All of our residency applications are evaluated by our review panel, our Co-Directors, and our Director of Artistic Programming. Our panelists are established artists, curators, gallery directors, and writers (among other things). Most of them have passed through Wassaic themselves, and all of them are dedicated to giving emerging artists the space to explore and expand their practices.
Residents are selected based on the quality of their work, commitment to their practice, and ability to interact positively with the community at large.
Robert Dimin was born in 1980. He studied Art History, Fine Art and Poetry at the New School and has an MFA in Art from the University of Pennsylvania. He opened DIMIN, a contemporary art gallery in Tribeca in March of 2023 after being a partner at Denny Dimin Gallery for 8 years. In his over 10 years as an art dealer he has placed works with museums like LACMA, the Perez, and the Parrish as well as some of the most significant private collections in the world. His exhibitions have been featured in publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum and ArtNet. Dimin has been a visiting critic or has given guest lectures at The University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, The New School, The Sotheby's institute, The Elizabeth Foundation, The Nars Foundation, Residencies Unlimited, and many other institutions. He lives in Ridgewood, NY with his wife Justine and bernedoodle Ethel.
Kristen Dodge founded SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY in 2016, and relocated to Kinderhook, NY in 2022. She formerly founded and ran DODGEgallery, Lower East Side, NY. She has organized, curated and collaborated on hundreds of exhibitions which have received press coverage including Art in America, Artforum, Art Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, Sculpture Magazine, The Art Newspaper, The New Yorker, The New York Observer, and The New York Times, among others. Her programs have been featured in The Armory Show, NADA NY, Untitled, Miami, and Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair. She is a member of Art Table, New Art Dealers Alliance, Founding Member of the Whitney Museum Contemporaries, and currently on the board of River Valley Arts Collective. Dodge received her BA in English and Visual Art from Brown University, Providence, RI, and diploma from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. She lives and works in upstate NY with her partner and many animals.
Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead; The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a blue-ribbon winner of the Montgomery Place Pie contest. She has been a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is mother to three, sister to five. She is a gardener and beekeeper; a singer and forest enthusiast in upstate New York.
Berlin Reed is an independent curator, author, community organizer, and chef based outside of Tiohtià:Ke/Montréal. A Brooklyn transplant raised near Seattle, his roots in the language of gastronomy sprouted in 2009, when Berlin began curating multidimensional pop-ups in artistic ecosystems from San Francisco to Brooklyn to Montreal — culminating in the 2013 publication of his memoir, The Ethical Butcher: How Thoughtful Eating Can Change Your World. As a 2023 fellow of both the Toronto-based Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and the New York-based Art for Artists, Berlin creates spaces and opportunities for interactions between multiple disciplines without regard for conventional lines between curator and artist, always seeking to clear space for a more challenging, engaging, and immersive audience experience. His collaborative installations with transdisciplinary artists take advantage of the ability to infiltrate the viewer’s world through sensorial works. Berlin’s current focus is “On Rupture,” a curatorial research project consisting of experimental practice, collective projects, and exhibition development in residencies across the world in the interest of interrogating the role of independent curators in dismantling oppressive norms within art institutions.
Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. Currently based in New York but originally from Newark, NJ, she has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Joan Mitchell Center, Mana Contemporary, and Alexander Gray Associates. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at NYU.
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Dolly Bross Geary is the director and co-owner of Geary gallery in Millerton, New York. Geary was founded by Dolly and her husband, Jack, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2013. The gallery represents emerging and mid-career artists working in a variety of media. Geary opened a location in Millerton, NY in 2020 and moved permanently in June of 2022.
Born in Chicago, Dolly moved to New York City in 2000. She and Jack have two daughters, a dog and a tortoise.
Jackie Clay (she/her) is a Birmingham-raised, New York-based art worker and curator. She is currently a program associate in the Arts and Culture program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2021, Jackie served as executive director and curator at the Coleman Center for the Arts, a contemporary arts organization that produces socially engaged public art projects in the Alabama Black Belt region.
