Katerina Sokolovskaya · Sculpture & Installation
Originally from Belarus, based in Brooklyn
Katerina works with plaster, clay, silicone, and mixed media to create sculptural installations exploring transformation, the body, and embodied memory. Her work traces the experience of migration as an internal process, using casting and imprinting to preserve traces of touch, pressure, and change. At Governors Island, she is developing a participatory installation that grows over time through visitor contributions, creating a collective sculptural work that reflects a range of personal stories and experiences.
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Navrioska (Navrix) Mateo Mejía · Multidisciplinary Art & Performance
Originally from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, based in New York City
Navrix is a multidisciplinary AfroCaribbean artist whose work moves across painting, embroidery, sound, movement, and storytelling. Drawing from nature, memory, and sensory experiences, she creates immersive works that connect the personal to the collective. Her practice explores how the body carries memory, including memories inherited from those who came before us, while creating spaces to reconnect with identity and belonging. At Governors Island, Navrix will develop Taína Viva, a new body of work rooted in ancestral memory and spirituality, exploring immigration, identity, healing, and collective belonging.
Patricia Colmenero · Painting & Film
Originally from Brazil, based in Brooklyn
Patricia works across painting and film to challenge the ways immigrant women, and Latina women in particular, are made visible. Her Counter Ethnography series draws on devotional imagery, melodrama, and historical portraiture to create paintings of opened bodies, stitched surfaces, and displaced hearts that resist reduction. Alongside this, she is developing The Exodus of Iara, a short film following a young immigrant woman who arrives in the United States in pursuit of artistic desire. At Governors Island, she is bringing painting and film into dialogue with the architecture of the house itself.
Yuli Sung · Sculpture & Installation
Originally from South Korea, based in Brooklyn
Yuli Sung is a visual artist working across sculpture and installation. She received her BFA from Hongik University in South Korea and her MFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her recent solo exhibitions include Uncool Gallery, Brooklyn (2026); Haeum Goyang Art Studio (2024); Goyang Aram Art Museum (2024); Cheongju Art Studio (2023); and Plexus Projects, Brooklyn (2020). She has participated in numerous residency programs, including Haeum Goyang Art Studio (2024), Cheongju Creative Art Studio (2023), Wassaic Project (2022), Abrons Arts Center (2022), and Vermont Studio Center (2019).