In Residence: July 21 - September 13, 2025
Welcome Dinner: Thursday, July 24, 2025, from 6-8PM
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 2025, from 6-9PM
(SAN ANTONIO, May 29, 2025) – Artpace San Antonio is pleased to officially announce the Fall 2025 International Artists-in-Residence. Our Fall 2025 Guest Curator, Regine Basha, has selected Ian Gerson (Houston, Texas), Elana Herzog (New York, New York), and Goldie Poblador (Manila, Philippines).
The Fall 2025 resident artists will begin their residency on July 21, 2025, with a Welcome Dinner on Thursday, July 24, 2025, from 6-8PM. Their exhibitions will open to the public on Thursday, September 11, 2025, and will be on view until January 18, 2026.
Ian Gerson is a queer and trans interdisciplinary artist and educator born and based in Houston, TX. Working at the intersections of sculpture, installation, and community engagement, their work investigates climate injustices, trans consciousness, and queer longing.
Ian has shared sculptures and installations throughout the US and Mexico City, most recently at the Blaffer Art Museum, Asia Society Texas, Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Art League Houston. Ian has participated in several residencies, including A Studio in the Woods, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Galveston Artist Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, MacDowell, and Socrates Sculpture Park.
Their work has been supported by The Idea Fund, Houston Arts Alliance, a 2022 Houston Artadia Award, a Public Art Grant from the City of Galveston, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Ian received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. https://iangerson-blog.tumblr.com/
Elana Herzog, born in Toronto in 1954, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from Alfred University. Herzog received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship and was profiled in Sculpture Magazine’s Summer 2020 issue. Her work is the subject of a thirty-year survey exhibition at Koffler Arts in Toronto Canada, from February 13 through May 11, 2025. Herzog’s solo and two-person exhibitions include Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn; Sharjah Art Museum, UAE; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; The Boiler (Pierogi Gallery), and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; Diverseworks, Houston, Texas; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Missouri.
Her work was recently included in group shows at the Brooklyn Museum, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; and the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at The Pocantico Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York. She has been included in international group shows in the Republic of Georgia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Canada, Chile, and the Netherlands, and shows at institutions such as, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Grants include the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, NYSCA/NYFA Fellowships 2007/1999, Lillian Elliott Award; Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
Herzog has attended residencies at Reach Projects, Yaddo, MacDowell, Joan Mitchell Center, Fountainhead, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, LMCC Workspace, Dieu Donné Paper, Wave Hill, Back Apartment Residency, St Petersburg, Russia; Søndre Green Farm, Norway; Gertrude Contemporary, Australia. https://www.elanaherzog.com/
Goldie Poblador is a Filipina visual artist who creates multisensory installations that merge glass, scent, sound, and performance to address themes of ecology and decolonization, particularly as they relate to the emancipation of the female body. Her work has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, New York), UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, New York), 601Artspace (New York, New York), the Yangon Secretariat Building (Yangon, Myanmar), Knockdown Center (Queens, New York), Islip Art Museum (East Islip, New York), the RISD Museum (Providence, Rhode Island), Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Bangkok Art and Culture Center (Bangkok, Thailand), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France), Fine Art Museum of Hanoi (Hanoi, Vietnam), Lopez Memorial Museum and Library (Pasig, Philippines), Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Manila, Philippines), the National Museum of the Filipino People (Manila, Philippines), and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (Pasay, Philippines).
She is the first Filipino artist to be acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass. She has received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a President’s Scholarship from the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Philippine AIR Prize from Alliance Française de Manille.
She has completed residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass, Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, Virginia), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, New York), the Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, Georgia), MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts), La Fragua (Belalcázar, Spain), and the Cité Internationale des Arts. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2009. In 2015, she obtained her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design. https://goldiepoblador.com/
Important Dates
The Artist Welcome Dinner will be held on Thursday, July 24, from 6-8PM. The artists will give a public presentation with images of their practice, discuss their past work, and possibly share plans for their Artpace residency. Liberty Bar will provide a main dish, and we ask the public to bring their favorite side dish or dessert for eight persons to share. Doors will open at 6PM, and presentations begin at 6:30PM. This event is free and an opportunity to meet and talk to the artists about their work.
The Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk will take place Thursday, September 11, 2025, from 6-9PM. Artpace Guest Curator Regine Basha will return to San Antonio and lead a dialogue with the three artists at 6:30PM in our Hudson Showroom. The artist talk will be live-streamed on Artpace’s Facebook account.
During their residency, each artist will host a Community Collaboration, offering opportunities to connect with the public while at Artpace. Community Collaborations may range from workshops or lectures to studio visits, film screenings, or performances.
The Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program is made possible through generous annual support from the Sarah E Harte and John S Gutzler Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, The Parker Foundation, Isabel Howard, the Jeanie Rabke Wyatt Family Foundation, the Howard and Betty Halff Charitable Fund, Johnny Clay Johnson, Guillermo Nicolas and Jim Foster, The Smothers Foundation, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Ongoing support of Artpace’s exhibitions and programs is generously provided by the City of San Antonio, Department of Arts and Culture, The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Texas Commission on the Arts, H-E-B, and a grant from the following funds of the San Antonio Area Foundation: John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, Beulah M. and Felix J. Katz Memorial Trust, Ruth Lang Charitable Fund, E. B. Loch Charitable Fund, Dan and Gloria Oppenheimer Fund, Frances Margaret Seaver Fund, Valley View Trust, and the Becky "Beck" Whitehead Memorial Fund. Artpace is grateful to be the recipient of a generous grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.
About Artpace
Artpace San Antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports Texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. As a catalyst for artistic expression, we engage local communities with global art practices and experiences. To date, Artpace has welcomed 289 artists through its renowned International Artist-in-Residence Program.
Annually, Artpace hosts two residencies. Each features one Texas-based artist, one national, and one international artist, who are selected by a notable guest curator. Each eight-week residency culminates in a four-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.