Residency Unlimited

Residency Unlimited Residency Unlimited is a not-for-profit organization that fosters dynamic artist residency initiative
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Residency Unlimited (RU) supports the creative process and promotes exchange through its unique residency program and year-round public programs. Moving beyond the traditional studio model, RU forges strategic partnerships with collaborating institutions to offer flexible and customized residencies designed to meet the individual goals, needs and visions of local and international artists and cura

tors. RU is particularly committed to promoting multidisciplinary practices and building lasting connections between residents and the broader arts community.

RU Workshop: Foraged Color—Making a Palette from Governors Island📅 Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM📍 RU House at Col...
06/03/2026

RU Workshop: Foraged Color—Making a Palette from Governors Island

📅 Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island

Limited to spots available. 🔗RSVP and learn more from the link in bio!

Join Rory Torstensson () (2025 RU alum) for an exploratory color workshop on Governors Island where art, ecology, and observation come together.

Participants will begin by walking the island to forage for small natural materials that catch their eye such as rocks, leaves, flowers, seaweed, soil, or other found elements that inspire a particular color. Back at the RU House, we’ll use these materials as references to learn how to mix paint to match the colors we discovered. Through guided color-mixing exercises, participants will create a series of hand-painted swatches that translate the island’s natural palette into paint.

Each swatch will be labeled with its “ingredient list”, the specific paint combinations used to create the color, so the palette can be recreated and built upon later.

By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a personal library of repeatable colors drawn directly from the landscape of Governors Island. This workshop encourages slow looking, experimentation, and a deeper connection between place and palette.

No prior painting experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

ArtOnGovernorsIsland

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!Jana Zatvarnická’s (.zatvarnicka) artistic practice explores t...
06/02/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!

Jana Zatvarnická’s (.zatvarnicka) artistic practice explores the entanglement of human and non-human forms through ecofeminism, ritual, and material transformation. Working across painting, installation, and performative processes, she creates hybrid bodies that dissolve boundaries between plant, soil, memory, and the human body. Through the use of organic and unstable materials such as rust, wax, hair, gold, pigments, and found matter, her works function as sites of imprinting—holding traces of touch, decay, gesture, and time. Drawing from narratives of witchcraft, botany, archival research, and the transhistorical memory of the female body, she investigates how systems of power shape relationships between gender, ecology, knowledge, and embodiment. Her practice approaches painting as both material experiment and speculative form of research, where myth, ritual, and organic transformation become tools for reimagining human and more-than-human coexistence. Through symbolic and sensory languages, she reflects on cycles of vulnerability, healing, and interconnectedness beyond anthropocentric structures.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!Krsto Gligorjadis () is a RU/YVAA artist () and recipient of t...
06/02/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!

Krsto Gligorjadis () is a RU/YVAA artist () and recipient of the 2025 DENES Award for Young Visual Artists (.award.nagrada) in North Macedonia.

Krsto Gligorjadis is a multidisciplinary visual artist and performer whose work fuses ritual, myth, and contemporary questions of masculinity, shaped by the chauvinistic context in which he lives and works. Trained in law, pedagogy, graphic design, and visual arts, his interdisciplinary practice bridges gender rights, societal critique, and personal transformation. Through performance, installation, and participatory works, Gligorjadis explores how private emotions become public reflection, questioning what it means to be a man today. His body-centered practice functions as a therapeutic ritual, transforming trauma into embodied artwork and creating spaces of empathy, accountability, and healing.

Krsto’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

RU Workshop: NOTICING TERRESTRIAL NARRATIVES (Imprinting & Frottage Workshop)📅 Saturday, June 6, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM📍 RU...
06/01/2026

RU Workshop: NOTICING TERRESTRIAL NARRATIVES (Imprinting & Frottage Workshop)

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island

Limited to spots available. 🔗RSVP and learn more from the link in bio!

In this workshop, led by Tatiana Arocha (.tatiana) (2023 NYCBAR/RU alum), participants will work directly with plants and surrounding surfaces found on the grounds of Governors Island through clay impressions and graphite rubbings.

By touching, observing, and transferring textures from leaves, bark, soil, and built materials, they create prints and impressions that capture traces of the environment.

No prior experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

ArtOnGovernorsIsland

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!Petra Janda () is a RU/YVAA artist () and recipient of the 202...
06/01/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!

Petra Janda () is a RU/YVAA artist () and recipient of the 2023 Jindřich Chalupecký Award () in Czech Republic.

