SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced its Spring 2026 International Artists-in-Residence, featuring an exceptional lineup selected by guest curator Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. Dr. Alexander currently serves as the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. This season's residents are Texas Artist Violette Bule, National Artist Mel Chin, and International Artist Việt Lê.

Venezuelan-born conceptual artist Violette Bule combines archival research with community engagement, examining power dynamics and collective memory through documentary methods and participatory fieldwork. Her monograph De la Lleca al Cohue was named July 2024 Book of the Month by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, and she received the 2023 Horton/Artadia Award.

Mel Chin pioneered "green remediation" with his groundbreaking Revival Field (1990) and has spent decades creating work that spans unique objects to large-scale collaborative operations in the public sphere. The 2019 MacArthur Fellow and 2024 Hiroshima Art Prize winner employs what curator Miranda Lash describes as "a mutative strategy," letting concepts dictate materials—from actions to films to objects.

Queer, disabled artist Việt Lê focuses their creative and critical practice on sexualities, spiritualities, and healing, working across experimental film, ritual performance, "pain-tings," and power objects. Author of Return Engagements (Duke University Press, 2021) and Professor Emeritus at California College of the Arts, Lê continues their training and practice as a Vietnamese indigenous shaman-monk. They founded the non-profit SEA sạ to share resources and wisdom rooted in global south indigenous shamanisms.