Artists

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Current Interlude Artists

Bernadette Despujols Bernadette Despujols is a Venezuelan artist whose psychologically charged paintings blur boundaries between memory, architecture, and the body. Her work is held in the collections of AMOCA Wales, the Baltimore Museum of Art, ICA — Bernadette Despujols
Bernadette Despujols is a Venezuelan artist whose psychologically charged paintings blur boundaries between memory, architecture, and the body. Her work is held in the collections of AMOCA Wales, the Baltimore Museum of Art, ICA Miami, El Espacio 23, Marquez Art Projects, Berkeley Art Museum, and Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Leticia Sánchez Toledo Leticia Sánchez is a Cuban-born artist whose figurative paintings explore intimacy, memory, and the psychological dimensions of everyday life. Her work has been exhibited and acquired by the Coral Gables Museum, MoCAA, and the — Leticia Sánchez Toledo
Leticia Sánchez is a Cuban-born artist whose figurative paintings explore intimacy, memory, and the psychological dimensions of everyday life. Her work has been exhibited and acquired by the Coral Gables Museum, MoCAA, and the Jorge Pérez Collection. Based in Miami, Sánchez has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundations.

Aaron Chung Aaron Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose installations and paintings on hanji explore ancestral forms and collective memory. Through a Korean diasporic lens, his work layers traditional craft techniques with contemporary mark-makin — Aaron Chung
Aaron Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose installations and paintings on hanji explore ancestral forms and collective memory. Through a Korean diasporic lens, his work layers traditional craft techniques with contemporary mark-making, creating visual narratives that explore familiarity and distance. He lives in Queens, New York, with his family.

Priya Suresh Kambli Born 1975 in Mumbai, Kambli holds a BFA from Lafayette and MFA from Houston. She reworks her family archive to explore migration and feminist practice. A 2025 Howard Foundation Fellow, Leica Women Foto Project winner, and MacDowel — Priya Suresh Kambli
Born 1975 in Mumbai, Kambli holds a BFA from Lafayette and MFA from Houston. She reworks her family archive to explore migration and feminist practice. A 2025 Howard Foundation Fellow, Leica Women Foto Project winner, and MacDowell Fellow, her work is exhibited at Nelson Atkins and MCA Arlington, and collected by Duke and MFA Houston.

Matthew Logsdon Matthew Logsdon is an artist and curator working at the intersection of textiles, painting, and sculpture. His meditative works explore how knowledge is formed through physical action, touch, and endurance. He is the founder of Field — Matthew Logsdon
Matthew Logsdon is an artist and curator working at the intersection of textiles, painting, and sculpture. His meditative works explore how knowledge is formed through physical action, touch, and endurance. He is the founder of Field of Play, a nonprofit gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Ezra Tessler Ezra Tessler is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His recent work uses abstract painting, paper pulp, and collage to explore pattern and shape and the difficulty of knowing what’s right and wrong in a messy world. He is originally from Ph — Ezra Tessler
Ezra Tessler is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His recent work uses abstract painting, paper pulp, and collage to explore pattern and shape and the difficulty of knowing what’s right and wrong in a messy world. He is originally from Philadelphia, PA.

Kyle Downs Kyle is an artist living and working in Bowdoinham Maine. His work often focuses on the manipulation of existing objects or the physical occupation of a space. Downs’ work has been included in exhibitions nationally including: Socrates Scu — Kyle Downs
Kyle is an artist living and working in Bowdoinham Maine. His work often focuses on the manipulation of existing objects or the physical occupation of a space. Downs’ work has been included in exhibitions nationally including: Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Cultural Arts Center (OH), and the Center For Maine Contemporary Art (ME).

Melissa Oresky Melissa Oresky’s painting and collage-based work explores a deeply felt regard for plants as perceptive and expressive beings. Through observation, study of plant knowledges, and material experimentation, she considers how vegetal life — Melissa Oresky
Melissa Oresky’s painting and collage-based work explores a deeply felt regard for plants as perceptive and expressive beings. Through observation, study of plant knowledges, and material experimentation, she considers how vegetal life might be encountered not only as subject matter, but as a model for thinking, making, and being.

