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About the Curatorial Fellow: 

Christine Yi-Ting Chen is an Australian-born, New York-based curator, art historian, and writer whose work centers on diasporic aesthetics, transnational narratives, and the visual histories of communities often absent from official archives. Rooted in deep, interdisciplinary research, her practice embraces community-rooted, cross-cultural approaches that challenge systems of erasure, attending to migration, memory, and racial identity. She is drawn to what gets expressed beyond the written record, across forms as varied as painting, performance, photography, craft, and everyday cultural practices. Many of the histories she studies survive not in writing but through images, objects, gestures, and acts of remembrance, held with care and passed between generations of people and communities. She views exhibitions as a way of bringing these traces into dialogue, allowing overlooked narratives to endure on their own terms. Christine holds an MA from Columbia University and a combined BA/LLB from the University of New South Wales.

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About the Artists: 

Andrew Samuel Harrison is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and writer from Richmond, Virginia. He received his MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2025 and his BA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Harrison’s recent exhibitions and projects include presentations at the Brooklyn Public Library, NYU’s Clive Davis Gallery, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 25 East Gallery, CultureHub, Eden Airlines, and 1708 Gallery. He has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NARS Foundation, and Sculpture Space. He co-founded 959D, an independent exhibition space in Richmond, Virginia supporting emerging artists and experimental practices. 

Sharon Kagan is a performance artist creating containers for intimate conversations in temporary civic spaces. Performance leads to sculpture, video and installation. She makes community interaction a method in her practice rather than a theme. Her work comes out of the ancient tantric philosophy of weaving together the possibility for integration, not “either/or,” rather “and.” She received the Puffin Foundation Grant, CCI Quick Grant, NARS Foundation International Residency, and VSC Residency in 2026, and the WORD Artist Grant in 2021. Her 2026 exhibitions and performances include "Bearing Witness" (solo) with a durational performance "Leaping, Together" at MOAH, Lancaster; "What Remains: Memory, Ritual, Trace" (three-person) at LAVC; "Unraveling" (solo) at Outside In Theater; a continuation of the ongoing project "Leaping, Together" at Vermont Studio Center and on Governor’s Island, NY (upcoming). Kagan performed "…and then this happened…" for LACE at LADP (2025). Previous solo exhibitions include "Compassion in Action," Alfred University, NY (2022); "The Politics of Color," Show Gallery, Hollywood, CA (2020); and "String Theory," College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID (2020-2021) and Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT (2019). Kagan is based in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA from Otis Art Institute and her BFA from UCLA.

Eun Yong Lee is an interdisciplinary artist born in South Korea and based in New York, working across sculpture, furniture, performance, and other media. His practice often begins with close observations of spaces and narratives, using them as a foundation for constructing stories and exploring new modes of storytelling. By weaving together things that fall short of understanding or fulfilling their purposes, he seeks to open what is closed, make it uncertain, conceal it, lie about it, and transform it.

Jean Paul Mallozzi-Diaz is a contemporary visual artist based in Miami, Florida, whose work focuses on the intersection of memory, intimacy, and the human condition. His practice is deeply rooted in his experiences as a first-generation gay Latin-American. He was one of 15 artists in South Florida to receive the Cultural Consortium Grant, an alliance of the arts councils of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties that grants visual and media artists $15,000, as well as having one of his pieces acquired by the city of Miami's public art collection. In (2025),  his work was included in the Don't Look Now exhibit curated by Barbara Pollack in NYC which included other notable artists such as Marilyn Minter, Shepard Fairey, and Dread Scott. That same year, he was blind juried into New American Paintings by Alexis Assam Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in (2022) by Amanda Morgan, the Assistant Curator, Exhibitions and Publications, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

Lara Marino is a visual artist whose practice unfolds through painting and drawing. Working primarily with oil, sometimes combined with organic materials such as blood, she explores the relationship between the female body and its environment through themes of hunger, desire, control and transformation. Rooted in an ecofeminist perspective, her paintings construct unstable figures caught between appearance and dissolution, where the body becomes a site of erosion, accumulation and continual change.

Sophia Oppel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Toronto, Canada. Oppel's art practice deploys transparent substrates —glass, mirror and the screen— as a framework to consider the paradoxes of legibility under surveillance capitalism. Currently, Oppel is interested in addressing both the complicity with, and refusal of, biometric capture on a bodily scale by misusing operational imaging technologies. Oppel’s doctoral research takes a feminist approach to surveillance studies and examines data extraction technologies as sites of biopolitical control through a research-creation framework. Central to this research is a close examination of technologies which dataify and (re)image the body, including biometric and photogrammetric technologies and 3D scanning and rendering technologies, which increasingly export the content of our collective cultural imaginary. Oppel is currently a SSHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Toronto and a Sessional Instructor at OCAD University's Fine Art Department. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally, including exhibitions with CAFKA Biennial (Kitchener), Ed Video (Guelph), Blouin/Division (Toronto), InterAccess Gallery (Toronto), Queen Specific (Toronto), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Bunker 2 (Toronto), Forest City Gallery (London, Ontario), The Plumb (Toronto) and Xpace Cultural Center (Toronto), Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm, Sweden), and site-specific projects in Tokyo, Japan and Istanbul, Turkey.

Peyton Peyton is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, textiles, and performance. She received a BFA from the University of Georgia, Athens, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Her work has been supported through residencies and fellowships including Stoveworks, Vermont Studio Center, iPark, Old School Arthouse, and the Studios at MASS MoCA residency. She has presented lectures and led workshops at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and the University of New Haven. Peyton has furthered her material studies at Penland School of Craft. Alongside her studio practice, she teaches science and nature classes for young children. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Ping Wang is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Working across ceramics, sculpture, painting and digital media, her practice explores migration, womanhood and intergenerational alienation. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including National Arts Club (NY), Powerhouse Arts(NY), Gold Coast Art Center(NY), and SVA Gallery(NY), as well as the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery(Beijing). She participated in the Pioneer Works residency (2025), the National Arts Club Artist Fellowship (2025–2026) and the DeCA x Dusty&Co residency (2025-2026) and NARS Foundation residency (2026).

Wen Ching Hao (b. 1994, Taipei, Taiwan) is an installation artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the relationship between reality and fiction through installation, moving image, photography, and research-based practice. His work examines how images, narratives, and acts of viewing shape our understanding of memory, history, time, and absence. Drawing from archival research, documentary methods, and fieldwork, Wen often collaborates with local communities to investigate overlooked social conditions and the ways personal experiences intersect with broader political and historical contexts. His recent projects focus on labor, migration, conflict, and everyday life, transforming interviews, collected objects, photographs, and sound into immersive installations that question the construction of truth and collective memory.

Anna Antonia Yiaxi Savvidou is a visual artist born in Nicosia, Cyprus. Yiaxi Savvidou obtained her MFA in Sculpture/ Dimensional Studies from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2025. Before moving to the United States, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Fine Arts School of Athens. Yiaxi Savvidou has participated in numerous artist residencies across the United States and Europe. Recent and upcoming residencies and fellowships include the Wheaton Arts Fellowship, the Open Studio Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the International Residency at NARS Foundation, the RIT Studio Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship. 

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