Introducing the two FLAD/AiR 351 grant recipients for 2021-2022: Adriana Ramić and Keren Benbenisty.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest in this open call, to the selection committee members (Nathalie Anglès, Isabel Carlos and Sébastien Pluot) and to FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation) for making this opportunity possible.
We look forward to welcoming Adriana and Keren to our Cascais headquarters in Fall 2021, for a residency of 4 months.
Adriana Ramić (b. Chicago, 1989) is an artist based in New York working with poetics of lexicons, translations and reconfigurations among human and nonhuman existences. She has had one and two person exhibitions at places such as the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; Kimberly-Klark, New York, and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and also exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; New Galerie, Paris; LUMA/Westbau, Zürich; Kunstpalais, Erlangen; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, and many others. Her work has been covered in publications such as Artforum, Flash Art, and the New York Times, and she has spoken at Signal Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; American Medium, New York; homeschool, Portland; Yale School of Art, New Haven; and University of the Arts, Helsinki.
Keren Benbenisty (b. Israel, 1977), is a multidisciplinary research-based artist based in New York, working mainly with video, sculpture and works on paper. In her artworks, she scrutinizes loss and displacement, evident in various historical narratives and myths, and identify their impact in other disciplines, including archeology, biology and linguistics. Recently, she began to examine the long-term implications of migration, colonialism and exile in her homeland Israel, a territory charged with continuous conflicts that fuel the perpetual geographical, political and social crisis. Benbenisty graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2004) and attended Cal’Arts (2003). She has been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture; International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP); Residency Unlimited (RU); Arts Maebashi, Japan; Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NY. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Grant (2019); Foundation for Contemporary Art (2019); ARTIS, Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (2011/2020), Ostrovsky Family Foundation grant (2011), Foundation for Contemporary Art among others. Recent exhibition venues include The Johnson Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; Petach-Tikva Museum, IL; Mishkan Ein Harod, IL; A.I.R Gallery, NY; CUNY Graduate Center, NY; Tel-Aviv Museum of Modern Art, IL; Arts Maebashi, Japan.
About the grant
The FLAD/AiR 351 grant is an opportunity for US-based/American artists, at any stage of practice, to participate in the AiR 351 residencies, for a period of up to 4 months.
AiR 351, located in Cascais, Portugal, is an independent international visual arts residency program that works individually with each resident by providing supportive curatorial and technical assistance.