Artist and writer residency
Photo: Chris “Daze” Ellis portrait image. Photo by Kyle Dorosz.
Chris "Daze" Ellis
May 2026
Daze emerged from the 1970s graffiti movement and the creative energy of New York’s downtown club scene. Transitioning from tagging trains to spray painting canvas in the early 1980s, he developed a studio practice that merges urban realism with gestural abstraction. Inspired by artists such as John Sloan and Joan Mitchell, his paintings depict subways, streets, and social spaces as sites of memory and cultural exchange, often populated by figures from his life and New York’s creative community. Combining spray paint and acrylic with expressive brushwork, Daze juxtaposes gritty city infrastructure with vibrant bursts of flora, suggesting renewal, resilience, and beauty within urban decay. His work consistently reflects on the city as both lived environment and emotional landscape, balancing nostalgia with an enduring sense of optimism. .
Daze (New York, b. 1962) has held solo exhibitions at institutions including Fashion Moda (Bronx), Palais Liechtenstein (Feldkirch), Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (Nice), and the Museum of the City of New York. His work has appeared in major group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Stedelijk Museum, the New Museum, and MOCA Los Angeles, among others, and is held in prominent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2025, he was commissioned to create Above Ground Midtown: MCNY x DAZE, a large-scale mural at 550 Madison Avenue, affirming his lasting impact on both street culture and contemporary art.
Photo: Courtesy of Clare Gemima and Painting Diary
Clare Gemima
December 2025 — January 2026
Clare Gemima is a New York-based arts journalist, emerging curator and painter originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her work centers on building scholarship for immigrant artists pursuing their artist visas, and on amplifying emergent, established, and historically overlooked practitioners working across the United States and abroad. As a writer, she regularly contributes to publications like Eazel, Impulse Magazine, Artefuse, Contemporary HUM, Art New Zealand, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, EV Grieve, AWT, Wide Walls, Frieze, Passing Notes, New Women New York, Artsy and Painting Diary.
Clare Gemima (New Zealand, b. 1993) lives & works in New York. Her practice has taken her across the United States and internationally, where she has reviewed exhibitions and interviewed artists at leading galleries, archives, museums, and fairs including Untitled Art Fair (Miami), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), the New Museum (New York), the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum (Maryland), The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), the Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii), and the 60th Venice Biennale (Italy). She holds a BFA in sculpture, and received the 2017 Wikiriwhi scholarship from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
Photo: Courtesy of Issey Scott
Issey Scott
April 2025
Issey Scott is an art writer and occasional curator, based in London, especially interested in how bodily concerns including illness, disability and health are communicated aesthetically. Her postgraduate thesis looked into the contemporary visual culture of happiness, and how contrived images are inherently ableist under late-stage capitalism. Her work interrogates the ways in which contemporary artists depict the body in unconventional ways, and has recently written about artists including Zoe Williams, R.I.P Germain, Abi Palmer, and Morgane Billuart to expand upon these narratives.
Issey Scott's (*1994, London) writing has appeared in publications including Candid Magazine, The Big Issue, RIBA, Floorr Magazine and Cluster Journal. Scott has curated projects at South London Gallery, Anise Gallery, Museum of the Home, arebyte and Lewisham Arthouse and has produced exhibition texts for Luis De Jesus (Los Angeles, USA), Spazio VEDA (Florence, IT), Castor Gallery and Wimbledon Space (both London, UK). She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a dissertation entitled, Repudiating the Visual Language of Happiness: Challenging the Social and Aesthetic Parameters of 'Happiness' Under Ableist Conditions. She can be found at @postartclarity on Instagram and Substack.
Photo: Dale Grant
Charlie Stein
March 2025
Charlie Stein is a visual artist and scholar. Her practice encompasses drawings, installations, sculptures, paintings and text, which question existing modes of perception within the context of a highly digitized, visually overstimulated world. Stein's focus lies on social structures, digital media and contemporary forms of communication, utilizing mediums such as filter technology, blockchain, artificial intelligence and social media to explore the intersection of painting and technology. She holds a postgraduate and graduate degree in Fine Art from the State Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as a graduate degree in Social Sciences and English at the University of Stuttgart. Stein also works as a guest lecturer for the School of Digital Innovation Berlin and at the HfBK Hamburg, where she is a guest professor for painting and drawing.
Charlie Stein (German, b. 1986) lives and works in Berlin. She has given lectures at Pratt Institute in New York, E-Artsup-Paris and led the seminar "Painting in the Context of Contemporary Art" in 2022 at the HfBK Hamburg. In 2024 Stein was a recipient of the ISCP program in New York and in 2022, she was awarded a grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Berlin. Her work has been showcased internationally at venues such as Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London, the Songjiang Art Museum in Shanghai, the Museum Villa Merkel in Esslingen, and the Sculpture dTriennial in Bingen.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Tim Wilson
August — September 2024
Tim Wilson's paintings are figurative, naturalistic, and imbued with a heightened sense of their materiality. Wilson takes the seemingly banal and everyday as his subject, asking us to pause and give attention to these neglected glimpses of everyday life. Depicting transitional spaces such as staircases, foyers, and motel rooms, we are given snapshot-like impressions of views that are highly subjective to the artist and yet do not feel unfamiliar to the viewer. With a bluntly applied saturated color palette, at times brushed with a softly blurred touch, his paintings evoke a dreamlike quality; as he describes it, "I'm attempting to construct a transcendental hearth for the viewer." Through the coming together of a photographic or filmic framing and a painterly mix of sfumato and alla prima, Wilson creates an image-world that makes visible the magic and timelessness of the mundane.
Tim Wilson (b. 1970, Newport News, Virginia) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Wilson has been awarded several residencies, including at Sol LeWitt Studio in 2019, and is represented by Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York. His work has also been reviewed in such publications as Artforum, The New Criterion, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Launched in 2024 we host an ongoing residency program for artists and writers in Vienna, Austria.
We provide a space in which participants can work, free from outside expectations or deadlines.
Note: all residencies are by invitation, please do not send unsolicited applications