FACULTY ARTISTS
Skowhegan's Board of Governors, all working artists, invites a new faculty of Resident and Visiting Artists to campus each year. These artists are highly accomplished and represent a cross-section of the contemporary art world bringing a diversity of perspectives, practices and lived experiences.
Resident Faculty Artists live on campus alongside the participants and the academic staff, who are also practicing artists. The structure of Skowhegan's program is provided by one-on-one studio visits with each of the resident artists, and through the series of lectures given by the faculty over the summer.
Visiting Artists complement the Resident Artists by joining the community for shorter stays throughout the summer. The diversity within the faculty fosters an environment where dialogues are dynamic, vigorous and meaningful. A significant portion of the mentorship unfolds outside the scheduled studio visits, and these relationships are significant in setting Skowhegan apart as an experience.
2024 Resident Faculty Artists
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Nicole Awai (A '97)
Nicole Awai was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and lives and works in New York. Awai earned her master’s degree in Multimedia Art from the University of South Florida in 1996. Awai’s multimedia, expansive painting and process works have often responded to the social, cultural, and economic interaction and histories of the Americas. Recent works that addressed the history and removal of Confederate and Colonial monuments in the Americas were featured in the New York Times newspaper editorial, Op-Art: Monuments for a New Era, followed by in the High Line Network Initiative’s exhibition, New Monuments for a New Cities, Monument Lab podcast, and the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. There has long been the presence of oozing materiality in Awai’s work that metaphorically is simultaneously the site of generation, destruction and rebirth and materially is the physical abundant resources of the Americas which includes the Black, Brown, and Yellow bodies that labored in its creation.
Awai has been a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, an Art Matters Grant, and the inaugural Colene Brown Art Prize. Her work has been included in seminal exhibitions at such institutions as PS1 MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the California African American Museum, The Chinese American Museum LA, the Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach, The Delaware Art Museum, The Vilcek Foundation, the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art, and the Busan Biennale.
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Daniel Bozhkov (A '90, F '11, '16)
Daniel Bozhkov was born in Bulgaria and is now based in New York City. He is Associate Professor of Art, New Genres at Hunter College, The City University of New York. As an interdisciplinary artist, Bozhkov works across a variety of media and engages with professionals from different fields to activate public space. As a collaborator with reality, Bozhkov reuses mass-produced objects to provoke the powers of the banal, ridiculous and inconsequential. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department megastores, and world-famous tourist sites as an amateur intruder/visitor to produce new strains of meaning in seemingly closed systems.
Bozhkov has been awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been presented at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Queens Museum, and Artists Space in New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art in Los Angeles; Art House in Austin, Texas; and Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has participated in international exhibitions including the 33rd São Paolo Biennial, 6th Liverpool Biennial, 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, 9th Istanbul Biennial, and the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.
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Dana DeGiulio
Dana DeGiulio was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She is a painter and teacher whose practice pits materiality against representation. Her work in painting, drawing, moving image, installation, writing, and in teaching is about edges and touch and history and attention and tries to ask the means of what the ends are. She co-founded and co-operated the artist-run space Julius Caesar in Chicago for 7 years, put out a book of writing and recently a book of photographs, made animations for SFMoMA, and shown paintings with Ermes Ermes in Rome and most recently at P.P.O.W. in New York. She has been a committed itinerant adjunct professor of visual art for the past 16 years. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, next to the window.
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Rodrigo Valenzuela (A '13)
Rodrigo Valenzuela was born in.Santiago, Chile, and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where he is the Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA. Valenzuela has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors, an Art Matters Foundation grant, and an Artist Trust Innovators Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: New Museum, NY; Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Orange County Museum; Portland Art Museum; and Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Residencies include: Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MacDowell Colony; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Lightwork; and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
2024 Visiting Faculty Artists
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Daniel Dean (A '12)
Danielle Dean is a British American artist born in Alabama, US. Her interdisciplinary work explores the geopolitical and material processes that colonize the mind and body. Drawing from the aesthetics and history of advertising, and from her multinational background—born to a Nigerian father and an English mother in Alabama, and brought up in a suburb of London—her work explores the ideological function of technology, architecture, marketing, and media as tools of subjection, oppression, and resistance.
