Upcoming Fellowship Recipients
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 - group 1
Architecture
Robert Hutchinson
Architect, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Washington – United States
Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison is Principal of the Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize, two Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowships, the 2009 Emerging Voices, and residencies at MacDowell and Loghaven.
At Bogliasco, Robert will be completing the final draft of his publication Memory Landscapes, which will be published by Zurich-based Park Books. The project explores the power of collective memory in designing for new futures following natural disaster. Focusing on eastern coastal Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the book will combine his own photographs and architectural proposals with interviews and contributions from Japanese architects and artists.
Dance
Annie Wang
Choreographer and Dancer – United States
Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. Held Artist-In-Residencies at Movement Research, Topaz Arts, Marble House Project, Leimay, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Awarded grants by LMCC and Brooklyn Arts Council, their work has been presented by Pioneers Go East, Movement Research, Leimay, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie also dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.
In their newest work, Wang is building both dance phrases and textile objects in response to their research into Chinese textile histories and iconic garments like quilted jackets and qipao. The physical actions are inspired from the motions, sensations, and patterning logic of textile work. The objects will lead me into the final visual design while also driving choreographic inspiration. I’m excited for the space and time at Bogliasco to resonate with dance and objects and envision them as a whole piece.
Film/Video
Mireya Martinez
Filmmaker, Writer, and Producer — Mexico/United States
Mireya Martinez is a Mexican-American filmmaker, writer, and producer. Her sole pursuit is to tell and support stories that make palpable the human experience in all of its tatteredness, fragility, magnitude, and joy. A MacDowell and Sundance Institute Fellow, her work has screened at festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films and IFFR, amongst others. She holds an MFA in Film Direction from the California Institute of the Arts.
At Bogliasco, Martinez and collaborator Alisha Tejpal will continue to write their first feature length screenplay, For the Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells (working title). Centering its exploration on themes of micro-violence and generational collective trauma, this film offers a glimpse into the complex social fabric of urban India. In an affluent Mumbai apartment complex , the lives of residents and staff intertwine as hidden desires, social tensions, and a mysterious death unravel their carefully maintained facades.
Film/Video
Alisha Tejpal
Filmmaker, Writer, and Editor — India/United States
Alisha Tejpal is an Indian filmmaker, writer and editor whose work has screened at festivals worldwide. Her creative practice spans fiction and non-fiction; its central point of inquiry stems from an investigation of the invisible. Her first short film LATA won multiple awards and was acquired by Mubi, Arte, and the Criterion Channel. Alisha’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Film at Lincoln Center, and a MacDowell Fellowship. She has an MFA in Film from CalArts.
At Bogliasco, Tejpal and collaborator Mireya Martinez will continue to write their first feature length screenplay, For the Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells(working title). Centering its exploration on themes of micro-violence and generational collective trauma, this film offers a glimpse into the complex social fabric of urban India. In an affluent Mumbai apartment complex , the lives of residents and staff intertwine as hidden desires, social tensions, and a mysterious death unravel their carefully maintained facades.
Humanities Scholarship
Maya Jasanoff
(History) — Author and Scholar — United States/Italy
Maya Jasanoff is a professor of imperial and global history at Harvard. Her books Edge of Empire (2005), Liberty’s Exiles (2011), and The Dawn Watch (2017) have won accolades including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Cundill Prize in History, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. She writes widely about history, literature, and world affairs for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times.
At Bogliasco, Maya will work toward completing Ancestors, a book about the human preoccupation with lineage from the earliest records of ancestor veneration to the DNA tests of today. Combining wide-ranging historical synthesis with an exploration of Jasanoff’s own Indian and Jewish genealogies, Ancestors investigates the many ways in which lineage has been used to assign and deny people power, status, and rights.
Literature
Ingrid Persaud
Writer, Artist, and Legal Academic — Trinidad/United Kingdom
Ingrid will be working on her third novel which follows two women, both descendants of Indian indentured laborers, one Trinidadian and the other Surinamese as they confront both British and Dutch indentured history and their own sense of belonging. It is a story that explores themes of social justice, poverty, property and migration. Blending fiction with archival research and personal family history, this story reclaims the voices of historically marginalized women.
