2026
Winter | January – February
KAJA JOO - Alternative Photography, Installation, Sculpture - Vienna, Austria
ERICK HERNANDEZ – Painting - Brooklyn, New York
JACKSON MCGRATH – Writing - Chicago, Illinois
Spring | March – April
JARROD BECK - Drawing, Sculpture, Environment - Terlingua, Texas
HAI-WEN LIN – Sculpture, Installation - Chicago, Illinois
S. ERIN BATISTE - Interdisciplinary Poetry – Brooklyn, New York
Fall | October – December
EDD RAVN - Interdisciplinary - Yorkshire, United Kingdom
YURI YUAN – Painting - Jersey City, New Jersey
ORCHID TIERNEY - Poetry, Lyric Essay - Howard, Ohio | Aotearoa, New Zealand
KAJA JOO - Alternative Photography, Installation, Sculpture - Vienna, Austria
Kaja Clara Joo's practice questions the nature and psychology of our surrounding matter and the myths embedded within them. In an age saturated with images and objects, narration has become not just a supplement to the visual, but its most essential material. There are no “neutral” elements. Every material carries cultural weight, political history & social resonance. The Austrian- Korean artist manipulates them to reveal fragility beneath solidity, or the tender unknown beneath the known.
Over the past year, she has been building a personal archive of geological scan data acquired from borehole companies in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, South Korea, etc.. These visual materials, generated through technologies such as infrared imaging and ground-penetrating radar, offer abstract glimpses into the earth’s depths.
At Corsicana, she would like to work with on-site materials and historic photographical printing techniques, which require only sunlight for exposure, to create new sculptural images. While still exploring how best to translate these scans into form, Corsicana’s history, shaped by oil and industrial memory, offers fertile conceptual ground. Texas, with its borehole industries and layered geology, could open new dialogues between surface and depth, myth and matter.
Kaja Clara Joo, * 1991, graduated with honors in 2024 from the University of Applied Arts Vienna where she studied Fine Arts Photography. Her expansive, transdisciplinary works explore both physical and narrative boundaries. Cultural, social, and political behavioral patterns, as well as human interventions in the resources and the surrounding environment are central concerns in Joo´s artistic practice. Often site- and space-specific, she creates meticulously staged sculptures that span the artist's intended narrative across the space.
Her solo presentations have taken place at Sotheby's Art Quarterly Austria, MQ Artbox, Bildraum 07, Periscope Salzburg, Gallery Monitor in Czech Republic, SPARK Art Fair; SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, etc.. She has been awarded grants and residencies, amongst them: START- scholarship for emerging artists by the Austrian Ministry of Culture (2024), the Lee Ungno Museum Residency in Hongseong (2024), the MMCA Residency by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (2025), etc.. She will open her Solo- Show “The Last Citadelle” at the Korean Cultural Forum in Austria and the duo- show “The Stain of Place” at the Kunsthalle Kosice, both in 2026.
ERICK HERNANDEZ – Painting - Brooklyn, New York
Taking root in highly temporal narrative settings like the death of a loved one, the length of a subway commute, the confines of a waiting room, or the impact of a car crash, Erick Alejandro Hernandez’s (he/him) practice explores how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories.
Guided by questions around individual and collective loss and mourning, Hernandez works rhythmically with varying modes of paint application, collage, and approaches to scale that range from small to monumental. Often, his works are formed slowly and gradually by gluing fragments of painted canvas together, allowing a state of constant renewal where edges are never fixed.
He works iteratively and associatively to develop form and content, taking cues from psychoanalysis, history, literature, and his own experiences. The resulting works are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, assimilation, and exile.
Erick Alejandro Hernández (b. 1994) is an artist from Matanzas, Cuba, based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Hernández has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, Macdowell, Mass MoCA, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and The Bronx Museum, among others. Hernandez has had recent solo exhibitions with DIMIN, Murmurs, in addition to recent group shows at Perrotin, The Mistake Room, Wilding Cran, and Island gallery.
JACKSON MCGRATH – Writing - Chicago, Illinois
Jackson McGrath is a writer of experimental nonfiction interested in aesthetic philosophy and the natural sciences. His work explores how culture constructs images of the world and how these images shape material realities. While at Corsicana, McGrath is researching the thirty-some historical communities named “New Hope” in Texas, exploring questions of mediation, authorship, and abstraction.
Jackson McGrath is a writer and artist in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union and holds an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University.
JARROD BECK - Drawing, Sculpture, Environment - Terlingua, Texas
Jarrod Beck will create a series of mural size drawings on handcast paper and canvas exploring connections between compressed geological layers of the earth and the unpeeling of the medically studied body. These drawings will also instruct a series of occupiable “caves” created in paper pulp and pigment.
Jarrod Beck is an installation artist, printmaker and sculptor. In 2011 he traded sculpture for 5 acres of land in far west Texas and began a ground-drawing on the property. His practice is now centered in the Big Bend where he explores the massive and fragile geological evidence of the deep time of our planet.
As an artist trained as an architect, he creates large scale spaces for the contemplation of our connection to the physical and spiritual realms of the universe. He studies the shared shamanic practices of the world and works with people to discover the inner resources they already have to sit with trauma and grief.
