Shannon Alonzo 

LARKIN DAWN FELLOWSHIP

Trinidad and Tobago

Shannon Alonzo is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of collective belonging, place attachment, and the significance of carnival ritual to the Caribbean consciousness. In 2025, she presented work at the Weltmuseum in Vienna and was invited to lead a series of workshops through the::sense::archive at Haverford College, Philadelphia. Other exhibitions include Prospect 6, New Orleans (2024), Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights at the Wellcome Collection, London (2024), Liverpool Biennial, U.K. (2023), and Documenta Fifteen, Germany (2022). In 2023, she was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Caribbean Cultural Institute of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Theresah Ankomah

Ghana

Theresah Ankomah is a multidisciplinary Ghanaian Artist, who lives and works between Accra, Dabala, and Kumasi. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture from the College of Art and Built Environment, from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

Ankomah’s socially engaged practice extends into sculpture, installations, weaving, textiles, and printmaking. Her work interrogates the politics of materiality, everyday objects, and women’s labor. This practice is rooted in Ghanaian communities and has a long association with domesticity and subsistence.

Ankomah is the 2025 winner of the Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize.

Nada Baraka

EVERY PAGE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

Egypt

Nada Baraka is an Egyptian painter who holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Visual Arts from the American University in Cairo. Her works have been exhibited in institutions across Cairo, London, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Paris, Lisbon, and Dubai. Selected solo and duo shows include: Across a Velvet Horizon, Tabari Art Space, Dubai (2025), Land of Sequels, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2021), and Cosmic Truths and Tales to be Told, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2018). In 2023, Baraka received the Anna Award from Latitudes Online, and the Apex Art grant for her group exhibition, Valley of Walls.

Marilyn Boror

LARKIN DAWN FELLOWSHIP

Guatemala

Marilyn Boror (San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, 1984) is an artist, curator, art professor, and Maya-Kaqchikel cultural practitioner. Her socially engaged practice explores Maya and Indigenous identity, historical memory, colonialism, and cultural resistance. She has participated in major international biennials such as the Aichi Triennale (2025), 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial (2025), 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023), and BienalSur (2022). Her work has been exhibited across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America. Boror has held residencies in Spain, Uruguay, Mexico, and Nicaragua, lectured internationally, and her work is included in major public collections.

Kamari Carter

U.S.

Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness and found objects. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey; Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, California, among others. He has also been featured in publications including but not limited to Artnet, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from Columbia University. Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Oletha DeVane

RUBYS FELLOWSHIP

U.S.

Oletha DeVane is a multidisciplinary artist whose ongoing artistic achievements continue to inspire. DeVane’s creative journey is a testament to resilience and the power of storytelling, honoring history and amplifying the voices of diverse communities. By blending African diasporic traditions with current social issues, she has been a guiding force as a mentor and educator, empowering generations of young people to discover and express their unique perspectives. Through impactful public monuments and exhibitions, DeVane shows how art can foster greater understanding and unite communities. Through her use of ordinary materials, her work relies on transformation and the possibilities of connecting the spiritual and physical worlds.

Camilo Guinot

AMERICAN DREAM FELLOWSHIP

Argentina

Camilo Guinot is an Argentine artist whose practice investigates the tension between human production and nature, focusing on the transformation of matter and the physical record of time. He received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2024) and held residencies at the Cervantes Institute Dakar (2025), SAE Foundation, Uruguay (2024), and Base Esperanza, Antarctica (2013). Through installation, sculpture, drawing, and video, Guinot articulates environmental elements with science and social systems. His visual narratives question the mechanisms of perception, revealing the world's complexity and the unprecedented possibilities of the everyday. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Jamie Ho

UNLIMIT ART FELLOWSHIP

U.S.

