RESIDENTS BIOS

Jn. Ulrick Désert
Received his diplomas from the Cooper Union & Columbia University. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA where last year his controversial work The Burqa Project: On the Borders Of My Dreams I Encountered My Doubles' Ghost inaugurated the Points of Entry series at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in collaboration with LMCC. Twice a recipient of Cité Intenrationale des Arts artist-in-residence in Paris, Jn.Ulrick divides his time between NY, Berlin and Paris. Two solo exhibitions in 2004 will feature his visual projects and installations at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany and BRUCE Gallery Roterdam, Netherlands.

Benj Gerdes
Received his BA from Brown University. He has collaborated on video and mixed media projects with artists such as Tony Cokes and Scott Pagano. He has appeared on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and his video and performance work was shown at USC/MIT's Race in Digital Space 2.0 conference in Los Angeles.

Andrea Geyer
Received her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany and participated in the Whitney Independent Study program in 2000. Her work has been shown recently in the Whitney's The American Effect, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt and the Serpentine Gallery, London. She has had solo exhibitions at the Secession in Vienna, Austria; Galerie Paul Böttcher in Berlin, Germany; La Panaderia in Mexico City, the Skuc Gallerija in Lubijana, Slovenia, Parlour Projects in Brooklyn, and PS1 in Long Island City. She also received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and IASPIS, Sweden.

Mariam Ghani
Received her BA from New York University and MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her recent exhibitions and projects include screenings at the New York Video Festival, the Asia Society, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Curtacinema festival in Rio de Janeiro, and transmediale.03 in Berlin; site-specific installations at Exit Art, Judson Church and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where she participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program; and artist talks at NYU, Tufts, Hunter College and the ACCEA in Yerevan. She was also a Soros New Americans Fellow from 2001-02.

Jeff Grant
Received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the University of London. He has exhibited at White Columns, Thomas Erben Gallery, Star 67 in New York and Show Flat Gallery in London. He has an upcoming exhibition at White Columns in 2004.

Patrick Jackson
Received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and just completed the Maria Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Residency. He has exhibited at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Claudia Joskowicz
Received her Bachelors degree in Architecture from University of Houston and her MFA from New York University. She has had solo exhibitions at Momenta Art Gallery in New York and Lawndale Art Center in Texas. She has exhibited most recently at Exit Art in New York, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and the Dallas Contemporary in Texas. Her works were also shown at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Galerie Chez Valentin in Paris. She recently received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.

Angel Nevarez
A visual artist and musician, studied biology at the University of California, San Diego. His artistic practice includes being a co-founder of the artist group, neuroTransmitter. He is a recent graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program and has participated in residency programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art.

Frank Parga
Received his BFA from the University of Texas, El Paso and MFA from New York University. He has had solo exhibitions in California and Texas. His works have been exhibited at Patricia Corriea Gallery and Tropico de Nopal Gallery/Art Space in Los Angeles and K.O.A.P Gallery and Triple Candie in New York City. He has received grants and fellowships from the Weir Farm Trust in Connecticut, the New York Center for Book Arts, and the Jacob Lawrence Foundation.

Katrin Sigurdardottir
Received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from Rutgers University. She has exhibited widely throughout Europe and North America, including the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C.; the National Gallery of Art in Reykjavik; Victoria Miro Warehouse in London; Galleria Maze in Italy; Centre d'Art Contemporaine á Séte in France, and Hannover Kunstverein in Germany. She also received a fellowship from the Icelandic National Endowment for the Arts.

Shinique Amie Smith
Received both her BFA and MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MAT from Tufts University & School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has had solo exhibitions at the Creative Alliance in Maryland and Scuola dell'Arte dei Tiraoro e Battioro in Venice, Italy where she was a resident artist. She also received fellowships from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Vermont Studio Center and the Institute for Cultural Enterprise.

Bradley Wood
Studied at CalArts in Valencia, California and the Art Center in Montreaux, Switzerland. He has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Arts where he participated as part of the Artist in the Marketplace program. Both his video and web projects were shown at CalArts.

Invited Artists/Special Projects:

Trebor Scholz
An East Berlin born, Brooklyn-based artist who works collaboratively and individually online and off. Interested in politics, art and critical net cultures, Scholz investigates issues of migration, militarized borders, historical memory, immigration, exile and media coverage of war. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program with an MFA from the Slade School of Art in London, Scholz exhibits and lectures extensively nationally and internationally.

Shelly Silver
BFA, Cornell University. Her works has been included in the New York Video Festival, Singapore International Film Festival and Werkleitz Biennale in Germany. She has also exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery, Muestra Internacional de Videoart in Barcelona, Kunsthalle Zurich in Switzerland and Queens Museum of Art. She has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.