The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University is excited to share the recipients of Wexner Center Artist Residency Awards for the coming year.
The awards, which are bestowed annually, exemplify the center’s mission: to offer unique experiences across multiple disciplines and to fuel the creative expression behind them. Wex Artist Residency Awards recognize the exceptional talents of individuals in the fields of Film/Video, Learning & Public Practice, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts through significant financial and technical assistance for the creation of new work.
A complete list of past recipients is available here.
Recipients for 2022–23:
Film/Video
Zeinabu irene Davis (she/her)
Davis’s Artist Residency Award project is a new hybrid documentary, Stars of the Northern Sky, which tells the stories of the legal trials of three enslaved women in the North: Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, and Marie Joseph Angelique.
Ruun Nuur (she/her)
Nuur is a Columbus-based filmmaker, activist, curator, and critic. She is cofounder of the nomadic microcinema NO EVIL EYE and was coproducer on the recent documentary They Won’t Call It Murder (2022).
The Artist Residency Award will support Nuur's effort to initiate an archival project around a recently rediscovered film. Nuur is also working on a documentary about Somail playwright, teacher and filmmaker Said Salah Ahmed.
Learning and Public Practice
Kari Gunter-Seymour (she/her)
Gunter-Seymour is in her second term as the Poet Laureate of Ohio. She will serve for a second academic year as writer-in-residence with the Wex’s Pages program, continuing work alongside educators, students, and Learning & Public Practice staff in high schools across central Ohio.
Tali Keren (she/her)
Working closely with fellow Artist Residency Award recipient Alex Strada, Keren will develop research and a series of public programs, engage with students, and develop a project that will be presented at the center in 2024.
Cadine Navarro (she/her)
Navarro’s residency will include research, a series of public programs, and engagement with the central Ohio community, to include K-12 students, and college and university students.
Sa’dia Rehman (they/them/she/her)
In her second year as an Artist Residency Award recipient, Rehman will continue work with the center on a series of public programs, engagement with students, and development of a commissioned work to be presented at the Wex in 2023.
Alex Strada (she/her)
For her residency award project, Strada will collaborate with Tali Keren on a residency that will include research and a series of public programs, engagement with students, and development of a project that will be presented by the Wex in 2024.
Performing Arts
Ain Gordon (he/him)
Relics and Their Humans, Gordon’s Residency Award project, is a theatrical tribute to two couples from Dover, Ohio. A work of “sonic portraiture” comprising music, transcribed interviews, original text, and home movies, it’s made in collaboration with composer, writer, and performer Josh Quillen.
Jennifer Kidwell (she/her)
The Artist Residency Award supports Those With Two Clocks, co-created with Jess Conda and Mel Krodman as Tall Order. The work-in-progress sends up hetero-masculinity and hierarchical power structures. The award also supports development of a separate project that Kidwell describes as metal musical sculptures that are “played” by rain.
Tere O’Connor (he/him)
The Artist Residency Award supports O’Connor’s Rivulets, a new work for eight dancers. Rivulets will be presented at the Wex in Fall 2023; O’Connor will give an artist talk in advance of this engagement in Spring 2023.
Visual Arts
Jonas N.T. Becker (he/him)
Becker’s two-year Wex residency will support a series of photographs that use coal dust to depict redevelopment projects on former mining sites in Appalachia; a new film on generational political beliefs, developed with the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio; and a series of public programs. His residency will culminate in a Wex solo exhibition in 2025.
Tanya Lukin Linklater (she/her)
Building on her iterative body of work, My mind is with the weather, Lukin Linklater’s residency will support outdoor open rehearsals in Ohio and a new work for camera, to be featured in a solo exhibition at the Wex in 2024, her first in the US.
