(63) Open Studios

Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022; a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle; and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her writing appears in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Electric Liter-ature, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Chapman University. She was born in Taiwan and lives in Los Angeles.

Ali Kaeini, an Iranian artist, explores themes of displacement and historical identity through his art. His work delves into memories, forgetfulness, war, power, and solitude, drawing inspiration from Iranian history, art, and architecture.
Ali earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2023. In 2024, he received the MacDowell Fellowship and was also a recipient of the VMFA Professional Award. In 2023, he was awarded the Hamiltonian Fellowship and the VCCA Artist of Color Fellowship. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the U.S. and the Middle East, including at DDDD in New York, Delgosha Gallery in Tehran, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (VMOCA). He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Hannah Perrin King is the winner of Narrative Magazine’s Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest as well as the winner of The Georgia Review’s 2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. She is a 2022-23 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where she was the inaugural Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow, a scholarship awarded in addition to the fellowship to “an emerging woman writer of exceptional promise.” King’s first manuscript is a National Poetry Series finalist, and she is a 2017 Tin House Workshop Scholar. In 2018, King graduated with a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The New School. During her graduate studies, she became Deputy Poetry Editor of Alaska Quarterly Review, where she served from 2017-2020. In 2025, she will be an Artist-in-Residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA as well as a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. King’s work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, The Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, Frozen Sea and Best New Poets, among others. Raised in rural California, she now makes her home in Western Massachusetts.

Amanda Martínez: b. 1988, Greenville, SC (Tsalagihi Ayeli) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (Lenapehoking). Inventing her own language of geometric abstraction, fashioning stencils or “profiles” of undulating shapes as distinct units of measurement, she maps out and carves her sculptures into discrete building blocks with infinite possible configurations. Martínez's work draws upon her intergenerational family history of working in adobe (earthen construction) as well as the visual languages of southwestern vernacular architecture and craft movements.⁠ Martínez received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute. She recently completed Cercado, an installation in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as part of the Ankhlave Garden Project Fellowship and will be the 2026 artist in residence at Drew University. Solo presentations of her work include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan; Here Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY and elsewhere. Her work has been reviewed in Curbed, Surface Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times among others.