Team

Nathalie Anglès is the Executive Director and co-founder of Residency Unlimited (RU). Founded in 2009, RU is a Brooklyn based non-profit organization that promotes exchange and diversity through its customized residency program and year-round public programs for US based and international artists and curators. A graduate of The École du MAGASIN curatorial studies program in Grenoble, (Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble France), Nathalie has worked in institutions in the US and Europe. Her extensive experience in the field of artist residencies began managing the residency program for US based artists at the American Center in Paris, followed by a position as Director of Location One’s International Residency program in New York from 2000-2008. Nathalie also worked in a curatorial and administrative capacity in institutions such as École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and Union centrale des Arts décoratifs in Paris as well as Sotheby’s London in the Impressionist and Modern art department. In 2008, Nathalie received the French government distinction Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger is an NYC-based curator and cultural producer with a focus on place-based practices around social, cultural, and civic issues. Projects include (after)care, a site-specific exhibition in a former emergency waiting room at Kings County Hospital Center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn (2019); the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial (2018); Jameco Exchange, a site-responsive exhibition and socially engaged education platform in a vacant storefront in Jamaica, Queens (2016); and Hold These Truths (2017) and Bring in the Reality (2015), exhibitions that presented works at the intersection of activism and storytelling at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in Manhattan. Rachel is the co-founder of 1@111, a series of process-oriented discussions that focus on a single work, curatorial premise or proposition. Independent curatorial projects have focused on the intersection of information, data and art, including: Once Upon a Time There was the End, the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; Data Deluge, Ballroom Marfa, TX; and Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, CT. She is the former curator at No Longer Empty (NLE), a non-profit organization that curates site-responsive and community-centered exhibitions, education, and programs in unique spaces, and also served as director of the NLE Curatorial Lab program. Rachel has served as co-director of Sara Meltzer Gallery and curator at Exit Art in New York, where she curated the organization’s final exhibitions Every Exit Is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art and Collective/Performative (co-curator). Rachel holds an MA in Curatorial Studies in Contemporary Art and Culture from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY.

Camille Flahaut is currently completing her bachelor’s at Medipol University in Istanbul after spending a semester interning at RU, where she worked closely with the Executive Director and RU team. Her aim is to pursue a Masters in Management of Cultural Institutions starting in September of 2020. Her previous experience working with non-profits in France equipped her to become instrumental to the RU team and she continues to work with us as the Young Visual Artist Award (YVAA)coordinator.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Alyssa Alexander comes to Residency Unlimited as an experienced exhibitions manager and arts administrator. Currently in a master’s program at The City College of New York, studying art history and museum studies, she is building a curatorial practice and pursuing more in-depth cultural and art historical research. Her passions lie in working with emerging artists and making art accessible to the public.

Lulu Meng studied and worked in stagecraft and costume design where she acquired experience in woodworking, welding, set construction, and garment making. After switching paths to be an artist, Lulu applies her skills in theater to both her work and to assist other artists in producing their works. Previously, she was the gallery manager at William Harris Gallery in Rochester, NY where she was in charge of exhibition installation, and has worked with artists such as Taraneh Hemami, Xiaoze Xie and Hogtu Zhang, in different stages of their projects, including material and fabrication research, project rendering, production, and art handling.

As a person, Lulu Meng contemplates what it is to be an individual living in modern society and what connects people, through her meditative practice – art and yoga. Meng’s conceptual based art practice is rooted in her experience and observation of people, environments, and the relations between them. In recent years, she is captivated by the push and pull between an individual’s tendency to be unique and the coexisting longing to belong to a community. She presents her concepts in installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, video or whichever format that communicates the ideas.

http://www.lulumeng.space/

Livia Alexander is a curator, writer, and Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Cultures 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 and criticism has appeared in the Journal of Visual Anthropology, Framework, MERIP, Hyperallergic, Art Africa, and Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia and as book chapters and catalog essays.

Alexander served as an advisor to a variety of art organizations and galleries, including Tirana Open, Sapar Contemporary, Al Riwaq Art Space, New Rochelle BID, Asian Contemporary Art Week, and the Art & Patronage Summit. She is the co-founder of ArteEast, a non-profit organization established in 2003 to support and promote artists from the Middle East, North Africa and its diasporas, which she directed until 2013. Alexander’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Foundation, American Association of University Women, among others.

Currently pursuing a doctorate degree in Arts Education at Columbia University, Ayelet Danielle Aldouby is a public art and social practice curator working at the intersection of art and wellness. As RU consultant, Aldouby has led various arts and education projects by RU artists with organizations such as Casita Maria, Kingsbridge Heights community Center and IDEASxLAB in Kentucky which received funding from an NEA Our Town grant. RU is currently partnering with MS 136, Charles O Dewey Middle School, where Aldouby is working closely with RU artists on The Selfie and currently Deus Ex Machina – the Future Machine.

Bartek Remisko is an independent cultural worker whose interests lie in Visual Arts, Multiculturalism, Ecology & Sustainability and Polish-Jewish relations. He is Artistic Director of Kosciuszko Projects, a new initiative founded by The Kosciuszko Foundation, that presents prominent Polish artists to audiences in New York City. On October 11, Kosciuszko Projects opens its inaugural show The Many Faces of Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), curated by Remisko. Remisko has served as grant reviewer and project evaluator for the Rubin Foundation in their Art and Social Justice grant program, and recently for the Queens Council on the Arts. He is part of Green Point Projects, an independent space presenting Polish modern and contemporary art in NYC and co-founder of  Beach64retreat in The Rockaway, Queens, NY, a grass-roots micro-initiative meant to support creative individuals in the times of the rising precarity in the arts and culture. As an RU consultant, Remisko offers strategic advice for developing new partnerships and also co-organizes public events within the framework of  Beach64 retreat.

Mounira Makar joins the Residency Unlimited upon recently graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Art History from CUNY Hunter College. She was a recipient of the Mellon Public Humanities Grant in which she completed and presented a research project on Egyptian modern art, focusing specifically on Surrealism in Egypt. Mounira has held internships at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 and at the Thomas Erben Gallery. Her growing interest in contemporary art and art non-profits guides her as she begins an internship with Residency Unlimited.