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic living in London. Her debut Love After Love, (Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award, Author’s Club First Novel Award and the Indie Book Award for Fiction. She has also won the BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her second novel, The Lost Love Songs (Faber) was published in 2024. Persaud is Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies, 2025.
Music
John Casken
Composer and Painter — United Kingdom
The British composer John Casken (b1949) has established himself as one of the most distinctive composers of his generation. His works range across every genre and the titles reveal that he can be inspired both by literature and by legend as well as landscape and the visual arts. He lives in Wooler in North Northumberland where the landscape, its changing colours, huge skies, evidence of Early Christianity, and the poetry of this part of England have influenced his works in different ways. They have helped to create a strong sense of place, forming a thread throughout his music, and in his own paintings.
During his Bogliasco residency, Casken intends to work on his Second Cello Concerto. His First Cello Concerto was composed in 1991 for the great Austrian cellist Heinrich Schiff and commissioned by one of England’s leading chamber orchestras, Northern Sinfonia (now Royal Northern Sinfonia), at the start of his ten-year position as the orchestra’s Composer- in-Association. Working on the First Cello Concerto confirmed his love for the instrument which has since been central to a number of his works, and in particular in chamber music and ensemble works. Inevitable Rifts (2009) for string quintet is for string quartet plus an extra cello; the central movement of Winter Reels (2010) for six players is for solo cello with ensemble; Stolen Airs (2016) is a large-scale, single-movement work for cello and piano, and last year he composed Tree of Angels (2024) for cello and organ. Embarking on a new concerto will build on the experience of writing these works and also afford him the opportunity to explore new possibilities of bringing the solo cello together once again with an orchestra. Two orchestras are considering the premiere and subsequent performances of the new work: Royal Northern Sinfonia and the English Symphony Orchestra. Negotiations are ongoing, but at this stage arrangements are still not concrete, nor has a final decision been made about who will be the soloist. I intend to use the next few months to develop ideas about the nature and structure of the new work so that by the time I arrive in Bogliasco my creative thinking and decision-making will be well under way.
Theater
Constance Jaquay Strickland
Founder and Visual Director, Theatre Roscius — United States
Constance Strickland is the founder and Visual Director of Theatre Roscius, known for its bold fusion of experimental movement, physical photography, performance art, and theatre. A durational artist at heart, her work is rooted in the body—deep within her bones and solar plexus—connected to an ancient matriarchal lineage. This connection fuels original, transdisciplinary creations that give voice to women who go unseen, telling stories that live in the space between silence and speech. She recently completed residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Getty Villa Theatre Lab for her physical play Medea Refracted. Upcoming residencies at BASE Seattle and The Six Viewpoints Institute will support the development of her new solo, A Study on the Weight of Blackness (Unveils): The Resilience of Being Black, and her durational work mercy: An Ode to Black Women’s Free Labor, commissioned for WEHO’s Arts Outside in partnership with New York’s Art in Odd Places.
During her Bogliasco residency, Constance will complete the final six pocket plays in a 15-part collection inspired by Terence’s belief that “nothing human is alien to me.” These short, movement-based works use the body as both vessel and voice—designed to be performed by any body. Centered on the inner emotional lives of women, the plays are rooted in grief, resilience, defiance, and healing. Each piece invites a deeper reckoning with the human condition, where gesture becomes language and movement speaks what words cannot.
Visual Arts
Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia
Visual Artist — Spain
Estibaliz Sádaba Murguia is an artist with a PhD in Art and Research (EHU/UPV). She holds a scholarship from the Spanish Academy in Rome (2016 and 2018) and has exhibited at MUSAC, Fundación BBVA, Museo Lázaro Galdiano and Museo Thyssen. Her practice unites theory, art and feminist activism, generating spaces for dialogue and reflection. She conceives research as a processual and collaborative work that weaves links between projects and people in an attempt to create new narratives and ways of understanding contemporary culture. She is the co-founder of Erreakzioa-Reacción (1994), a pioneering initiative for the dissemination and teaching of feminist art and thought.
At Bogliasco, Sádaba Murguia is looking to develop an artistic research that delves into the historical difficulty that women have faced, both in urban and rural environments, to inhabit public space. Using video, sound and performance art, she will seek to make visible how, through different actions, they took the floor and created spaces for reflection. This work amplifies their voices and recovers forgotten knowledge about care and its social impact.