Alumni
March 1st to April 4th 2023
Juan Ledesma
My practice is rooted in interdisciplinary experimentation. For my first solo exhibition in 2021, I examined the discourse of sound in relation to accented speech and the rhythms of spoken language. The intention was to contrast seemingly unrelated disciplines (linguistics & music) as common threads in the fabric of our social reality. Through my practice, I attempt to reveal spaces of commonality that fundamentally question who we are and how we relate to one another. Having had training both as a visual artist and a musician, I often explore resonance and material culture via drawing, sculpture, and sound installation. Recent work includes a drawing series exploring ancient symbols, cave paintings and the concept of nature, the process of which mimicked the flow of musical collaboration.v
Samantha Vo
Samantha Vo is a multidisciplinary creative practicing at the intersection of art and design. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Culture with an emphasis in Design and a minor in Studio Art from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in 2019. Her work explores her Mexican and Vietnamese heritages through mixed media art forms such as typography, textiles and printmaking with messages inspired by prayers, stories and memories of her family and upbringing. A common theme across Samantha’s practice is upcycling materials. She was inspired by her family’s constant resilience and resource-fullness in utilizing what they had and always finding beauty in found objects, thrifted items and antiques. nal en ciudades como Monterrey, Cd Mx, Hermosillo, Querétaro y Mérida Invitada como ponente en WPPI (Wedding And Portrait Photography International) en 2020 y 2022, donde tuvo la oportunidad de ser reconocida por Fujifilm X Series EU y compartir escenario con fotógrafos internacionales. Fue seleccionada durante 2020 en Fotos por México, una iniciativa de colección de fotografías por el COVID19, a través del trabajo fotográfico de artistas consagrados. En 2021 es seleccionada por LAP Foundation (Latin American Photography Foundation), en la categoría retrato de larga trayectoria. El mismo año es invitada a la exposición colectiva de la convocatoria en Bogotá, Colombia. Artista seleccionada en 2021-2022 en la sexta edición de PARAC (Programa de Alto Rendimiento de Arte Contemporáneo), con sede en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey. Daniela ha tenido la oportunidad de presentar su trabajo a nivel mundial en países como México, Colombia, Estados Unidos, España, Francia e Italia. En el presente año funda oficialmente en la ciudad de Monterrey, México, un laboratorio de fotografía analógica llamado Bengala. Además de viajar por el mundo para bodas de destino, Daniela actualmente experimenta con fotografía de arte contemporáneo (analógica y digital), video, instalación y performance. Con dos exhibiciones colectivas en curso, la galería educativa del museo de arte contemporáneo Museo MARCO, Aparador Aldama de Aldo Chaparro Studios en Monterrey y próximamente NUUN gallery en Oaxaca.
Katayoun Vaziriv
At the moment I am working on a series called “Sky's the limit”. The series plays with the meaning of this phrase and the fact that what if Sky is actually the limit. What if we are all being ambitious, discovering new technology, not paying attention to its impact on our only planet and sky? Same as my other works this series also happens in a space between hoping to change the system ( reaching the sky), and feeling disabled and out of power towards it. At the moment all my works are in gouache, For these series I want to add print making to my medium and that's one of main reasons I am applying. Also as a person who has recently moved to CDMX, I would love to get to know the community better and I hope these types of residencies can also help with that.
Lu Villanueva
My work is an approach to abstraction. I'm trying to create my own visual language: one that uses shapes, forms, color and line to create a composition with a degree of independence from visual reference to reality. Mixing techniques and trying out the resilience of the mediums and materials involving my art is as important as the final artwork. As a resource I use photography and architectural elements as well as the environment that surrounds me; creating complex dimensions represented by layers, multiple lines, colors and figures. I intend to deconstruct and decontextualize form and figure, breaking out the formality of geometry. Usually I work in two or more series simultaneously. This methodology allows me to balance and integrate each composition and play with adding and subtraction at the same time.v
CA Art Collective
At CA Art Collective, we recognize that art exists because it is built in community, from production to appreciation. We seek to assert that we exist for what we are. The nature of what is human, divine, terrestrial, the cosmos, and the different realities, are condensed in our works of art, showing that it is possible to be and not to be at the same time, making both options, a cosmic probability. Always together, we anticipate the uncertainty of the environment, and we establish harmony through geometry. We achieve this by walking though a temporary maze, an imaginative composition in which it is necessary to face many crossroads at a time: alternatives that stop being alternatives when opting simultaneously for all of them at once, thus creating various lines that are multiplied, intercept and diverge where all outcomes occur and each one is the starting point of other bifurcations that materialize in angles and shapes.
December 1st to January 5th 2022-2023
Nicholas Milkovich
The human body is a perfectly fabricated machine made up of nature’s most clever designs. As a biomechanical engineer and sculptor, my practice sits in a foundation of material science and structure. In this way, my work has always been closely linked to research. All things in biology are made up of networks of smaller microstructures; atoms, cells, and limbs are units that interconnect to form meshworks of utility. Connection and configuration dictates the characteristics of the macrostructure. In my installations, I mimic biological motif in an effort to both overwhelm and control processes otherwise left passive. Calling attention to these features can have the added effect of eliciting the uncanny. I use this register in my work to express feelings of bodily “wrongness”, both physical and internal. I also balance that feeling with my own enthusiasm for the body’s complex structure through color and a wide variety of materials.
