SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio continues its 21st birthday celebrations and announce the stellar lineup of artists for the 2016 Spring International Artist-In-Residence Program: Daniel García Andújar of Spain, Wu Tsang of Los Angeles, California, and Adriana Corral from San Antonio. The artists began their residency on January 18, and the incredible works they create during their residency will be revealed to the public on March 17.

Each year, the International Artist-In-Residence program invites three guest curators to select three artists each (one working internationally, one working in the United States, and one in Texas) to conceive and create pivotal works of art. The mission of the program is to provide artists with unparalleled resources that allow them to experiment with new ideas, take provocative risks, and realize innovative and ambitious new artworks.

The guest curator for Spring 2016 is Juan de Nieves, an independent curator living and working between Madrid and La Coruña, Spain. De Nieves received his degree in Modern and Contemporary Art from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has been professionally involved in contemporary art from the mid 1990s as a curator for several institutions such as Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo and the Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló. De Nieves became the Artistic Director of Rupert (Vilnius) in 2013, a new educational and residency program established in Lithuania. He served as Artistic Director of the 2nd edition of SUMMA Contemporary Art Fair (Madrid) in 2014.

2016 International Artists-In-Residence:
Daniel García Andújar of Spain: Daniel García Andújar began his artistic activity in the late 1980s, working mainly with video and exploring topics of racism, xenophobia, and the misuse of technology in surveillance systems. After familiarizing himself with computers and their interactive possibilities, Andújar began developing the ongoing project, Technologies To The People® (TTTP), an organization that provides those without means access to new technologies. Andújar has extensive international exhibition history, notably at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), OPAL Contemporary Art Space (Istanbul), the Museum for Modern Art (Bremen, Germany), and the Fundacio Joan Miro (Barcelona).

Wu Tsang of Los Angeles, California: Wu Tsang is an artist, performer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles who works with the voice as a medium and representational metaphor. In 2012, Tsang was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Tsang’s first feature WILDNESS premiered at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest in Los Angeles. Tsang’s work has also been featured in the Whitney Biennial, Hammer Museum’s biennial, New Museum Triennial, Gwangju Biennial, The Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, and MOCA, Los Angeles. Her recent short YOU’RE DEAD TO ME premiered on PBS and won the 2014 Imagen Award for Best Short.

Adriana Corral of San Antonio: Adriana Corral’s installations, performances, and sculptures are solicitous composites of research, politics, and universal themes of loss, injustice, concealment, and memory. In 2015, Modern Painter named Corral one of the “Artists to Watch,” and she has received numerous awards, including the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant and Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture at the International Sculpture Center. Her work has been shown nationwide, notably at Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, NJ, National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL, The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX, and David Shelton Gallery in Houston, TX.

Artpace is a contemporary art space located in downtown San Antonio, Texas with residencies, exhibitions, and education programs that nurture the freedom to dream. Artpace supports the creative process and engages audiences with the most innovative art and artists from around the world.

Since 1995, Artpace has welcomed more than 210 artists through its renowned International Artist-in-Residence program. Annually, Artpace hosts three residencies. Each features one Texas-based artist, one national artist, and one international artist, who are selected by a notable guest curator. Each eight-week residency culminates in a two-month exhibition on site. The mission of this program is to provide artists with unparalleled resources that allow them to experiment with new ideas and take provocative risks.