The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies at UC Davis

Overview

The California Studio:
Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies

The California Studio was established in 2020 through the generosity of longtime UC Davis arts education benefactors Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem. The California Studio builds on the Department of Art and Art History’s legacy as home to a top-ranked art studio program that, since its founding in 1958, has trained individuals that inspire communities and culture. The California Studio presents contemporary forms of practice and approaches to education that expand upon this history.

The California Studio welcomes a group of visiting artists annually to the Department of Art and Art History. Visiting artists come to UC Davis in one of two types of residencies: 

  • Spotlight artist residencies. The California Studio supports three to four spotlight artists each academic year. Spotlight artists are in residence for seven to 10 days and receive a generous honorarium, accommodations while at UC Davis and a travel stipend. While at UC Davis, each artist participates in and contributes to the life of the Art Studio program through departmental and public programming. Spotlight artist residencies are by invitation only, and residency programming is created in conversation between visiting artists and departmental faculty.
  • Teaching artist residencies. The California Studio hosts two teaching artists in the Department of Art and Art History. Teaching artists design an advanced undergraduate studio course and a graduate-level seminar for the department’s graduate students. Each artist is in residence for one academic quarter, or ten weeks, and receives a salary, benefits, a travel stipend, a materials stipend and studio space. Teaching artists are active members of UC Davis’ artistic and scholarly communities. As such, they are encouraged, and provided with the administrative support, to collaborate with the UC Davis community and to take advantage of Northern California’s immense resources.

To learn more about visiting artists at The California Studio or to sign up for The California Studio newsletter, please click here. 
 

2024-2025 ARTISTS

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Torkwase Dyson
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She works in  in painting, drawing, and sculpture, and her abstract works examine human geography and the history of Black spatial liberation strategies, often grappling with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and brown bodies.

Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Marie Lorenz
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Marie Lorenz is a New York-based  printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker. Her work is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space and bring about a heightened awareness of place.

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Byron Kim
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Byron Kim creates paintings that double as portraits and landscape paintings, utilizing the languages of formal abstraction, observational paintings, and conceptual art. His well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a group portrait composed of hundreds of 10 x 8 in panels, each painted to match the skin tone of a sitter.

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Clarissa Tossin
Film screening
The California Studio

Clarissa Tossin works with moving-image, sculpture and installation to propose alternative narratives for places defined by histories of colonization. She is the fall quarter visiting professor in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.

Cruess Hall, Davis, CA
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Clarissa Tossin
The California Studio

Clarissa Tossin works with moving-image, sculpture and installation to propose alternative narratives for places defined by histories of colonization. Through a mix of research, storytelling, and gestures of mapping and layering, Tossin places seemingly disparate elements into conversation, generating unexpected moments of interconnectedness across time and space.

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Eungie Joo
The California Studio

Eungie Joo is Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to SFMOMA, Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum in New York (2007 to 2012).

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