The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 cohort of incoming resident artists. From a national pool of nearly 2,000 applicants, seventeen artists have been awarded year-long, rent-free studio spaces in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Residents are chosen annually by a jury of distinguished contemporary artists. This year’s 2026-2027 jury was composed of current SWSP Artists Advisory Committee members Matthew Deleget, Phong Bui, and Didier William ‘12, and SWSP alumni Josephine Halvorson ‘09, and William Villalongo ‘05.
The recipients of the 2026-2027 SWSP residency are: Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Anne Gilman, Beverly Fishman, David Shrobe, Davis Arney, E.E. Ikeler, Emily Janowick, Isaiah Davis, Jonathan Sanchez Noa, Khalif Tahir Thompson, Lee Maxey, Louis Block, Madjeen Isaac, Mariel Rolwing Montes, Olivia Jia, Satpreet Kahlon, and Takuji Hamanaka
Thanks to @hyperallergic for stopping by Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios this weekend! Photos & story by Aaron Short.
Slide 1: Visitors in Bianca Fields’ studio @beeyonkerz
Slide 3: (top) Celeste Diaz Falzone’s studio @celestediazfalzone (bottom) A recent work in Natalie Collette Wood’s Swallowed By Nature series that uses found objects, succulents, pillow moss, coconut moss, and galvanized steel @natalie_collette_wood
Slide 5: (top) Jason Karolak’s geometric light boxes @jasonkarolak (bottom) Amy Cutler, “Hum” (2025), lithograph in 22 colors on Rives BFK White paper @cutler_amy
Thank you for attending Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios 2026!
Open Studios 2026 was an amazing weekend of art and community. Congratulations to the seventeen resident artists and thank you to all of our visitors (over 3,400 for the weekend). View photos from the event below. Many thanks to @khickmanphotography for capturing the event.
Keep an eye out for our upcoming announcement of the 2026-2027 cohort of incoming artists!
linn meyers has established a distinctive voice in contemporary drawing and painting, known for her intricate mark-making and immersive drawing installations.
Meyers’s work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at prestigious museums including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Phillips Collection. The artist’s paintings and drawings are built through labor-intensive processes that foreground the relationship between time, gesture, and the physicality of the work.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Davidova’s practice involves research, drawing, performance, 360 video and 3D sculpture, game engines, participatory Virtual Reality and interactive, site-specific immersive installations.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Jake Troyli’s work investigates the construction of otherness and the commodification of the Black/Brown body, confronting and exploring labor capitalism and sweat equity as a demonstration of value. He makes energetic paintings, often featuring a self-portrait or avatar of himself embedded in engaging scenes, with a markedly classicist approach.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Bianca Fields creates portraits and uses a figurative painting practice to create a tangible embodiment of repression and mental captivity. She explores this idea with competing forms of archetypes on a slick primed surface, creating a supernatural essence of anguish and isolation.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Amy Cutler produces enigmatic, narrative works of art in which internalized emotions, societal observations, and complex ideas are transformed into visual metaphors. Cutler uses a diverse range of mediums to depict anthropomorphized objects, animals, and female characters engaged in impossible tasks and unlikely situations, and is best known for her detailed drawings and paintings on paper.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Dakota Gearhart probes tensions between the environment, techno-commercialism, and human desire as climate change intensifies. Her multimedia sculptures and installations use site-specific repurposed materials to challenge class, gender, and species hierarchies, often employing science fiction storytelling.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Tracy Miller layers thick landscapes of floating confections and saccharine abstract forms in still lifes looping and swirling in dense but airy compositions. Recognizable brands like Budweiser and Jujyfruit commingle with cakes and hams adorned with delicately placed pineapples and cherries on top, all interspersed with drips and drops and patches of color.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Ohan Breiding’s work discusses ecological care through a trans-feminist lens by amplifying landscapes as witness, through drawing, photography, photographic and filmic archives, video and collaboration.
The Swiss artist and filmmaker based in New York’s work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, Arts and Letters, Hesse Flatow, Oceanside Museum (Getty PST), IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthaus Zürich and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
Deborah Bright, a previous writer and photographer, returned to painting and drawing to express thoughts, memories and feelings that have few analogs in the physical world. Her drawings and paintings mine an eclectic mix of queer, pop, psychedelic and text-based sources, charged by vivid colors and dynamic compositions where naturalistically rendered forms intertwine with abstract shapes and symbols.
This year’s Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Open Studios will be held on April 18+19 from 1–6pm in our new location at 20 Jay Street #430.
