Spring 2026 Artists in Residence
Bridget Mullen
24 Apr. – 27 May 2026
Open Studio: 23 May 2026 | 1-4pm
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
Open Studio: 23 May 2026 | 1-4pm
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.