HAI-WEN LIN – Sculpture, Installation - Chicago, Illinois
This is a practice that walks the motions of daily life and invites the company of naturally occurring phenomena. It is an attempt to attune one’s body to the environment, to unsettle static markers of identity and offer instead the wind, sun, and sky as relational anchors to gather and situate oneself. Hai-Wen Lin works through the language of fashion as a sculptural approach to kitemaking in an effort to free, fly, and extend their body. While in Corsicana, Lin intends to continue work on their largest kite to date in preparation for an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Fall 2026. They are interested in rituals of time, of listening, of tending to a single piece as if a garden.
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist living somewhere beneath the sky. Their work explores constructions of their body and the attunement of oneself to the environment, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. Recent accolades include the Museum of Art and Design’s 2025 Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s 2025 Visual Arts Award, and a 2025 Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship. Lin has been an artist-in-residence of MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. They have offered workshops in partnership with the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Mint Museum, the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.
S. ERIN BATISTE - Interdisciplinary Poetry – Brooklyn, New York
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. While in Corsicana, she is grateful for the opportunity to work between two projects. Hoard, her debut poetry manuscript examines 1980’s-1990’s Black America: the era of the middle class, the nuclear family, malls and suburbs. Hoard confronts its devastating domestic failure and what survives the Black American Dream: temporary upward mobility, exceptionalism, late capitalism and consumption. Batiste will also work to complete the final collages for her coffee table book, And The Glory Will Be Revealed, which reclaims early 20th century archives of Black women and girls from the New Orleans Public Library, forthcoming from University of New Orleans Press.
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. She is 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brown University and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Powerhouse Arts, Loghaven Artist Residency, and San Francisco Center for the Book among other honors. Her poetry has been published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters. Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. She has exhibited at Burnaway Magazine's Book//Zine Fair, Volume 8 MTL in Montreal, LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Inaugural Film Festival. Her collages have appeared in Create!, MQR, Obsidian, Southern Cultures, and Vassar Review. Batiste says her practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. Her work centers Black women—and examines themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories.
EDD RAVN - Interdisciplinary - Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Edd Ravn’s practice explores cycles of growth, decay, and transformation through collaborative processes, alchemy, and experimentation. Working across painting, installation, and ritual-based practice, Ravn investigates the porous boundaries between the self and the surrounding world. His work invites reflection on ecological interdependence and the shifting relationships between human and non-human forces. During the residency, Ravn plans to immerse himself in Corsicana’s ecologies, histories, and small-community rhythms. His studio will function as its own microclimate, shaped by ongoing experiments. In dialogue with 100 West’s history of gathering, he will reflect on the convergence of Corsicana’s past and future, considering its oil legacy, agricultural roots, and emerging data-center presence.
Ravn holds a BFA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art. His interdisciplinary approach combines formal inquiry with philosophical and ecological concerns, building a practice that invites participation and centers on the transformative potential of art-making.
YURI YUAN – Painting - Jersey City, New Jersey
Yuri Yuan paints surrealist scenes featuring ambiguous and physically impossible figure-landscape relationships to explore existentialist themes of longing and loss. Through visual symbolism, metaphors, and magical realism, the artist explores the ways in which exterior landscapes become projections of her and her audience’s interior psychological states. Her recent solo exhibition, Hide and Seek, at Alexander Berggruen Gallery, explored the emotional complexities of loneliness, anxiety, and vulnerability. These works reflect the fear of exposure and the shifting dynamics between observer and observed. Each painting incorporates a literal or metaphorical veil—simultaneously revealing and concealing—prompting viewers to consider what is shown, what remains hidden, and why. Inspired by the natural light and contemplative quiet of Corsicana, Yuan will create new landscape paintings that blend observation with imagination, capturing the local atmosphere and color while continuing her exploration of introspection and perception.
Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Yuan was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020 and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019, 2022, and 2024. The artist’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, GE; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA; Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL; and International Center for the Arts, Umbria, Italy, among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, and the X Museum, Beijing, China. Yuan was an artist-in-residence at Hercules Art/ Studio Program from 2021 to 2023 and at Silver Art Projects Residency in 2024. Yuan lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.
ORCHID TIERNEY - Poetry, Lyric Essay - Howard, Ohio | Aotearoa, New Zealand
Mad Ecologies: Mental Illness and the American Poem is a collection of lyric essays on Mad poetry in deviant spaces. The psychogeography of mental health differences can take a myriad of forms: from the eruptive despair caused by prairie madness to the warm feeling of springtime renewal in a hospital therapy garden. Many modernist poets wrote ecopoems to metabolise their emotional turmoil, but how can we responsibly theorise Madness in the time of climate change when popular literary icons, like Amitav Ghosh, have described our environmental irresponsibility as “The Great Derangement”? Mad Ecologies reads ecopoetry by poets with documented mental illness—Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, and Lew Welch, among others—to imagine a crip poetics of refuge where Mad mind flowers in brilliant clinical spaces.
Orchid Tierney is a poet, essayist, and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) as well as several chapbooks, including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023), my beatrice (above/ground press, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX Books, 2019), and blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018). Tierney is the co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (2023) and her scholarship has appeared in Venti, SubStance, Jacket2, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900. She teaches at Kenyon College and is a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.