Future Artists in Residence
May Hay Wan Shek
17 May – 19 Jun. 2024
May is the founder of Boundless Studio, a BIPOC women-owned multidisciplinary studio. May wears many hats as a designer, researcher, artist-bookmaker and educator with over 15 years of experience in designing better futures with and for communities and organizations. May tackle complex problems and ideas spans from democratizing STEM education with NASA to building a better safety net for unaccompanied immigrant children in the Bay Area with Stanford Impact Labs.
May creates through human-centered research to design artifacts, systems, and experiences with a community-driven and trauma-informed approach, always with the purpose of uncovering untold stories and building a more equitable and sustainable future. May believes that design and art is a way to build power and heal—using the power of storytelling to elevate unheard voices. Participatory design is key to May’s work, always designing new ways to connect with communities and audiences thought facilitated workshops and interactions. With a communications design background, May continues to explore storytelling in the form of bookmaking and printmaking—exploring new techniques and formats.
Advocating for diversity and gender equality is an integral part of May’s work. She is a mentor for the New Inc Incubator in the New Museum, part of the leadership team for Women In Innovation and founded The Take A Stand Project, a nonprofit collective of designers. May is currently an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in the MFA communications design program, teaching design research with a social impact lens. May holds a master’s in branding from the School of Visual Arts. When she is not nerding out on equitable design, you will find her in the ocean surfing any waves she can hunt.
Sophia Sobers
17 May – 19 Jun. 2024
Maiko Kikuchi
23 Jun. – 21 Jul. 2024
Tommy Kha
23 Jul. – 21 Aug. 2024
Chie Fueki
23 Jul. – 8 Sep. 2024
Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund (2024), UMOCA's Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2026), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2004). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA, CA; UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; and Orlando Museum of Art, FL. She is represented by D.C. Moore Gallery, NY and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles.
Augustine Boyce Cummings
6 Oct. – 3 Nov. 2024
Marshall Jones
6 Oct. – 3 Nov. 2024
KinoSaito Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.