Jamie Ho is an artist and educator based in Tallahassee, Florida. She engages with photography, GIFs, new media, and installation to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references to ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work troubles the history of public spectacle and display of Asian American women, using performance and lighting studio to challenge societal expectations of gender performance and roles. She was awarded the 2026 Silver Eye Fellowship and attended residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, ACRE, and Vermont Studio Center. Her most recent solo exhibition, magic mirrors, was displayed at Art League Houston.

Tyson Houseman

Treaty Six Territory

Tyson Houseman is a nêhiyaw video artist, performer, and filmmaker from Paul First Nation. His practice focuses on Indigenous notions of non-linear time and the interwoven relations between humans and their ecologies. Houseman has exhibited at museums, screenings, and festivals worldwide, including ICA Boston, Musée d'art de Joliette, and The Shed. He is a 2025 Forge Project Fellow, a COUSIN Collective Fellow, and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Houseman has an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Irati Inoriza

EREMUAK FELLOWSHIP AT ART OMI

Basque Country

Irati Inoriza (Bilbao, 1992) is an artist and PhD researcher at the University of the Basque Country. Selected for the Generación 2024 prize at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and the 2024 Basque Artist Program at the Guggenheim; she also won the FBS Artistic Production Prize 2021 (Madrid) and the Casal Solleric Prize 2017 (Palma de Mallorca).

Her work questions inherited ways of acquiring identity through bodies, objects, and materials that stage everyday life and context.

Her work has been shown at Matadero Madrid (2023/24), RAUMMG16 (Cologne, 2022), Ateljéföreningen Hospitalet (Uppsala, 2022), La Capella (Barcelona, 2021), AZ-Alhóndiga (Bilbao), LOOP (Barcelona, 2020), ZSenne Lab (Brussels, 2019), and A-DASH Space (Athens, 2018).

Wonwoo Lee

HANWHA FELLOWSHIP

Korea

Wonwoo Lee is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on sculpting “situations” that invite viewers to re-experience everyday life. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, text, and image, Lee draws from personal memory, social phenomena, and imagined scenarios, often transforming them through irony and humor. While his works employ elements of black humor, slapstick, and banal jokes, these devices function as points of entry rather than ends in themselves, opening space for reflection on lived experience and human vulnerability. By altering or overturning given conditions, Lee creates immersive situations that are playful, yet not lighthearted, encouraging audiences to reconsider their lives and the underlying conditions of contemporary existence.

Owen Leong

ART OMI AUSTRALIA COMMITTEE FELLOWSHIP

Australia

Owen Leong is a visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, and video. His work explores counternarratives of queer world-making, using personal mythologies and kink aesthetics to examine power, control, and care to reframe and reimagine identities and intimacies. His work centers QTBIPOC pleasure as an act of political agency and healing. At the heart of Leong’s practice is a belief in the power of art to transform the way we see ourselves and others.

Justin Lim

Malaysia

Justin Lim (b. 1983, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) completed his postgraduate studies in 2006 with an MA (Fine Art) from The Open University U.K., conducted at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.

Lim’s paintings depict his personal observations of private living spaces. Post COVID-19, his works portray an emotional state of melancholic or nostalgic longing for a beloved, yet absent, something or someone. Drawing from familiar objects and surroundings from his hometown of Kuala Lumpur, his work is a recollection of feelings, experiences, and places that are often illusive and ambiguous.

Laura Nugent

CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

U.S.

Originally from Rhode Island, Laura Nugent studied at Studio Arts College International (Florence, Italy), New School for Social Research (New York) and earned her BFA in painting from MICA (Baltimore). She has served as president of the Kansas City Artists Coalition, a residency mentor for Charlotte Street Foundation, and Artist Inc. facilitator for the Interurban Art House (Overland Park, KS). Nugent’s work is in private and corporate collections including The Four Seasons Hotel (Chicago), Black and Veatch, Pinnacle Bank (Nashville), and Hallmark Inc. After living and working in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Nugent now maintains a workspace in Holsum Studios, located in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms. She organizes the annual Holsum Studios tour for more than thirty community artists. Her curatorial practice is @seedcrusherprojects, an invitational exhibition space for emerging and outsider artists.


