Visual Artist AIRspace Residency supports a cohort of 3 visual artists for a residency at Abrons Arts Center over the course of 20 months.

2024-2026 Van Lier Fellows. Image by Whitney Browne

Visual Artist AIRspace Residency supports a cohort of 3 visual artists for a residency at Abrons Arts Center over the course of 20 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.

Application live on September 8, 2026

2027-2028 Visual Artist AIRspace Residency

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2027–2028 Mentors

Baseera Khan

Baseera Khan (Visual Artist AIRspace 2016–17) is a New York-based performance, sculpture, and installation artist. Khan currently has a public art commission Painful Arc Shoulder High on The High Line park, NYC under the Standard Hotel until summer 2024. Khan mounted their first museum solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2021-22), and created a solo touring exhibition that same year for Houston, Texas at Moody Arts Center for the Arts, Rice University and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio (2022-2023). They have exhibited in numerous locations such as the Wexner Center for the Arts (2021), New Orleans Museum of Art (2020), Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017). Khan's performance work has premiered at several locations including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Khan was an artist in residence at Pioneer Works (2018-19), Abrons Art Center (2016-17), was an International Travel Fellow to Jerusalem/Ramallah through Apexart (2015) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Khan won an Artist Prize for the MTV/Smithsonian Channel TV docu-series, called The Exhibit in 2022-23. Khan is also a recipient of the UOVO Art Prize (2020), BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters (2018). Their works are part of several permanent collections including the Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center, MN.

Park McArthur

Park McArthur (Visual Artist AIRspace 2013–14) experiments with personal and social meanings of debility, delay, and dependency under the guidance and instruction of disability. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstraum Leuphana University, Lüneburg; Paid, Seattle, Washington; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (Visual Artist AIRspace 2019–20) is an artist, photographer, and educator currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

In his personal practice, he uses photography to explore representation through privacy and fiction. Occasionally the work turns away from standard archival prints to examine photography as a sculptural, redactive, and site-specific process.