Hyde Park Art Center Welcomes Resident Artists from Four Continents

Hyde Park Art Center, the acclaimed non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, has announced the 2025 cohort of resident artists and curators on the fourteenth anniversary of its renowned Jackman Goldwasser Residency. The program offers supportive residencies of varying lengths to eight local, national, and international artists and curators who work across disciplines to address a wide range of social issues, including immigration, environmental justice, identity, and memory. 

The Visiting Residency Program, Chicago’s only international residency program, welcomes artists and curators from Angola, Argentina, and Taiwan, while the Radicle Studio Residency Program hosts artists and a curator based in Chicago. For over a decade, the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Art Center has connected artists deeply with their own practice in the context of Chicago’s vibrant, multifaceted community. Each year, the residency invites international, national, and local artists and curators to complement their mode of production with increased attention towards reflection, connection, and research to spark new ideas and considerations of local and global art practices. 

The eight participants in the 2025 cohort of the Jackman Goldwasser Residency program will participate in three of the Art Center’ programs. They include the Radicle Studio Residency (a year-long residency for Chicago-based artist rooted at the Art Center from January to December). Artist in the program enjoy high-quality, free studio space where artists make work, research new projects, access the Art Center’s broad international network of artists and resources, and connect with a dynamic public. 

The Radicle Curator Residency is a new initiative designed to advance curatorial voices and expertise within the Art Center’s exhibitions and residency programs and the field at large. This residency is made possible due funding by the Guida Family Fund for Creativity.

Finally, the Visiting Residency comprises seasonal residencies for national and international artists.

A public program introducing this year’s four Radicle Studio Residents will take place at the Art Center on February 27th at 6 p.m., with presentations from each resident artist about their practice. They include:

Leticia Pardo is an artist and architect from Mexico City, based in Chicago. Her practice, influenced by her background in architecture, reflects on how place-making, migration, and political borders manifest in the built environment. Her work has been shown at the Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos in Mexico City, the São Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, among others. Leticia is currently an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. Pardo is the recipient of the annual David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award which makes her residency possible.

Norman W. Long is a multi-disciplinary sound, video, and performing artist. His practice involves walking, collecting, performing, and recording to create objects, environments,and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, ecology, race/ethnicity, space, value, silence, and the invisible. His artistic endeavors have been showcased at diverse venues, including Experimental Sound Studio, Kavi

Gupta Gallery, Renaissance Society, Yale University, Chicago Artists Coalition Gallery, Illinois State University Galleries, Elastic Arts, and Constellation.

Irene Hsiao is a dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. She creates performances in conversation with visual art in museums, galleries, and public spaces, a practice that includes site-specific interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public.

Sabba S. Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who grew up in a Pakistani household in the Midwest. Elahi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is recipient of artist residencies at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Ragdale, and finalist for the Moth Art Prize (2020). Her art across fibers, drawing, performance, and installation, seeks to resist dehumanization and erasure, intersecting narratives of self, community, and structures of power.

This year’s Curatorial Resident is Rikki Byrd, a writer, educator and curator who works across the academy, arts, and fashion industries. Her research focuses on Black aesthetic practices including fashion, performance, and contemporary art. She has participated in curatorial projects with the South Side Community Art Center, Block Museum of Art, SkyART, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Saint Louis Art Museum.

There are three Viisiting Residents this year participating in the program. Yonamine (March 3-28) is an Angolan multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of memory, identity, and the fragmentation of history. Having lived in Angola, Zaire, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Germany, his nomadic upbringing profoundly shapes his artistic practice, reflecting the complexities of contemporary globalized identities. Yonamine currently lives and works in Asunción, Paraguay. Yonamine’s residency at Hyde Park Art Center was developed in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica.

Iris Ping-Chi Hung (April 28-May 9) is an independent curator and producer based in Taiwan. She is also the co-founder of Mutualism curatorial team. Her practice explores the supporting system in the arts, cross-discipline collaborations, international exchanges and local connections drawing from her years of experience in art residency fields. Hung’s residency is possible thanks to the generous support of the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation. 

Keren Kroul (July 21-August 1) is a visual artist who examines identity through memory, place, and time. In monumental watercolors and immersive installations that include video and sound, landscapes of memory unfold and collapse into magnificent realities. Drawing on the repetitive and fragmented nature of memory, the work is a meditation on a heritage of loss and longing, beauty, and the inextricable network that connects past and present. This residency is made possible through the generous support of the McKnight Foundation and Artist Communities Alliance.

For more information on the Jackman Goldwasser Residency, including the application process for the 2026 residency program, please visit www.hydeparkart.org.

The Jackman Goldwasser Residency receives generous support from: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation Research and Production Fund, A4Arts Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Artist Communities Alliance, The David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Art Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Joyce Foundation.

Hyde Park Art Center, at 5020 South Cornell Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, is a hub for contemporary arts in Chicago, serving as a gathering, production, and exhibition space for artists and the broader community to cultivate ideas, impact social change, and connect with new networks. Since its inception in 1939, Hyde Park Art Center has grown from a small collective of artists to establishing a strong legacy of risk-taking and experimentation, emerging as a unique Chicago arts institution with social impact. Today, the Art Center offers a diverse suite of programs for artists and art lovers of all backgrounds, ages, and stages in their careers.

For more information about Hyde Park Art Center or its programs, visit www.hydeparkart.org.