Fadekemi Ogunsanya

Nigeria

Fadekemi Ogunsanya is a multidisciplinary Nigerian artist based in Lagos, working across textiles and painting. Trained as an architect, Ogunsanya is drawn to how structure and ornament shape emotion and memory. Her early paintings expand beyond the canvas through hand-painted, laser-cut wooden frames that became part of each composition. Over time, her practice has evolved to include textiles, most recently on display in a solo exhibition, A Miracle is a Reasonable Thing to Ask For, at Nina Johnson, Miami. These works weave together personal history and collective memory, exploring how material, craft, and storytelling can build contemporary forms of connection.

Manish Pushkale

FRANCIS J. GREENBURGER FELLOWSHIP FOR MITIGATING RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT

India

Manish Pushkale is an internationally acclaimed visual artist from India, recognized as a distinctive and influential voice from South Asia. His practice spans painting, drawing, installation, and concept-driven projects, grounded in sustained research and critical inquiry. Through rigorous engagement with material, form, and process, his work examines power, perception, memory, and the politics embedded in everyday life. Marked by formal precision, restraint, and philosophical depth, Pushkale’s work invites slow looking and intellectual reflection. His practice situates local experience within broader global conversations, contributing meaningfully to contemporary art discourse while maintaining a strong conceptual and material rootedness in India.

Charlie Quezada

Dominican Republic

Charlie Quezada’s work focuses on understanding collective identity through architectural memory. His work involves observing construction-site systems of vernacular housing in the peripheries of the Dominican Republic, developing color and form studies that suggest subtle physical and conceptual boundaries that demarcate the relationship with the territory. In paintings, installations, and sculptures, he uses industrial and natural materials found in studio locations that embody an inherent connection to the landscape and the consequences of a colonial history.

Quezada studied Fine Arts and Illustration at Chavón, completing a BFA at Parsons The New School. His work has been exhibited in numerous spaces throughout the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe. His work is held in collections such as the Alberto Cruz Foundation, the César and Mima Reyes Collection, and is part of the permanent collection of Casa Cortés Museum in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He currently lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 

Alida Rodrigues

Angola/U.K.

Alida Rodrigues is an Angolan visual artist. She has widely exhibited internationally, as well as participated in numerous artist residencies. Her practice weaves collage, textile, and installation using 19th century photographs and botanical illustrations from the same era.

She explores the racial dimensions of historical imagery, questioning whose stories are preserved and celebrated, and whose narratives remain obscured. She is interested in unravelling the historical threads of colonialism and the enduring echoes of this complex and problematic past— which still influences our way of life affecting various aspects of race, culture, politics, land, economics, and society across the globe.

Armando Rosales-Rivero

Venezuela/Mexico

Intuitively weaving sculpture, sound, kinetics, and textiles, Armando Rosales-Rivero (b. 1987, Cabimas, Venezuela) is a sculptor and experimental percussionist whose work moves across the intimate, institutional, and political. Through installation and object-based practice, he explores displacement, otherness, and adaptation as both political rhythm and mode of existence.

He trained in Design at the University of Zulia and has participated in SOMA (2016), the Art & Law Program at AAP Cornell (2019), and Skowhegan (2024). He has exhibited internationally and held residencies at Pioneer Works (2025), Bemis Center (2024), and Westwerk (2022). He lives and works in Mexico City.

Neli Ružić

ART OMI FELLOWSHIP FOR AN ARTIST LIVING AND WORKING IN CROATIA

Croatia

Neli Ružić is an artist whose work explores temporality and simultaneity, from subjective perception to historical and deep geological time. Her recent projects turn toward ideas of hope and community, through immaterial manifestations. Her practice includes public space interventions, installations, video, and sound. She has presented numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many international exhibitions, projects, and festivals. Ružić studied painting from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and holds a Master’s degree from the Facultad de Artes, UAEM, Mexico. She is a full time professor at the Arts Academy, University of Split, and the recipient of several awards, including the Grand Prix of the 29th Slavonian Biennial (2024) and an ArtsLink Fellowship (1996).

