MARFA — The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is pleased to announce its 2025 Artists in Residence: Leslie Cuyjet, dean erdmann, Guadalupe Rosales, Klara Lidén and Charisse Pearlina Weston. This year, each artist will spend up to two months living and working among the art, architecture and land at Chinati.
The foundation’s Artist in Residence (AIR) Program was established by Donald Judd in 1989 and remains fundamental to the artist-centered mission that Judd imagined for Chinati. Since its inception, more than 190 artists from more than 25 countries have participated in the residency program, which does not require that artists produce new work but offers time and space for the development of ideas. Many artists conclude their time in Marfa with an open studio presentation, talk, or performance that is free and open to the public.
Past AIRs include Farah Al Qasimi (2024), Eric N. Mack (2023), Dionne Lee (2022), Sarah Crowner (2022), Jessi Reaves (2021), Rosy Keyser (2017), Matt Connors (2015), Hernan Bas (2013), Ester Partegás (2012), Steven Roden (2010), Charline von Heyl (2008), Christopher Wool (2006), Maureen Gallace (2005), Matthew Day Jackson (2004), and Katharina Grosse (1999), among others. Ingólfur Arnarsson (1992) and John Wesley (1989), both of whom have work permanently installed at Chinati, were artists in residence.
About the 2025 artists in residence:
Leslie Cuyjet
Leslie Cuyjet is an award-winning performer and choreographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her dances often integrate text, video and live performance while interrogating the performing body, personal legacy and dance history. Mostly known as a performer, she is also a writer and editor as well as a co-founder of the Authentic Movement collective, Duvet, which all play an ongoing role in shaping her interdisciplinary artistic practice. Her tenure in New York is decorated with performances and collaborations with Jane Comfort, Cynthia Oliver, Niall Jones, Yanira Castro, Will Rawls, David Gordon, NARCISSISTER, and Kim Brandt among others. Cuyjet’s work has been presented at The Kitchen, New York; The Shed, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; The Chocolate Factory, New York; and Center for Performance Research, New York. Recent honors include Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, and an Outstanding Choreographer/Creator “Bessie” Award for her 2021 work, Blur.
dean erdmann
dean erdmann is a 2018-2020 Vera List Center for Art+Politics Fellow, 2019 Urban Glass Fellow, 2013 California Community Foundation Fellow, and recipient Center for Cultural Innovation grant. Their work has been exhibited at ONE Archives, Los Angeles, California; Mexicali Biennial; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; REDCAT, Los Angeles, California; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan; Kavi Gupta Berlin, Germany; the Sheila Johnson Design Center, Morrisville, New York; Torrance Art Museum, California; and Public Fiction, among many others. Their public commission for the LA K-line Leimert Park Station opened Fall 2022. In 2024, their first international solo exhibition, 38, opened at Louche Ops Berlin, Germany and their work is included in Scientia Sexualis, part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and they are a Creative Glass Fellow at Wheaton Arts. They are an assistant professor of visual arts at University of California San Diego.
Guadalupe Rosales
Guadalupe Rosales (b.1980, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community generated archival projects, Veteranas and Rucas and Map Pointz, found on social media. Rosales received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Her solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021, 2018); Dallas Museum of Art (2021); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2020); Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2019); and Aperture Foundation, New York (2018). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City (2024); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); The Kitchen, New York (2019); and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2017). Rosales is a recipient of United States Artists Fellowship (2020), Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2019). Rosales has participated in residencies at Glen Wild (2022); PAOS/Museo Taller Jose Clemente, Guadalajara (2020); Main Museum, Los Angeles (2018); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017).
Rosales’ work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Rosales’ work has been featured by Vogue, i-D Magazine, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, ArtNews, Artsy and Artforum, Univision and NPR.
Klara Lidén
Klara Lidén’s (b. 1979, Stockholm) multidisciplinary practice evades straightforward categorization, traversing a range of media including video, performance, sculpture, structural intervention and installation. Her work often incorporates materials sourced from urban loci, which she rends anew and ripe for re-encounter with an inventive, and at times playful verve –– a process she has described as “unbuilding.” With interests in architecture and that of its environments, social constructs surrounding material function, and at its center the body in relation to these elements, her art is marked by an enduring exploration of the physical and psychological bounds of the spaces – both public and private – we inhabit.
Klara Lidén lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Solo exhibitions include Square Moon at Sadie Coles, London (2024); VERDEBELVEDERE at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2024); (0, 0, 0) at Galerie Neu, Berlin (2023); BABARUE at 0CTO, Marseille (2022); Auf jeden Fall, Secession, Vienna (2019); Battement battu, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2015); Invalidenstrasse at Museion, Bolzano (2013), Bodies of Society, New Museum, New York (2012); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2011) and Serpentine Gallery, London, (2010).
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Charisse Pearlina Weston received her BA from the University of North Texas in 2010, an MSc in Modern Art: History, Curating and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh College of Art in 2011, and an MFA in studio art with critical theory emphasis from the University of Irvine in 2019. She is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (2019-2020).
Weston was named a Studio Museum Harlem 2022–23 artist in residence, a 2023 Jerome Hill fellow, and a 2023-24 Hodder fellow at Princeton University. She has exhibited in groups at notable venues such as the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2020); Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2022, 2023); Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York (2022); and MoMA PS1, New York (2023). She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Project Row Houses, Houston (2014, 2015); the Queens Museum, New York (2022); and MOMA PS1, New York (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); among others. She has received awards from Artadia (Houston), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dedalus Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Corning Museum of Glass, Museum of Art and Design, among others. In 2023, her hybrid manuscript Awaiting was published by Ugly Duckling Press.
2026 Open Call for Artists in Residence
The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce the reopening of its open call for applications to the Artist in Residence Program in 2026. For more information and application guidelines, visit chinati.org/programs/artists-in-residence/
The Artist in Residence Program is generously supported by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and an anonymous donor.