Recent Fellowship Recipients
Fall 2024 - Group 1
Architecture
Cory Henry
Founder and Director of Atelier Cory Henry, Visiting Critic/Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Washington University in St. Louis – United States
Cory Henry founded the eponymous interdisciplinary design studio, Atelier Cory Henry, following 14 years working with renowned architects, including Michael Graves. Cory has maintained a commitment to addressing contemporary urban conditions through a combination of poetic design solutions and socially conscious ideals. He has developed a reputation as a contextually sensitive designer, with a strong dedication to generating spaces through collaborations, research, listening, and understanding of cultural narratives, contextual conditions, and values.
Cory Henry’s project undertaking in Bogliasco Foundation is the design of an exhibition/installation highlighting the relational dynamics and role of public space as an arena to foster, or deny, democratic practices. The installation is a continuation of his research and teaching in examining the social and economic realities of spatial inequities – primarily within public space – and the different ways in which disadvantaged communities articulate their own identities and transform space to place.
Dance
Mai Lê Hô
Choreographer, Artistic Director of LayeRhythm – France/Vietnam/United States
Mai Lê is a French-Vietnamese street/club dance artist and educator, curator, and the founder of LayeRhythm Productions INC, a NYC-based non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting freestyle voices in the performing arts landscape. The cutting-edge monthly jam session layers live musicians and vocalists with freestyle dancers and was acclaimed by the New York Times (2018). In 2023, Mai Lê was awarded a Dancing Futures residency by Pepatian & BAAD! Bronx In 2021, she was selected to be virtual artist-in-residence with Asian American Arts Alliance, and movement curator for Asian Cultural Council’s East West Fest.
Mai Lê Hô plans to continue developing Walking in Layers, a multidisciplinary work merging Vietnamese, French, and American influences and artists through music, dance, video and fashion, addressing layers of identity. The work bridges her French-Vietnamese roots with her city-centered life as a dance artist led by her passion for NYC street/club dance and music. The residency will make space for research, rehearsals, and planning/deepening of collaborations, resulting in a new interactive arts experience that centers street/club forms, traditional textile techniques from northern Vietnam coupled with modern eco-fashion clothing, music, and video animation.
Film/Video
Katrien Jacobs
Adjunct Associate Professor in Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong / Associate Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Ghent – Belgium
Katrien Jacobs is an artist-scholar and associate professor who works at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ghent University. Jacobs has lectured and published widely about sexuality and gender representations in and around digital media and AI, contemporary arts and online activism. She has also produced documentaries and performance art pieces alongside her academic and ethnographic fieldwork.
Sparkling Deepfakes on the Metabolic Chair is a video installation that will invite gallery visitors to sit down in a metabolic chair, a space for digesting artworks at one’s own pace, while watching a video about redeeming deepfakes. The background is a concern with how deepfake technology is increasingly being hijacked as misinformation and sex-phobic misogynist hate-speech. During the residency period, Jacobs will prepare the artwork and collaborate with other participants in watching and commenting on her work-in-progress on a dedicated chair.
Landscape Architecture
Kevin Benham
Jon Emerson/Wayne Womack Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture – United States
Kevin Benham was the Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize recipient 2020-2021 and the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. He received his MLA from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and his M.Arch. at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan.
Kevin Benham’s research and work focus on landscape phenomena and the temporal qualities inherent in the discipline. To that end, he produces temporal and ephemeral land art installations that elucidate phenomena requiring careful observation through space and time.
Literature
Rachel Kadish
Fiction writer and essayist – United States
Rachel Kadish’ work has been read on NPR and has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, and Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her most recent novel, The Weight of Ink, received a National Jewish Book Award and was a USA Today bestseller. She has been the Koret writer-in-residence at Stanford University and a fellow of the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Harvard/Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. She is a spokesperson for Artists for Understanding.
Set in a reeling Poland following the 2010 Smolensk air disaster, The Belnord explores the long echo of war crimes for descendants of bystanders as well as victims. The novel traces the colliding fates of three characters: a gay Polish Catholic teen in a town with an uneasy past; an American scientist caught in Poland’s climate change upheaval; and a Holocaust refugee born in a DP camp. The Belnord explores how we’re haunted by the past, and what it takes on a human level for us to move forward.
Music
Patrick Giguère
Composer – Canada – William Thomas McKinley Bogliasco Fellowship
Patrick Giguère is a composer based in Montréal. He writes music for acoustic instruments but is increasingly interested in improvised and collaborative musical practices. His music is performed in the Americas and in Europe. He worked with the London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth, Susanna Mälkki, Bozzini Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Paramirabo, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Aventa Ensemble, ECM+, Orchestre de la francophonie and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.
Patrick Giguère will work on a piece called Chercher la trace du chemin à prendre for musicians practicing Persian classical music and Western classical music. The work will set to music poems, in French and Farsi, by contemporary poets from Québec and Iran. The chosen poems engage themes like disenchantment, reconstruction of identity, but also about finding a way forward. The creative process will go beyond the score and the unidirectionality of Western classical music in order to explore different hierarchies and relationships between the musicians.
Theater
Helen Paris
Artistic Director of Curious performance company – United Kingdom
Dr Helen Paris is artistic director of Curious performance company. From 2011–2018 she served as a professor of performance making at Stanford University. She has performed at venues and festivals including the Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taiwan, London’s Cultural Olympiad and the Sydney Opera House. Paris is also a fiction writer. Novels include Lost Property (2022) and The Invisible Women’s Club, (2023) both published by Penguin. She is represented by Greene & Heaton agency, London.
In Touch extends Paris’s artistic research exploring human biology in performance and includes the arena of ‘neuro arts’ which is radically changing how we understand and translate the power of the arts. As well as looking at the enormous benefits of touch and tactile memory, In Touch is about the intrinsic value of the arts, including their importance to both mental and emotional health, at a moment when they are being systematically devalued.
Visual Arts
Scott Hunt
Visual Artist – United States
Scott Hunt creates enigmatic narrative charcoal drawings. He has had seven solo shows in the U.S. and Europe and has been in many group exhibitions, including Really?, curated by the esteemed American collector, Beth Rudin DeWoody. Hunt received the 2017 FID Prize for Drawing, grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and is a Yaddo Fellow. His drawings are part of the permanent collection of The Israel Museum and The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Historically, Scott Hunt has made figurative, narrative drawings. With this project, SMILE!, he will be pivoting toward a more sculptural combination of drawing and 3-dimensional elements contained within Cornell-like shadow boxes. The series will explore the intense pressure that the male gaze has placed on women, coercing them to augment their appearance so as to increase their appeal to the opposite gender. The series will scrutinize conceptions of gender roles, beauty, race, sexual power, and feminism.