RESIDENCY — MURMURATION

MURMURATION hosts an artist residency on a family farm in Arena, Wisconsin, inviting artists to create new work shaped by the region’s ecology and layered history.

2026 Artists-in-Residence

Camille Casemier

Camille Casemier is an artist based in Chicago whose work engages the performativity of images, objects, and everyday situations. Working across video, image, text, and live and virtual performance, she develops projects that emerge from the contexts she inhabits, often attending to performances already underway. For the past several years, her practice has been shaped in dialogue with her employment in a resale shop, where objects circulate through shifting systems of value and attention. Informed by studies in postmodern dance and puppetry, her work emphasizes liveness and the social indexicality of ordinary gestures and materials, frequently constructing situations in which perception becomes reciprocal or unstable and images appear to look back.

Casemier studied dance at The New School, holds a joint BFA in Art and Theater from the University of Michigan, and an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of Jelly Troupe, a cross-continental expanded cinema and experimental theater collective working in partnership with the Hong Museum in Wenzhou, China. Since 2024, she has taught in the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her work has been presented internationally through lecture-performances, screenings, and exhibitions at the Hong Museum and Wenzhou-Kean University Library in Wenzhou, China; the Performative Drawing Forum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and the Performance Art Studies/Streifen Festival between Görlitz, Germany, and Zgorzelec, Poland. Additional performances and projects have taken place at Foreign & Domestic in New York, Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in collaboration with Selena Kearney at the Field Museum in Chicago. camille-casemier.com

Sofía Fernández Díaz

Sofia is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Mexico City, working between Chicago and Mexico. Her practice explores the relationships between materiality, memory, and environment. Through an intuitive approach that blends traditional and contemporary craft techniques, she investigates the hidden connections between processes, working with fibers, natural dyes, beeswax, and found materials to create tactile narratives of transformation and decay.

Sofia's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca (MACCO), Andrew Rafacz Gallery, and Sean Kelly Gallery. She has been presented at international art fairs including VOLTA Basel, Zona MACO, and EXPO Chicago. She is a recipient of the Newcity Breakthrough Artist Award (2025) and the Re/Match Artist Award, and received both an honorable mention and first place at the Rufino Tamayo Biennial. She was also a resident at the Hyde Park Art Center, Proyecto ACE in Buenos Aires Argentina and Casa Wabi in Oaxaca.

Sofia holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a postgraduate degree in Visual Anthropology from CIESAS in Mexico City. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. sofiafernandezdiaz.com

Sofía Gabriel

Sofía Gabriel is a Mexican artist, dancer, and arts administrator based in Chicago. Her work explores the relationships between movement, language, and politics. Grounded in the liminal space of performance, she approaches improvisation as a method for experimentation, play, and embodied knowledge. Trained in classical and contemporary dance, Sofía expanded her practice beyond technique-driven frameworks to engage in somatic exploration and interdisciplinary dialogue, questioning structures of power and creating new forms of expression and relation.

She performs with the Space Movement Project and has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at High Concept Labs in Chicago and Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires. Her work has been presented at venues including High Concept Labs, Experimental Station, Dovetail Dance Studios, Comfort Station, Elastic Arts, and the Chicago Cultural Center.

Her ongoing collaborative project ciclos, with multidisciplinary artist Sofía Fernández Díaz, has been presented at High Concept Labs, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Compound Yellow in Chicago; Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico.