Artists & Projects Directory
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SUNGMYUNG CHUN
Sungmyung Chun received his B.F.A and M.F.A from Suwon University
in South Korea.
Chun's seventh solo exhibition Swallowing
the Shadow was recently held at TouchART Gallery in Heyri
Art Valley,
Paju, Korea. Chun participated in ARCO
2007, Art Rotterdam 2007, Busan Biennale 2006 and Gwangju Biennale 2000 as well
as various group exhibitions worldwide including in Italy,
France, Israel, Spain,
and China.
He is the recipient of the grand prize at the Kim Sejoonj Young Scupltor Awards
and the third prize at the 2007 Mircro-Narratives, October Salon, in Belgrade, Serbia.
Chun's works can be found in the collections of Musée dÇart Contemporain
de Montréal, Canada
and Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan,
South Korea. He lectures in the college of fine arts, Kyunghee University
and Chugye University for the Arts. A book of Swallowing
the Shadow was published by TouchArt in 2008.
MICHAEL KAMBER
Michael
Kamber was born in Maine
in 1963. He attended Parsons School of Design and has worked as a freelance
photojournalist and journalist since 1986. He has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Liberia, the Sudan, Cote
d'Ivoire, Somalia,
Haiti, Israel, the Congo and other countries. He has
also worked as a writer, publishing dozens of articles from Iraq, Afghanistan
and West Africa. His photos have been
published in nearly every major news magazine in the United
States and Europe, as
well as in many newspapers.
Kamber
is a former Revson Fellow at Columbia
University. He is the
winner of the Mike Berger Award, a World Press Photo award, the Missouri School
of Journalism's Lifestyle Award, the Society of Professional Journalists
Deadline Club Award, American Photo Images of the Year and several New York
Press Photographer Awards. The Village Voice nominated Kamber for a
Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
Most
recently, in the winter of 2010/2011, he worked as a contract photojournalist
and writer in Afghanistan.
GANDALF GAVAN
Working in diverse media including blown and slumped glass, Gaván
creates drawings and large-scale installations that explore contemporary social
themes. Gaván was born in Berlin,
Germany in
1975. He received his BFA from Bard College in 1998, and his MFA from Columbia University
in 2005. He has taught printmaking and sculpture at Columbia University.
In 2005 he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and in 2006 the Mortimer
Frank Traveling Fellowship.
Gaván has exhibited at museums and galleries around the
world, including in Spain, Germany, Austria,
Peru, and Mexico, where he had a solo exhibition at the
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca.
Other solo exhibitions have taken place at N2 Galeria in Barcelona, Spain;
Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Bertrand
and Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland; and Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
STEPHEN VITIELLO
Electronic musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello has
composed music for independent films, experimental video projects and art
installations, collaborating with
artists, musicians and choreographers including Julie Mehretu, Jem Cohen, John
Jasperse/White Oak Dance Project, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Steve Roden,
Eder Santos, and Nam June Paik.
He has received several awards for his work including: a 2006 Creative Capital
Emerging Fields, and Innovative Literature Award; a 2003 New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship; the Penny McCall Award in 2001; and an Independent
Radio and Sound Art Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation/Media Alliance in
1999.
As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect
of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial
environment. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Museum 52, London; DiverseWorks, Houston,
TX; The Project, New York
and Los Angeles; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris; and a project on
the High Line in NYC. Vitiello has also performed worldwide, including at the
Tate Modern, London; the 5th International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paolo,
Brazil; San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; The Kitchen, NYC; Whitney
Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NYC; and per/Son, Cologne, Germany.
Most recently, he was the subject of a 27-minute documentary produced for
Australian TV, Stephen Vitiello:
Listening with Intent. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion Records; Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa); Box Music, a collaboration with Machinefabriek (12k); and The Gorilla Variations with Molly Berg
(12k).
As a curator he has
contributed to exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Kitchen,
NY; The Kitchen's 2004 Benefit at Town Hall,
NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; the 9th Biennial of the Moving Image,
St-Gervais, Geneva; and the Sound Art component to the Whitney Museum's
exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000. Vitiello is
currently Associate Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth
University (VCU). www.stephenvitiello.com
VINCENT VIGILANTE
Vincent Vigilante is a SUNY Newpaltz graduate with a BA in
Theater Performance and Technology. He has been working in the New York Dance
& Theater scene for the past five years. Currently living in Brooklyn and
running his own lighting design company, Vigilante Design, Vincent is the
Lighting Supervisor for Dance Theater Workshop, as well as a founding member
and Production Manager of The Clockwork Theatre. He is the resident designer
for Gallim Dance and most recently designed a piece in collaboration with
Andrea Miller for Ballet Hispanico. Previous design credits include: Scenic
design: True West, Cherry Smoke (The
Clockwork Theatre). Lighting design: True West, Underground (The Clockwork Theatre); No mans Island (Gutworks); Gallim Dance - Andrea Miller's Blush (Joyce SoHo/ Jacobs Pillow); Dean
Moss & Yoon Jin Kim Kisaeng becomes
you, Melanie Marr's Phenomenal Bodies, FreshTracks ‘09 (Dance Theater
Workshop); , Dance and Process' 05,' 06,'
07, Robert Melee's Talent Show, Raz Mesinai's Myth of Nations, John Hollenbeck's Inspirations and Aspirations, Padma Newsome & Bryce Dessner Clogs, Mike Ladd's Domestica, Caitlin Cooks Skint,
Aida Ruilova The Sliver Globe (The
Kitchen).
ROXANA RAMSEUR
Roxana Ramseur is a Henry Hewes nominated Local USA829 Costume Designer and
craftsman. She has been designing and building costumes for new theater
and dance since 1996. Upcoming and past collaborations include:
Young Jean Lee's Theater Co. (Untitled Feminist Multi-Media Show, Lear, The
Shipment), Brian Books Moving Co. (Piñata, again again), Sara Juli (The
Money Conversation), Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, Messenger
Theater Co., Black Moon Theatre Co., Ariel Dance Theater. Design
Assistance collaborations include: Cunning Little Vixen (for
Doug Fitch @ NY Philharmonic), Medea (for Joe Vanik @ Glimmerglass
Opera), Spamalot and Shrek The Musical (for Tim Hately on
Broadway). As a milliner and free-lace costume crafts artisan, her work
has been represented in dozens of shows over the last 10 years from Broadway (The
Color Purple, Wicked) to The Santa Fe (Life Is a Dream, Alcest)
and Metropolitan Operas (Doctor Atomic, Aida). Roxana began her
career as a fashion designer and continues work in the field with Albertus
Quartus millinery (Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez), accessory design (Anne
Klein, Anne Taylor), packaging development (Victoria's Secret) and craft
project designs for periodical publication (Cutting Edge, Crochet Today).
www.roxanaramseur.tumblr.com