CATEGORY
Announcing FSAS 2025 International Curator Residency Awardees
28 January, 2025

FSAS is delighted to announce the recipients of our 2025 International Curator Residency Award are: Nam Huh, Leah Triplett, Bori Borbála Soós, Sara Sassanelli and Sophie Mak-Schram. The returning curator for 2025 is Cale Garrido who was previously with FSAS in 2024.
Each curator will join us in Dublin for a period of up to 4 weeks, during which time they will host a conversation which is free and open to attend. Our first curator talk, with Nam Huh, will take place next Wednesday, 5 February at 5pm in the Project Space at FSAS.
2025 International Curators:
Nam Huh is a curator and researcher based between Northern England and Seoul. Her work focuses on themes of migration, decolonisation, and minority representation, using innovative media formats to reframe narratives of social issues. Nam worked with Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Photo Festival, Liverpool BIennial, The Royal Standard(Liverpool), Leeds Queer Film Festival, and Sheffield DocFest, along with a few independent projects funded from Arts Council Korea, Seoul Foundations of Arts and Culture and Metropolitan Council of Seoul. She’s now a PhD candidate at Loughborough University, working with Site Gallery(Sheffield) and Fringe Arts Bath 2025.
Bori Borbála Soós (1984, Budapest) is a London-based curator and an active advocate, participant and organiser of artistic and ecological research. Her practice responds to, disrupts and enriches environmental thinking and related social, political and decolonial urgencies. She is currently Curator at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London and co-curator of the upcoming OFF-Biennale Budapest (2025). She was Artist Caretaker at Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2022-23) and Director/Curator at Tenderpixel, London (2012-19). She curated projects in with Kunsthalle Bratislava; tranzit, Bratislava; FUTURA, Prague; CCA Derry-Londonderry… She has been visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art, CSM, Kingston University and Edinburgh College of Art, among others.
Cale Garrido is a Spanish independent curator, author, and photo editor focusing on contemporary photography. Based in Hamburg, she collaborates internationally with artists, collectives, art institutions, festivals, and galleries. Her work spans exhibitions, publications, and film programs, with a primary interest in addressing social and ecological issues. Cale is a curator at the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, under the artistic direction of Mark Sealy, which will open in June 2026.
Leah Triplett is a curator and writer. She is currently the Director of Exhibitions and Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where she recently co-curated Artists as Cultivators. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She taught critical writing in the painting and sculpture MFA programs at Boston University from 2021 to 2023. She is the 2024 Mary Ann Unger Estate Fellow, researching the artist’s work in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sara Sassanelli is an independent curator and co-founder of Alice Agency. Based in London, they collaborate internationally with artists, musicians and choreographers. They are an associate on CONDITIONS studio programme, and were Curator of Live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 2019 – 2024, previously working at Tate, Royal Academy of Arts and Goldsmiths University. They are interested in electronic music, experimental choreography, social dance and alternative modes of education. Across all their projects, they work closely with genre-breaking artists to realise live projects that are ambitious in scale and vision.
Sophie Mak-Schram cares about how a diverse “we” (come to) know and what form knowledge takes. She works with others, both as method and as form. Her work spans experiential education, inclusion work, collective practices, and artistic research. She convenes, writes, reads, makes objects to learn with or listen to, and performs. Currently, she’s (still) interested in the “and” between art and education, and speculative architectures that bridge or world between the two.
Recently, Sophie was Associate Artist with Peak Cymru during 2023–24 in relation to their work with young people, and one of seven Perspective(s) commissions funded by Arts Council Wales exploring decolonisation between 2023-25. She is a co-convener of Gentle Gestures, a porous international research group about forms of pedagogies across/through the arts, Research Associate at CCA Derry-Londonderry between 2024-25, and Curriculum Redefined Teaching Excellence lecturer at the University of Leeds. She completed a PhD about radical pedagogies in and of the arts as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Europewide PhD programme about the future(s) of socially engaged practices.