For four decades, the Artist in Residence program has attracted artists from around the world who seek to use Bernheim as their inspiration. From photographers and painters, to video and installation artists, this unique residency attracts artists from all mediums who explore nature based works that fulfill Bernheim’s mission of connecting people to nature through the lens of art. Currently the Bernheim Artist in Residence is awarded to up to four artists a year who are selected to create works within the forest and/or arboretum that are inspired by and potentially installed in the natural world. The following is a list of past Artists in Residence with links to their work.
Past Artists in Residence
2022 – Carla Rhodes Bernheim’s Inaugural Environmental Artist in Residence, Wildlife Conservation Photographer, Catskills, NY
2022 – AKUNZO (Karola Pezarro & Aris de Bakker), The Hague, Netherlands
2022 – Mike Elsherif, filmmaker, Louisville, KY
2022 – Sonja Hinrichsen, environmental installation artist, Oakland, CA
2021 – Anne Peabody, multidisciplinary artist, Brooklyn, NY
2021 – Laura Poulette, drawer/painter, Berea, KY
2021 – Norman Spencer, printmaker, Louisville, KY
2020 – Lucy Azubuike, mixed-media artist, photographer, Frankfort, KY
2020 – Lee Emma Running, inter-disciplinary artist, Omaha, NE
2020 – Gabriella Boros, mixed-media artist, Skokie, IL
2019 – Justin Roberts, willow sculptor, Murray, KY
2019 – Janice Lee Kelly, artist, photographer and aerial sculptor, Barrington, RI
2019 – Kathleen Lolley, mixed-media artist, Louisville, KY
2018 – Ashley Peevor, sculpture, living costumes, Bristol, UK
2018 – Natalie Andrew Slime molds and Ceramics, Boston, MA
2018 – Anthony Heinz May, sculpture, Brooklyn, NY
2018 – Rachel Singel, drawing, printmaking, book binding, Louisville, KY
2017 – Irene Imfeld, photographer, Berkley, CA
2017 – Sharon Harper, photographer, Cambridge, MA
2017 – Jenny Zeller, photo-based Mixed Media, Louisville, KY
2016 – Eileen Neff, photographer, Philadelphia, PA
2016 – Chiel Kuijl, installation artist, Amsterdam, Holland
2016 – Jimmy Fike, photographer, Phoenix, AZ
2016 – The Common People, Minecraft artist, Lake District, UK
2015 — Rachel James, sound artist, New York, NY
2015 — Jaime Bull, installation and performance artist, Athens, Ohio
2015 — Cathleen Faubert, Sensory artist, Norman, OK
2014 — Don Pollack, painter, Chicago, IL
2014 — Myung Gyun You, installation, Philadelphia, PA
2014 — Firat Erdim, installation, Izmir, Turkey
2014– Sevryna Lupien, Installation, Quebec, Canada
2013 — Mei-ling Hom, – installation, Philadelphia, PA
2012 — Stephen Ausherman, – video, Albuquerque, NM
2012 —Nicholas Dowgwillo, – printmaking, Buffalo, NY
2012 — David Sharpe and Anne Abrons, – painting, New York, NY
2011 — Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, – installation, Cincinnati, OH
2011, 2013– Heike Endemann, – sculpture, Bodensee, Germany
2011 – Todd Smith, – performance/sculpture, Buffalo, NY
2010 – Julia Oldham, sound/performance,New York, NY
2008-09 – Yvonne Mullock, – mixed media/film, Calgary, Alberta
2006 – Hirumo Saiki, – “Soati” sculpture, Japan
2005 – Hideki Kanno, — sound installations, Japan
2004 – Carlotta Brunetti, — landscape installations, Germany
2003 – Pitiwat Somthai, — environmental sculpture, Thailand
2002 – Jerry Bleem, — sculpture, Chicago, IL
2001 – Barbara Cooper, — sculpture, Chicago, IL
2000 – Tomasz Domanski, — environmental art, Wroclaw, Poland
1999 – Ludwika Ogorzelec, — environmental art, Le Bianc-Mesnil, France
1998 – Karl Ciesluk, –environmental art, Ottawa, Canada
1997 – Catherine Arnold, — painting, Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania
1996 – Laura Von Rosk, — painting, Bearsville, NY
1995 – Richard Lohmann, — photography, San Francisco, CA
1994 – Sandra DeSando, — drawing, Brooklyn, NY
1993 – Madison Cawein, — painting, Louisville, KY
1992 – Lynn Geesaman, — photography, Minneapolis, MN
1990-91 –Christopher Burkett– photography, Veronia, OR –
1989 – Ray Metzker, — photography, Philadelphia, PA
1988 – Dick Arentz, — photography, Flagstaff, AZ
1987 – Nancy Lloyd, — photography, Easton, PA
1986 – Barbara Bosworth, — photography, Boston, MA
1985 – Clinton Smith, — photography, Spokane, WA
1984 – Frank Hunter, — photography, Albany, OH
1983 – David Graham, — photography, Richboro, PA
1980-82 – Paul Fields, — sculpture, Louisville, KY