Founding Directors:
Nathalie Anglès
Co-founder of Residency Unlimited, Nathalie Anglès most recently was Director of the International Residency Program at Location One in New York, where she built and managed the residency program from its inception in 2001 to March 2009 , and curated numerous exhibitions with artists in residency during this period.
Nathalie began her professional career at Sotheby’s in London, where she was responsible for the Impressionnist, Modern and Contemporary mid season sales for 5 years. In 1993, she completed the “Ecole du Magasin” curatorial study program in Grenoble (France), then worked for 3 years at the American Center in Paris as Director of the Residency Program , followed by a tenure at the Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) and at Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD) where she organized various exhibitions and contemporary art projects.
Over this time, she has carried through various independent curatorial projects amongst which in 1996 the year long residency project “Pleased to meet you’ in Nantes/Porto and Glasgow”. In 2000, she co-founded the online platform “artbrain.org”. Currently, Nathalie is one of the initiators of ‘Exhibition’ an independent space which hosts a succession of interventions by artists ruled by a set of mechanisms in a vacant storefront in the Lower East Side, NYC.
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
Co-founder of Residency Unlimited, Sebastien recently worked as assistant director of the International Residency Program at Location One from 2004 till 2009, where he coordinated the residency program for emerging and established curators.
Having lived in various countries across the Americas and Europe, Sebastien is a multi-disciplinary of sorts. He completed a preparatory year the Ecole Superieure des Arts Graphiques, (ESAG Penninghen, Paris France) in 1997, followed by a BFA from the Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Montpellier District (EBAMDA, Montpellier France). Since his return to the US and New York City in 2001, Sebastien he has been working with the Queens based not-for profit/arts collective, Flux Factory, where he is currently establishing a residency platform in their newly acquired building located in Long Island City.
