Artist In Residence
Curator: Field Meridians
An extension of acclaimed magazine MOLD, artist collective Field Meridians is committed to the creation of tools for ecological resilience through social practice. Based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, their work spans programming, publishing and radio broadcasts that engage the community to lay the foundation for food sovereignty and infrastructures of repair.
Guarionex Rodriguez Jr.
Guarionex Rodriguez Jr. is a Dominican American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He is one of six members of the photography collective Mycelia Collective, which meets monthly for critique and organizes events throughout Brooklyn that bring the photography community together. Guarionex’s artistic practice is rooted in themes of trust and vulnerability, aiming to create work that reflects and connects with others, while offering a voice for multiple communities.
He has mentored photography students through New York University, Scope of Work — an organization supporting emerging young BIPOC artists — and participated in talks through community-led programs such as Brooklyn Photo Talk at Hope Garden Community Center, Chacha Festival at Water Street Associations and We Lit at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, among others.
Guarionex will be in residence during April 2026 and will present an exhibition at Ace Hotel Brooklyn from May-July 2026.
Curry Hackett
Curry J. Hackett is a multimedia artist and educator whose work explores Black relationships to land, media and memory. A native of Farmville, Virginia, his practice bridges scales and mediums to speculate on the aesthetics, histories and ecologies of the American South.
Named a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and a member of the Van Alen Institute’s inaugural Vanguard cohort, Curry currently serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. His exhibition at Ace Hotel Brooklyn will be developed in collaboration with Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers University founder and historian JT Roane and poet and filmmaker Jona Alexander.
Curry will be in residence during July 2026 and will present an exhibition at Ace Hotel Brooklyn from August-October 2026.
Phoebe Tran
Phoebe Tran is a Vietnamese American chef and artist whose evolving food practice, Bé Bếp, traces the pathways between ancestral memory, land and lineage. Rooted in Vietnamese folk medicine, intergenerational storytelling and her farming background, Phoebe’s work uses food as both material and metaphor.
Through culinary performances, altar installations and guided meditations, Phoebe explores the ways cooking can act as a vessel for grief, preservation and the future. She has collaborated with chefs, artists and local farms to build projects that center care, ecology and embodied knowledge.
Phoebe will be in residence during October 2026 and will present an exhibition at Ace Brooklyn from November through January 2027.
Rachael Elliott
Rachael Louise Elliott is a Detroit-born, Brooklyn-based designer, artist and founder of Studio Senjeh. Raised in the birthplace of modern industrial production techniques like the assembly line, Rachael absorbed the productive tension between the craft of her African American and Gola ancestors, and the industrial design that built her hometown.
Her practice is informed by research, a rigorous consideration of historical provenance and indigenous craft knowledge. Her projects encompass sculpture, interior design, creative and art direction, exhibition, environmental, custom textiles and furniture design with Studio Senjeh — a place to democratize her own work after a decade designing custom furniture and luxury interiors in New York City.
Rachael will be in residence during January 2027 and will present an exhibition at Ace Hotel Brooklyn from February-April 2027.