THE APPLICATION FOR THE 2024

PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM IS NOW Closed

Q&A Session:

Monday January 8th, 2024.

PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM description

The Penumbra Workspace Program benefits six emerging artists* (three New York City-based and three US-based) with access to time, facilities, critical and technical support, and honoraria. The extension of the program ranges from two weeks to four weeks depending on the time requested by the selected artists. Participants have liberal access to the workspace facilities. They are expected to use their time to pursue their own projects: researching, photographing, scanning, printing, working on an exhibition or editing a book.

* An emerging artist is someone in the early stage of their career, who takes risks and embraces challenges, and who hasn't yet established a solid reputation as an artist amongst other artists, curators, producers, critics, and arts administrators.

2017—2022 workspace Program

2022

NYC-BASED ARTISTS
juliana roccoforte novello | Kate Ovaska | Donavon Smallwood

FINALIST
Derick Whitson

JURY
Members of the 2022 jury included Adama Delphine Fawundu (Artist and Educator, New York), Klea McKenna (Artist, San Francisco).

Jurying the Penumbra residency award this year was illuminating. I got a taste of such a range of contemporary photographic practice and I discovered several artists (even beyond the awardees) whose work I will continue to follow and champion. Adama Delphine Fawundu and I discussed the applications at length and selected six artists whose work we are genuinely excited to see grow and with this opportunity. — Klea McKenna, 2022 Juror

SPONSORS

This program is supported by The Henry Nias Foundation, The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, Joy of Giving Something and Roz Leibowitz. 

Thank you to the following artists for their support of Penumbra Foundation and in particular to the 2022 Penumbra Workspace Program:

Elizabeth Albright, Mio Akashi, Sophie Barbasch, Mary Ellen Bartley, Marina Berio, Geoffrey Berliner, Tim Carpenter, Jesse Chan, Lois Conner, Dillon DeWaters, Lisa Di Donato, Christine Elfman, Odette England, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Arash Fewzee, Larry Fink, Nelis Franken, Jenia Fridlyand, Vivian Galban, Theresa Ganz, Dylan Hausthor, Lucy Helton, Alan Huck, Poupay Jutharat, Kevin Kunstadt, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, Aspen Mays, Andrew McClees, George McClintock, Raymond Meeks, Michael Page Miller, Alyssa Minahan, Andrew Moore, Ian Lewandowski, Jolene Lupo, Tasha Lutek, Gabriele Onere, Arthur Ou, Sarah Palmer, Ahndraya Parlato, Alana Perino, Emma Phillips, Molly Rapp, David Rothenberg, Liz Sales, Victoria Sambunaris, Sophie Schwartz, Griffin Shapiro, Sean Sirota, Dora Somosi, Joni Sternbach, Paisley Valentine, Olivia Walsh, James Welling and Jeffrey Whetstone.

2021

NYC-BASED ARTISTS
Christie Neptune | Rehan Miskci | Daveed Baptiste | Sophie Barbasch

FINALISTS
Marc Ohrem-Leclef | Debora Francis

JURY
Members of the 2021 jury included Pradeep Dalal (Artist, Educator and Director of the Creative Capital/ Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program, New York), Maria Martinez-Cañas (Artist and Educator, Miami), Milagros de la Torre (Artist, New York).

SPONSORS

This program is supported by The Henry Nias Foundation, The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and Roz Leibowitz. 

Thank you to the following artists for their support of Penumbra Foundation and in particular to the 2022 Penumbra Workspace Program:

