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.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this September!Milo Masoničić (milo masonicic) is the recipient of the 2...
09/01/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this September!

Milo Masoničić (milo masonicic) is the recipient of the 2025 Milčik Award for Young Visual Artists in Montenegro.

Sampling sits at the core of Milo Masoničić’s practice, functioning both as a tool and as a way of perceiving the world. His work spans experimental film, video, sound, and digital media, drawing on processes of montage, appropriation, archiving, and remixing. By working with fragments displaced from their original narratives, Masoničić constructs new visual and digital landscapes from materials that are already familiar or recognizable. Recurring motifs from different sources are layered and reassembled, creating rhythm through irregular loops that partially repeat while subtly shifting with each iteration. Although the materials and methods vary, Masoničić’s practice consistently returns to themes of childhood, time and aging, nature, and technology, exploring the fragile relationships between memory, repetition, and transformation.

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

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this September!Inês Leal (Inês Leal) is a visual artist, researcher, and...
09/01/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this September!

Inês Leal (Inês Leal) is a visual artist, researcher, and designer. Her artistic and research practice has an essayistic and experimental character, resulting in the production of installations, series of works in video, photography, or other analog technical media, where she regularly resorts to the appropriation and study of photographic archives. During her master’s degree in Cinema, she conducted research into working communities in mining regions and their relationships with the moving image. She has been producing and exhibiting artworks regularly in exhibition contexts since 2021, having shown her work collectively at Culturgest Porto, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), gnration, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Serralves Museum, and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain).

Inês Leal’s residency is made possible with support from FLAD – Luso-American Foundation for Development and the Shuttle Programme — PLÁKA Platform, Porto City Council.

RU Workshop: Postcards From Botanical Explorers. Drawing and Storytelling📅 Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM...
08/16/2026

RU Workshop: Postcards From Botanical Explorers. Drawing and Storytelling

📅 Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island

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

Through storytelling, botanical exploration, and drawing, this workshop led by Gabriela Galván (Gabriela Galván) (RU Alum 2021) encourages close observation, and uses drawing as a tool for engaging with the natural world. Exploring the surroundings of RU House on Governors Island we are going to reveal the medicinal and edible properties of wild weeds, cultivating new connections between humans, animals, minerals, and the land, to discover new perspectives on the landscapes of everyday life.

Participants will document their botanical journey through drawing, creating one to three postcards inspired by their observations using watercolor pencils. The workshop is open to people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds.

No previous experience in drawing or botany is required.

Recommendations for Participants:
The workshop will take place outdoors. Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes. We also recommend bringing sunglasses, a cap or hat, and a water bottle. Be sure to apply sunscreen before the workshop.



This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

RU Workshop: Printing the Environment: Gel Plate Monoprinting with Recycled and Natural Elements📅 Sunday, September 13, ...
08/13/2026

RU Workshop: Printing the Environment: Gel Plate Monoprinting with Recycled and Natural Elements

📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island

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

This hands-on workshop with artist Katya Grokhovsky (RU alum 2014) (Katya Grokhovsky) introduces participants to the possibilities of gel plate monoprinting, an accessible printmaking process that requires no press and can be practiced with minimal equipment. Using reusable gel printing plates, participants will create unique prints by experimenting with natural and recycled materials.

Through demonstrations of layering, masking, texture transfer, and direct pulling and printing techniques, participants will learn how to transform everyday and organic materials into compositions, capturing traces of both the natural and human-made. All levels are welcome.

Materials are provided, and participants will leave with their own prints.

*Participants are asked to gather and bring natural and found materials from their environments that they would like to experiment with, including any found paper that they might want to print on.



This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

RU Workshop: Branching Connectivity - Pliable Sculptures Inspired by Plant Friends📅 Saturday, September 5, 2026 | 2:00 -...
08/07/2026

RU Workshop: Branching Connectivity - Pliable Sculptures Inspired by Plant Friends

📅 Saturday, September 5, 2026 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island

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

In this hands-on workshop led by Miatta Kawinzi (miatta kawinzi : : :) (2023 RU NYC BAR alum), participants will be inspired by engaging in close observation and sketching of tree, plant, and root formations on Governor’s Island, and guided in creating pliable wire sculptures that reflect their shapes. Using a shared technique of hand-wrapping wire in yarn, participants will create modular sculptures that will then be combined into a larger, collectively-shaped formation.

The process will echo principles of collectivity, inter-connection, and inter-dependence modeled by the natural world.

All levels are welcome and materials will be provided.



This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!Liza Goncharenko () is a Ukrainian architect, urban designer...
08/07/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!

Liza Goncharenko () is a Ukrainian architect, urban designer and researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. During 2013–2017, she was Ukraine’s National Contact for the EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly ), later tutoring at EASA Tourist (Switzerland), EASA Rhizome (Finland), EASA Seanchaí (Ireland) and IDW Antwerp (Belgium). She co-curated SESAM (Small European Students of Architecture Meeting, 2021), a month-long international architecture event within the EASA network held in Slavutych, Ukraine – bringing together over 100 participants from more than 20 countries, focused on the theme ‘Poliklinika’ (clinic), exploring healthcare and its relationship to architecture, alongside lectures, discussions, performances, music events, and visits to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Her work explores architecture, heritage, and landscape, with a focus on Ukraine’s reconstruction. During her residency at RU, Liza will expand Landscapes of Recovery, a long-term project examining environments shaped by war, fire, and extraction as ecological and cultural archives. Focusing on sites in Ukraine affected by Russia’s invasion, burned forests, and damaged river systems, she approaches these not as isolated cases but as part of broader planetary conditions shaped by conflict and uneven repair.

