Alana J. Coates
Resident, 2023
Alana J. Coates is a curator, educator, and arts administrator. As a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, her research focuses on Contemporary Art in the Americas with a concentration on U.S. Art and Institutional Critique since the 1960s. She is currently researching and archiving the work of South Texas conceptual artist Jesse Amado.
Coates has held directorships in the private sector and higher education and has curated for museums, contemporary arts festivals, artist cooperatives, and public art programs. She holds bachelor’s degrees from the University of Rhode Island in Art History and Fine Art, with Museum Studies coursework at Harvard Extension School. Her graduate studies were at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she studied Art History and Nonprofit Leadership.
Adonay Bermúdez
Resident, 2023
Adonay Bermúdez (Spain. 1985) is an independent curator and Artistic Director of the 11th edition of the Lanzarote Art Biennial 2022/2023. He has curated exhibitions at Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Costa Rica), CCE Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque (Spain), Instituto Cervantes de Roma (Italy), DA2 (Spain), Artpace San Antonio (USA), MUDAS - Museo de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira (Portugal), CAAM (Spain), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (Ecuador) or ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico), among others. He was director of the International Video Art Festival "Entre islas" (2014-2017), guest curator of PlanoLisboa 2016 (Portugal) and Scientific Committee of Over The Real International Videoart Festival (Italy, 2015-2017). In addition, director at Espacio Dörffi (Spain, 2017-2018), collaborating curator of the César Manrique Foundation (Lanzarote, Spain, 2019-2020) and artistic curator in 2022 of the INJUVE Grants (Government of Spain).
He has recently won the Casal Solleric Curators' Competition Line 2 (Mallorca, Spain, 2020), the Gran Canaria Espacio Digital Cultural Projects Competition (Spain, 2020), the CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno Artistic Research Grant (Spain, 2020) and the Komisario Berriak Tabakalera (Spain, 2021). He has given lectures or workshops at Universidad del Atlántico (Colombia), MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) or E.N.P.E.G. La Esmeralda (Mexico).
https://www.adonaybermudez.com/
Jessica Harvey
Resident, 2022
Jessica Harvey was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Iceland and has attended residencies at ACRE, Ox Bow, The Luminary, Wassaic, MASS MoCA, Anderson Ranch, LATITUDE, Byrdcliffe, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim, NO), The Franklin (Chicago, IL), Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK), Camayuhs (Atlanta, GA), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), Good Weather (Little Rock, AR), and ACRE Projects (Chicago, IL). She has participated in fellowships with the Winterthur Museum, gener8or Arts, The Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Tulsa Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa. Her chapbook, “lilies in flame / wax tomb” was published in 2019 with Walls Divide Press.
Clemonce Herd
Resident, 2021
Clemonce Heard was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the winner of the 2020 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Major Jackson. His poetry collection, Tragic City, which investigates the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in October 2021. Heard’s work has appeared or is forthcoming from Obsidian, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Iron Horse, World Literature Today, Poetry, Rattle, Ruminate, and elsewhere. He earned a BFA in graphic communications from Northwestern State University, and an MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Heard was a recipient of a 2018-2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship and was the 2019-2020 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dean Daderko
Resident, 2017
Dean Daderko is the Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). His most recent shows include Telepathic Improvisation, a multi-partnered project that marks the first US solo exhibition for the collaborative duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, which he co-curated at CAMH with Alhena Katsof; Atlas, Plural, Monumental, a 25-year survey of sculpture, video and photography, drawing and interactive artwork by the inimitable Paul Ramírez Jonas; A Traveling Show, in which individual artworks and the display of a decade-old visual correspondence project between Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen spoke to a long-standing friendship and shared interests in humor and language; and THE INTERVIEW: Red, Red Future – a solo exhibition including commissioned works by the artist MPA that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art – in which a live performance and sculptures became vehicles through which to imagine the future of Mars and notions of colonization.
Daderko has commissioned artworks with Claire Fontaine, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Klara Lidén, Fred Moten, Wu Tsang and Haegue Yang, among others. His writing has appeared in Mousse and publications by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the University of California, Irvine. Daderko is currently preparing a multi-generational group exhibition for CAMH focused on artwork by San Antonio-based artists. During his time at Casa Chuck, Daderko will continue working on his selections for this exhibit, as well as curate an exhibition for Sala Diaz.
Claudia Arozqueta
Resident, 2015
Claudia Arozqueta is a curator, researcher and writer currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. She completed her undergraduate studies at UNAM in Mexico City before earning her Masters in Media Art Histories from Danube University, Krems, Austria. Claudia is co-founder and co-curator of Modelab (www.modelab.info), an interdisciplinary agora for social and artistic research. From 2011 to 2013, she was Director of Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington, and has curated numerous exhibitions including Surveillance Awareness Bureau, Modelab, Wellington, New Zealand (2015); Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2012); Crossing Boundaries, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2010); and A Place in Time, Camp Street, San Antonio, Texas (A CAM San Antonio event, 2006). Arozqueta is a regular contributor to Artforum and Art-Agenda, and has published extensively in magazines, newspapers and journals, including Leonardo, Seismopolite, Flash Art, Art Lies and The Moscow Times.
Jennifer Teets
Resident, 2013
Jennifer Teets is a curator and writer. Her recent work takes the form of scripted scenarios where information, technique, theory and aesthetics transpire in sites of historical and spatial divergence. Recent exhibitions include This place you see has no size at all, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); A clock that runs on mud, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, (2011); The world is bound in secret knots, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, (2012); Vinimos a soñar: France Fiction, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2012); and Boustrophedonic procession, (w/Darius Mikšys), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2012/2013). From 2003-2007, she spearheaded the contemporary art program at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (the former house/studio of Mexican Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros) in Mexico City. Her personal writing relates to her interest in speculative science, philosophy, ecology and ficto-criticism. She has written for numerous publications including Art-Agenda, frieze, Mousse, Novembre, Spike Art Quarterly, NERO, FROG and Metropolis M. In the fall of 2013, she participated in the “Programme of experimentation in arts and politics” (SPEAP) held at SciencesPo, Paris, an initiative of leading French sociologist Bruno Latour. She lives and works in Paris.
Bárbara Perea
Resident, 2012
Bárbara Perea is a critic and curator. From 2003 to 2006, she was director of MUCA Roma in Mexico City (University Museum of Science and Art) where she curated and organized numerous exhibitions. With Príamo Lozada, she was artistic director of Plataforma Puebla 2006, and co-curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial, which presented Some Things Happen More Often Than All of the Time, a solo exhibit by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (2007). With Guillermo Santamarina she curated Soni(c)loud for the experimental music and sound festival Radar (2007) and prepared the opening exhibition and acquisitions program for Laberinto de las Ciencias y las Artes in San Luis Potosí (2008). She also served on the selection committee for FAIR PLAY Video Festival Berlin (2006) and the nomination committee for the 2008 Rockefeller-Tribeca Media Fellowships.