Team

Nathalie Anglès is a founder and Executive Director of Residency Unlimited (RU) in New York, a non profit arts organization that fosters customized residencies for artists and curators. She is graduate of the École du Magasin Independent curatorial program (Le Magasin – (CNAC Grenoble, France). Fom 2000-2008 she worked at Location One as the Director of the International Residency Program (New York). Previous positions include: Sotheby’s (London); American Center in Paris; Ecole des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris ; Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD). Paris. In 2008, Nathalie received the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.

Boshko Boskovic is the Program Director of Residency Unlimited. He has curated exhibitions such as Monument-Movement, Center for Photography & Moving Image, New York, Not so Distant Memory, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art & National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russa, Daniel Rothbart – But I’m An Amerian, KCB, Belgrade Band of Outsiders, CAC, New York, Power of the Brand, Contemporary Art Museum in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bite A Bunny for a Day, Exhibition 211, New York, New Paintings – Aleksandra Popovic, MC Gallery, New York, Video Integration, Belef, Belgrade, Performing Body, Marina Abramovic, Speed Art Museum, Louisville.

Boskovic has worked at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation managing the European retrospective Specific Objects Without Specific Form which traveled to the Wiels Contemporary Art Center in Brussels, The Beyeler Foundation in Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt.

During his tenure as Associate Director at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York he also worked closely with artists such as Los Carpinteros, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Johan Grimonprez.

Boskovic has published essays for the following exhibitions: Monument-Movement, Center for Photography & Moving Image, BiH Contemporary Art, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Daniel Rothbart – But I Am An American, KCB, Belgrade, Taxi to Berlin, Antje Wachs Gallery, Berlin, Where Have All the Children Gone, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Dark Star, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt, Cinematic Sculptures, KCB, Belgrade, Beyond the Magic Mountain, MC Gallery, New York.

Nataša Prljević is the Executive and Curatorial Assistant at Residency Unlimited.

Prljević is an artist, curator and facilitator. During her tenure at RU she helped facilitate network, project and exposure support for RU residents. Prljević worked closely with the Young Visual Artist Awardees from Southeastern Europe. Her recent curatorial projects include: Zorica Zafirovska: Border Crossing; Nina Komel: Charting Absurd at IDIO Gallery in Brooklyn; Nina Simonović: Hesitations 2; Performances by Dardan Zhegrova/Lola Sylaj and Mark Požlep at De-Construct [projects] in Brooklyn.

Prljević holds an MFA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a BFA from Academy of Arts Novi Sad, Serbia. Her professional experience includes working closely with the artists Joanna Pousette-Dart in New York and Philip Topolovac in Berlin, and the teaching engagements (art history, design, time-based media, and studio) at the University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art and Design in Ann Arbor.

Prljević is an artist who explores a cross-disciplinary processes of displacement and emplacement through assemblage as a conceptual framework focusing on a potential of political imagination in collision of disparate media. Selected exhibition venues include: Russell Industrial Center, Detroit; Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn; National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad; Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad. Honors include: KulturKontakt Austria Grant; Rackham International Student Fellowship/ Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship, University of Michigan; Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture Nomination; and most recently, a guest artist at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna, Chiang Mai and Poh Chang Academy of Arts in Bangkok, Thailand.

http://www.natasaprljevic.com

Sean Naftel received a BA at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in ceramics and sculpture, and an MFA from the Burren College of Art in Visual Art & Theory in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. He is one half of the art collaborative Attenborough Naftel and the co-founder of Roving Project.

Over the past 7 years in New York, Sean has worked as a freelance preparator for numerous galleries and museums in NYC, Baltimore, Washington DC, and Miami including The Morgan Library, The Jewish Museum, Conner Contemporary, Sean Kelly Gallery, Callicoon Fine Art, and The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore). Most recently he was the project manager and lead preparator for The Arch of Titus- From Jerusalem to Rome, and Back and as exhibition designer for Hey Wow! The Art of Oded Halahmy at Yeshiva University Museum.

He has worked troubleshooting projects for artists such as: Zevs, JR, Leandro Erlich, Iran do Espirito Santo, Pan Jian, Queen Godis.  In 2011 worked with Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich as the lead fabricator for the piece Elevator Shaft at Sean Kelly Gallery. From 2010-2014, Sean worked directly with Zevs in making numerous works from large scale paintings to resin sculpture to digital video.

Anna Evtiugina’s research is currently focused on the development of US-Russian strategic partnerships in the arts.  Evtiugina holds an MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University, an MA in International Business from Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and a certificate in Intercultural Communication from the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany). She is a 2017 Edmund Muskie fellow and a 2015 Fulbright scholar. Professional experience includes: curatorial fellow at the San Jose Museum of Art; curated the Last March exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the NY-based Salamatina gallery (2017); curated The Art of Becoming Black in America at Indiana University (2017) which included a two-day symposium about the role of arts in the history of resistance and a movement workshop with the African American Dance Company. In 2011-2015, she was manager and curatorial assistant at Galerie Iragui in Moscow, for Russian conceptual artists and emerging experimental artists. She is also the producer of the experimental 360-degree film The Klaxon (US/Russia, 2018) directed by Nikita Shokhov which explores participatory approach engaging local communities.

Livia Alexander is a curator, writer, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University. Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure and artistic production, urbanity, cultural politics of food and art, and contemporary art from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.  She as curated and produced numerous art and film programs, exhibitions and events, showcased at the MoMA New York, Tate Modern, Sharjah Art Foundation, Queens Museum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cinematheque Tangier, and many more. Alexander is co-producer of the research-based interactive documentary, Jerusalem, We Are Here (Canada/Palestine/Israel, 2016), directed by Dorit Naaman. Her award-winning scholarly writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Anthropology, Framework, MERIP, and as book chapters and catalog essays. She regularly contributes to Hyperallergic and Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia and founded the online publication ArteEast Quarterly. She is currently editing a year-long series commissioned by the online platform www.ArtsEveryehere.com with Residency Unlimited, centered on artist residencies at the nexus of urban placemaking and social practice.

Sébastien Deltombe is from Lille (France) and he has a degree in law and a master in arts (focus on art in the public realm). He worked with the city of Lille organizing cultural events and with artconnexion, contemporary art production and mediation consultants.

Louise Laroque is from Lyon France and is finishing her thirst year at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix en Provence. Her focus is political and social sciences and she also works with the local council in Lyon organizing cultural events an a city wide artistic festival. At RU she will be working closely with the Program Director.

After receiving an MFA in painting in Tehran, Iran, Maryam Ghoreishi worked for Mahe-Mehr, an artistic and cultural institution. Meanwhile, she collaborated with Chav Printmaking Studio organizing seven annual miniprint exhibitions nationally and internationally. Working as a freelance artist, Maryam has also had one solo and over twenty group exhibitions. Currently, she is enrolled in a master’s program in Visual Arts Administration at New York University. At RU, Maryam will work on specific research and development  assignments.