Rachel Grobstein Rachel Grobstein is a painter and sculptor based in Philadelphia. She employs a radical scale shift and handmade detail to invite close scrutiny of often overlooked parts of everyday life. Her work investigates artifacts, souvenirs, — Rachel Grobstein
Rachel Grobstein is a painter and sculptor based in Philadelphia. She employs a radical scale shift and handmade detail to invite close scrutiny of often overlooked parts of everyday life. Her work investigates artifacts, souvenirs, and collections of objects, particularly those found in liminal and transitional spaces.

Kelly Kristin Jones Kelly Kristin Jones is a Chicago-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice examines photography's role in shaping histories of power, memory, and place. Through acts of erasure, abrasion, and reconstruction, she transforms ph — Kelly Kristin Jones
Kelly Kristin Jones is a Chicago-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice examines photography's role in shaping histories of power, memory, and place. Through acts of erasure, abrasion, and reconstruction, she transforms photographic surfaces to question the narratives images preserve and the histories they help construct.

Masha Vlasova Masha Vlasova is an award-winning experimental and non-fiction filmmaker based in Atlanta, GA. Vlasova attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), she holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2026) and a BFA from Cooper Uni — Masha Vlasova
Masha Vlasova is an award-winning experimental and non-fiction filmmaker based in Atlanta, GA. Vlasova attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), she holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2026) and a BFA from Cooper Union (2012). She's a Fulbright Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow.

Aristotle Forrester Aristotle Forrester is a New York City painter and printmaker focusing on the gestural congruencies between figure and landscape, combining diasporic symbols and processes to expand the definition of abstraction, challenging the W — Aristotle Forrester
Aristotle Forrester is a New York City painter and printmaker focusing on the gestural congruencies between figure and landscape, combining diasporic symbols and processes to expand the definition of abstraction, challenging the Western pedagogy of art. Forrester holds a MFA from Columbia University and was a 2025 Silver Arts resident.

Kate Stone Kate Stone works across installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. Finding inspiration in domestic architecture, geologic processes, mythology and human anatomy, her work explores how the states of our minds and bodies are reflected i — Kate Stone
Kate Stone works across installation, sculpture, drawing and animation. Finding inspiration in domestic architecture, geologic processes, mythology and human anatomy, her work explores how the states of our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy. Recent exhibitions include Turley Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary and Practice Gallery.

Voyo Woo Voyo Woo is a Chinese American multidisciplinary artist based in New Jersey. Woo’s work spans paper cutting, installation, biofeedback technology, sound, and participatory ritual. Her work has been presented at the Montclair Art Museum, Katz — Voyo Woo
Voyo Woo is a Chinese American multidisciplinary artist based in New Jersey. Woo’s work spans paper cutting, installation, biofeedback technology, sound, and participatory ritual. Her work has been presented at the Montclair Art Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Shanghai Fengxian Museum, White House Visitor Center, and New York Live Arts.

Naomi Safran-Hon Naomi Safran-Hon’s paintings combine cement, lace, acrylic paint and photographs of her hometown, Haifa Israel/Palestine. Her work investigates themes of home, displacement and identity. She lives in Brooklyn NY, with her daughter Am — Naomi Safran-Hon
Naomi Safran-Hon’s paintings combine cement, lace, acrylic paint and photographs of her hometown, Haifa Israel/Palestine. Her work investigates themes of home, displacement and identity. She lives in Brooklyn NY, with her daughter Amal. Safran-Hon is a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow and earned her MFA from Yale University.

Mary Laube Mary Laube's work questions how objects accrue meaning within postcolonial contexts. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she lives and works. — Mary Laube
Mary Laube's work questions how objects accrue meaning within postcolonial contexts. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she lives and works.

Jae Hi Ahn Jae Hi Ahn is a Korean-born, New York–based artist whose practice explores community well-being through installation and sculpture. Ahn examines the relationship between her Korean cultural background and the community's natural and multic — Jae Hi Ahn
Jae Hi Ahn is a Korean-born, New York–based artist whose practice explores community well-being through installation and sculpture. Ahn examines the relationship between her Korean cultural background and the community's natural and multicultural surroundings, reimagining cultural objects, memories, and nature to raise awareness of social inequity, sustainability, and hope.

