VISITING ARTISTS

Aleksandra Wałaszek & Samuel Stevens

February 2 - April 2, 2026

Know what you want to know *

SPRING 2026 Residency at Compound Yellow

February 2 - April 2, 2026

New works trace how accidents and external forces become part of personal realities. Landscapes and bodies mutate into algorithmic instructions – mediated or lived, aligned to shifting social logics, with reality scaled to fit. The artists ask through collage and video, weaving and carving: What is a promise never kept, an armistice of gazes, an ignored apology? The exhibition is informed by times of unrest, and unseen forces; they consider that an invitation to exit requires rehearsing the welcome again.

Aleksandra Wałaszek received an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and an MA in Media Arts from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (2011). She is a recent recipient of the Fulbright Graduate Student Award, and ReSide Award. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues, and has participated in artist residencies. Her practice examines the coexistence of beauty and crudeness, hospitality and hostility, references architecture, and sources archives.

Samuel Stevens holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Wrocław (2020) and a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute (2016). He is the co-founder, with Wałaszek, of Forma Otwarta, an artist-run space in Oleśnica, Poland, where he curates exhibitions and collaborative projects. His practice embraces site-specificity and experimental making, weaving together elements of craft, architecture, and ephemeral encounters to reimagine our relationship to space and objects.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

*This project was realized within the frame of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s ReSide program.

Residency February 2 - April 2, 2026

Works on display - March 7 - April 4, 2026

Saturday 2pm to 6pm and by appointment

Lee Kathryn Hodge and Nathanael Jones

December 29, 2024 to January 5, 2025

Chat Market

WINTER 2025 Residency at Compound Yellow

Chat Market is a collaborative duo of two artists who are frequently mistaken for poets or writers, sometimes sound artists. Through their collective activities Chat Market frequently encourages this misidentification (though some of it is just you). Chat Market began life as a Québecois shibboleth in Chicago, and have been innovating text-based workarounds to the gig economy, surveillance capitalism, social media, and their attendant realities since roughly 2018. Chat Market rarely asks for permission. Need the talk? Pull up to Chat Market.

Lee Kathryn Hodge is visual artist and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Black Warrior Review, Thrush, Heavy Feather Review, Euphony, Oberon, After Hours, Mouth and The Tulane Review. She has received support from the de Kooning Foundation, the Ragdale Colony, and Luminarts where she was named a 2023 Creative Writing Fellow.
https://www.leekathrynhodge.com/writing

Nathanael Jones is a Canadian writer and artist currently based in Montreal. He holds degrees from NSCAD University (BFA 2014) and SAIC (MFA 2017). His debut poetry collection, Aqueous, is out now through The Porcupine's Quill (2024).

Looking forward to spending some time together in the new year!
https://alllitup.ca/writers-block-nathanael-jones/

Keeley Haftner

October 2023

“Tesselescence (Compound Yellow)”

Fall 2023 Residency at Compound Yellow

Keeley Haftner is a Saskatchewanian-Canadian artist based in the Netherlands whose artwork deals with garbage as a material and as a concept. She was born and raised on Treaty 6 territory on the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Métis nations, to which she and her ancestors are deeply indebted. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the US, Canada, and Europe at venues including Schering Stiftung (Berlin), the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), and Keramiekmuseum Princessehof (Netherlands). Haftner received her BFA from Mount Allison University (2011) and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies (2016). She was recently long-listed for Canada’s prestigious Sobey Art Award (2023).

Haftner has received and been short-listed for various grants, awards, and public commissions from organizations including BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Art Competition (2011), the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics (2021), and the University of Chicago’s Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Collaboration Grant (2015-16). She has participated in many residencies, including the European Ceramic Workcentre (NL), Vermont Studio Center (USA), Struts & Faucet Media Arts Centre (CA), and SÍM (IS). Haftner is the founder of Street Meet public art festival, Saskatoon (2013-2017), and one of the founders and curators of Public Access gallery, Chicago (2016-2018). She has given workshops and talks at galleries, universities, conferences and festivals including Transmediale (DE), Currents International New Media Festival (Santa Fe), and Open Engagement at the Queen’s Museum (NYC). Haftner produced site-specific work for the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Terrain Biennial (2021), and received solo presentations of her work for This Art Fair, Amsterdam (2021/22). Selected publications include the 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016), the BAKSTEEN | BRICK exhibition catalogue at Kunsthal KAdE (2022), and Tesselescence and the Rhombillion Effect (Open Studio, 2019). Haftner is a 2018 and 2021 recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant, and a Hague Artist with Stroom (NL).

Sofia Hagström Møller

July 31 – August 10, 2022

Grids and Gradients Exhibition

Summer 2022 Residency at Compound Yellow

Sofia Hagström Møller is a Nordic textile artist based in Copenhagen. She develops woven works for decorations in the public space and for art exhibitions. Sofia explores the woven fabrics, with both analog and digital control of the loom. The inspiration for her artworks is often based on the Nordic craft traditions, but with a playful process of creation and a modern twist. Sofia tells woven stories that play with colors, light, traditions, and materials.

July 31–August 20, 2022
Opening Reception: July 31, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
 
Grids and Gradients features new and recent work by Compound Yellow’s Visiting Resident, Sofia Hagström Møller. These works are based on old weaving traditions from Scandinavia. Many of them are produced on modern digital looms, whilst using old traditional weaving techniques in the expression of patterns.

Sofia is working with gradients, in terms of colors, but she is also integrating grids as a visual contrast. Sofia says, “When I first saw the map of Chicago, what I noticed was that it was filled with grids, this is not usual for maps of cities in Europe. And for me as a weaver, what I saw was woven grids, of course. This served as both a visual and cultural counterpoint with gradients, which I have long been fascinated by in woven patterns."

For Sofia’s newer works in Compound Yellow, she is integrating the color yellow. She will be exploring the various shades of yellow and bring them forward in her process of expression. How do the many nuances of yellow interact with the other color gradients, and how does the woven cloth enhance or detract from the saturation of yellow?

Learn more: https://sofiahagstrommoller.com