Liza Goncharenko’s residency is made possible with support from the Flanders State of the Art.

RU Open House Weekends 📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island📅 August 15-16, 22-23, 2...
08/06/2026

RU Open House Weekends

📍 RU House at Colonels Row, Building , Governors Island Governors Island
📅 August 15-16, 22-23, 29-30 and September 5-6, 12-13, 2026 | 11 am – 5 pm
✨ Visits also available by appointment (email [email protected])

Come to visit the RU House on Governors Island (Governors Island) and discover works realized in their studios by RU resident artists and local alumni Elisa Bertaglia (Elisa Bertaglia), Maureen Catbagan (Maureen Catbagan), Hayley Ferber (Hayley Ferber), Chris Glabb (Chris Glabb), Gabriele Grones (Gabriele Grones), Olga Pastekova (Oľga Paštéková), and Tharini Sankarasubramanian.  These open studios are made possible as part of the 2026 Organizations in Residence program enabling RU presence on Colonels Row from May through October.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In-kind support is provided by Materials for the Arts.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!The work of Isabel Cordovil (Isabel Cordovil) mainly investi...
08/06/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!

The work of Isabel Cordovil (Isabel Cordovil) mainly investigates the politics of revisiting narratives – be it in myth, folklore, religion, literature, dreams, or around the collective unconscious – and new possible navigations or manipulations of them. Accepting language and symbols as the process of meaning-construction, her research and creative process is always towards broadening their spectrums of agency. Despite its physical absence, the human body often operates as a principal subject, as a mediator between the self and the external world, a measuring device set out to explore themes tied to (gender) identity, the self, sites of political discourse, finitude, and death. Mainly through installation and sculpture, Isabel’s work reflects a poetic language of playful metaphor, a freedom and visual disobedience that search for new ways of belonging/defying and celebrating otherness.

Isabel’s solo exhibitions include: Juliet and Juliet, MACAM, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); The Enigma of Arrival, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); A Place Called Under, Cisterna de Elvas, Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art, Elvas, Portugal (2025); Vanity Plagues Me, Almada Municipal Art Gallery, Portugal (2025);  Dos cosas tan desiguales, Galeria Pedro Cera, Madrid, Spain (2025).

Isabel Cordovil’s residency is made possible with support from FLAD.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!Shirel Horovitz’s (Shirel Kadambari Horovitz) practice is dr...
08/06/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!

Shirel Horovitz’s (Shirel Kadambari Horovitz) practice is driven by the intersection of urban architecture, furniture, and the human figure. She gathers materials and inspiration from the streets to craft with them hybrid sculptures that are part dysfunctional furniture, part creature. The rationale of her work relies on the tension between the memory of the functional whole and new imaginary spaces and forms. Shirel works across different spaces and in collaboration with professionals from various disciplines, inviting their expertise to shape the logic of her work. This commitment to exchange and respect for diverse forms of knowledge also informs her relationship with audiences. Her work seeks to engage viewers on multiple levels: inviting in-depth conversations around artistic practice and art history while remaining communicative and evocative regardless of age, background, or academic knowledge.

Horovitz’s selected solo exhibitions include: This Which Is Not One, The Artists’ Residence Herzliya (2025); Choreography of Gratitude, She/They Gallery, Santa Ana, California (2023); The Right Angle, the Meander and the Star, Durham, North Carolina (2020); Spine, the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Gallery (2018). Her performances have been presented at Manofim Festival, Jerusalem (2024); Ashdod Museum of Art (2017); and White Night Tel Aviv (2023), among others.

Shirel Horovitz’s residency is made possible with support from Artis and CSP.

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!Norbert Kuki (Norbert Kuki) is one of the 2026 laureates of ...
08/04/2026

Introducing the Artists in Residence joining us this August!

Norbert Kuki (Norbert Kuki) is one of the 2026 laureates of the Oskar Čepan Award for contemporary art in Slovakia.

Norbert Kuki is a Roma artist from Slovakia. With a background in visual art and music (hip-hop/rap), he uses art to define contemporary Roma identity and as a tool for preserving, disseminating, and explaining Roma culture. His work draws on the Romani language, stories, and legends, which he explores from multiple perspectives. Recently, he has focused on questions related to what it means when a language becomes official, how translation functions, the impact of globalization, and the role of music in sustaining language. He was a participant of a group exhibition Smoke & Mirrorsat Pálffy Palace – Bratislava City Gallery, Slovakia (2025-2026). He is often a part of screening programs, and in 2025, he participated in screening and discussion of Kambium 1492 + Filozofia Vagabundstva (Philosophy of Vagabondism) at Žilina-Záriečie Station, Žilina, Slovakia.

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

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