Artist residencies played a crucial role in establishing Artpark as a pioneering and influential arts organization and are key to our development. To raise awareness and funds for future residency programs, Artpark is launching a series of conversations with eight notable artists. Hosted by Dr. Anthony Bannon and Artpark’s President, Sonia Clark, attendees will be able to engage with the artists live via Zoom.

Florian Idenburg (Artpark architect 2020/Artpark artist 2021) is Founding Partner of international design and architecture firm SO–IL and Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Idenburg also served as Associate at Pritzker Prize winning SANAA in Tokyo where he was charged with the design and realization of two internationally acclaimed museums (the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York).

Omar Khan (Artpark architect 2020/Artpark artist 2021) is a professor and the head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Khan joined CMU from the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo (UB), where he served as department chair for seven years. Khan’s research and creative activities span architecture, installation/performance art, and digital design and fabrication. He is also the co-principal, with Laura Garófalo, of Liminal Projects, an architectural research office, and partner in Gekh, a design consultancy.

As architects, Idenburg and Khan have recently led Artpark’s Master Plan along with the team of SO-IL, West-8, CharcoalBlue and Gekh with artistic residencies placed at the heart of the plan. As artists, both have artworks scheduled for installation at Artpark.