Daniela Villarreal
es una fotógrafa de 31 años de Monterrey, México. Después de estudiar fotografía (comenzando en Parsons en Nueva York y terminando en la Escuela Americana de Fotografía en México) comienza su establecimiento profesional fotográfico hace más de una década haciendo bodas de destino. Posteriormente en 2018 y 2019 comenzó a desarrollar a partir de residencias de corta duración en Nueva York un archivo analógico contemporáneo, también en ciudades como Bruselas, Madrid, Cd Mx, Milán. En 2019 se inició como educadora de fotografía, creando talleres a nivel nacional en ciudades como Monterrey, Cd Mx, Hermosillo, Querétaro y Mérida Invitada como ponente en WPPI (Wedding And Portrait Photography International) en 2020 y 2022, donde tuvo la oportunidad de ser reconocida por Fujifilm X Series EU y compartir escenario con fotógrafos internacionales. Fue seleccionada durante 2020 en Fotos por México, una iniciativa de colección de fotografías por el COVID19, a través del trabajo fotográfico de artistas consagrados. En 2021 es seleccionada por LAP Foundation (Latin American Photography Foundation), en la categoría retrato de larga trayectoria. El mismo año es invitada a la exposición colectiva de la convocatoria en Bogotá, Colombia. Artista seleccionada en 2021-2022 en la sexta edición de PARAC (Programa de Alto Rendimiento de Arte Contemporáneo), con sede en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey. Daniela ha tenido la oportunidad de presentar su trabajo a nivel mundial en países como México, Colombia, Estados Unidos, España, Francia e Italia. En el presente año funda oficialmente en la ciudad de Monterrey, México, un laboratorio de fotografía analógica llamado Bengala. Además de viajar por el mundo para bodas de destino, Daniela actualmente experimenta con fotografía de arte contemporáneo (analógica y digital), video, instalación y performance. Con dos exhibiciones colectivas en curso, la galería educativa del museo de arte contemporáneo Museo MARCO, Aparador Aldama de Aldo Chaparro Studios en Monterrey y próximamente NUUN gallery en Oaxaca.
Michelle Sitton
Mexican artist that centers her practice in painting, exploring her identity through rituals and technology. She began her studies in a BFA in painting and drawing in California College of the Arts, San Francisco, after two years comes back to her hometown to conclude her career in the Centro de Arte Mexicano. Currently she is developing her thesis on how the digital landscape participates in her painting. Exploring different mediums she did a creative writing diplomat in UNAM in 2020 and a contemporary art practice residency on 2018 in Royal College of Arts in London. Worked as an arti assistant with Victor del Moral in 2017 and with Cecilia Barreto in 2021. During one year she worked as coordinator in Casa Lü artist residency. Currently she has her studio and collaborates with editorial project casa roga, and is working as an art teacher for highschool in colegio Olami. Her work has been exhibited in collective exhibitions and art fairs, in february 2022 she had an individual exhibition in Casa Equis: “entre el cielo y la tierra”. Today she works with Casa Equis, Adhesivo Project and Estudio Marte galleries
Noah Tavlin
is a multimedia artist in Brooklyn, NY. He completed his BA in English Literature at McGill University in 2010, and his MFA in Painting and Drawing at Pratt Institute in 2022. Tavlin’s work has been exhibited at galleries in the New York-area as well as Canada and the UK. Working in mixed media drawing, printing, photography, and video, Tavlin sources found imagery from archive and everyday life, recontextualizing it with a deadpan sense of humor to address the experience of social, political, and spiritual decline from a personalized perspective.
Elizabeth Chang
born in Oakland, CA to Korean immigrant parents. She had been studying psychiatry and public health when she started taking art classes and her career goals gradually shifted to focusing on art. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Hunter College in 2020. She views her work as an artist as similar and complementary to her work as a psychiatric nurse practitioner as both involve examining and exposing commonly held assumptions, expectations, and power structures that produce disease within a society or an individual. She has shown her work at Local Project Art Space, 440 Gallery, and Hunter College in NYC.
Sue Montoya
born in Los Angeles, California and raised between Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Miami, Florida. She received a BFA from New World in Visual Arts in 2014, and her MFA from the University of Florida in May 2018. She has exhibited in Berlin (Radialsystem), Mexico City (FainFeria), and Miami (CIFO). She has completed artist residencies at 4Most gallery in Gainesville, FL, SOMA Summer 2019 in Mexico City, and Home+Away at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO. She was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022 for Change Atlas, a transmedia exhibition exploring climate change in Miami.v
October 1st to November 5th 2022
Jerry Shai Sarig, Tel Aviv
Sarig’s practice explores the topic of childhood; memories and her own early drawings inspire her craft. The examination of this subject matter in her art is also an exploration of the self, consciously and unconsciously bringing into expression the same imaginary childhood characters, time and again, although in different forms and textures. She uses embroidery, ceramics, acrylic and oil paintings, sometimes independently and sometimes in combination. Her works are a visual collage, mixing shapes, drawings, and threads.
