2009 - 2010 FELLOWS

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer

Peter Simon Mühlhäußer was raised in Southern Germany in a small town near Stuttgart. In 2003, he completed courses at the Technisches Gymnasium BSZ Öde Göppingen. From 2004 to 2007, the artist studied at the Johannes Steinhäuser in Lasa, South Tirol, Italy, where his practice in "lasa-marble” earned him degrees for both Stonemason and Stonecarver. In May 2009, Mühlhäußer received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, graduating cum laude and earning the Walter Erlebacher Award for excellence in anatomy, in addition to the Postgraduate Fellowship.

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Panni Malekzadeh

Panni Malekzadeh was born 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Her work has always been about things in herself that she feels incredibly uncomfortable with and embarrassed by. She explores the vulnerability, shame and isolation of the adolescent girl in herself and ones around her. She exploits what's dangerous and what scares her about herself. She collects, she hoards, her work has some kind of delicate profanity, and a certain over-passivity… including a jade dildo, this beautiful new pearl cock ring… and butterflies and kittens too of course. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Will Kurtz 

Will Kurtz was born in Flint, Michigan and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1981. He practiced as a landscape architect until he began creating art as a self-taught artist at the age of 40. He recently returned to school, graduating magna cum laude with an MFA from the New York Academy of Art at the age of 51. Often drawing upon memories of his past, Kurtz's work is highly personal, and seeks out a certain sincerity and rawness of human beings in a tender and humorous way.