Elena Muñoz-Rodriguez is Assistant Curator, Latinx & Latin American Art at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey. Muñoz-Rodriguez received her Master’s in Art History from Rutgers University. Her research and practice are focused on colonialism, migration, and syncretism in the Caribbean. At NMOA, she has worked on the exhibitions Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision and Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe, as well as reinterpreting the Museum’s newly reopened historical 18th & 19th Century American galleries. Her current projects include the long-term installation “The Spanish Caribbean Body”, and an exhibition and accompanying publication with artist Bony Ramirez (April 2024). Prior to working at NMOA, Muñoz-Rodriguez was the Research & Curatorial Assistant at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum where she worked on Gateways/Portales. She was also the recipient of a Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship.
Kenneth Reveiz is a poet, screenwriter, and literary translator from New York City who works in the service of racial and economic justice. Of Colombian heritage, Kenneth is the author of three graphic design collaboration limited edition prints of their poetry, most recently CULTURAL CHANGE IN USA (Queer.Archive.Work, 2021), and has performed and curated in venues and communities across the United States. At the age of 27 they were elected to the Board of Alders, the legislative body for the City of New Haven, and as the Alder for Ward 14 they helped secure the passage of historic legislation to increase police accountability. Kenneth is a graduate of Yale University, where they received Bates, Cornell, Courture, and Yale-O’Neill Fellowships for their research and writing. They received their M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts, where they were awarded a Lillian Disney Scholarship and a Truman Capote Fellowship. Kenneth’s debut poetry collection, MOPES: A Book of Poems in Three Acts, was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. It is now available.
Sarah Tortorich is an accomplished art professional working in the fine art industry as the Registrar & Director of Operations at Rachel Uffner Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is known for her hands-on and personable approach to organizing installations, exhibitions, and fairs, ensuring that the artists and their work are the focus. Sarah's expertise extends to maintaining comprehensive inventory and archive systems, both physical and digital, which provides decades of knowledge and reference to various groundbreaking exhibitions and important pieces throughout the gallery’s history. Most recently, Sarah has been nominated for Registrar of the Year and has been asked to be a Guest Speaker at Sotheby’s Institute in New York for their master’s course in Collection Management & Logistics.
Hanif Abdurraqib
Writer
Laylah Ali
Artist
Chad Alligood
Assistant Curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum
Paolo Arao
Artist
Man Bartlett
Artist
Horace Ballard
Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art
Quang Bao
Owner at 1969 Gallery
Tom Beale
Artist • Founder of Honey Space
Natalie Bell
Associate Curator at the New Museum
Mary Birmingham
Curator at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Barbara Bourland
Author • Residency Alum
Bill Carroll
Artist • Director of the Studio Program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw
Artists
Vince Contarino
Artist
Susan Cross
Curator of Visual Arts at MASS MoCA
Anna Maria Cuevas
Director of Cuevas Tilleard
Ben Cuevas
Artist
Annica Cuppetelli
Artist
Jen Dalton
Artist
Joanna R. Demkiewicz
Writer • Marketing Director at Milkweed Editions
Kim Drew
Founder of Black Contemporary Art Blog
Meredith Drum
Artist • Residency Alum
Delano Dunn
Artist • Residency Alum
Anaïs Duplan
Poet • Curator • Artist
Sean Fader
Artist
Aliza Kelly Faragher
Curator • Writer • Art Consultant
Carley Gaebe
Artist
Asya Geisberg
Owner and Director at Asya Geisberg Gallery
Mark Thomas Gibson
Artist • Professor
Alex Gingrow
Artist • Residency Alum
Eric Gleason
Director at Paul Kasmin
Rosario Güiraldes
