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2025 Summer Independent Project Residency


June 1, 2025 -
August 17, 2025

The Block House, Governors Island
David Johnson, ‘Berlin’, Mauerpark (Field), 2017. David Johnson, ‘Paris’, Parc Rives de Seine, 2021. Chong Gu, 韧 (rèn), 2023. Photographed by Sophie Schwartz. Chong Gu, Security Door, 2023. Photographed by Sophie Schwartz. Chris Sancomb, Solar Tree, 16’x16’. Modular aluminum sculpture. Chris Sancomb, Every star eclipsed at the same time, 34”x46”. Digital and hand carved Italian marble. Sherry Aine Te, Light Filter Animation. Sherry Aine Te, Melting Ice on Glacier Animation. Kii Kang, Preview of Archive Reindex Archive (2023-2024), a web-based art project that invites users to annotate mid-20C photographic archives.

The IPA welcomes a new cohort of Fellows to the Block House this Summer! Selected by an independent committee of practicing designers and artists, the Fellows bring an exciting and diverse range of research and production to Governors Island.

︎︎︎ Learn more about the summer season of public programming at the Block House!

Chris Sancomb

Sculpture/Industrial Design/ Installation
Rhode Island, USA

Kii Kang

Digital Art/Architecture
Seoul, Korea/New York City

David Johnson

Photography
South Carolina, USA

Sherry Aine Te

Architecture/Urban Planning
New York City, USA

Chong Gu

Architecture
New York City, USA

Corwin Green - 2025 Inaugural Ecology Fellow

Communications/Social Innovation
New York City, USA






Summer Fellows



Chris Sancomb Kii Kang David Johnson Sherry Aine Te Chong Gu








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