Elizabeth Albright, Mio Akashi, Sophie Barbasch, Mary Ellen Bartley, Marina Berio, Geoffrey Berliner, Tim Carpenter, Jesse Chan, Lois Conner, Dillon DeWaters, Lisa Di Donato, Christine Elfman, Odette England, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Arash Fewzee, Larry Fink, Nelis Franken, Jenia Fridlyand, Vivian Galban, Theresa Ganz, Dylan Hausthor, Lucy Helton, Alan Huck, Poupay Jutharat, Kevin Kunstadt, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, Aspen Mays, Andrew McClees, George McClintock, Raymond Meeks, Michael Page Miller, Alyssa Minahan, Andrew Moore, Ian Lewandowski, Jolene Lupo, Tasha Lutek, Gabriele Onere, Arthur Ou, Sarah Palmer, Ahndraya Parlato, Alana Perino, Emma Phillips, Molly Rapp, David Rothenberg, Liz Sales, Victoria Sambunaris, Sophie Schwartz, Griffin Shapiro, Sean Sirota, Dora Somosi, Joni Sternbach, Paisley Valentine, Olivia Walsh, James Welling and Jeffrey Whetstone.

2020

NYC-BASED ARTISTS
Adama Delphine Fawundu | Martyna Szczęsna | Arash Fewzee | Robin Crookall

JURY
Members of the 2020 jury included Monique Deschaines (Director of Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco), Odette England (Artist and Educator, Providence), Arthur Ou (Artist and Educator, New York). In speaking to the selection process, the jurors had this to say:

Our selections reflect a careful evaluation of artistic ambition, clarity of statements and future plans, the developed sensitivity to the handling of materials (beyond technical skill alone), conceptual resonance, cultural significance, critical standpoint, artistic experimentation, and a willingness and ability to go beyond the boundaries of traditional process. [...]

SPONSORS

This program is supported by The Henry Nias Foundation, The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and Roz Leibowitz. 

Thank you to the following artists for their support to Penumbra Foundation and in particular to the 2020 Penumbra Workspace Program:

Sophie Barbasch, Erica Baum, Marina Berio, Rachelle Bussières, Tim Carpenter, Dillon DeWaters, Larry Fink, Jenia Fridlyand, Theresa Ganz, Edward Grazda, Aspen Mays, Raymond Meeks, Andrew Moore, Adam Putnam, Meghann Riepenhoff, Almudena Romero, Liz Sales, Victoria Sambunaris, Victor Sira, Joni Sternbach, Eric Taubman, Pedro Weiner and Samira Yamin.

2019

NYC-BASED ARTISTS
Lucy Helton | Irene Mamiye

FINALISTS
Kaitlyn Danielson | Lauren Orchowski

JURY

Members of the 2019 Jury included: Alissa Schoendfeld (Director of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City), Marina Berio (Artist and Educator, Chair Emeritus of the General Studies Program at International Center of Photography, New York City), and Yamini Nayar (Artist. Represented by Thomas Erben, New York City; Wendi Norris, San Francisco; and Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai).

2018

SELECTED ARTISTS
Aspen Mays, Richmond, CA

JUROR
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and former editor of the contemporary photography website The Great Leap Sideways (2011—2017).

It is a sincere pleasure to be afforded the opportunity to support working artists seeking to practice in New York City. The Penumbra Foundation’s commitment to providing a forum for dialogue about contemporary practice, through its lecture program, is matched and strengthened by its parallel commitment to affording emerging artists the space, time and resources to experiment, and to extend their work. In this instance, under the aegis of the Penumbra Foundation’s residency program, which provides both a generous stipend and access to a suite of excellent facilities, as well as proximity to the numerous artists and art institutions within the city, it is an honor to extend this support to ASPEN MAYS and NOAH DOELY.

In selecting these two artists for this year’s residency, I was especially struck by the technically and conceptually expansive qualities of their practices, by their ambition, and by their passion. It is a pleasure to encounter artists seeking new ways of incorporating and addressing the multiple histories of the photographic medium from an explicitly contemporary standpoint, and a greater pleasure to support those efforts in this way. I hope that the residency program will enable them to continue to take risks, to forge new relationships and to create new work and new opportunities for their practices.

2017

Suné Woods, Los Angeles, CA

“I gaze upon these photographs and wonder if their metaphor represents spaces inside of me or if the metaphor points to my presence inside of a larger multiverse.” — Syl Arena

JURY
Members of the 2017 jury included Brooklyn-based artist Eileen Quinlan and Penumbra's Director of Programs Leandro Villaro.