ARTIST- IN- RESIDENCE
2026
OUR COLLABORATORS
Jettison Arts Foundation Corp. (JAF) is an organization dedicated to uplifting local emerging visual and mixed-media artists in the Bay Area through a suite of free-to-the-public programs.
The Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program exists to strengthen the relationship between artist and community and empower artists’ in realizing their creative identity through their dream exhibition. By providing pro-bono gallery space, operational and advisory services, Jettison Creative nurtures artists to gain an edge in pushing the boundaries across their medium, breaking through industry barriers, and inheriting a deeper connection with local Bay Area communities.
ZHANÉ GAYBYRD
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Zhané GayByrd (She/They) is a Black queer visual storyteller based in the Bay Area. Through intimate portraiture and narrative-driven media, Zhané creates spaces of healing with reflection, dialogue, and expression, where Black women and non-binary folks can see themselves fully and be seen without condition.
Zhané practice is a form of healing and resistance; an offering to remind us that vulnerability is power, that healing amplifies the spirit of liberation, and that within our stories lies our collective vibrance.
MAY 30 & 31
IRIS WONG
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Iris is an artist from Hong Kong currently based in San Francisco.
As an emerging artist, her work explores how intimacy and connection are shaped by the systems - be it technological, domestic, or spatial, around us. Working with images, digital collage, and interactive installations, she often explores these themes through playful encounters within liminal spaces, where the boundaries between reality and imagination, and the artificial and the organic are blurred.
Iris has exhibited internationally across Hong Kong, San Francisco, Paris, and Sharjah, including the Hong Kong Lucid Dreams solo exhibition, and group shows at the Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong and the Light Artists Alpha Collection in Paris.
JUNE 27 & 28
TIM GUAN
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Tim Guan is a painter based in San Francisco. Though he’s been making art for as long as he can remember, he found his way to building a committed art practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2025 he left his career in tech to pursue painting full time.
Working figuratively in oil, Tim is particularly drawn to painting because it forces him to slow down and pay attention. Against the relentless speed and chaos of life on screens, he views this attention as a radical, necessary act to preserve his humanity. Tim’s practice focuses on curious observation of contemporary life with the goal of making resonant work that both reflects what it’s like to be alive today and inspires questions and conversations about where we’re headed.
JULY 25 & 26
LILLI FORE
(she/they)
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Lilli is a visual artist and mixed media designer based in San Francisco. Lilli grew up in downtown Oakland and went to Oakland School for the Arts for 7 years, exploring visual art, set design, and fashion design. She then continued her creative education at the
best public architecture school in the country, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she received a Bachelor of Architecture. She is currently an architectural designer working in San Francisco.
At the end of the 5-year program, she developed a thesis that explored how to question the typical idea of home through the lens of dreams and the collective consciousness. After graduating, she continued exploring this dream logic through abstract visual art.
Her artistic journey is influenced by her severe dyslexia, which has given her the tools to question reality and led her toward abstraction.
She often uses recycled materials in her work, finding story and energy in disregarded art and objects. Through this process, she creates pieces that exist in conversation with past works, other makers, and the collective consciousness.
She believes that learning how to create abstract art is accessible to anyone and can be a healing tool that connects you to your own subconscious as well as the collective.
JULY 25 & 26
COLBY DAMON & KYLE COFFMAN
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Thunderbolt is the artistic musical project from Colby Damon and Kyle Coffman, two performance artists who met in New York City in 2007. Damon is a dancer, singer, musician and choreographer whose performances and works have been seen nationally and around the world. Coffman is an actor, dancer, singer and musician who’s appeared in Broadway shows, films, and plays. As Thunderbolt, they explore a contemporary style of folk music, where music comes from family and friends and is learned through hearing rather than written notation - searching for something that defies genre or style, but encompasses all their influences and interests into something unique and truthful.
JULY 25 & 26
DYLANGER GUTIERREZ
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Dylanger Gutierrez is a photographer based in San Jose who centers physicality in his artistic practice. As a new member of Visual Philosophy Studio, he has found space to expand into other disciplines to further his photographic endeavors, especially woodworking and framing. He enjoys learning new skills, hearing how others find meaning, and finding progressively less convenient ways to create images.
JULY 25 & 26
ALEXANDRU
SALCEANU
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Alexandru Salceanu is a Romanian-American interdisciplinary artist whose work navigates the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural belonging. His practice reflects the continual process of reconciling his cultural heritage with his assimilation into American life. This formative experience shapes his artistic inquiry, driving him to explore layered historical and aesthetic references and the shifting complexities of belonging.
Salceanu’s interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, projection mapping, painting, mixed media, and social practice. Within his socially engaged projects, he collaborates with immigrant communities to create works centered on autobiographical storytelling. These collaborations emphasize co-creation in both the visual and narrative components, transforming participants from subjects into active collaborators. Through this process, memory becomes an act of affirmation—both personal and collective—revealing the unifying power of individual stories.
Salceanu’s art harnesses its transformative potential to humanize social and cultural issues, challenge inherited perspectives, and invite audiences into an empathetic encounter with history, identity, and shared experience.
Alexandru Salceanu’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at the de Young Museum, Root Division, Kala Art Institute, Mills College Art Museum, SOMArts Cultural Center, University of San Francisco, Art Works Downtown, Brea Art Gallery, University of San Diego, and Art Academy of San Diego. Internationally, his work has been presented at Millepiani, CICA Museum, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, and Galleri Heike Arndt, among others.
He has received numerous awards, including the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Artist Grant, California Humanities Connecting California Grant, CCI Quick Grant, The Puffin Foundation Grant, and the Cadogan Scholarship. Salceanu earned his B.A. from the University of San Diego and his MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California.
SEPTEMBER 26 & 27 || www.alexandrusalceanu.com/work.html
ALICE
LEE
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Alice Lee is an SF-based muralist, illustrator, and ceramicist born and raised in the Bay Area. She has painted murals for the Asian Art Museum, National Geographic, Cricut, Autodesk, and more. Her work is inspired by the whimsy and joy found in everyday moments, and in particular, she loves drawing animals and the unique nature landscapes found in Northern California. For this show she is excited to combine her favorite mediums: painting, woodworking, ceramics, tufting - to design the home art objects and furniture of her dreams.
OCTOBER 24 & 25
