Rebecca Veit received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 and soon after moved to Brooklyn, New York where she now lives and works. Rebecca has shown in numerous group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, and was awarded an artist residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France in 2006. Most recently Rebecca exhibited her work at the 2007 Festival Internationale de Mode et de Photographie in Hyéres, France and will participate in upcoming group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Paris this autumn. www.rebeccaveit.com www.nwfproject.com
"Haircut," 2006, C Print, 60x70cm
2006 Selection panel
Christian Rattemeyer, Curator, Artists Space
Radhika Subramaniam, Director of Cultural Programs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Blanche Tannery, Director of Visual Arts and Architecture, Cultural Services
July-Sept 2006 Xavier Cha
Bio + Images coming soon
2006 Selection panel
Christian Rattemeyer, Curator, Artists Space
Radhika Subramaniam, Director of Cultural Programs, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Blanche Tannery, Director of Visual Arts and Architecture, Cultural Services
Paris Jan-June 2005
Frank Magnotta
MFA from the University of Illinois and BFA from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Solo exhibitions have been held at Cohan and Leslie in New York, New York and Standard Gallery in Chicago, Illinois and project rooms at Cohan, Leslie and Browne and White Columns, both in New York City. His work has been included in group shows at the Aldrich Museum of Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Arena Gallery, GAle GAtes et al., all in Brooklyn, New York; Ten-in-One Gallery, the ISE Cultural Foundation, Art in General, all in New York, New York; the Macintosh Museum of Art in Glasgow, Scotland; Zola/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. He has been awarded a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant and completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna
Paris Jan-June 2004
Andrea Ray
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan; and participated in Open Studios with the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York. Participated in LMCC's New Views Residency Program and the P.S. 1 National Studio Program. Exhibitions include Cement Space, Detroit; High Street Project, New Zealand; Gallerie 101, Canada; White Columns, Smack Mellon, Apex Art, and P.S. 1 Clocktower Gallery, all in New York City.
Paris Sept 2003-Feb 2004
Matt Bakkom
BA, University of Virginia. Residency with the Irish Museum of Modern Art; Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. Exhibitions in LMCC's space at One Wall Street Court, the Rare Gallery, Art in General, the Queens Museum of Art, and Artists Space, all in New York City. Received Public Art Fund Proposal Grant. Participated in Artists in the Schools program at the DIA Center for the Arts, New York City; and in LMCC's residency at the World Trade Center.
Paris 2002
Yasser Aggour
Yasser Aggour received an MFA from Yale, MSc inGovernment from the London School of Economics and BA in politics and art from UC Santa Cruz. His work has been exhibited widely including Art in General in New York City, the Cranbrook Museum of Art in Michigan, University Art Museum in Albany, and Richard Telles in Los Angeles. He has completed residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. For the past four years, he has been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University at the Department of Transmsedia. www.yasseraggour.com
Patty Chang
Born in San Francisco, Patty Chang received her BFA at the University of California, San Diego and studied at the L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy. Chang has exhibited and performed extensively in group exhibitions internationally and had numerous solo shows including at the Jack Tilton/A nna Kustera Gallery in New York; the Entwistle Gallery in London, England; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA; the Sarah Cottier Gallery in Sydney, Australia; Basel 30, Statements, 1999 in Basel, Switzerland; and at the Ace Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed widely in such publications as the New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art and other international publications and newspapers. In addition, Chang has been included in RoseLee Goldberg’s survey Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (2001). Grants and awards include CAMAC: Centre d’Arte Residency Program, LMCC Residency World Trade Center, the Tiffany Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
Jennie C. Jones
Jennie C. Jones received her MFA from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jennie has shown her work in New York City at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Meat Market Art Fair, A.I.R. Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as nationally and internationally at the Santa Monica of Art in Santa Monica, CA; the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD; Begane Grond Kunstcentrumin Utrecht, Holland; Galerie Arnisal in Bailystock, Poland; and the Amrosino Gallery in Guadalajara, Mexico among others. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Vibe Magazine, and Flash Art. She has completed residencies at LMCC Residency World Trade Center, ART/OMI International Residency, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has received a Pollok-Krasner Grant.
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