RESIDENT FACULTY ARTISTS: SUMMER 2025

Dineo Seshee Bopape, Sandra Gamarra, Liz Magic Laser, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Anna Tsouhlarakis are invited to be in residence with the participants during the summer of 2025. Although each Resident Faculty Artist has a unique background and practice, they all have a deep understanding of dominant discourses and propose alternative approaches to healing and rewriting history, avoiding binary oppositions and encouraging a transversal dialogue.

The transdisciplinary practice of Guadalupe Maravilla is rooted in activism and healing. Guadalupe's work is autobiographical, referring to his unaccompanied and undocumented migration to the United States during the Salvadoran Civil War. He explores how the systemic abuse of immigrants manifests physically within the body, reflecting on his own battle with cancer. 

His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Olso, Norway; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, among others. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions such as uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK; soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea. Maravilla's work is currently included in the 12th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art: forms of the surrounding futures, Gothenburg, Sweden and the 35th Bienal de São Paulo.

Liz Magic Laser is a multimedia video and performance-based artist from New York City. Her recent work explores the efficacy of new age techniques and psychological methods active in both corporate culture and political movements.

Liz’s work has been shown at venues such as Luxembourg + Co., NY, 2024; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2023); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2023); ICA Boston (2023); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2021); MUDAM The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2021) and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). Her work has received critical acclaim in publications such as Text zur Kunst, Artforum, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Frieze, and Art in America.

Sandra Gamarra was born in Lima. She utilizes painting in a figurative way to conceptually cross-examine art and its mechanisms. Based on appropriations, her work acts as a mirror that displaces exhibition formats, alters the circulation of images, subverts the ownership of culture as well as the narrative between art and its viewer. Within this field of research, her Peruvian background adds a sincretic gaze where pre-columbian, colonial and western cultures collide. Some of her recent exhibitions recontextualize art genres such as landscape, self-portrait or still life.

She has participated in collective exhibitions as the 29th Sao Paulo Biennial; the Italo-Latin American Pavillon (IILA) of the 53rd Venice Biennial; the 9th and 16th Cuenca Biennial; Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and the Kunstlerhaus, Vienna. She recently participated with her project “Pinacoteca Migrante”  at the 60th Venice Biennial. In 2002, due to the lack of a contemporary art institution in Lima, she created LiMac, a fictitious museum. Since then, LiMac has produced collections, exhibitions, publications, an architectural projects. and its website (www.li-mac.org).

Anna Tsouhlarakis is Greek, Creek, and an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation. Since the beginning of her career, she has challenged the aesthetic and conceptual expectations associated with Native American art. She works in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, and performance

Anna’s work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece; White Frame in Basel, Switzerland; Rush Arts in New York; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the National Museum of the American Indian; the National Portrait Gallery; MCA Denver. She is a Creative Capital Award recipient for 2021. Other awards include fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and most recently, a SOURCE Studio Corrina Mehiel Fellowship and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.

Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrisey.

“Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in the year of the golden rooster, 1981 on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. 

During the same year of her birth, there were perhaps 22 recorded Atlantic Ocean hurricanes and 4 Indian Ocean cyclones close to Mozambique. The Brixton riots took place; Machu Picchu is declared a heritage site; Chairman Mao’s wife is sentenced for anti-revolutionary speech; a series of apparitions of The Virgin Mary commence to a group of schoolgirls in Rwanda; Winnie Mandela’s banishment orders are renewed for another 5 years; Swiss women gained legal recourse against unequal pay through a referendum in Switzerland, the song “endless love” is popular on the airwaves; Umkhonto We Sizwe performs numerous underground assaults against the Apartheid state. Across Beirut, Israeli warplanes bombard Palestinian Liberation Organization; the Boeing 767 makes its first air flight, In Chile, the Water Code is established, separating water ownership from land ownership; In Ukraine, the titanium “Motherland” statue was erected honoring Soviet victory over the Nazis; Zaire is the premier producer of the world’s cobalt, Greece is struck by three earthquakes over a period of 11 days; the Slave trade is officially abolished in Mauritania…there’s a mass migration of cranes from the usual 13500 cranes to 21500, It is said that right whales born in that year, are taller than right whales born since. Other concurrent events of the year of her birth, and of her lifetime, are perhaps too many to fully know; Some things continued, some transformed, some shifted, others ended(?) some began… The world’s human population was then apparently at around 4.529 billion... today she (Bopape) is one amongst 8.1 billion - occupying multiple adjectives.”