HOME-BASED VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY

inaugural residency, 2026

Produced by Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative in partnership with Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, HOME BASED RESIDENCY 2026 is the inaugural professional development residency for early career BIPOC visual artists based in and/or making interdisciplinary, community inspired/site specific work in The Bronx.

The artists will share their creative research and work in a public event scheduled for early Dec 2026 at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. Details TBA !

THE ARTISTS

Roselyn Grullon

mentor: Patricia Encarnación

Roselyn Grullon is a Bronx-based Dominican artist and designer whose work explores the intersection of fashion, textiles, and cultural memory. Born and raised in the South Bronx, her practice is rooted in personal and collective histories, using garments and materials as a way to reflect identity, place, and lived experience. Working across fashion, fiber, and image-making, she approaches clothing as a form of archive, where everyday materials carry narratives of migration, community, and self. Her work often engages themes of cultural preservation, appropriation, and visibility, with a focus on how identity is shaped and expressed through what we wear. Roselyn is a graduate of Parsons The New School for Design and co-founder of Bronx Native, a streetwear brand created to challenge stereotypes of the Bronx. She continues to develop work that centers storytelling, material exploration, and community engagement.

Alexis Marie Montoya

mentor: Kandy Lopez

Alexis Marie Montoya is a Puerto Rican and Peruvian multidisciplinary artist working across collage, film photography, assemblage, and painting. Rooted in her experience as a food educator, line cook, and community organizer, her practice examines food as a lens for identity, memory, and community, particularly within The Bronx. Her writing has appeared in Bon AppétitEdible Bronx, and Vocal, and her work has been published in Nueva Luz: The Bronx Issue by En Foco. She was an Artist-in-Residence with BronxArtSpace in 2023. She has exhibited at Casita Maria, Bronx River Art Center, WALLWORKS New York, Yonkers Museum of Art, Yonkers Arts, En Foco, and BXposure. Through food and storytelling, her work honors the communities formed in kitchens, bodegas, and around shared tables. 

Sheryl Saly Touré

mentor: Elia Alba

Sheryl Saly Touré is a textile artist based in the Bronx, NY. She works with natural dyes, especially indigo, to create textiles that reveal suppressed histories of exploitation and colonization. Touré is a selected artist for The Lab: Mentorship & Momentum for Emerging Textile Thinkers 2026 at the Textile Society of America. Her research highlights the Sahel as a center of textile innovation. She is currently included in The Stories We Carry, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA (2026), and is a textile artist-in-residence at the Bronx River Art Center. Touré studied at the University at Buffalo and hosts textile workshops for mixed-age groups in the Bronx.

photo: Vasiki Konneh (insta: @visualgriot_)

HOME-BASED VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY 2026