Congratulations to Ruth Patir, who has been selected as artist in residence at Fountainhead among a roster of 30 exceptional contemporary artists from around the world and working across various media.

This year’s applications were thoughtfully reviewed by an esteemed panel of curators and scholars, which included Allison Glenn, a senior curator at the Public Art Fund in New York; Susanna Temkin, a curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York; Rodrigo Valenzuela, a Fountainhead alum, visual artist and professor of photography at the University of California Los Angeles; and Melissa Wallen, the director of the de la Cruz Collection in Miami.