Artists in residence

Alejandro Medina is a multidisciplinary architect and artist from Guatemala. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Building on his studies of architecture, photography and 3D visualization his work lies between the crossing points of different mediums.

Intrinsic in his work is a sense of curiosity for ones surroundings; as well as a desire to unveil the unexpected interconnections occurring within specific ecosystems and ultimately life. Alejandro Medina’s most recent work delves into the inherent, yet often times complicated relationship that exists between humans, architecture and nature.

He has exhibited work in Guatemala, USA, Spain, France, China, Taiwan and New Zealand amongst others. 

French soprano born in 2001 in Saint-Omer, Eleonore Meens began singing at the CRD of her hometown before obtaining a TMD baccalaureate in Lille and studying at the CRR of Lille. She continued her training at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, then perfected her skills at the Centre d’Art Lyrique de la Méditerranée in Nice. A member of the La Monnaie / De Munt Academy since 2024, she is engaged as a soloist. Since 2025, she has been studying at the CNSMD in Paris and at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. Accordionist since childhood, his repertoire extends from the baroque to contemporary.

Christopher Meerdo is an artist who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Šiauliai, Lithuania.

He has received his Master’s degree in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He has recently exhibited at the Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina; and The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh. He is also represented by DOCUMENT Gallery, Chicago.

Before his residency at the Cité internationale des arts, he has been an artist in residency at SIM Reykjavik and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Christopher Meerdo was most recently a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands. 

In conjunction with his artistic practice, he is also involved in education. He has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2012 to 2019, and has been recently appointed Assistant Professor of Photography and New Media at the University of North Texas.

I am interested in the ways in which human and non-human technological visual systems maintain or subvert structures of power within the context of surveillance capitalism. Using expanded-photographic methodologies of data processing, image-synthesis, computational sculpture, and moving images, my projects reference data archives as active sites that can compromise or control privacy, bear witness to injustices, or strengthen resistance.

 — Statement of Christopher Meerdo