Join us for the opening of the Second Shift Studio Resident Artist Group Exhibition!
June 24–September 16
Opening reception August 4, 6–8 pm
Second Shift Studio’s Resident Group Exhibition is part of the Wakpa Triennial Arts Festival and features the work of the studio’s 2022-23 Resident Artists, Cameron Patricia Downey, Stephanie Lindquist, and Zoe Cinel. Demonstrating a network of mutuality, this exhibition explores the work created during the artists’ residency at Second Shift Studio, where they have spent the past year working, making, and thinking alongside each other.
CAMERON PATRICIA DOWNEY (SHE/THEY)
Cameron Downey (b. 1998) is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, Minnesota whose work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation and otherwise. Seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious and the misremembered, their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021 with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Downey’s art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Engage Projects, Chicago; as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (forthcoming).
STEPHANIE A. LINDQUIST (SHE/HER)
Stephanie Lindquist is a visual artist and cultural producer from Los Angeles. Her work is rooted in experimentation and research particularly in relationship with plants, history, and materiality. Lindquist received her BA in Visual and Urban Studies from Columbia University in 2009 and MFA in Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice from the University of Minnesota in 2022. Her work has been exhibited throughout New York City and more recently in the Midwest. She looks forward to participating in a forthcoming ecological exhibition at the Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College in summer/fall 2023. Stephanie is presently an Artist-in-Residence at Second Shift Studios and Macalester College where she is thinking and feeling through her relationship with the Mississippi River among activists, artists, humanities scholars, and scientists.
ZOE CINEL (SHE/THEY)
Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Italy whose work builds community around human experiences that are isolating and complex to navigate, such as immigration and chronic pain. Starting from her journey as a patient and an immigrant and collaborating with other artists and community members, Zoe’s work’s ultimate goal is to connect and produce social change. Cinel received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artistic and curatorial work has been shown in institutions such as the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, St Paul, and the Rochester Art Center. Since 2017, she has been a member of the CarryOn Homes, an artistic collective dedicated to telling the stories of immigrants in MN.