Future Artists in Residence
Tsuyu Bridwell
8 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2026
Born in Tokyo, growing up in France, Tsuyu Bridwell draws on ancestral beliefs and rituals, exploring both the strength and fragility of life while subtly questioning the superstitions that surround them.
Working across a range of media, she incorporates traditional crafts from her cultural heritage—Japan, Korea, and France—to create installations and sculptural works that engage with themes of collective memory and the representation of nature.
She lives and works in Paris, France.
Tsuyu Bridwell, Sentôchô, Hanji (korean mulberry fiber paper), nylon thread, diameter 27.5 in, length 197 in
Tsuyu Bridwell, Réseau, Collaboration work commissioned by Mobilier National with Alençon lacemakers, Alençon lace, cherry wood, acrylic box, 35.5 × 19.5 × 19.5 in
Tsuyu Bridwell, Pagoda XIX, Acrylic cubes, pink quartz, celestine, 4 cu in and 3 cu in
Natsuki Takauji
8 Oct. – 5 Nov. 2026
Natsuki Takauji is a Japanese native visual artist based in New York City. Her work centers on themes of memory, identity, sexuality, trauma, and catharsis through both personal expression and community engagement. Her interdisciplinary practice ranges from mixed-media, metal sculpture, and multimedia to socially engaged practice, sustainable art, and public sculpture.
She has exhibited internationally, and mainly in New York: recently at Materials for the Arts, KAPOW, Japan Society New York, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kameyama Triennale in Japan, Oeno Gallery in Canada, and more. She teaches metal sculpture and mixed media, and leads the public sculpture program, Works in Public at The Art Students League of New York. She also co-founded The Artist Gardener NYC to activate local community gardens through art exhibits.
She received fellowships and residencies from Nespresso USA, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Materials for the Arts, AnkhLave Arts Alliance, Artport, Works in Public (originally known as Model the Monument). She received grants from Queens Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, The Art Students League of New York, and more.
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The Art Students League of New York was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who hoped to escape the Academy by founding a member-run art school designed for and run by independent artists. For nearly 150 years, the Art Students League of New York has been a haven for countless artists, who use the freedom it affords them to explore diverse artistic practices, methodologies, and mediums while developing a mastery of traditional techniques.
Hiroko Kubo
8 Nov. – 6 Dec. 2026
Born in Hiroshima in 1987. Lives and works in Chiba, Japan. She graduated from Hiroshima City University and completed her MFA in Sculpture at Texas Christian University.
Drawing on research into theories of prehistoric art, folk and indigenous art, and cultural anthropology, Kubo creates sculptural works using industrial materials such as wire mesh, agricultural sheets, and windbreak nets. Her practice explores themes such as the threat of nature, cycles of destruction and regeneration of relics, and representations of marginalized women. Through her work, Kubo invites contemporary reconsideration of the beauty embodied in idols shaped by myth and prayer, and in utilitarian objects rooted in daily life.
In 2025, she participated in the Casa Wabi residency in Mexico. She received the Hiroshima Newcomer Award for Culture in 2022, and the Grand Prize in the Rokko Meets Art Competition in 2017. Her large-scale works are included in the collections of KAMU Kanazawa (Ishikawa), the Osaka-based Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, and IZAK Corporation (Toyama), among others. Since 2017, she has been managing the Alternative Space CORE in Hiroshima.
Hiroko Kubo, Three Yellow Sphinxes, 2024, Steel and plastic nets, 78 3/4 × 125 × 39 3/8 in; 116 1/2 × 114 1/8 × 35 1/2 in; 114 1/8 × 88 1/4 × 35 1/2 in
Hiroko Kubo, The Lion with Four Blue Hands, 2025, Plastic tarp and aluminum rivet, 708 3/4 × 425 1/4 in
Hiroko Kubo, Gentle Hand, 2018, Steel and plastic tarp, 153 1/2 × 113 3/4 × 59 in
Hiroko Kubo, Statue of Hainuwele, 2020, Steel, plastic mesh, and mud, 78 3/4 × 708 5/8 × 354 3/8 in
Alejandro Valencia
8 Nov. – 6 Dec. 2026
Alejandro Valencia (b. Pereira, Colombia) is an artist working between New York, Miami, and Manizales, Colombia. His practice engages with notions of historicity, exploring the forces that disturb, reconfigure, and transform it, often manifesting in site-responsive installations that incorporate found materials, archives, sound, images, stories, and myths from a specific place.
Valencia earned his BFA from New World School of the Arts in Miami (2017) and his MFA from Columbia University (2026). He pursued advanced research in Colombia, completing studies in Historical Memory at the Universidad de Antioquia (2020) and in Political Aesthetics at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (2021). His work has been exhibited at CAC Passerelle, Brest, France (2026); The Re Institute, New York (2026); Wallach Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York (2025); Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2023); Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Miami (2023); Nueveochenta, Bogotá, Colombia (2023); Museo de Arte Pereira, Colombia (2023); ARTBO/Artecamara, Bogotá, Colombia (2022); Alliance Française, Pereira, Colombia (2023); Centro de Museos, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia (2021); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2018); Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami (2017); Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami (2017); Boca Raton Museum of Art (2013); among others.
He was nominated for the Sara Modiano Contemporary Artist Award (2022), and the Harpo Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017), and is a recipient of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation Fellowship (2024-26), the Miami Individual Artist (MIA) Grant (2023), and the Frances Wolfson Fellowship (2012). His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte de Pereira. Valencia is the co-founder of colectivo, an artist collective with bases in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, dedicated to exploring DIY culture in the Global South, and of NOMUSEO, a curatorial research initiative based in Manizales, Colombia.
Alejandro Valencia, The Other, 2026, Razor wire, steel, found bone, found necklace, printed matter, and found pumice rock, 70 x 120 x 10 in
Alejandro Valencia, GSH02 (Revo), 2026, Graphite on wood, aluminum, and trumpet fragments, 14 x 10 x 12 in
Alejandro Valencia, GSH03 (Revo), 2026, Graphite on wood, radio fragments, clarinet fragments, paper, and aluminum, 17 x 19 x 12 in
Alejandro Valencia, An Elsewhere (between a Here, and a There), 2025, Wood platform, two-channel video (15 min), cactus, sand from two beaches, road sign, vinyl sleeve and record, barbed wire, log, driftwood, basket, car rim, rusted paint can lid, Pueblo pottery shard, printed matter, flowers, rocks, 25-cent coin, clay, soil from Columbia University, soil from Colombia, interred US flag, plant, steel spikes, plexiglass, water, and time. Dimensions variable
Alejandro Valencia, DYNAMO (RaTM001), 2026, Graphite on reclaimed wood, aluminum, selection of banned books, soil, vinyl sleeves, records, fragments of wind instruments, pencils, clay, microphones, stones, drum heads, printed matter, found steel, extension chords, antenna, found radio components, copper, fragment of a sidewalk, sounds of protests, and speakers, 52 x 156 x 56 in