Assistant Curator and Co-Director of the Open Sessions artist program at The Drawing Center
Gabriel de Guzman
Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon
Anna Harsanyi
Curator • Educator
Katherine Hill
Writer
Jamillah Hinson
Curator
Jessica Hong
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Toledo Museum of Art
Jason Huff
Artist
Maud Jacquin
Independent Curator • Scholar
Roxanne Jackson
Artist • Residency Alum
Eileen Jeng Lynch
Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill
Paddy Johnson
Founding Editor of Art F City
Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham
Co-Founder and Creative Director at Museum Hue
Martha Joseph
Curatorial Fellow at MASS MoCA
Yelena Keller
Curatorial Assistant of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Bora Kim
Director of Artist Residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Kirstin Lamb
Artist • Residency Alum
Emily Noelle Lambert
Artist • Residency Alum
Zoe Larkin
Curatorial Assistant at Whitney Museum of American Art
Caroline Larsen
Artist
Fabienne Laserre
Artist
Nora Lawrence
Associate Curator at Storm King Art Center
Oshun Layne
Manager of Exhibitions and Programming, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
Amanda Lechner
Artist • Residency Alum
Sally Morgan Lehman and Jay Lehman
Owners • Directors at Morgan Lehman Gallery
Peter L’Official
Assistant Professor of Literature, Bard College
Omar López-Chahoud
Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED
Jon Lutz
Curator • Director of Sardine
Cybele Malone
Director of Urban Glass • Artist • Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts, Wayne State University
Denise Markonish
Curator at MASS MoCA
Rebecca Matalon
Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Courtney Maum
Writer
Ashley Mayne
Writer
Kevin McCoy
Artist
Leeza Meksin
Artist • Co-Founder and Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects
Mitch Miller
Artist • Residency Alum
Rebecca Morgan
Artist
Bernardo Mosquiera
Curator • Writer
Brigitte Mulholland
Director at Anton Kern Gallery • Independent Curator
Ryan Murphy
Author • Associate Director of Four Way Books
Bryant Musgrave
Writer
Liz Nielsen
Artist
Amani Olu
Independent Curator
Alex Paik
Artist
Lauren Pakradooni
Artist • Residency Alum
Camila Palomino
Curator · Researcher
Liz Parks
Art Advisor, Parks Fine Art
Bridget Potter
Writer
Andrew Prayzner
Artist • Residency Alum • Co-Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY
Sharmistha Ray
Artist • Writer • Educator
Elizabeth Rooklidge
Associate Curator at the Katonah Museum of Art
John Ros
Artist • Writer • Residency Alum
Sara Maria Salamone
Artist • Curator • Director of Mrs. Gallery
Hiba Schahbaz
Artist
Molly Schoemann
Writer • Founding Editor of the Barnes & Noble Kids’ Blog
Michael Scoggins
Artist
Julia Sedlock and Mark RownTree
Architects • Artists • Residency Alumni
Steven Sergiovanni
Curator
Pennylane Shen
Artist consultant • Curator • Educator
Arden Sherman
Curator of Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery
Carolyn Sickles
Artist • Director of Engagement and Visual Arts at Abrons Arts Center
Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Artist
John Silvis
Artist • Curator
Eileen Isagon Skyers
Artist • Writer • Curator • Director of HOUSING
Sable Elyse Smith
Artist • Writer • Educator
Jessica Steller
The Curator Gallery, FLATT Magazine
Stephan Stoyanov
Owner • Director of the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
Lexi Lee Sullivan
Assistant Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
Benjamin Sutton
Art Critic • Curator • News Editor at Hyperallergic
Jenny Tang
Curator
Caroline Tilleard
Director of Cuevas Tilleard
Ryan Turley
Artist · Director of Turley Gallery
Hrag Vartanian
Curator • Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Hyperallergic
Christina Vassallo
Executive Director at SPACES
Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
Curator • Writer
Sarah Walko
Artist • Writer • Programs Director at Marble House Project
Jodi Waynberg
Executive Director of Artists Alliance
Jess Wilcox
Programs Coordinator at The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
James Williams II
Artist • Curator • Educator
Rebecca Wolff
Writer
Jeffrey Yang
Writer
Katia Zavistovski
Independent Curator