Sharon Chohi Kim Sharon Chohi Kim is a Los Angeles–based performing artist and composer creating site-responsive multidisciplinary works through voice, movement, and installation. Exploring collectivity, ecological interdependence, and human and nonh — Sharon Chohi Kim
Sharon Chohi Kim is a Los Angeles–based performing artist and composer creating site-responsive multidisciplinary works through voice, movement, and installation. Exploring collectivity, ecological interdependence, and human and nonhuman communication, her work has been presented by MOCA, REDCAT, LA Phil Insight, and The Ford. She is a 2026 Creative Capital Award recipient.

Nick McPhail Nick McPhail is a Los Angeles based artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation. He is known for his vivid landscape paintings, inventive experiments with perspective, and explorations of light, space a — Nick McPhail
Nick McPhail is a Los Angeles based artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation. He is known for his vivid landscape paintings, inventive experiments with perspective, and explorations of light, space and color that utilize multiple mediums. His work has been exhibited internationally, including recent solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Dana Hemenway Dana Hemenway is an artist and educator based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects, making visible what is habituated in our built environments. Dana is a 2024 Eureka Fellow, Fleish — Dana Hemenway
Dana Hemenway is an artist and educator based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects, making visible what is habituated in our built environments. Dana is a 2024 Eureka Fellow, Fleishhacker Foundation and the recipient of grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and Southern Exposure. She has a public art commission at SFO’s Terminal 1.

Christina Forrer Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and based in Los Angeles, Forrer makes tapestries that are psychologically charged, but often by means of energetic interaction dynamics suspended in a fraught narrative. They bring traditional Swiss tex — Christina Forrer
Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and based in Los Angeles, Forrer makes tapestries that are psychologically charged, but often by means of energetic interaction dynamics suspended in a fraught narrative. They bring traditional Swiss textiles into a thoroughly contemporary comic context, inside jokes looming large in her brightly colored woven surfaces.

Maddie McNeely Maddie McNeely is a visual artist based in Québec’s Eastern Townships, originally from Toronto, Canada. Her sculptural practice applies a material language to explorations of the body in relation to objects and constructed environments — Maddie McNeely
Maddie McNeely is a visual artist based in Québec’s Eastern Townships, originally from Toronto, Canada. Her sculptural practice applies a material language to explorations of the body in relation to objects and constructed environments, revealing embedded systems, codes and desires.

Alina Grasmann Alina Grasmann is a realist painter whose large-scale, site-specific works blur fact and fiction. Rooted in architecture and historically charged places, her paintings transform real locations into spaces where memory, perception, and — Alina Grasmann
Alina Grasmann is a realist painter whose large-scale, site-specific works blur fact and fiction. Rooted in architecture and historically charged places, her paintings transform real locations into spaces where memory, perception, and imagination converge, inviting viewers to enter narratives that remain open to interpretation.

Nicole Wilson Nicole Wilson is a research-based conceptual artist living in Queens, NY. She makes long, tedious, and process-driven projects that excavate the everyday through a feminist lens. Working interdisciplinarily and in relation to institutio — Nicole Wilson
Nicole Wilson is a research-based conceptual artist living in Queens, NY. She makes long, tedious, and process-driven projects that excavate the everyday through a feminist lens. Working interdisciplinarily and in relation to institutional structures, Wilson is known for sending the President of the United States a letter every day for the past 17 years.

Rachel Dana Rachel Dana is a Brooklyn-based textile artist working across natural dyeing, spinning, weaving, and beading to trace how species migrate, adapt, and remake one another over time. Her work draws on landrace sheep breeds, invasive plants, — Rachel Dana
Rachel Dana is a Brooklyn-based textile artist working across natural dyeing, spinning, weaving, and beading to trace how species migrate, adapt, and remake one another over time. Her work draws on landrace sheep breeds, invasive plants, and seed dispersal, using fiber as a site where interspecies histories converge.

Sophie Larrimore Larrimore uses traditional genre subjects - poodle, nude, landscape - as formal parameters to make works which engage in dialogue with the history of painting and image making. She is interested in how the visual pursuit is at once u — Sophie Larrimore
Larrimore uses traditional genre subjects - poodle, nude, landscape - as formal parameters to make works which engage in dialogue with the history of painting and image making. She is interested in how the visual pursuit is at once unique and universal.

