Cyle Warner, Kiara Ocasio, and Megan Mi-Ai Lee
Open Studios: Cyle Warner, Kiara Ociasio, and Megan Mi-Ai Li
June 6–7, 2025
11am–4pm
Join visual artists Cyle Warner, Kiara Ociasio, and Megan Mi-Ai Li, our 2024-26 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows, as they open their studios to the public to share what they have been developing during the first year of their residency.
Image by Whitney Browne
About the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship for Visual Artists
New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship for Visual Artists supports a cohort of 3 visual artists between the ages of 18 and 30 years old for a residency at Abrons Arts Center over the course of 21 months. Each fellow will be paired with a professional artist mentor who is an alum of the Abrons Arts Center Visual Artist AIRspace Residency program. The mentor will support the creative and professional development of the fellows during the residency period.
About Cyle Warner
Cyle Warner (2001, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist of Afro-Caribbean descent whose practice engages with space, place, time, and distance in relation to the past and how we choose to move forward outside of contemporary values, an idea he refers to as Dis. Working across fiber, photography, and sculpture; he creates compositions that consider
notions of home, care, and the creation & preservation of new myths. Warner attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art in 2022, and he earned a BFA in Photography and Video from the School of Visual Arts in 2023. Warner has exhibited at Regular Normal, New York, New York (2020, 2021); Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida (2022); Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Canada (2022); Welencora Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (2022, 2023).
About Kiara Ocasio
kiarita is a Queer Dominican American multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Working predominantly with paint and photography, their work tenderly honors their chosen family during moments of rest. They have participated in several US-based group shows and been awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grand as well as a recipient of the Sylvia Lipson Allen Memorial Fund.
About Megan Mi-Ai Lee
Megan Mi-Ai Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens whose work explores the ways fantasy diffuses through popular culture. Recent exhibitions include White Columns, online (2024); Cierah, New York, NY (2024); Pumice Raft, Toronto, ON (2024); Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA (2023); the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens, NY (2022); and Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY (2022). Lee has held residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, Storm King Art Center, and Smack Mellon, and was the 2018 Curatorial Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park. She is a two-time Canada Council for the Arts grantee and received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2018.