Thursday, October 17, 6:30 PM

A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth Street)

Please join us on Thursday, October 17 at 6:30pm for the 2024–2025 A.I.R. Fellowship Welcome Event. This year’s fellows are Quinci Baker, Ohan Breiding, Caroline Garcia, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Stephanie M. Santana, and Lu Yim.

The fellows will give short presentations about their work, followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by critic Wendy Vogel. Light refreshments will be provided.

To learn more about this year’s fellows, click here.

This event is free.

Space is limited. To RSVP, please click here.

Wendy Vogel is a writer and art critic based in New York. Her work often focuses on issues related to gender, power, identification and body autonomy. She has contributed to many publications about art and culture, including Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, Bookforum, e-flux criticism, Flash Art, frieze, MOUSSE, and The New York Times, as well as artist books and catalogues. In 2018, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing. She is a part-time assistant professor in the photography department at Parsons School of Design.

Quinci Baker is a mixed-media artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her works combine various craft and repurposed materials in an exploration of collective memory, loss, and imagination. Baker’s practice is heavily influenced by the languages that develop through the shared experiences of marginalized people and the mnemonics that illuminate a cultural identity. Baker earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art. Baker participated in the Shandaken: Storm King Residency in 2022 and the SOMA Summer Residency in San Rafael, Mexico in 2021. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist living in New York City (Lenape lands). They have presented their work at museums, galleries, and film festivals including ICA LA, Photo LA, the Armory Center for the Arts, LAMAG, LAXART, Human Resources, Oakland Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Haus N Athens, Sharjah Art Museum, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, New Museum, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and at FRAC des Pays de la Loire. Breiding is a 2024 Triangle Resident, a 2021 TBA (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) Academy Ocean Space Fellow, a 2019 Millay Colony Resident, and a 2018 Shandaken: Storm King Resident.

Caroline Garcia is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working across performance, moving image, and installation through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural movement, embodied research, and new media. Garcia is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow: Digital/Electronic Arts, a 2021 New York Artadia Awardee; and a 2021–22 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient. She has presented work at venues including The Shed, Lincoln Center, EFA, Smack Mellon, CreativeTime Summit X & HQ, The Vera List Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Opera House, Manila Biennale, Art Central Hong Kong, and Galerie Tanja Wagner, among others. 

María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez was born in Holguin, Cuba, in 1992, received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015, and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2020. Rodríguez Jiménez has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture (2016), SOMA Summer (2019), and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (2023). Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, the Frost Art Museum, and The Alabama Contemporary Art Center, among others. She currently lives and works in Queens, New York.

Stephanie M. Santana (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) constructs mixed media textile works and print editions that explore interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies of Black diasporic origins. Recent exhibitions include A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking at Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2021), The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022) and The Meeting Point at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2024). Santana is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts.

Lu Yim is an artist who works in experimental performance to situate pain and sensation within a queer and contemporary conversation. Their work has been presented at ICA London, Pageant (NY), Center for Performance Research (NY), and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. They were a 2023 Queer | Art Fellow working with mentor Julie Tolentino. Yim also co-organizes with Physical Education. They were a 2019 Fellow at UCross Foundation (WY) and 2020–2021 AIR at Center for Performance Research (NYC). Yim holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery School of Art / Bard College (2019).