Jordan Buschur Jordan Buschur is an artist, educator, and curator based in Ohio. Her paintings blend references to DIY pathways like Riot Grrrl with her Mennonite heritage as a method to dismantle gendered hierarchies. She is a recipient of the Ohio — Jordan Buschur
Jordan Buschur is an artist, educator, and curator based in Ohio. Her paintings blend references to DIY pathways like Riot Grrrl with her Mennonite heritage as a method to dismantle gendered hierarchies. She is a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a recent Community Digital Artist in Residence at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Elaine Elledge Elaine Elledge is a printmaker and installation artist who embraces the quiet power of fragility, imperfection, and impermanence. She uses domestic practices and products to construct layered installations and paper-based quilts. Elled — Elaine Elledge
Elaine Elledge is a printmaker and installation artist who embraces the quiet power of fragility, imperfection, and impermanence. She uses domestic practices and products to construct layered installations and paper-based quilts. Elledge lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

K’era Morgan K’era Morgan is a Los Angeles-based mixed media artist whose expressive abstract paintings explore the relationship between inner experience and the natural world. With a background in textile design, she builds layered compositions cons — K’era Morgan
K’era Morgan is a Los Angeles-based mixed media artist whose expressive abstract paintings explore the relationship between inner experience and the natural world. With a background in textile design, she builds layered compositions consisting of bold color and rhythmic, energetic marks that evoke organic patterns, atmospheric forces, and emotional states.

Azadeh Nia Azadeh Nia is an Iranian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice explores the relationship between nature, ruins, and symbolic forms, examining themes of time, memory, resilience, and transformation through imagined landscapes tha — Azadeh Nia
Azadeh Nia is an Iranian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice explores the relationship between nature, ruins, and symbolic forms, examining themes of time, memory, resilience, and transformation through imagined landscapes that bring together elements of the natural and built world.

Claudia Cortínez Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine-American artist based in New York working across photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work explores architecture, landscape, and material memory through site-responsive processes. She — Claudia Cortínez
Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine-American artist based in New York working across photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work explores architecture, landscape, and material memory through site-responsive processes. She has been supported by fellowships including Silver Art Projects, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, LES Printshop, Manhattan Graphic Center, among others. Upcoming projects include NYLAAT and Baxter St Camera Club residencies.

Katarina Riesing Katarina Riesing is an artist based in Arizona. She uses dye and embroidery on silk to depict zoomed-in bodies. Her self portraits are cropped and adorned with pattern and texture to emphasize the strange topographies of the female f — Katarina Riesing
Katarina Riesing is an artist based in Arizona. She uses dye and embroidery on silk to depict zoomed-in bodies. Her self portraits are cropped and adorned with pattern and texture to emphasize the strange topographies of the female figure.

Kim Faler Kim Faler uses materials to explore how the body holds memories and how our sense of trust changes over time. She received a Fulbright Scholarship (Brazil) and the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and she attended residencies at Parts & Labor, Kohl — Kim Faler
Kim Faler uses materials to explore how the body holds memories and how our sense of trust changes over time. She received a Fulbright Scholarship (Brazil) and the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and she attended residencies at Parts & Labor, Kohler Arts/Industry, Artpace, Bemis, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Rose Nestler Rose Nestler lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Through sculpture and video, she presents traditionally femme signifiers, highlighting ideological power implicit in everyday objects. Often employing materials such as stone, leather, and wo — Rose Nestler
Rose Nestler lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Through sculpture and video, she presents traditionally femme signifiers, highlighting ideological power implicit in everyday objects. Often employing materials such as stone, leather, and wood her work gestures toward the seductive appeal of feminine objects and capitalist-minded consumer culture, while simultaneously subverting traditionally gendered narratives through a manipulation of scale, color, and materiality.

Alyssa Sakina Pheobus Alyssa Sakina Pheobus is an artist and educator based in Williamstown, MA. Her work braids together drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles with her research into artisanship, devotional practice and other frameworks of embo — Alyssa Sakina Pheobus
Alyssa Sakina Pheobus is an artist and educator based in Williamstown, MA. Her work braids together drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles with her research into artisanship, devotional practice and other frameworks of embodied knowledge.

Vanessa Woods Vanessa Woods is an SF Bay Area artist whose practice spans photography, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of identity, motherhood, and gender. Since earning her MFA at SFAI, Woods’ work has been exhibited across the United State — Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods is an SF Bay Area artist whose practice spans photography, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of identity, motherhood, and gender. Since earning her MFA at SFAI, Woods’ work has been exhibited across the United States and published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harper’s.

