April 2024
fracture/repair at ArtSpeak Gallery
Curated by FORGOTTEN LANDS
Vancouver friends! We’d love to see you at the opening reception of fracture/repair. Opening April 5 6:00pm at ArtSpeak Gallery, come meet some of the exhibition artists, co-founders Cory Torres Bishop and Don Brodie, and the incredible ArtSpeak team that helped to make this all possible.
Coinciding with fracture/repair, we’ll also be featured all month long in Vancouver’s Capture PhotoFest, Western Canada’s largest lens-based art fest!
Artist Spotlight: Renluka Maharaj 🇹🇹
We continue shining a light on the artists exhibiting in our upcoming exhibition ƒracture/repair at ArtSpeak Gallery.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Renluka Maharaj's work engages their family history, in particular the narratives, myths, and folklore brought by the women who migrated from India to the Caribbean as indentured laborers. Gender, sexuality, religion, memory, and colonial history are dominant themes Maharaj investigates through photography, painting, installation, video, and elements of performance to explore the ways they form transnational, multicultural identities.
Maharaj earned their BFA at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and their MFA at the School Of The Art Institute of Chicago. She has received numerous awards including the Martha Kate Thomas Fund, the Presidential Scholarship at Anderson Ranch Center, and the Barbara De Genevieve Scholarship. Their works are in institutional collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Joan Flasch artist book collection, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Flaten Museum, Bank of America, Special Collections at the University of Colorado, Boulder as well as numerous private collections. Maharaj lives and works between Colorado, New York City, and Trinidad.
Shop Artwork from Ricardo Miguel Hernández 🇨🇺
Works by Cuban documentary and conceptual artist, Ricardo Miguel Hernández are still on sale! Exclusively available on FORGOTTEN LANDS.
From Our Community
Archive: The Yelaine Rodriguez Collection
FORGOTTEN LANDS Vol 05 alum Yelaine Rodriguez recently archived a collection of her works to JSTOR. The Yelaine Rodriguez Collection offers 34 images of flyers, feature articles, photographs, exhibition programs, and a bibliography of her scholarly work. Rodriguez donated these materials to make her growing and existing archive available to researchers, scholars, and the public. Among the works are images Mal De Ojo: Point B of The Door of No Return (Side A) and Mal De Ojo: Point B of The Door of No Return (Side B) from Vol 05. You can access the entire collection here.
The Yelanie Rodriguez Collection | yelainenyc.com | @yelaineartspace
Native Diver by Simon Benjamin on view at Swivel Gallery
Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Simon Benjamin's solo exhibition, Native Diver is currently on view at Swivel Gallery in Brooklyn, New York until March 23, 2024. The exhibition presents a new collection of paintings, sculptures, and collages that expand on the artist's ongoing exploration of the impact of both visible and invisible histories on current realities. Learn more about the show here and plan your visit.
Artist Opportunities: April - May 2024
Open Call The Shed (New York, United States) (New York, United States) | Deadline April 4 Apply >>
Creative Capital Open Call Grant Opportunity (United States) | Deadline April 4 Apply >>
Artist In Residence at Harvard Ceramics (Massachusetts, United States) | Deadline April 5 Apply>>
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition (New York, United States) | Deadline April 7 Apply >>
Velvetpark Visual Artist Residency (New York, United States)| Deadline April 14 Apply >>
Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Artist Residency (New York, United States) | Deadline April 15 Apply >>
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants | Deadline April 16 Apply >>
National Endowment for the Humanities – Fellowships for Digital Publication (Digital) | Deadline April 17 Apply >>
Uncool Artist Residency (New York, United States) | Deadline April 7 Apply >>
Open Call Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts – 2025 Taoyuan International Art Award (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) | Deadline April 1-26 Apply >>
Caribbean Culture Fund (Barbados, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) | Deadline April 30 Apply >>
Franklin Furnace Jacki Apple Award In Performance & Artists Projects (New York, United States) | Deadline April 30 Apply >>
Foundation House Activist Residency Program (Connecticut, United States) | Rolling Basis Apply >>
*We share artist opportunities from around the world! While the country is listed, not all opportunities are just for artists living and working in those places. Check out each link to see if you qualify! Share with the artists in your communities.
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