Open Studios with Chie Fueki and Tommy Kha

Join us for open studios with our current Artists in Residence. Peak into their studios and chat with them about their practice.

Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund (2024), UMOCA’s Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2026), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2004). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; San Francisco MOMA, CA; UMOCA, Salt Lake City, UT; and Orlando Museum of Art, FL. She is represented by D.C. Moore Gallery, NY and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles.

Additionally, her solo exhibition Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory curated by David A. Ross is now on display in our Gallery 2 until December 15, 2024. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience her work. Exhibition catalogues can also be purchased at our Verplanck office or online.

Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is the recipient of the CPW Vision Award, Next Step Award, Foam Talent, Creator Labs Photo’ Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow, and a former resident at Light Work, the Camera Club of New York, and the International Studios and Curatorial Program. He was one of 47 artists in the inaugural Silver List.

His work has been published in NY Times, New Yorker, Foam, Dazed, Interview, McSweeney’s, Harper’s Magazine, Pitchfork, ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Butt Magazine, Miranda July’s “We Think Alone,” and Vice.

He’s been included in museum group shows at Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), the High Museum (Atlanta), Leslie-Lohman Museum (NYC), and mostly recently, participated in the inaugural Tennessee Triennial at the Brooks Museum (Memphis). He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures Generation (NYC), Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York (NYC), and Blue Sky Gallery (Portland), and presented, at Paris Photo’s Curiosa curated by Holly Roussel and presented at Vasli Souza Gallery; and participated in the Hyères and Unseen Festivals. Other exhibitions include Billboard Creative (Los Angeles), Nathalie Karg Gallery (NYC), Launch F18 (NYC), Teen Party (NYC), and Yongkang Lu Art (Shanghai).

He appeared in Laurie Simmons’ narrative feature, My Art. He has taught at the New School and Rutgers, and a critic at Pratt Institute and Yale University, where he now teaches. He is a current Wu Mei student under Sifu Ken Lo.
He joined Higher Pictures Generation in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023.

He lives and works between New York City and Memphis.