SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers
ABOUT SHIFT: A RESIDENCY FOR ARTS WORKERS
Since its inception in 2010, SHIFT Residency has been providing peer support, mentoring, studio spaces, and exhibition opportunities for over ninety artists who work in various arts organizations (as curators, educators, administrators, etc.), to advance their creative practices and to support the balance of their careers. SHIFT recognizes the contribution of arts workers to the art community, providing other individuals and the public with opportunities for growth and expansion. The SHIFT residency honors these artists’ commitment with a supportive, enriching, and collaborative environment.
SHIFT hosts a cohort of artists working in a range of media each year, from sound and installation to painting, performance, and social practice. In addition to its role as a support network, SHIFT promotes advocacy for arts workers and seeks to increase equity and representation within the field.
To date, SHIFT has welcomed arts workers as residents from the following institutions: Abrons Art Center, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program, Artists Alliance Inc., Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, CUE Art Foundation, Czech Center New York, Elastic City, Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, Flux Factory, FreeDimensional, Henry Street Settlement, International Center for Photography, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), NURTUREart, Queens Museum, Reanimation Library, Residency Unlimited, Time Out New York, School of Visual Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Triangle Art Association, Vera List Center for Art + Politics at The New School, Whitney Museum, and Wave Hill, among others.
SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers 2025 is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Please join us for the SHIFT 2025 Open Studio on Wednesday, February 19, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
2025 SHIFT Resident Artists
DaeQuan Alexander Collier is a Bronx-born filmmaker and writer whose work documents, responds, and reimagines the complexities of the human experience. His work integrates physical and digital technologies that unlock new forms of exploration and interaction across mediums. He received a BFA in Film and Television Arts from the New York University (2018) and an MFA in Screenwriting from Emerson College (2021) and his work has been exhibited both domestically and internationally. Through his practice, Collier seeks to push the boundaries of artistic expression to foster meaningful dialogue and community.
Hawu Lim (b. 1989, Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American artist whose practice centers works on paper. During her first years in New York to continue her study, Lim came to discover a deep well of overlooked emotions from her past, accumulated during the struggle for survival. These emotions–anxiety, depression, and a flicker of hope–became a reservoir within her. Lim's work translates this pool of emotions into potato-like lumps that embody surrender, a desperate attempt to appear human, and the constant struggle for stability. With this series of drawings, Lim studies her own limbo in the hopes to understand, love, and live in this absurd world. Lim earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and continues to hone her practice in Brooklyn, New York.
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@hawulim
Stephen Lau is an Irish-Chinese visual artist based in New York, whose work explores the uncanny through the interplay and tension between the organic and the synthetic. Primarily working in sculpture, Lau’s practice focuses on amorphous forms and their structured support systems. His displays often draw on the tradition of displaying meat as decorative art.
Lau holds a BFA and MFA from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin, Ireland. He has completed residencies at The National Gallery of Ireland as well as the Royal Hibernian Academy School of Drawing.
Website
@stephen___lau
DW Zinsser (born 1989, New York) is a visual artist and master printer living and working in New York City. Zinsser's work explores the resilience of the queer body. Working primarily in drawing, screen printing and intaglio, Zinsser uses stippling and ink washes to create intricate, abstracted forms. They have a BFA from Pratt Institute and a MFA from School of Visual Arts. Zinsser has shown at Essex Flowers, Harkawik, the Satellite Art Fair, and Colnaghi Gallery and has completed the residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island.
Website
@dwzinsser