BOLSTERARTS RESIDENCY

COHORT 02

SUMMER 2025

Selected by jurors Emily Edwards (Independent Curator), Amy Rosenblum-Martin (Curator & Art Historian), and Daniella Rose King (Lead Curator, Collections Galleries, Wellcome Collection).



JASMINE MURRELL

JASMINE MURRELL

CHRIS CORTEZ

CHRIS CORTEZ


  • CHRIS CORTEZ

    Chris Cortez is a New York–based artist whose large-scale oil paintings celebrate Queer identity and Mexican heritage through romantic, transformative imagery. Raised between New Jersey and Morelos, Cortez draws from childhood memories, pop culture, and Catholic iconography to create vibrant dreamscapes where fluid identities take center stage. Influenced by divas like Selena, Cristina la Veneno, and Zero Suit Samus, their work honors the art of self-expression and the resilience of Queer and Trans communities. With bold color and meticulous technique, Cortez reclaims space for Queer futurity, challenging binary structures while affirming collective strength.

    Recent exhibitions include for love, for art and for being at UTA Artist Space (Los Angeles), Junto at LMCC on Governors Island, and Hecho en México at C’mon Everybody (Brooklyn).

  • JASMINE MURRELL

    Jasmine Murrell is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary visual artist born in Detroit, Michigan. Her expansive practice blends sculpture, installation, performance, film, and traditional techniques such as weaving and sewing to create immersive, transformative experiences. Rooted in radical imagination and ancestral memory, Murrell reclaims discarded materials and ancestral practices to explore cycles of healing, power, and collective liberation. Her living sculptures and multimedia environments often emerge through collaboration and community engagement, offering viewers interactive encounters that bridge art, ritual, and ecology. Murrell’s work challenges conventional boundaries between past, present, and possible futures, activating spaces both familiar and otherworldly. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bronx Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Whitney Museum, the African American Museum of Art, and the International Museum of Photography. Her work has been featured in MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Detroit Times, and other publications.

Meet the COHORT 02 Jury

  • Amy Rosenblum-martin

    CURATOR & ART HISTORIAN

    Amy Rosenblum-Martín is an independent curator, Guggenheim staff, and New School professor with a Columbia MA in art history. Former Pérez Art Museum Miami and Bronx Museum staff curator, she has also worked for MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, the Reina Sofía (Spain), Centro Cultural de Espana Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Mexico), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Argentina), and the National Portrait Gallery (England), among other museums. She was guest assistant curator of MoMA PS1’s "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (New York Times Most Important Moments in Art in 2020). She curated ISCP’s "Adjani Okpu-Egbe: On Delegitimization and Solidarity" (Hyperallergic’s Top 10 NYC Shows of 2021) and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum’s "Ana Mendieta: Thinking About Children’s Thinking" (Artforum Critic’s Pick). Her exhibition "Swagger and Tenderness: The South Bronx Portraits by John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres" was at Bronx Museum (Hilton Als review, New Yorker). Other recent and upcoming projects include “Float: Marisa Morán Jahn” (Guggenheim), “Cuenca Biennial” (Ecuador), “Stellenbosch Triennale” (Cape Town), “AIM Biennial” (Miami), "Nuestro Vaivén" (Our Sway, The Ringling Museum), and the book Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (Phaidon). She organized and moderated this summer’s Royal College of Art (London) and Bronx Museum roundtable about artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe featuring curators Keyna Eleison, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, Eileen Jeng Lynch, Khanyisile Mbongwa, and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.

  • Daniella Rose King

    SCHOLAR & CURATOR

    LEAD CURATOR, COLLECTIONS GALLERIES

    WELLCOME COLLECTION

    Daniella Rose King is a London-based curator, writer, and lecturer. She has extensive curatorial experience in the UK and US, organising exhibitions, publications and programmes, building collections, and undertaking research and has been published widely. Her research has a special focus on artistic practices of the Caribbean and black diaspora and feminist readings of transatlantic geographies and their histories of extraction. She joined the Wellcome Collection as Lead Curator, Collections Galleries in 2023. Between 2020-23 she was the inaugural Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational where she worked across Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She was the guest curator for the 2024 exhibition ‘Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea’ at Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Emily Edwards

    INDEPENDENT CURATOR

    Emily Edwardis an independent curator and the former Associate Curator at Dallas Contemporary, where she has served for over six years and has curated exhibitions of artists EJ Hill, Martin Gonzales, Bianca Bondi, Chloe Chiasson, Gabrielle Goliath, Natalie Wadlington, Shilpa Gupta, Ariel Rene Jackson, and Margarita Cabrera and assisted with over thirty of DC’s exhibitions. Recently, Edwards was the recipient of an ICI Étant Donnés Curatorial Fellowship. She independently curated the acclaimed exhibition Is It Real? Artists Address Reproductive Freedom in 2024 with Sara Hignite and was the curator of the 2023 Texas Vignette Art Fair. Her curatorial practice is dedicated to working with historically underrepresented artists with a specialization in sociopolitical commentary. Before moving to Dallas, she worked on the curatorial team at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. She holds an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Georgetown University.

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