2026 RESIDENT AND VISITING ARTISTS

We are pleased to welcome our 2026 Resident Faculty Artists: Teresa Baker, Sahar Khoury, Eduardo Navarro, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and William Villalongo. Visiting Faculty Artists and the Paul Mellon Distinguished Fellow will be announced in the future. Please check back soon!

Teresa Baker is a Mandan/Hidatsa artist and was born in 1985. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker's Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects.

Teresa  has had recent solo exhibitions at St. Louis CAM, St. Louis, MO; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia;  Broadway Gallery, New York; de boer, Los Angeles; The Arts Club of Chicago; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Pied-à-terre, San Francisco and The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX. Recent group exhibitions include the Prospect. 6 Triennial, New Orleans, LA; Made In LA at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Teresa  Baker is a 2025 Guggenheim fellow, a 2022 Joan Michell Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Native American Fellowship for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation. Baker received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from Fordham University.

Photo credit: Airyka Rockefeller

Eduardo Navarro was born in Argentina in 1979 and lives in Chile and Uruguay. He describes his practice: “‘Contemplate until you become’. I create works rooted in the power of deliberate uncertainty, collective intuition and the experience of non-conceptual language from a non-human perception: such as becoming a cloud, hearing like a flower or dancing like octopus in order to embody how they sense the world and communicate in it. My work expands in a series of mediums, such as kinetic sculptures, automatic-drawing and collective activations that require a state of deeper contemplation and transformation, which I hope blurs the illusory boundary between the inside and outside world.”

His recent solo exhibitions include Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala (2021); Gasworks, London (2020); The Drawing Center, New York (2018); Der TANK, Basel (2017); and the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City (2016). His work has been exhibited at the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Walker Art Center (2025), Wanås Art Foundation (2024), Gherdenïa Biennial (2022) and the Toronto Biennial (2022); the São Paulo Biennial (2016 and 2010); New Museum Triennial, New York (2015); the Sharjah Biennale (2015). His works are part of the collections of MoMA (USA), LACMA (USA), Castello Rivoli (Italy), MAMBA (Argentina), among others.

Photo: Eduardo Navarro, F.O.C.A., 2024. Credit: Leslie Gomez

Naomi Rincón-Gallardo (born 1979) lives and works between Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mexico.

From a decolonial-queer perspective, her critical-mythical worldmaking addresses the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theater games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of color critique. She holds a BFA degree in Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico, a MA degree in Education, Culture Language and Identity from Goldmiths University of London, UK, and a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

Recent shows include: Hedor (Stench), Plataforma, Guadalajara (2024), Sonnet of Vermin, Hayward Gallery, London (2024), Tzitzimime Trilogy, la Casa Encendida Madrid, 2023; Artes Mundi 10, Chapter, Cardiff (2023); Momenta Biennale de l’Image, 2023 Montreal; 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022; 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 2021; Una Trilogía de Cuevas (A Trilogy of Caves), 2020, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; May your thunder break the sky, 2020, Kunstraum Innsbruck; 11 Berlin Biennale, 2020, Berlin; Sangre Pesada (Heavy Blood), 2019, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City.

Photo courtesy of artist

Sahar Khoury is an artist based in Oakland, CA. Trained in anthropology, she worked for years on community-based research projects concerning structural vulnerability within Latinx migrant labor communities. Khoury makes sculptures that integrate abstraction, personal and political symbols, and an intuitive sensitivity to site. Found or rejected objects that are immediate, abundant, and recurring, serve as a script for her interdependent constructions made of metal, ceramic, cement, and papier-mâché. Khoury developed her art practice within the Bay Area’s queer community of the late 1990s and 2000s. She received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013. Khoury’s solo shows include the Wexner Center for the Arts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, SFMOMA, Rebecca Camacho (SF) and CANADA (NY). She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2025) and the Eureka fellowship (2026-2029).

Photo credit: Robert Divers Herrick

William Villalongo lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in 1975 in Hollywood, FL and raised in the town of Bridgeton, NJ. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He writes about his practice: "In recent work, I am transplanting the inherent and persistent fragility that surrounds Black life within the symbolic languages of healing, power, metamorphic and geologic transformation. The works are embedded with images of crystals, meteorites, butterflies and African sculpture. This is a growing lexicon of images that infuse the space of the body. A central question I ask in my work is how do we see the Black subject without the body present. How do we see ourselves beyond flesh? The work intends to speak to notions of liberation and remembrance in the afterlives of extraction and migration."

Villalongo is the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor's Grant. His work is included in several notable collections including the Studio Museum In Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Princeton University Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio and Denver Art Museum. Villalongo attended the American Academy in Rome as the 2022 Jules Guerin & Harold M. English Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Art. He also curated American Beauty at Susan Inglett Gallery in 2013 and Black Pulp! touring nationally between 2016-2018 exploring the intersections of politics, history and art. Currently, he is an  Associate Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Photo credit: Argenis Apollinario Photography (c) Villalongo Studio LLC