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Anthony Cerilli is an artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania working primarily in sculpture and installation. He makes art in pursuance of an active relationship with the outer world, and concentrates his practice on material manipulation as a means of constituting oneself as a living organism amongst a multitude of perceived and constructed realities. He received his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rami George is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Philadelphia. They have exhibited and screened internationally, and continue to be motivated by political struggles and fractured narratives.
Originally from rural Sweden, I work mostly with photography and writing, but sometimes explore other mediums as well.
I document environments and landscapes that fascinate me, when they evoke some imaginary and mystical world and ambience inside of me. I like telling and collecting stories. My work often deals with escapism and a sense of nostalgia.
Fields Harrington is an interdisciplinary artist. He uses sculpture, video, and performance to address the intrinsically invisible physical forces as a parallel to socio-systemic forces. He received his BFA from the University of North Texas and has participated in the lecture series “Living Room Light Exchange” in New York. He is currently a MFA candidate in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ahmed Hasan is a current second year MFA student at Penn Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting his journey as a self-taught illustrator, in 2008 he received an art scholarship to the United States, graduating from the School of Visual Arts, NY with a BFA in illustration in 2013. He is a recipient of the SEAF fellowship (Cohort 3) a partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design. His multidisciplinary work — focusing on sculpture, installation, and performance — critiques, celebrates and highlights human developed cultures and experiences, particularly Arabian and eastern focused, and is driven by personal experiences.
Zach Hill is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice uses sculpture, video, performance, drawing, and installation to construct storylines that evolve into narrative environments. Using elaborate costuming, a cast of humanoid creatures emerges to navigate desire, alienation, and shelter while traversing imagined and non-fictional landscapes. The sculptural objects borrow from recognizable forms and are primarily made with repurposed domestic materials, found objects, and clay.
Hill is an MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and received a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He has exhibited in artist run spaces and institutions including State University of New York (Albany, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Bunker Projects (Pittsburgh, PA) Skylab Gallery (Columbus, OH), and Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee, WI). He has been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual artists and the University of Pennsylvania Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.
01. Feelers
fibers, plaster, paper clay, HD video w/ sound
2017
02. Feelers
fibers, plaster, paper clay, HD video w/ sound
2017
03. Feelers
still from HD video (11:11)
2017
04. when the world ends will you hang out with me
tulle, glazed ceramics, earrings
2018
05. when the world ends will you hang out with me
tulle, glazed ceramics, earrings
2018
06. the egg (cocoon)
upholstery fabric, denim, sheets, corduroy, mesh
2018
07. the egg (cocoon)
upholstery fabric, denim, sheets, corduroy, mesh
2018
08. the egg (pile)
acrylic paint on ceramics, latex
2018
09. the egg (2:00 excerpt)
HD video (25:00)
2018
Xiaoxuan applies clues taken from everyday objects to her work, through rearrangement, she explores multi-topics using a metaphoric way. In this body of works, she focuses on the idea of "correction" and meanings behind that gesture. Born in 1994, Xiaoxuan grew up in Beijing, China. She received her BFA degree from SAIC in 2016. She's currently a 2nd year MFA student at Penn.
E. Aaron Ross is an artist and photographer from Chicago, currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Ross formerly attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he received two BFA degrees, one in Graphic Design and one in Moving Image (video / film / studio art). He may also be recognized from years past running Chicago Studio Visits, curating at the independent art space Captive Audience Screening Gallery, or performing musically with Weekend Nachos, Harm’s Way, Plan of Attack, Encyclopedia Brown, Sidewalk, Meah, and Maribelle.
Fred Schmidt-Arenales is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Philadelphia. He has presented performances and experimental video and audio works internationally, at venues including Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz; Links Hall, Chicago; The Darling Foundry, Montreal; Triumph, Chicago; Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles; and Kunsthalle, Vienna. Fred is a current MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mengda Zhang (b. 1993) was born in Nanjing, China and raised in Chongqing, China. She received her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a MFA Candidate at University of Pennsylvania. She works in performance and installation, exploring the relationship between individual and society.
Evan Curtis Charles Hall is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the construction of History. Through the adoption and re-contextualization of archival languages, Hall questions epistemological claims to the past and how we come to accept them. By working within and around the forces that host, sustain, and validate artifacts, Hall's practice promotes an alternative lens for viewing History—one of constant renewal, where nothing is fixed.
Hall received his BFA from The Cooper Union and is currently a MFA candidate at The University of Pennsylvania, pursuing an additional Graduate Certificate of Archaeological Sciences.
evanhall@design.upenn.edu
