Through our residency program we build bridges to connect global artists with the local community. We invite international artists to live in Panama for 6 weeks, where they have the opportunity to work on their practice immersed in a different context from their usual environment. They also get to know our country and share with both the community of local artists and with our neighbors in Santa Ana through conversations, children's workshops, workshops for artists, open studios, among others. An exhibition of the results takes place in Casa Santa Ana at the end of the residency.
Neo Matloga (South Africa, 1993) explores moments of personal connection through intimate scenes set in domestic and outdoor spaces. His work, deeply autobiographical, spans drawing, painting, and printmaking, primarily using monochromatic collages made with charcoal, ink, and soft pastels to create a timeless quality. Through these works, Matloga reclaims intimate spaces as symbols of resistance, constructing micro-narratives charged with emotional tension.
Kareem Anthony Ferreira (Canada, 1989) explores personal, familial, and social identity through intimate scenes deeply connected to his own memories. Using painting and collage techniques Ferreira works within the genre of Black portraiture in an effort to shift perceptions and offer re-creations of identity, personal family traits, and events. A first-generation Canadian with Trinidadian roots, Ferreira uses family archives consisting of photographs, disassociated objects and ordinary material to construct textured compositions through a process of assemblage.
Kate Pincus-Whitney (United States, 1993) is an American painter whose practice uses the power of food and the symbolism of the dinner table as a storytelling medium. Her paintings delve into the psychological, cultural, and historical significance of everyday objects, elevating these ‘objects of consumption’ to explore the sacred and profane.
Merrick Adams (EE.UU, 1992) is an American painter whose pieces portray oceanic landscapes that blend family history, nature, and technique to evoke light and the unknown. With his background in printmaking, each piece is informed by his study of woodcuts and screenprinting, resulting in layered paintings that explore both the familiar and the hidden.
Krystle Lemonias (Jamaica, 1989) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, labor activist, and art educator. Her multidisciplinary art practice is primarily influenced by her research on social class privilege, citizenship, labor rights, and how economic inequality affects Black communities.
Javier Morales (Ibagué, Colombia, 1993) is a painter, researcher, and recycler. His chosen subject is everyday life in the countryside of northern and southern Tolima, a state in south-central Colombia. These rural scenes, carrying the artist's personal history, become evident in his work. As an alternative to depicting Colombian violence, Morales uses the language of Haitian Voodoo painting and Colombian Primitivism to explore memory, the central theme of his work. Using fantastical imagery and found objects, Morales creates pieces that explore the gray area between art, magic, and the soul; emerging is a body of work he calls Magical Primitivism. Javier is represented by SGR Gallery.
The work of Risseth Yangüez (Panama, 1991) focuses on the body and memory, reappropriating historical narratives to dignify, find, and heal from the place of "non-being." Risseth works with various formats - video, photography, performance, engraving, collage, typing, textiles - always intuitively, based on archival material and historical, geographical, and identity exploration.
