SOHO20 is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Open Call cycle.
Joining us this summer for the Residency Lab will be Katy McCarthy and Roopa Vasudevan. Exhibiting in the 2018/2019 season of the +/- Project Space will be Motoko Fukuyama, Emily Oliviera, and Romily Alice Walden.
Motoko Fukuyama’s work questions how place can shape the lived experiences and interior lives of her subjects. She creates an open and sympathetic space for exploring the socioeconomic realities and psychology of everyday life. Her approach is quasi-documentary, using real life stories and adapting them into more fantastical cinematic and sculptural scenarios. Her collaborative approach forefronts both the subjects themselves, and the conditions surrounding her filming of their interactions and conversations. Her exhibition, You Never Know What Idea You Might Have, 2017, a two-month project at Recess, NYC, utilized the Argo Electronics Store located on Canal Street as a the subject of her film as well as a site of invention and experimentation. The subject of La Bohème, her recent solo exhibition at Tops Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee, is her own sister Naoko, who has been in the throes of depression and bipolar disorder for most of her adult life. Fukuyama is a 2015 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grantee, a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship recipient, and a 2018 Yaddo resident.
Emily Oliveira is a Brooklyn-based textile artist, performance artist, musician, and designer. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and studied performance at Brown University. Her visual art work uses labor-intensive craft mediums to explore gender, race, sexuality, and the marginalization and erasure of women’s labor. Her work has been shown at SPRING\BREAK, Space Heater Gallery, Disclaimer Gallery, Euridice Gallery, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Her performances use original and popular music, extravagant costumes, and narratives lifted from pop culture to pick apart American culture and history. She has presented evening-length performances at Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Brown University, and the Judson Memorial Church, and short performances at spaces across Brooklyn and Manhattan. Her costumes have been shown at the Center for Performance Research, The Parlour, Judson Memorial Church, Invisible Dog, and Theater for the New City. She was a 2017 Ars Nova Maker’s Lab resident artist, a resident artist at the AIR Gallery Governor’s Island Studio Residency, a 2018 resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design’s Artist Studio Program, a 2018 resident at Yaddo, and the BRIC workspace residency.
Romily Alice Walden is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice is concerned with physicality and its interplay with other social categorizations and power differentials. At the core of this practice is an interrogation of contemporary embodiment and its relation to the Post-Internet age. Her work questions modern western society’s relationship with looking, being looked at, gendered hierarchies, disability and the body. Walden’s work has been widely exhibited and featured in publications such as Vice, Hunger Magazine and Another Mag. She lives and works between London, United Kingdom and Berlin, Germany.