Future Artists in Residence
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
Ari makes work for and about the human body. Their projects often incorporate still and moving imagery alongside performance, drawing from their diverse background in graphic and industrial design, education, and dance. Using sense theory (their favorite is touch), speculation, ethnographic frameworks, and a process-based approach, they seek to invigorate the imagination of their audience and spark new methods for moving through the world. Often dealing in subject matter related to human health and our relationship with nature, their goal is to contribute to a more holistically considered future.
Ari has done a lot of things across different fields and views this all as an ethnographic study on communicating with and for the human. They have participated in the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (2017), the Chulitna Lodge Artist Residency (2024), and has shown both art and design work globally from New York to Bangkok. They have given academic presentations on participatory critique methods and somatic methods for design at Columbia University (2021) and the Industrial Design Society of America International Conference (2017). They frequently host their own participatory workshops, most recently Sculpting’ Smell: Sense Memory & Shared Cognition at Supr Omen in Brooklyn, in addition to Being in Touch: The Absurdity of Having a Body — Touch Tools on Governor’s Island with Flux Factory and The Emotional Support Rock Field Trip in Beacon, NY. They have worked in the photo and design world as an Art Director at Nike and now runs their own art & design studio. They previously taught classes about the body in the Product & Industrial Design Program at Parsons School of Design and are now an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute.
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
A.L. Steiner (b. 1967, Miami, FL) utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne. Steiner is co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and a serial collaborator. Based in New York, she is faculty at Yale University’s School of Art and her works are featured in permanent collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brandhorst Collection, Centre Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art | Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Julia Stoschek Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Steiner is recipient of the Art Matters Grant, American Academy in Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and Yale University’s Presidential Fellowship in Visual Arts. Her work is represented by Deborah Schamoni and recent publications include Textdemic (GenderFail Press) and Ridykeulous Presents (MIT Press).
Yale School of Arts
William Lamson
23 Jul. – 23 Aug. 2026
Photo by Matthew Spiegelman
William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose diverse practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions. Set in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. In all of his projects, Lamson’s work represents a performative gesture, a collaboration with forces outside of his control to explore systems of knowledge and belief. Lamson’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including the Brooklyn Musuem, The Moscow Biennial, P.S.1. MOMA, Kunsthalle Erfurt, the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Denver, and Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. In addition he has produced site specific installations for the Indianapolis Musuem of Art, the Center For Land Use Interpretation, and Storm King Art Center. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Musuem of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a number of private collections. He has been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation, the Experimental Television Center, and is a Guggenheim Fellow. His work has appeared in ArtForum, Frieze, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, Harpers, and the Village Voice. William Lamson was born Arlington, Virginia and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his MFA from Bard College, and he teaches in the Parsons MFA photography program and at the School of Visual Arts.
William Lamson, In the Roaring Garden, 2014, Digital C Print, 24 x 40 in
William Lamson, Badwater, 2018, Peristaltic Pumps, timers, hose, aluminum piping, aluminum trays, copper tray’s, speed rail fixtures, Glass, foam, resin, fans, dehumidifier, Variac, acrylic, sodium chloride, magnesium sulphate, Lemons, fluorescent lights, hot plate, earth from dry lake Harper, water, 84 x 84 x 228 in. Photo from Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018
William Lamson, Water Offering, 2021-2025, Granite, Sculpture 1: 207 × 68 × 36 in, Sculpture 2: 106 × 114 × 396 in. Public Art Installation (Renderings) commissioned for the Queens Botanical Garden by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
William Lamson, Subterra, 2019, Cement, earth, scaffolding, pumps, timers, hose, aluminum trays, 144 × 110 × 360 in. Commissioned by the Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens NY, 2019.
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
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