Residency Program
Risograph Residents
2021
We are pleased to announce the MUUS Collection / Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residents for summer 2021 Residencies.
The 2021 Jury included: Dru Donovan, Dawn Kim, and Kevin Kunstadt.
Look out for publications produced by our 2021 residents, coming fall 2021.
Eva Alcantara
Proposal : Waters
Image © Eva Alcantara, courtesy of the artist.
Eva Alcántara (they/them) a Dominican-born artist. Eva makes poetry, photographs, installations, videos and artist books. In their practice, Eva seeks to understand our relationships to ourselves and our bodies and to find connections between spirituality and language. They hope to increase the visibility and voices of historically underrepresented artists with their work. They have attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and they’re currently pursuing a degree in Studio Art at the City College of New York, CUNY. Their work is held in the collection of the Robert B. Haas Family Art Library, Yale University.
Ryan Frigillana
Proposal : The Weight of Slumber
Image © Ryan Frigillana, courtesy of the artist.
Ryan Frigillana is a Philippine-born lens-based artist holding a BFA in Photography and Related Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology. His work focuses on shifting states of memory, intimacy, family identity, and visual culture, largely filtered through the lens of race and immigration. Embracing its elasticity, Frigillana explores photography’s relationship to context as a catalyst for thematic dialogue.
His first monograph, Visions of Eden, was published as two editions in 2020, and is held in the library collections of the MoMA, Getty Research Institute, and Smithsonian among others.
Ryan lives and works in New York.
Erik Hagen
Proposal : They Name a Street After Him
Image © Erik Hagen, courtesy of the artist.
Erik Hagen is an artist who explores the physical and psychological landscapes of low-wage service workers through personal documentary, staged photographs, and narrative text. Drawing on his previous and current experiences as a retail worker and taxi driver, Hagen examines sense of self, inner monologue, and the monotony of daily life.
Hagen received his MFA from the University of Hartford, and has been awarded the Hannes Wanderer Award (2019) and the Silver Eye Center for Photography Keystone Fellowship (2020). He is originally from the Gulf Coast of Florida and currently lives in Lancaster, PA.
Alex McTigue
Proposal : Of The Night
Image © Alex McTigue, courtesy of the artist.
Alex Mctigue received his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2017). He currently teaches in the photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Finalists
In addition to the four 2021 residents, four additional projects were selected as finalists:
Logan Larsen, Patroclus in the Armor of Achilles
Aaron Marin, Life Revisited
Alfredo Méndez Etchepare, OCT_19
Chelsea Mosher, It Got Cold As The Sky Darkened
Sponsor
The MUUS Collection / Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residency is supported by a generous gift from the MUUS Collection, an organization with a mission to make visible their photography collection and archives through exhibitions, scholarship, donations, licensing, and the printing of images and books.