Future Artists in Residence
Bridget Mullen
24 Apr. – 27 May 2026
Photo by Mary Kang
Bridget Mullen charts somatic experience through exaggerated and repetitive forms, toggling between abstraction and empathy. She received the Chiaro Award from Headlands Center for the Arts in 2022, a painting fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2021, and a studio fellowship from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2017. She has been awarded residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Fountainhead, MacDowell, The Macedonia Institute, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Lighthouse Works, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program,The Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Her recent solo exhibitions include Trojan Horses and Sensory Homunculus, Nazarian/Curcio, Los Angeles; Quitters, Nathalie Karg, New York; Threshold Blues, Helena Anrather, New York; and Forgettable Sunsets, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam. Recent group exhibitions include Marianne Boesky, New York; Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal; Fahrenheit Madrid, Madrid; Fabian Lang, Zürich; Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Hesse Flatow, New York; and Plains Art Museum, Fargo. Mullen’s work has been reviewed in publications including Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Juxtapoz. Zolo Press and Nazarian / Curcio co-published, Birthday (2024), cataloging an ongoing series of small-scale paintings that uses the birth moment as springboard for inventing compressed compositions of various bodily contortions. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME; AMOCA, Cardiff, Wales; Drake University, Des Moines, IA; and Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM. Mullen holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a BAE from Drake University. She was born in Winona, Minnesota and lives in Beacon, New York.
Nadia Coën
1-27 May 2026
Nadia Coën is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she has generational ties to Austro-Hungary, Syria, and Egypt.
Coën’s experiential, time-based practice explores the intersection of architecture, poetics, light, and ephemera. Working under the umbrella of The Inclining Experiment, she has produced a wide-ranging body of work that includes architectonic light installation environments, text- and time-based projections, works on paper, artist books and printed matter, and artifact assemblages.
Coën is a two-time MacDowell Colony resident and has exhibited at numerous venues including The Drawing Center, White Columns, Exit Art, the Guggenheim Lab, and the Whitney Museum. She was a resident at Arteventura in Andalusia, Spain in 2023 and returned in summer 2024, and was awarded the Emily Harvey Foundation Residency in Venice, Italy for 2025. She was recently awarded the Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency at The Barn for March 2026 and will also be included in a group exhibition entitled “Time and Materials” at Bienvenu, Steinberg & C in Tribeca, New York. She will return to Venice in August 2026 to develop a site-specific outdoor projection and indoor installation at VisioniAltre Gallery.
A pioneer of the 1980s East Village art movement, Coën co-founded two seminal artist- book collectives: YOUR HOUSE IS MINE and ANTI-UTOPIA. YOUR HOUSE IS MINE is a curated protest project involving over 50 artists, responding to social unrest, homelessness, gentrification, and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. The project is held in major collections including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Getty, the Centre Pompidou, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Coën also maintains a parallel practice in narrative spaces and exhibition design. She has co-created museum exhibitions at institutions including the National Civil Rights Museum, MoCADA, and the Alice Austen House Museum, and is currently developing two legacy museums in Kingston, Jamaica.
Borinquen Gallo
30 May – 26 Jun. 2026
Borinquen Gallo is an Italian-Puerto Rican multi-disciplinary artist whose work delves into themes of material personal and social transformation, community development, reimagined socio-cultural systems and structures, through sculpture and installations made using a range of repurposed materials. Her work is developed both individually and collaboratively through participatory initiatives including public schools, museums, community and cultural organizations.
Everyday detritus, construction, and packaging materials including trash bags, debris netting, and caution tape, are painstakingly manually knitted, threaded and reconfigured into lush textural weavings. Across a broad range of considerations — material, formal, psychologically intimate and social — the work aims to modulate between the familiar and the surprising so as to fundamentally disrupt viewers’ assumptions regarding what is valuable and discardable.
Gallo received her BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art, her MFA in Painting from Hunter College. She has received numerous awards including the Sol Shaviro Award, The Marion Netter Fellowship, the Doris Leibowitz Art Educator Award. Residencies include the Materials For the Artist in Residence Program, The Children Museum of Manhattan, The Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Program, the Vermont Studio Center and The Cooper Union Artist Residency. Gallo has exhibited at Alessandro Berni Gallery, Malin Gallery, BRIC Arts Media, Smack Mellon, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, The Hudson River Museum, The National Academy Museum, and the Queens Museum. She participated in numerous art fairs including Art Miami, Clio Art Fair, Scope, and Volta. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute in New York.
Pratt Institute
A top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and serves 5,140 students. The Institute’s impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus, PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Since its founding in 1887, Pratt has prioritized diversity and inclusion, welcoming students from all walks of life while developing and sustaining pathways to more equitable workplaces and careers.
Ari Elefterin
30 May – 26 Jun. 2026
Pratt Institute
A top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and serves 5,140 students. The Institute’s impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus, PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Since its founding in 1887, Pratt has prioritized diversity and inclusion, welcoming students from all walks of life while developing and sustaining pathways to more equitable workplaces and careers.
