Winter Workspace 2026

This year, the Winter Workspace program consists of two back-to-back, seven-week sessions, in which New York area artists research, develop, and make work informed by the site, ecology and history of Wave Hill. Now in its seventeenth year, the Winter Workspace has supported more than 180 artists with studio space and a financial stipend. Artists are encouraged to engage with the site’s history, architecture, and visitors while expanding their practices using resources from the garden, including access to Wave Hill’s thriving plant collections, staff support, and horticulture and art libraries. Stay tuned for more information about the 2026 Winter Workspace cohort and opportunities to meet the artists and learn about their creative practices. See program dates below and visit our calendar for more listings. Read the press release here.

The Winter Workspace Program is organized by Wave Hill’s curatorial team: Gabriel de Guzman, Director of Arts and Chief Curator; Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, Curator of Visual Arts; and Afriti Bankwalla, Curatorial Administrative Assistant.

Session 1

January 5 – February 22, 2026
Participating artists: Sari Carel, Lucia Gagliardone, Noormah Jamal, Patte Loper, Gal Nissim, Alex Dolores Salerno

Drop-In Sundays: February 1 and February 8, 1PM – 3PM
Open Studios: Saturday, February 21, 12:30PM – 3:30PM

Sari Carel is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translation from one modality to another. Her projects consider interspecies communication, relationships between people and place, and how the senses inform our perceptions. At Wave Hill, Carel will embark on a new project that explores the play behaviors of Wave Hill’s nonhuman inhabitants and visitors. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Artists Space, Dumbo Arts Festival, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York; LAX Art and Young Projects in Los Angeles; The Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Greece, and Locust Projects in Miami. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Lucia Gagliardone is a Vermont-born, Brooklyn-based dance artist whose performance lineage stems from intergenerational, community dance-making in direct relationship with the forests and water systems of home. Her work explores memory excavation, ancestry, queer worldviews, and play as a facilitator of change. At Wave Hill, Gagliardone’s movement research will investigate the intersection between fairytales and forest ecosystems in order to understand and archive nature’s survival wisdoms. Gagliardone co-founded slowDANCE, a queer-led performance cooperative and performs with Troy Ogilvie’s Emergent Improvisation. She has premiered twelve dance works at Northampton School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, MA; The Tank, New York, NY; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, and other venues. She earned a BA from Bowdoin College. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Noormah Jamal is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on identity and the personal baggage that people carry. Her paintings, drawings, and sculptures are deeply rooted in the oral histories of her community and family. While on site at Wave Hill, Jamal will continue to work with these threads, drawing from the history of the site, as well as stories the plants and visitors might hold. She has exhibited internationally at Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; and Canvas Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan. Jamal earned a BFA from the National College of Arts Lahore and an MFA from Pratt Institute. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Patte Loper is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Boston. With a practice rooted in painting, she also experiments with sculpture and video to explore feminist utopianism and the environmental humanities. At Wave Hill, Loper will continue her current project, Laboratory for Other Worlds, which responds to damaged landscapes by constructing spaces of refuge, weaving together Western science, Indigenous knowledge, and European folklore. She is a faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and has exhibited work at the Drawing Center and The Bronx Museum, both in New York; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; and the ICA at Maine College of Art and Design, Portland. Loper earned a BS from Florida State University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Gal Nissim is an artist who works with technology, organisms, and humor to challenge our preconceptions about nature. While at Wave Hill, she will develop a multimedia installation that examines ecological hierarchies through narratives about invasive and native species. Gal’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the New Museum and Pioneer Works in New York; Science Gallery, Detroit, MI; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. She currently teaches Environmental Studies and Animal Studies at New York University. Nissim earned a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, a BSc from Hebrew University, and MPS from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Alex Dolores Salerno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking (New York) in Turtle Island in Abya Yala. Their practice is informed by “queer-crip” community, and the radical shifts necessary to center interdependence and nurture connections to the earth. At Wave Hill, Salerno will continue working with coffee beans in order to uncover the histories of colonialism and labor that the plant carries. They have exhibited internationally at venues such as Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; and the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and Ford Foundation Gallery in New York. They earned a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Session 2 

February 24 – April 12, 2026
Participating artists: Tarik Jeremiah Brown (New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow), Camille Cooper (New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow), Mark Dorf, Bel Falleiros, Gabriele Grones, Jaleeca Yancy

