2010
Ellen Altfest, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, France/Belgium
Marc Ganzglass, United States
Steve Roden, United States
Bill Saylor, United States
Melanie Schiff, United States

2009
Rita Ackermann, United States
Adam Davies, United States
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Germany
Mischa Kuball, Germany
Sarah McEneaney, United States
Alex Schweder, United States

2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Germany
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Rita Ackermann

Rita Ackermann is a New York-based artist who has been exhibiting her work internationally since the mid-1990s. Her work incorporates painting, drawing, and collage, and draws omnivorously on a wide range of source materials and styles. Ackermann's subjects (actors is perhaps the better word) are generally female-she first became known for portraits of feral, cat-eyed nymphs which seemed to sprout all over downtown New York in the early '90s. Depicted in varied poses, attire, and circumstances, Ackermann's female leads act out enigmatic dramas whose "sense" is usually slightly out of reach. The scenarios suggested by Ackermann's work seem both brazenly staged for the viewer and privately dreamlike. Quoting, sampling, and riffing off a vast compost heap of visual material-old books of illustrated fairy tales, advertisements, punk-rock record sleeves, the history of painting-the artist causes disparate styles and visions to clash and collide.

At the close of her residency, Ackerman showed a batch of new work at the Ice Plant. In their mix of styles and modes the paintings were playfully aggressive. Silkscreened semi-images (the familiar cat-eyed nymph; cars; a local cowboy) appeared and sometimes repeated across the span of the paintings, growing more or less distorted according to how the artist chose to manipulate them. The canvases themselves were treated similarly: some were stretched, some not; others were gouged and rent. Ackerman's primary mode of attack is attack.

Rita Ackermann was born in Budapest, Hungary, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1990s she studied at the New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. She exhibits internationally and is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. Ackermann often collaborates with musicians and other artists on multimedia performances and events.