Miki Orihara
29 Jun. – 20 Jul. 2026
© Jubal Battisti - Dance On Ensemble
This residency project develops an ongoing choreographic work that began with Orihara’s 2014 solo Prologue (performed at La MaMa), originally centered on her relationship with her mother and now expanding to explore the broader influence of “mothers”—women she has encountered who have profoundly shaped her life and artistic voice. Tentatively titled Resonance, the project will evolve through a series of workshops, an open rehearsal, and a final performance. A key inspiration for Orihara is her late teacher Nanako Yamada, who transmitted Dalcroze’s “20 gestures,” an early modern dance practice that influenced both Japanese and American pioneers. During the residency, Orihara will share a selection of these gestures with participants, guiding them to develop their own movement vocabularies and collaboratively build new material. An open rehearsal will provide space to experiment and deepen the work, while the culminating performance will present this evolving choreography, incorporating projection and video in collaboration with a videographer, as she continues to investigate the intersection of memory, lineage, and embodied resonance.
Miki Orihara, born in 1960, is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, which she joined in 1987 and earned a Bessie Award in 2010. She has performed on Broadway in The King and I and with Elisa Monte, PierGroupDance, Lotuslotus, Rioult Dance, Twyla Tharp, Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart (SITI Company), and Robert Wilson.
Her teaching credentials include numerous workshops in Japan, at Art International in Moscow, and at Peridance, the Ailey School, New York University, Florida State University, Henny Jurriëns Stichting (Holland), Les Etés de la Danse in Paris, and New National Theater Ballet School (Tokyo,Japan). She is on the faculty of the Graham School and The Hartt School (University of Hartford). She has set Martha Graham’s work all over the world, including for Diana Vishneva’s Dialogue and on Wendy Whelan of the New York City Ballet.
She recently released the Martha Graham dance technique DVD Level 1 and Level 2, collaborating with Susan Kikuchi, Dance Spotlight and the Martha Graham Center. A third DVD for advanced level 3 is coming in Spring 2026.
As a choreographer, Orihara has presented her work in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and in Japan. She premiered her solo work Searching Dimensions in New York in 1995, followed by, among others, VOICE, a piece for eight women for M’Deux Ballet in Nagoya, Japan (2001), Stage (2008), Prologue (2014) and Shirabyoshi (2017). In 2023, she was invited to choreograph for Anne Bogart’s Beautiful Lady at La MaMa, in NYC. Her on going solo concert project series RESONANCE-共鳴, in 2014, 2017, and 2019, presented works by modern dance pioneers alongside new creations.
She is a casting producer/Dance Director for mishmash＊Miki Orihara, a movement designer for Jen Silverman’s Crane Story directed by Katherine Kovner. In 2023, she was invited to choreograph for Anne Bogart’s Beautiful Lady at La MaMa, in NYC.
Orihara curated/produced the benefit concerts Dancing for JAPAN in 2014 and 2017, and started the NuVu Festival NYC in 2017 and 2019.
Her film Broken Memory was featured at Dance on Camera Festival in New York in 2017. With Stephen Pier, Orihara created this dance film Conversations and Ceci C’est Pas Un Jouet (this is not a toy) filmed by Gene Gort.
Miki Orihara was featured in the Inaugural performance of Peace is… at the United Nations as a part of the Permanent Mission of Japan in April 2017 and August 2018.
Orihara is a member of Dance On Ensemble in Berlin, Germany since 2019.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. They are a creative home to artists and audiences from around the world and a dynamic hub for risk-taking performance. La MaMa believes in the power of art to reveal our shared humanity and supports artists of all identities in the creation of new work.
Founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, La MaMa is the only original Off-Off-Broadway theatre still in operation. Over the course of 61 years, they have grown from an underground refuge for the avant-garde to a world-renowned cultural institution, with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk Awards, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, and the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. They have supported nearly 160,000 artists from all over the world, such as Blue Man Group, Peter Brook, André De Shields, Ping Chong, Olympia Dukakis, Harvey Fierstein, Philip Glass, Tedeschi Kantor, Shuji Terayama, Adrienne Kennedy, Diane Lane, Taylor Mac, Bette Midler, Meredith Monk, Sam Shepard, Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados, and Julie Taymor, to name a few.
A.L. Steiner
23 Jul. – 23 Aug. 2026
Yale School of Arts
Purvai Rai
26 Aug. – 4 Oct. 2026
Alina Tenser
26 Aug. – 4 Oct. 2026
Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian born artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, she makes propositions that elicit physical activation, play, and transference. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent. Tenser is currently an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, New York, NY; 17Essex Gallery, New York, NY, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, SE; and Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been widely reviewed and written about in publications such as New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Third Rail. She has participated in multiple artist residencies, most notably The Queens Museum Studio Program and Recess Activities. Her first public art installation is currently on view at Memorial Sloan Kettering Chemotherapy Treatment Facility in Brooklyn, NY.
Tsuyu Bridwell
8 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2026