David D’Agostino

(Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)

For over 25 years, David D’Agostino has pursued a nomadic multi-disciplinary contemporary visual art practice across the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Southeastern Europe, and the Chihuahua Desert in Mexico. He also has maintained full-time studios in Atlanta Contemporary and the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Much of his work is collaborative, including helping sustain and participate in the New Mexico-based Bestiary Collective, and the avant-garde XXL group in Sofia, Bulgaria. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Egypt, Japan, North Macedonia, Romania, and across the US. WEBSITE

Dominion by David D’Agostino
14″x17″; analog photo collage, ink based monotype on hanji paper, cut-out bones from dinosaur text book, fragment of General Dynamics quarterly earnings press release; 2026

Talon

(Sacramento, California, USA)

Talon began her artistic journey professionally in October 2024. She participated in Kolaj Institute’s Poetry and Collage Residency in January 2025. Her collage work has been shown in more than 25 group exhibitions, 10 photography group exhibitions, and four literary publications. Her current series “North/Ness” is about the North Pole and North Korea, incorporating the iconography of Santa Claus and the North Pole and North Korean propaganda posters of the 1950s through the 1980s, drawing on the similarities of both locations.

Peace Bojagi by Talon
8.5″x14″; analog paper collage: headlines from the Sacramento Bee (4 October 2026) and  June and July 2025 issues of The Economist and their covers; 2026.

Ric Kasini Kadour

(New Orleans, Louisiana, USA & Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

Ric Kasini Kadour is a writer, artist, and culture worker. He holds a BA in Comparative Religion from the University of Vermont. He was a 2020-2021 Curatorial Fellow at The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and has curated exhibitions in Ireland, Louisiana, New Mexico, Ontario, Scotland, Wisconsin, and Vermont. He is the author of twenty-five books and zines, as well as the co-founder of Kolaj Magazine and has been its editor-in-chief since 2012. His art practice includes collage, installation, photography, printmaking, sculpture, painting and art products. His work has been shown across North America and in Scotland and is in private collections in Australia, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. WEBSITE

War Toys: Ethiopia by Ric Kasini Kadour
12.25″x36.25″; laser-printed photograph by Giulia Paravicini on paper; 2026

RESIDENCY

War Stories: Collage & Conflict

A four-week virtual artist residency in October 2026. How can collage artists respond to the ways war, conflict, and peace are represented in the media? Artists researched historical and contemporary war correspondence, examined the history of political collage—from its roots in European anti-fascist movements to contemporary practice—and considered how art can contribute to civic discourse. Participants heard from Adrian Paukstat about the German magazine Wissenschaft & Frieden’s forthcoming issue on war and conflict reporting, made and discussed new collages, and developed writing that documented the historical and social contexts of their work.A selection of artwork made during the residency appeared in issue 4/2026 of Wissenschaft & Frieden alongside commentary by project curator Ric Kasini Kadour. Additional artwork was published as a folio of prints by Kolaj Institute and made available for exhibitions. Artists were also invited to submit work for the War & Peace Correspondence Project and speak at a Kolaj LIVE Online event in January 2027. Participating artists: Morgane Clément-Gagnon (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), David D’Agostino (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA), and Talon (Sacramento, California, USA) READ MORE

PROJECT

Resisting Authoritarianism

Resisting Authoritarianism considers the role collage artists have played during times of rising authoritarianism.