The Luminary Announces 2024 Residency Cohorts
The Luminary Announces 2024 Residency Cohort
2.06.2024
The Luminary is pleased to announce our full residency cohort for 2024: introducing a year of collaboration with sixteen artists, writers, critics, and organizers, including two local artists, to engage in creative research and development of new projects within, and in response to, St. Louis. The program in 2024 and 2025 focuses on multi-scaled personal and political narratives of heritage, migration, and dreaming as a form of resistance.
dr. nick alder (Chicago, IL) // Zainab Aliyu (Brooklyn, NY) // Imani Badillo (Cleveland, OH) Christy Chan (San Francisco, CA) // 18andCounting (Stan Chisholm) (St. Louis, MO) Allegra Hangen (Mexico City, MX) // David Norman (Madison, WI) // Alan Poma (Lima, Peru) Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (Brooklyn, NY) // Kiki Salem (St. Louis, MO) Pia Singh (Chicago, IL) // Soo Shin (Chicago, IL) // Sixty Inches From Center (Ryan Edmund Thiel, Christina Nafziger, Ireashia M. Bennett) (Chicago, IL) Mojdeh Rezaeipour (Washington D.C.)
After a successful open call drawn from our most competitive application process to date with over 189 applicants from four continents and fourteen countries, and a thorough review process by panelists Risa Puleo, Anisa Olufemi, and Juan William Chávez, The Luminary has selected six artists, critics, and curators to join us in two cohorts over spring and fall: dr. nick alder, Allegra Hangen, Imani Badillo, David Norman, Zainab Aliyu, and Alan Poma. These residents displayed a commitment to experimental and critical methods within their past work, raise complex questions in their research practices, and situate their lived experience in diverse contexts as they work to add definition to the national conversation on contemporary artistic practice. Over two weeks, The Luminary’s staff will engage each cohort on site-trips, studio visits, and community engagements related to their unique line of inquiries.
The Luminary’s invited residents Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Mojdeh Rezaeipour, Pia Singh, Christy Chan, Soo Shin, and Sixty Inches From Center (Ryan Edmund Thiel, Christina Nafziger, Ireashia M. Bennett) have a long history of working deeply and thoughtfully within communities as they prioritize co-producing knowledge with participants. Their proposed residencies which concern temporal narratives of migration, displacement, longing, and resistance, serve as anchors for the 2024-2025 program.
For the first time in its history, The Luminary invites two local residents to join the international and national cohort. Multi-hyphenate artists Kiki Salem and 18andCounting (Stan Chisholm) will engage the institution over the period of one year, with extended support in research and development related to their individual practices. Both Salem and Chisolm have strong ties to St. Louis and Cherokee Street, and will utilize The Luminary’s network to expand their projects in responsive ways.
All residents are encouraged to participate in educational and outreach programming such as artist talks, panel discussions, studio visits, and workshops. The 2024-2025 program will lead to exhibitions, new commissions, publications, and other public programs throughout the season.
Please join us in congratulating the 2024 cohort and welcoming a full year of discursive, transdisciplinary, and experiential research and practice in St. Louis! ✿✿