Ali Vaughan, Boston
Ali Vaughan is an artist who creates sculptures centered around ecological concerns and somatic, personal, and spatial experience. Through embodiment and observation, the work explores the tension between industry and ecological anxiety. It balances the violence, curiosity, and desire in the will towards extraction with the potential for protection, presence, and restoration within nature and the body. Vaughan received a BA with Honors in Art Practice and a BA in Art History from Stanford University. She has exhibited in the de Young Museum, the Stanford Art Gallery, and Coulter Gallery and completed a residency at The Steel Yard in Providence.Ali Vaughan is an artist who creates sculptures centered around ecological concerns and somatic, personal, and spatial experience. Through embodiment and observation, the work explores the tension between industry and ecological anxiety. It balances the violence, curiosity, and desire in the will towards extraction with the potential for protection, presence, and restoration within nature and the body. Vaughan received a BA with Honors in Art Practice and a BA in Art History from Stanford University. She has exhibited in the de Young Museum, the Stanford Art Gallery, and Coulter Gallery and completed a residency at The Steel Yard in Providence.
Ramiro Ávila, Guadalajara
Avila’s work explore different disciplines with the aim of approaching to the notion of the elusive, using ways of different knowledge that take place in supernatural, superstition, mythology and ritual. Making his practices expand the possibilities of finding meaning in reality, making everyday experience into speculative depth. This hint of the supernatural concept responds to a curiosity about human finitude, which is assumed by Ávila through corporality, daily life and the anecdotical.
Valeria Becerra, Bogota
Interdisciplinary artist based in Mexico, Becerra’s work and research are influenced by the sociopolitical conditions and dynamics of site and space, making experiments with different references, contexts and languajes. Her current practice focuses on the embodiment of resulting forms in art, of particular non archived social dynamics in Mexico such as meditation and dreaming so it can be translate through matter and installation in space.
Deny Ramos, Ciudad de México
Ramos’s work mainly focuses on printmaking nevertheless, this discipline has allowed her explore in textile, installation, photography, painting, drawing and the possibilities of her own body. Japanese philosophy and aesthetics works as a poetic operator to feel life in its multiplicity and in that way start talking of the self-referential. DIY culture is adopted by the artist work as a political posture in which she prefers to get involved in every part of the process -conceptual, design, handmade. Her current work is about identity and the psi geográfico from the study of specific sites in which color and textile have an important weight in contemporary conversations.
July 1st to August 5th 2022
Brandi Holt, New York
Holt is a Black American and Afro-Colombian designer, artist, and arts administrator living in Brooklyn, NY. She has been designing and creating art under the label Escarria for the past 10 years. Brandi’s design inspirations are pulled from an intimate process of honoring maternal ancestry, the overlooked elements of femininity, and the essence of the people she creates for. With each design she aims to create a visceral and hypnotic sensation amongst audiences that pull viewers in.
Chen Flamenbaum, Tel-aviv
Flamenbaum is a multidimensional artist that explores the option of paintings and objects becoming and changing into another. In his works, he combines the worlds of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and Traditional-craft. The foundation of his works deals with the tension between opposites: sketch and sculpture, masculinity and femininity, matter and spirit.
Nomi H. Rave, New York/Woodstock
Rave is a fine art photographer living between New York City and Woodstock, Upstate New York. She studied Photography at the ICP- International Center for Photography, NY. She explores different forms of photography from studio portraits fashion scene, street photography and is mostly passionate about the art of nature in particular flowers. “Inspired from the nature around me, I photograph flowers and create with them colorful images”
Omar Mendoza, Mexico City
Mendoza has a bachelor in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design UNAM 2012-2016, he has exhibited his work in independent spaces and museums in Mexico, such as “SAJAK” individual exhibition at Mashimón, “SUUT” individual exhibition at Radio28CS, “PARÁMETRO” collective exhibition at Carrillo Gil Museum, “LA MUJER DE 60X SESENTA” collective exhibition at MUCA UNAM, “XXXVI ENCUENTRO NACIONAL ARTE JOVEN”, collective exhibition at Casa de la Cultura Victor Sandoval in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He has participated in art fairs such as Feria de la Acción Mexico City 2019, FAMA Monterrey 2020 and FAIN Mexico City. And he has been invited to participate in several art residencies with COBERTIZO, Casa Equis, Radio28CS, Mashimón and Centro de las Artes de San Agustin Oaxaca.
Sally Scopa, San Francisco
Scopa is a painter from San Francisco, California. Her playfully ornate, formally experimental works question the cultural reverence commonly attached to painting, while celebrating and earnestly engaging with the medium as a tool for expression. She graduated from Harvard University in 2013 with a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies, and from Stanford University in 2019 with an MFA in Art Practice. She has recently participated in solo and group exhibitions at Eve Leibe Gallery (London), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and 5-50 Gallery (NYC).