Caroline McAuliffe Caroline McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She blends life and art through costume and play to explore the identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its myths. Her work has appeared in group shows both nat — Caroline McAuliffe
Caroline McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She blends life and art through costume and play to explore the identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its myths. Her work has appeared in group shows both nationally and internationally. Caroline lives and creates in Brooklyn with her wife and kid.

Gabriela Salazar Gabriela Salazar creates sculptures, installations, and drawings exploring the human relationship to the structures we build and inhabit. Born in New York City to Puerto Rican architects, she examines this entanglement through specif — Gabriela Salazar
Gabriela Salazar creates sculptures, installations, and drawings exploring the human relationship to the structures we build and inhabit. Born in New York City to Puerto Rican architects, she examines this entanglement through specific materials and recognizable forms, questioning how the built environment shapes and reflects identity, memory, limits and possibility. She lives and works in NYC.

“Sharing our artistic practices with another family in residency, and bonding over challenges was incredibly fulfilling, adding a deeper, more personal layer to my stay, making it a joyous and memorable experience. Interlude’s delicious dinner gatherings brought together local artists and curators, creating an atmosphere of community. Another standout feature is the kid’s studio–a special space where my daughter could unleash her creativity without any constraints. Watching her enjoy her own art-making process added a joyful dimension to our stay.”

— Alva Mooses

Artist Grants

In 2024, Interlude initiated the Interlude Sustaining Grant. These are artists we cannot accommodate as finalists or residents but to whom we want to signal specific acknowledgement and support.

2026

Alicia Brown Pisarski
Alison Kudlow
Andrea Polli
Anne Muntges
Caitlin Teal Price
Corinne Botz
Cristina Velásquez
Dana James
Elizabeth Mooney
iele paloumpis
Joanna Kischka
Lisa Alonzo
Saskia Jorda
Shweta Bist

Former Interlude Artists

‍Abbey Williams
Aisha Tandiwe Bell
Alexander Nolan
Alina Tenser
Allison Reimus
Alva Mooses
Amanda Turner Pohan
Amy Hicks
Andrea Kastner
Andy Diaz Hope
Angel Nevarez
Angelina Gualdoni
Anida Yoeu Ali
Ann Haeyoung
Anna Schimkat
Annette Wehrhahn
Antonio McAfee
Arden Bendler Browning
Avital Burg
Beck Lowry
Beka Goedde
Bohyun Yoon
Boryana Rusenova-Ina
Branden Koch
Brandon Ng
Capucine Bourcart
Celeste Noche
Christine Garvey
Christopher Robert Jones
Colin Lyons
Commonstudio
Dana Prieto
Dawn Cerny
Elisa Lendvay
Erik Benson
Franchell Mack Brown
Gabriela Bettini
Gal Nissim
Georgia Elrod
Hanae Utamura
Hannah Rowan
Jackie Milad
Jason Carey-Sheppard
Jennifer Lauren Smith
Jenny Perlin
Joey Fauerso
Julia Schwadron Marianelli
Karen Dana Cohen
Kat Chamberlin
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
Katie Dorame
Kim Ye
Kristine Moran
Laurel Roth Hope
Lauren Luloff
Lauren Portada
Leigh Davis
Liza Sylvestre
Lucas Yasunaga
Madeline Donahue
Manami Ishimura
Maria Dumlao
Maria Veronica San Martin
Mary Simpson
Masahiro Sugano
Matthew Mann
Matthew Speedy
Matthew Suib
Mauricio Cortes Ortega
Melissa Cooke Benson
Michelle Rosenberg
Mira Burack
Nadia Hironaka
Natalia Nakazawa
Olivia Guterson
Rainy Lehrman
Rebecca Nava Soto
Reza Nik
Rose Marie Cromwell
Sara J. Winston
Sarah Sudhoff
Saul Chernick
Shanti Grumbine
Shoshana Dentz
Sophie Grant
Stacy Mehrfar
Stephanie Santana
Susan Metrican
Tamar Ettun
Tatiana Arocha
Todd Bienvenu
Valerie Tevere
Vanessa Diaz
Will Hutnick
Ying Zhu