Drop-In Sundays: March 22 and March 29, 1PM – 3PM
Open Studios: Saturday, April 11, 12:30PM – 3:30PM

Tarik Jeremiah Brown is a New York based artist from Chicago working across time-based media to interrogate the resonances and tensions that surface when the past, present, and futures of the Black diaspora fold into one another. His outcomes often emerge through analog film practices, collage, sculpture, and digital image-making. At Wave Hill, Brown will engage sites of refuge and worship rooted in Black American antebellum history that explores topics related to storms, protection, elevation, and concealment. He has exhibited internationally at Koppel Project Bank and Central Saint Martins in London as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brown earned a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. He is a 2026 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill.

Camille Cooper is a New York based puppeteer, multidisciplinary artist, and self-identified transsexual from northern New Mexico. Cooper will use his time at Wave Hill to continue a project in which he explores the relationship between the historic treatment of trans people and insects through performance and sculptures made from transgender ephemera. He has puppeteered with The Human Beast Box, Meow Wolf, The New Mexico Museum of Art, and PASEO Project, all in New Mexico; and at Snake in The Boot Collective, Pinc Louds, Foreshadow Co., Concrete Temple Theatre, and Fictionville Studios, in New York. Cooper earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is one of Wave Hill’s 2026 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellows. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Mark Dorf is a New York-based artist working across photography, video, digital media, and sculpture. Engaging collaboratively with ecologists and technologists, his work questions perceptions of what Western culture often terms “Nature.” Dorf will engage Wave Hill’s greenhouses to examine how design, image culture, technology, and science shape expectations of the “Natural” world, while engaging deeply with the digital processes behind their production and the ways in which gardens shape our interactions with “Nature.” His work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including The Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland; Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam; Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany; Postmasters Gallery and bitforms gallery, both in New York. Dorf’s films have been featured on dis.art and VDrome.org. Dorf earned a BFA from Savanah College of Art and Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist based in the Lower Hudson Valley, NY, whose practice focuses on place and belonging. She creates immersive welcoming spaces to be in community with nature, our inner selves, and other beings around us. At Wave Hill, Falleiros will start to form healing nests that reflect the cycles of life and nature’s regenerative process. She is a fellow artist of Sacatar Institute, Itaparica, Brazil; Pecos National Park, NM; Burnside Farm, Detroit, MI; Santa Fe Art Institute, NM; El Espacio 23 / The55Project, Miami, FL; and Socrates Sculpture Park and More Artin New York. Falleiros’ work was featured in a solo exhibition at KinoSaito in Verplanck, NY, and has created commissioned work for the 37o Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM-SP and Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space in 2023. Falleiros earned her BFA from the University of São Paulo. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Gabriele Grones is a Brooklyn-based painter and visual artist born in Arabba, Italy, whose work explores the intersection between nature and cultural memory. Rooted in meticulous observation and shaped by the visual vocabulary of art history and iconography, his paintings investigate how plants, figures, and objects embody layered meanings shaped by tradition and culture. At Wave Hill, Grones will research and develop a series of paintings focused on early blooming plants across Wave Hill’s gardens and conservatory, focusing on their iconographic histories. His work has been exhibited in major institutions internationally, including the Venice Biennale and Ca’ Pesaro – International Museum of Modern Art in Venice and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, all in Italy; the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Society of Painters, both in London, UK; MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain; and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana. Grones earned a BFA and MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.

Jaleeca R. Yancy is a multidisciplinary artist from Memphis, TN, currently based in the Bronx. Working across abstract painting, mixed media, sculpture, and installation, her practice explores Black cultural narratives through the lens of radical imagination, ecological sustainability, and existential inquiry. Yancy’s tactile approach to materiality allows her to build layered compositions that examine liberation, storytelling, and environmental justice. At Wave Hill, she will develop work that explores themes of rest, familial history, and the ways in which the landscape holds memories. She has exhibited with the West Harlem Art Fund, Equity Gallery, Studio 9D, The Longwood Art Gallery, and Triangle Loft in New York, as well as with Featherstone Center for the Arts in Boston and Urvebu Contemporary and Tone Gallery in Memphis, among others. Yancy earned a BS from Libscomb University. For more information, please visit the artist’s website.