Project Space Residency

Sydney Mieko King is an artist from San Francisco, California. Her work has been shown at the ICP Museum, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, François Ghebaly Gallery, Lewis Center for the Arts, and others. She has been in-residence at Yale Norfolk, VCCA, Recess Art, BRIC, and the Schneider Museum of Art. King received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Art & Archaeology. She is a 2021 Creator Labs Photo Fund Awardee, 2021 En Foco Fellow, and received the John Ferguson Weir Prize from Yale University in 2023. She currently lives in New Haven.

I am a photo-based artist interested in imaging the body and its trace, grief and memory. My working process often involves excavating and modifying the fundamental aspects of the photographic apparatus–the photosensitive surface, the lens/aperture, and the enclosed space of the camera. By de-constructing the camera, I aim to loosen the photograph’s discrete relationship to time and space, as well as develop methods of making images that are anchored in the topography of the body. Though I primarily work within the photographic medium, my process almost always involves a physical component. I deeply value being haptically connected to photography in some way–whether that connection happens through constructing a camera, fabricating a lens, or building substrates for projection.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.