Petra Janda is a multimedia artist moving across the spheres of creation and education, always interested in the relations between people and environmental issues, sustainable development of the outer world, and the ways to improve the environment, both external and internal – psychological. She is aware of the interconnectedness of the inner processes and of the influences they bear on the surrounding world. Her site-specific installations or art objects deal with the preservation of natural processes and life. In her work, she expresses ecological concerns not only via protective and predominantly feminine motives, but she also understands them as means of interpersonal communication. Her artistic creation responds to the current life with openness, indeterminacy, subtlety, and mystery, and relates to it by including community projects, ancient myths, and inner spirituality.

Petra’s residency is made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!Mari Claudia García () is a U.S.–based multidisciplinary artis...
06/01/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this June!

Mari Claudia García () is a U.S.–based multidisciplinary artist and educator originally from Havana, Cuba, interested in the intersection of arts and politics. Her art practice is anchored in a socio-political exploration of communication and language as impacted by power dynamics and politics. García is intrigued by tensions around political correctness and ‘cancel culture.’ Currently, her research delves into censorship and protest, examining their dynamics in both totalitarian regimes and democracies. She engages with various mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, video-installation, photography, and sound, using methods ranging from digital fabrication to weaving and casting. Modifying objects, thus amplifying their ethical and aesthetic resonance is central to Mari Claudia García’s practice. She is particularly drawn to a process-based approach to work, where fluidity and participant involvement are integral.

Mari Claudia’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.

RU Talk: The Artist as Biographer: Ru Marshall and David Dixon discuss American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Ca...
05/26/2026

RU Talk: The Artist as Biographer: Ru Marshall and David Dixon discuss American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda

📍 Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn, NY 11231
📅 Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm

On June 3, artist/writer Ru Marshall () and artist/curator David Dixon () will discuss Ru’s newly released biography American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda (OR Books). Twenty years in the making, American Trickster tells the story of the once world-famous pseudo anthropologist who rose to fame in the 1970s following the publication of his first book, The Teachings of Don Juan. Castaneda, a brilliant plagiarist, became one of the bestselling authors of his era by passing off novels as anthropology; among the topics to be discussed will be the problem of authenticity in writing and the visual arts, and the boundary between fact and fiction.

05/26/2026

Featuring RU artist-in-residence Shony Rivnay () in the RU voices interview series 🎤

Join us for Shony’s Open Studio and Book Launch in conversation with Jessica Holmes () and Naomi Lev () on May 28, 6 pm at 66 W Broadway, #506, New York, NY, 10007.

Shony’s practice centers on painting as an inquiry, exploring how time and experiences manifest in abstract processes. Working primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas, his compositions develop through a meditative experience, ensuring sustained attention to gesture and spatial relationships. Rivnay’s painting process is non-hierarchical; canvases are placed on the ground as he moves around them, shifting orientation and pace. Multiple paintings are worked on simultaneously, influencing one another while an internal coherence appears. Orientation is never predetermined, enabling elements to float, collide, and settle, and producing dynamic compositions. His recent body of work cultivates a visual language that operates between structure and intuition, embracing memory and the unknown as generative forces. Trial and error are central to his practice, functioning as productive tools that open formal possibilities.

05/21/2026

Featuring RU artist-in-residence FABELO HUNG () in the RU voices interview series 🎤

Join us for FABELO’S Exhibition “Shadows in the Screen” on May 26, 5pm at Cuban Artists Fund Studio, 208 E 51st St, 2nd Floor, NY.

FABELO HUNG works across an expansive terrain of media — painting, sculpture, performance, installation, photography, video, virtual reality, and robotics — not out of restlessness, but out of a conviction that no single form can contain what he is trying to say. Born in Cuba and now based in Miami, his practice is shaped by cultural displacement and the awareness that images and histories are never neutral. At its core is a gesture he calls visual piracy: moving through culture as a scavenger and saboteur, collecting fragments charged by power and returning them altered, destabilized, freed from their original discourse.

FABELO HUNG’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.

May Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island 🎨 Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island📍 RU House, Colon...
05/20/2026

May Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island

🎨 Open Studios at the RU House on Governors Island
📍 RU House, Colonels Row, Building
📅 Sunday May 31, 2025 | 12 - 5 PM

Join us for a special Open Studios event featuring current and alumni RU artists: Maureen Catbagan (), Hayley Ferber (), Erika Malzoni (), Paula Subercaseaux () and Jana Zatvarnicka (jana.zatvarnicka).

As part of the 2026 Organizations in Residence program, RU has a presence in Governors Island () at the RU House at 404B Colonels Row from May through October, where RU artists and alums have studio spaces to develop new bodies of work across the 2026 season.

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