Lending Library: Vol. 1

Laura Bernstein is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She uses video, performance, sculpture, installation and painting to reflect on human and animal behavior, historical fictions, mythology, and the grotesque. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Children's Museum of The Arts, New York, NY; BRIC, NURTUREart, Y2Kgroup Project Space and the Long Island University Humanities Gallery, all in Brooklyn New York; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Vox Populi and Icebox Space, both Philadelphia, PA; ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL; Anytime Dept. Cincinnati, OH; and Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection of National Dance Institute, NY. She has received fellowships and residencies including the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn; The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace program; The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY; the Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship; and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. She was a 2018-19 Grant Recipient of The Franklin Furnace Fund and has directed and produced A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and Experimentation in conjunction with the BRIC Biennial: Volume III, South Brooklyn Edition. Bernstein holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA with a certificate in Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sara Magenheimer was born in 1981 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2017); the Kitchen, New York (2017); Art in General in partnership with kim?, Riga, Latvia (2016); the Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P), Columbus, OH (2016); JOAN, Los Angeles (2015); and Recess, New York (2015). Her works have also been included in the group exhibitions “Body Language,” the High Line, New York (2017); “CCCC (Ceramics Club Cash and Carry),” White Columns, New York (2015); and “Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Aspen Art Museum (2013–14). Her videos have been screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2017); the New York Film Festival (2017, 2015, 2014); Images Festival, Toronto (2017); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2016); EMPAC, Troy, NY (2016); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015).

Katy McCarthy (54) is a video artist and educator, originally from California and currently based in Austin, Texas. She has had solo presentations at Ivester Contemporary (2021) and the Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas (2019). Her work has been included in group shows at 601 Art Space, NYC; Tiger Strike Asteroid, Los Angeles; Flux Factory, Long Island City; and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum among other venues. Her videos have been selected for screening at NURTUREart’s 2018 Single Channel Video Art Festival, the 2018 CUNY Video Festival, the 2018 Queens Boulevard Film Festival, and the 2019 Every Woman Biennial. She has been an artist-in-residence at LMCC Governors Island, SOHO20 Residency Lab, Grin City and The Wassaic Project. In 2018 Katy was the sole recipient of the St. Elmo Fellowship at UT Austin. In 2021 she received the Austin Film Society short film grant. She received her MFA from Hunter College and teaches at UT Austin.

Yue Nakayama (34) works with video, text, and installation. Her practice is centered on
reinterpreting minor histories, memories, and personal anecdotes to stage an absurd
intervention that disrupts our social expectations and perceptions. Using narrative as a
foundation, her projects encompass diverse topics, with recurring themes including
belief systems, power dynamics, and issues surrounding cultural, gender, and societal
identities. Her work has been exhibited and screened at museums and film festivals including
Onion City Film Festival, IL, White Columns, NY, Diverse Works, TX, Contemporary Art
Center New Orleans, LA, Visual Art Center UT Austin, TX, Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX, and ICA Philadelphia, PA. She is the recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial
Fellowship from the Houston Center of Photography, the Programmer’s Award from the
Athens International Film Festival, the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund from the
Dallas Museum of Art, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The fellowships and
residencies she has attended include Skowhegan, the Core Program, Vermont Studio
Center, OX-Bow, and Lighthouse Works. Nakayama's work has been featured in the New York
Times, the New Yorker, Peripheral Visions, and Glasstire.

Yixuan Pan is an artist who was born and raised in the land of fish and rice, Hunan, China. To deal with issues of translation and communication as well as reimagining the western hegemony through a global outlook, her anti-disciplinary practice merges multiple media and modes of presentation such as installation, video, performance, lollipop, music therapy, choral conducting, and more. By dislocating language from its context and form, Pan questions the linguistic structures people learn and unlearn in relation to comfort, temperature, transparency, hierarchy and power dynamics.

Pan is a recipient of the University Fellowship at Temple University, the Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass at Tyler School of Art, the Award of Excellence and the Art Achievement Award at George Fox University. Pan’s work have been exhibited internationally, including: Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Haukijärvi Forest, Finland; Temple Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; The Pine Barren Gallery, Whitesbog Village, NJ; Hämeenkyrö, Finland; Asakusa KAMINARI, Tokyo, Japan; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; Yin Yang Acupuncture, Portland, OR; Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR; CSUFT, Changsha, China. Pan holds a MFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art, Temple University; a BA from George Fox University in Oregon and a BA from Central South University of Forestry and Technology in China.