Some of her more important solo shows are Amazon, London at the Tate Britain; Long Low Line at Midnight Moments, Times Square Arts, New York; Trigger Torque at The Ludwig, Germany; True Red Ruin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Bazar at 47 Canal, New York; Landed at Cubitt Gallery, London and Focus: Danielle Dean at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. She has been part of numerous group shows including This Land at The Contemporary Austin; Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Centre Cannot Hold, Lafayette Anticipation, Paris and Artist’s film international, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others. She was included in The Whitney Biennale (2022), Athens Biennale (2023) and Made in L.A. 2014 at The Hammer Museum.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock (A '97)
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in Oklahoma and raised in Paris, Texas. His work engages with a complex fabric that laces elaborate fantasy into personal and familial folklore, while examining his own cultural and philosophical identity. From a young age, driven by his love for comic books and graphic novels, as well as the raconteur’s template they provide, his youthful fascinations have evolved into a fully realized alternate universe.
Hancock’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Hancock's work was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions.
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Iman Issa
Iman Issa was born in Cairo, and is an artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Issa works primarily in installation, employing a variety of forms and strategies to investigate the political and personal associations of history, language, and the object. Her work often also has a textual component. Solo and group exhibitions include: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; 21er Haus, Vienna; MACBA, Barcelona; the Perez Art Museum, Miami; the Whitney Biennial, 2019; the 12th Sharjah Biennial; the 8th Berlin Biennial; MuHKA, Antwerp; Tensta Konsthall, Spånga; New Museum, New York; and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Books include Book of Facts: A Proposition (2017), Common Elements (2015) and Thirty-three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places (2011). She has been named a 2017 DAAD artist in residence, and is a recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise (2017), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), HNF-MACBA Award (2012), and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013).
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Gala Porras-Kim (A '10)
Gala Porras-Kim was born in Bogota, Colombia, and is based in Los Angeles, where she received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA. Her research-based practice focuses on the social and cultural contexts that shape how sounds, language, and history have been represented in a variety of disciplines, from linguistics to history and museum conservation.
Porras-Kim’s work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions over the last decade and is included in collections world-wide. In New York, her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as the Brooklyn Museum. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019) and was an artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute (2020-22).
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Jacolby Satterwhite (A '09)
Jacolby Satterwhite was born in Columbia, South Carolina and he works in New York. Through performance, video, 3D animation, installation, and sculpture, Satterwhite explores themes of memory, desire, and ritual. He is interested in process as a metanarrative: the narrative between past, present, and future, and how that process relates a broad, shared experience. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (2008), and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2012). In 2013, he was a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and in 2016 he received the United States Artist: Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellowship.
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Georgia Sagri
Georgia Sagri was born in Athens, Greece and she is an artist, activist, educator, and author. She is one of the founding members of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. Her research practice, IASI (Recovery), was launched in January 2020 at Mimosa House in London. Since then, it has been supported by Tavros in Athens, De Appel in Amsterdam (2021), and Gropius Bau in Berlin (2022). She is the initiator of ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE (http://hyle.gr/), a semi-public / semi-private art space in downtown Athens (2014-present).
Sagri has exhibited internationally in distinguished museums and institutions such as: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2022); Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022); ICA, London (2022); De Appel, Amsterdam (2020); TAVROS, Athens (2020); Mimosa House, London (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt (2018), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2017, 2018), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019, 2020), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2020, 2014), Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2017), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016, 2013), Sculpture Center, New York (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016, 2015), Forde, Geneva (2015), MoMA PS1, New York (2013), Guggenheim, Bilbao (2011), MoMA, New York (2011). She has participated in the Kyiv Biennial (2023), documenta 14 (2017), Manifesta 11 (2016), Istanbul Biennial (2015), Lyon Biennale (2013), Whitney Biennial, New York (2012), Thessaloniki Biennale (2011) and Athens Biennale (2007).