A.I.R. (Artists in Residence)
October 19–24, 2025 | Monira Foundation
888 Newark Ave #250, Jersey City, NJ
Reception: October 19, 12-6 PM
The Monira Foundation presents A.I.R., a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by the 2024–25 Monira Artists in Residence. Bringing together artists working across sculpture, film, painting, ceramics, and installation, the exhibition celebrates the culmination of a year of research, experimentation, and dialogue within Monira’s residency community.
Reflecting the Foundation’s commitment to supporting cross-disciplinary and process-based practices, A.I.R. reveals the diverse ways artists approach making as a form of investigation into history, identity, material, and place. The works on view span investigations of colonial legacy and industrial debris, memory and mythology, and personal and geological time, offering a snapshot of artistic exchange and evolution within the residency’s shared space.
Exhibiting Artists
Simon Benjamin
Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker based in New York whose practice examines how histories—particularly those tied to the sea and colonial legacies—continue to shape the present. Using video, installation, and photography, his work reveals unseen connections between past and future. Benjamin is a 2023 Artadia Awardee and Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Fellow, with recent presentations at documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany), the Kingston Biennial, and the National Gallery of Jamaica.
Bat-Ami Rivlin
Working with found and surplus materials, New York-based artist Bat-Ami Rivlin creates sculptural interventions that expose the tension between material culture and psychological space. Her reassembled objects confront the architectures of control and the instability of the systems that structure daily life. Rivlin’s work has been shown internationally and featured in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail.
Peter Hoffmeister
Peter Hoffmeister’s sculptural works and installations use ceramics and found materials to explore the relationship between human existence and geological time. Drawing from historical objects and personal memory, he considers how education, media, and public history shape our understanding of the past. His clay-based works embody both fragility and endurance, evoking the enduring traces of human presence across time.
Erick Alejandro Hernández
Born in Matanzas, Cuba, and based in New Haven, CT, Erick Alejandro Hernández uses painting and drawing to explore the intersection of personal and collective histories through themes of grief, migration, and memory. His richly layered compositions transform traditional techniques into emotional allegories of loss and resilience. Hernández has been a resident at Skowhegan, Yaddo, MacDowell, and MASS MoCA, and exhibits widely across the U.S. and abroad.
Tyler Christopher Brown
Tyler Christopher Brown creates sculptures and installations that explore the tension between individuality and collective identity. Reworking everyday industrial and cultural materials—muscle car fragments, tools, clothing—he exposes contradictions within systems of labor, masculinity, and mythology. His works engage with ideas of double consciousness and cultural memory, transforming the familiar into sharp reflections on power and belonging.