Hello New York! · Edition 3

2023: Hello New York!

DatesOctober 16–27, 2023

WhereBrooklyn, New York

Cohort13 artists

2023: Hello New York! — group photograph — 2023: Hello New York! — Brooklyn, New York.

The edition

What this one was about.

The program leaned into its "unconventional format" — prioritizing workshops, studio visits, and community engagement over a traditional production-based residency. It was organized by Carmen Ferreyra (Founding Director), Susanne Ewerlöf (Europe Director), and local specialist Dulcina Abreu, with support from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Humanities New York, the Citizens Committee for New York City, and The Cowles Charitable Trust.

The cohort

13 artists.

Anahita Bradberry

Artist, curator & communications professional, Austin

Anahita Bradberry is an artist, curator, and communications professional based in Austin, Texas. Bradberry participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across sculpture, installation, and curatorial practice, her work explores ecology, material transformation, and the emotional dimensions of landscape. She creates immersive environments that investigate permeability, memory, and the relationship between natural and constructed systems. Alongside her artistic practice, she has curated exhibitions including Porous Matters at MASS Gallery and presented work at venues including the Blaffer Art Museum and DiverseWorks. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges artistic research, public engagement, and environmental inquiry.

Anna Ehrenstein

Interdisciplinary artist, Berlin/Tirana

Anna Ehrenstein is an interdisciplinary artist working between Berlin and Tirana. Ehrenstein participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Her practice moves across photography, installation, sculpture, video, and digital media, examining diasporic identity, post-digital culture, and global systems of power. Through what she describes as a “precarious assemblage,” she combines AI, textiles, image-based media, and sculptural forms to challenge technological, social, and political hierarchies. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions including Museum Villa Stuck, C/O Berlin, and the Lagos Biennial. Working across research and exhibition-making, Ehrenstein has become a significant voice in contemporary post-digital discourse.

Carlos Nunez

Artist & curator, New York

Carlos Nunez is a Venezuelan artist and curator based in New York. Nunez participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across visual art, installation, and speculative narrative, his practice examines historical systems of power and their imprint on everyday life, with particular attention to the political and cultural relationship between Venezuela and the United States. His work explores geopolitical violence, displacement, and the invisible infrastructures that shape social and economic realities through layered visual language and research-driven inquiry. Alongside his artistic practice, Nunez is the founder of Mimo, an experimental artist-run gallery in Bushwick that has quickly become an important platform for emerging and interdisciplinary voices in New York. Founded in his basement studio, Mimo was recently highlighted by Hyperallergic as one of New York’s notable new art spaces, further establishing Nunez as an important voice across both artistic and curatorial practice.

Elizabeth Peralta

Interdisciplinary artist, educator & organizer, New York

Elizabeth Peralta is a Puerto Rican and Dominican interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural organizer based in New York. Peralta participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across ceramics, papier-mâché, performance, fashion, and craft-based practices, Peralta explores queer Latinidad, spiritual identity, ancestry, and embodied memory. Their work draws from personal experience and Caribbean heritage, using material, color, and symbolism to create emotionally resonant environments rooted in healing and transformation. Recent projects include exhibitions with ChaShaMa, including Cozy: A Future of Softness, as well as artist and community initiatives connected to Parsons School of Design. Bridging artistic practice with education, ritual, and collective care, Peralta continues to build a deeply personal and community-centered practice.

Henrik Langsdorf

Visual artist & filmmaker

Henrik Langsdorf is a visual artist and filmmaker working between New York, Kassel, and Nairobi. Langsdorf participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across collage, video, installation, and public art, his practice examines colonial history, urban transformation, and structures of marginalization. His recent work draws from extended research in Kinshasa and Nairobi, exploring how historical violence continues to shape contemporary urban life. Major projects include Rudolf Duala Manga Bell — a German Story, presented at ruruhaus during documenta fifteen, as well as exhibitions at MARKK Museum in Hamburg and Doual’Art in Cameroon. Through research-driven installations and moving image, Langsdorf creates layered reflections on memory, power, and historical visibility.

Iván Sikic

Conceptual & performance artist, New York

Iván Sikic is a Peruvian conceptual and performance artist based in New York. Sikic participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across performance, installation, photography, and public interventions, his practice uses minimal yet symbolically charged gestures to examine structures of power, labor, migration, violence, and economic inequality. Often incorporating everyday objects, endurance-based actions, and spatial interventions, his work challenges familiar systems by isolating and recontextualizing the rituals, materials, and symbols that shape contemporary life. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including The 8th Floor (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art Lima, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Smack Mellon, and NADA x Foreland. A recipient of the 2023 Palm Foundation Award, Sikic has built a compelling interdisciplinary practice that bridges conceptual rigor, political urgency, and embodied critique.

