Artists in residence

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of the award-winning novel, The River Where Blood is Born, and Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him, an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. She coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks. Her mystery novel, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes, debuts July 29, 2025. Jackson-Opoku’s Cité International residency project is a historical novel inspired by the life of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the Black founder of modern Chicago.

Fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works are widely published and produced, appearing in Adi Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Aunt Chloe, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, New Daughters of Africa, Obsidian, Lifeline Theatre, and more. Professional recognition includes the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts, the American Library Association Black Caucus Award, a Chicago Esteemed Artist Award, and other awards and honors.

Cooper Jacoby was born in Princeton in 1989 and lives in Miami. In 2011, he received a BFA and the Sol Lewitt Studio Art Award from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.

Recent international solo exhibitions include “Mirror Runs Mouth” at High Art Gallery in Arles (2022), “Sun is bile” at The Intermission Gallery in Athens (2022) and “Stragglers” at Central Fine Gallery in Miami Beach (2019), “Susceptibles” at High Art Gallery in Paris (2018) and “Disgorgers” at the Swiss Institute at the LUMA Foundation in Zurich (2017).

His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, including “Antéfutur” at the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux (2023), “Lifes” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2022), “Foncteur d’oubli” exhibited at the FRAC d’Ile-de-France (2019) and “Swiss Institute On- Site” at the Swiss Institute in New York (2019).

PERFORMING ARTS

PERFORMANCE

Emilie Jacomet, more commonly known as Jack, is a multidisciplinary artist born in Florida, USA. She started dancing in Annecy, France. Afterwards, she worked for several years as a dancer in the commercial and then contemporary field, while developing a passion for photography and video. She has also developped a real interest in the professions of the entertainment world such as production and management, which has led her to collaborate with creators from various artistic circles across Europe.

During these years of varied collaborations, she developed her own research and creations. Her research focuses mainly on the subject of the “feminine”. Obnubilated, questioned, tormented by this subject that she will treat unconsciously then consciously through the years….

“I am a woman and an artist who for many years has been questioning and observing the image of women through past and present societies. Pictorial, photographic, television and gestural representations, as well as the various physical representations of women, question me on the consequences that all these phenomena have on women’s behaviour and psychology.”

By using different languages, text, movement, image, Emilie Jacomet seeks to create physical and artistic performances that integrate her observations, questions and instincts. Her current project, Le Striptease du Flamant Rose, performed with Judith Arazi, is supported by the Cité internationale des arts, the Manufacture d’Aurillac, La Folie Numérique de la Villette and Atalaia Artes Performativas in Portugal.