Niga Salam

Iraqi Kurdistan

Niga Salam is a Kurdish artist and curator. Their work centers on addressing critical issues such as gender inequality, the environment, and identity. With a robust background in photography, Salam skillfully captures and highlights societal complexities, blending artistic expression with advocacy. Beyond local engagements in curating exhibitions and programs, they have made significant international appearances, including residencies in Spain, and curation and participation in exhibitions across Germany, Lebanon, and the U.S., including at the United Nations. Salam’s approach to art transcends mere aesthetics; it serves as a powerful tool for humanitarian advocacy and research, fostering connections and collaborations amongst marginalized communities.

Jay Sylvester

THE MILTON AND SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

U.S.

Jay Sylvester spent his youth exploring the forests and fields of New England, assembling complicated, mildly dangerous forts and secret shelters for his friends. This primitive world-building set him on an artistic path that would bear fruit years later. Studying at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the 80s, he shifted his focus to the urban landscape around him, finding inspiration and materials in the cast-off ephemera and detritus of the city.

Coming full circle, Sylvester now lives and works in rural Long Island, New York and the desert of California, where he sources materials and inspiration from nature. Sylvester's practice and process continually reference the timeless existential complexity of the relationship between man and the surrounding natural world—the hubristic desire to control, the tension between oneness and separateness, and our reckoning with mortality.

Angela Tiatia

Australia

Angela Tiatia (Aotearoa, Australia, Sāmoa) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Australia. Her work explores contemporary culture, drawing out the relationships between representation, gender, neo-colonialism, and the commodification of body and place. Often through the lenses of history, popular and material culture, Tiatia addresses themes within power structures and how these impact the individual and their communities.

Her recent works are The Matildas (2025)— commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery, The Dark Current (2022)— commissioned by the Ian Potter Foundation, and Render (2025)— commissioned for the TarraWarra Biennial. Her works have received numerous awards and have toured nationally and internationally, including exhibition at Frieze London, and inclusion at symposiums at Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale.

Stanley Wany

Canada

Stanley Wany is a multidisciplinary artist whose work consists of revisiting colonial and historical archives with the aim of extracting the history of his Afro-descendant ancestors. He began his exploration as an editor and creator of experimental graphic novels that explore the non-linearity of narration and the unconscious. He then continued his research by developing a practice in visual arts, this time incorporating the historic narratives present in popular culture. Through drawing, painting, installation, and experimental graphic novels, he deepens his reflections on popular culture, myths, and the subconscious in relation to the experience of people of Afro-descendants in Western society.

Sadaf Padder

Critic-in-Residence, U.S.

Sadaf Padder is an independent curator, art advisor, and certified educator whose work centers on climate change, neo-mythology, and community connection. She has curated exhibitions across the U.S., from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Martha’s Vineyard. Informed by her background as a public school educator and administrator, Padder maintains a strong community-based practice focused on youth arts programs and internships. Her curatorial projects and writing have been featured in Artsy, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, and ArtNews. She is a Create Change alumna with Laundromat Project, an Emily J. Hall Tremaine Fellow with Hyperallergic, and a board member of Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Twelve Gates Arts, and Grown in Haiti.

Susan Snodgrass

Critic-in-Residence, U.S.

Susan Snodgrass is a Chicago-based critic and Senior Editor at ARTMargins Online, devoted to contemporary art in East-Central Europe. She writes about contemporary art, material art practices, and the built environment. She is the author of Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs (Half Letter Press, 2019). Her articles have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and Textile: Cloth and Culture, among others. She is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her blog, In/Site: Reflections on the Art of Place, which explores the intersection between art, architecture, and urbanism. Snodgrass was also a finalist for The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Arts Journalist Award (2019).