Manuel Mera

Artist, Santo Domingo/Barcelona

Manuel Mera is a Dominican artist based between Santo Domingo and Barcelona. Mera participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, installation, and animation, building vivid imaginary worlds shaped by satire, memory, and contemporary visual culture. Combining geometric structures, anthropomorphic forms, and narrative fragments, his work explores the contradictions of luxury, power, consumption, and digital life. His projects have been presented through exhibitions including Los futuros del lenguaje and at international art fairs with Catalysta. Through an approach that moves fluidly between humor and unease, Mera creates visually saturated environments where fiction and reality collide.

María Elena Pombo

Artist & researcher, New York

María Elena Pombo is a Venezuelan artist and researcher based in New York. Pombo participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across installation, sculpture, video, and participatory projects, her practice investigates territory, material histories, and speculative futures through research-driven inquiry. Using materials such as avocado seeds, mollusk shells, algae, and petroleum—often gathered through collaborative processes—she transforms everyday matter into conceptual frameworks for examining colonization, migration, geopolitics, and environmental systems. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions including The Bronx Museum, Somerset House, New Museum, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. A recipient of the 2021 London Design Biennale Theme Medal, Pombo has also received support from NYFA and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches at Parsons School of Design, where she continues to expand conversations around material experimentation, ecology, and collective knowledge production.

Melanie Wu

Filmmaker & visual artist, Miami/New York

Melanie Wu is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Miami and New York. Wu participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working primarily through video, performance, and time-based media, her practice explores diasporic identity, family history, and the layered realities of cultural belonging. Drawing from her experience as a Chinese American and Guatemalan American artist, she creates intimate narratives that examine heritage, migration, and the complexities of preserving cultural memory within the framework of the American dream. Her films and moving-image works often center domestic space, intergenerational relationships, and personal storytelling as sites of reflection and resistance. A graduate of Parsons School of Design and The New School, Wu has presented work through Sundance Collab, where her short film Loveboat Takeout highlights her nuanced approach to narrative, identity, and memory.

Natalia Mejía Murillo

Visual artist, Bogotá/United States

Natalia Mejía Murillo is a Colombian visual artist working between Bogotá and the United States. Mejía Murillo participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Her practice moves between printmaking, sculpture, and installation, exploring territory, repetition, trace, and time through the intersecting languages of cartography, archaeology, and astronomy. Combining printed matter with fragile materials such as glass, branches, and organic forms, she constructs poetic systems of measurement and navigation. Recent exhibitions include D.D.D.D. Gallery (New York), Smack Mellon, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and Kunstmuseum Reutlingen. Through materially rich and research-driven installations, Mejía Murillo investigates the shifting boundaries between memory, geography, and abstraction.

Nikita Shokhov

Visual artist, filmmaker & creative technologist, New York

Nikita Shokhov is a visual artist, filmmaker, and creative technologist based in New York. Shokhov participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Working across immersive environments, photography, film, XR, and volumetric video, his practice investigates human consciousness, memory, identity, and the shifting relationship between body and technology. Moving fluidly between documentary methods and experimental digital media, he creates spatial narratives that merge performance, real-time graphics, mixed reality, and interactive storytelling. His work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including Tribeca Immersive, DOK Leipzig, Loop Barcelona, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and Manifesta 10. A recipient of the World Press Photo award and the FIVARS Grand Jury Prize, Shokhov has established a distinctive interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of contemporary art, immersive technology, and cinematic world-building.

Sève Favre

Artist & art historian, near Lausanne

Sève Favre is a Swiss artist and art historian based near Lausanne. Favre participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Her interdisciplinary practice centers on participation, sensory perception, and viewer interaction, often dissolving the traditional boundary between artwork and audience. Working across mixed media, installation, and paper-based forms, she develops what she calls “intervariactive” works—pieces that evolve through viewer engagement and transformation. Favre has exhibited extensively in Switzerland and internationally, with projects spanning museum exhibitions, residencies, and public-facing installations. Her work continues to explore perception, multiplicity, and the shifting relationship between physical and virtual experience.

Tichacoco

Interdisciplinary artist, Brooklyn

Tichacoco is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, poetry, sculpture, and installation. Tichacoco participated in the Curatorial Program for Research in 2023. Rooted in their experience within the Salvadoran diaspora, their practice explores memory, displacement, and the reclamation of narratives surrounding Indigenous and campesino communities in El Salvador and beyond. Through sculptural costuming, performance, and text-based work, Tichacoco creates immersive environments that bridge personal history with collective memory and cultural resistance. Recently named an inaugural recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship at The Clemente Center, their practice continues to gain recognition for its experimental and community-centered approach to identity, land, and belonging.

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