, where animate and inanimate entities collide, interchange, and comingle. The artist’s work, connected to a long lineage of women surrealist and symbolist painters, relies on imagination as a source for truth-seeking and world-building. Recent exhibitions include Wish Fulfillment, CRUSH Projects, New York; AmphorasamorphA, Flux Factory, Governor’s Island, curated by Sally Beauty; Welcome, Tomato Mouse, Brooklyn; The Symbolists, HESSE FLATOW, New York, curated by Nicole Kaack; Against Forgetting, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown; Phone Home, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, curated by Wendy Vogel; Wildernesses, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn; among others. Robinson received her BFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA, and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy
Montreal, Canada
Juan Ortiz-Apuy is a Canadian-Costa Rican artist who has been living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal since 2003. Ortiz-Apuy has a BFA from Concordia University (2008), a Post-Graduate Diploma from The Glasgow School of Art (2009), and an MFA from NSCAD University (2011).
His work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in venues such as Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France), IKEA Museum (Sweden), Pamflett (Norway), DHC/ART Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain (Montreal), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), MOMENTA Biennale de l’image (Montreal), Quebec City Biennial: Manif d'art 7 (Québec), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), Museum London (London), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto), VOX Centre de l’image Contemporaine (Montreal), and The MacLaren Arts Centre (Barrie).
Rhiannon Inman-Simpson
St. Leonards, United kingdom
Rhiannon Inman-Simpson is an artist from London, currently living in St. Leonards-on-Sea on the south coast of the UK. In her recent work she uses painting to explore visceral encounters between body and place: the colour change when eyes are disorientated by bright light, the sensation of moving limbs through cold water, a rapid heartbeat. Approaching each painting instinctively, she moves between colour, form and marks in the way she might move her body through a physical environment. These fleshy movements are reflected in the changes in pace, weight and density of the marks; a translation of bodily sensations into paint. She received her MFA from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Norway) in 2016 and her BFA from The Glasgow School of Art (Scotland) in 2011.
Photo credit by Steven Frost
Marina Kassianidou
Boulder, Colorado
Marina Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface. Her current practice combines painting, drawing, collage, artist’s books, installation, and site-responsive work. She lives and works between Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Limassol, Cyprus.
She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur Giese Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting by the Stanford University Department of Art and Art History. She obtained an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. In 2015, she completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK.
Kim Rose Salac
Charlottesville, Virgina
Kim Salac (they/them) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. Hailing from a Filipino American background, their works take on an intimate lens; their frequent inclusion of personal narratives seeks to problematize the notion of migrants as passive, working to feature them as dynamic subjects in their constant negotiation of space, and memory. Working largely in found footage, and appropriation, their films explore personal mythologies as a shifting site of convergence for negotiating personhood, and homeland. In their more recent trajectory, they are striving to expand their repertoire from one built on colonial grief towards a radical re-imagination of queer, femme migrants as time-keepers, and time-travelers, long before, and far beyond the confines of colonization.
Patricia Brace
Waterboro, Maine
Brace is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses the relationship between intersectional feminism and socio-politics through her use of dance, technology art and installation. Brace currently teaches at Maine College of Art and Design and formerly taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Brace has recently exhibited at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, This Friday Next Friday Gallery and Public Address Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Brace's work has also been shown at Gary Snyder Project Space and SOHO 20 in New York and Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Smack Mellon, Public Address Gallery and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. Brace is attending The Studios at MASS MoCA and the alumni residency at MECA&D in 2022. She has also attended Solo(s) Project House, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the recipient of the Professional Development Grant at MECA&D and Rutgers, Giza Daniels Endesha Award, Ray Stark Film Prize, and the Leon Golub Scholarship at Rutgers University. Brace is also the Co-founder of Sine Gallery and GROUNDWORK retreat.
Shelley Chamberlin
Portland, Oregon
Shelley Chamberlin (she/ they) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media from printmaking to film to performative installation, most recently leaning heavily into intimate and domestic drawing in ink and charcoal. Chamberlin’s work explores relationality and the ways in which we build and contextualize meaning and has been shown locally and nationally, including here in North Adams at Gallery 51 in 2016. Their work has been included in a variety of film and print media, including NBC’s Grimm, The Grove Review, and Album Covers for The Speechwriters and Velvet Mishka. Her work is included in the collections of Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, Southern Graphics Council International, and Regional Arts and Culture Council's Visual Chronicle of Portland. Chamberlin Has a BFA from Marylhurst University and an MFA from Goddard. She teaches drawing, design, printmaking, water media, mixed media, and foundations at Portland Community College and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Pantea Karimi
San Jose, California
Pantea Karimi is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in San Jose, California. Her work explores the intersection of science, art, and history through investigating documents, scientific manuscripts, and historic objects at major libraries and archives around the world. Taking a cue from her research and Iran’s historic art, and visual culture, Karimi’s work highlights political and societal issues, and personal narratives, and tackles issues of representation and dissemination of the scientific, artistic, and intellectual heritage. She employs virtual reality (VR), performative video, sound, traditional and digital print, and drawing in her work.
Karimi has exhibited internationally across a range of solo, group, and traveling exhibitions in Iran, Algeria, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She is the recipient of the 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, the 2022 Mass MoCA the Studios Residency Award, the 2021 University of California San Francisco Library Artist in Residence Award, 2020 the City of San José's Public Art Program Art Award, the 2019 City of San Jose Arts and Cultural Exchange Grant, the 2019 Silicon Valley Artist Laureates Award, and the 2017 Kala Fellowship-Residency Award.