The winners of the Casa Wabi / ArtReview residency prize have been announced.
Saba Khan (b.1982, Pakistan), Tomas Kleiner (b.1990, Sweden) and Daniel Melo Morales (b.1979, United States) will be going to Oaxaca in Mexico to stay at Casa Wabi, an artist residency and community arts centre founded by the artist Bosco Sodi in 2014.
Saba Khan’s multimedia works traffic in the language of memorial, monument and public projects. From miniature dioramas of a bureaucrat’s boring office, flashing LED of retro sci-fi machines seen at power stations to indigo textile banners honouring peasant revolts, she balances grandeur, artifice and satire in order to explore the cracks in the structures.
Tomas Kleiner is a freelance artist living in Düsseldorf where he also completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. In his work, Kleiner focusses in particular on performative and collaborative installations, combining conceptual approaches with playful experiments. His work has received many awards and has been exhibited in numerous internationally renowned museums.
Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician who lives in San Francisco, California. He earned an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English from Kenyon College. His sound, constructed photographs, and installations allow room for frenetic processes and outcomes. He continues to perform improvised soundworks and experimental music within group settings. He is a 2024-25 Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Fellow.
