About
Our Mission
Founded in 2016, Residency Art Gallery is one of very few Black-owned commercial art galleries created with the purpose of serving LA's communities of color. At Residency Art Gallery, we celebrate contemporary artists that continue to make projects for their own communities. The artists exhibited at Residency tell multifaceted stories that speak directly to our community’s history, identity and resilience. Yet, often the stories are engulfed and misappropriated within the predominantly White, affluent and largely inaccessible art spaces in other regions of the city. The simple question that needed answering was, “How can work made by artists of color be seen by the intended audience in their own neighborhoods?”
Our vision
Residency Art is a commercial, contemporary art gallery with the goal of serving historical South Central Los Angeles. We hold exhibitions and projects from contemporary artists of color. In addition to exhibitions, we encourage dialogue between artists, activists and the community by regularly hosting discussions in the space. In addition to the main gallery, our Project Space site will showcase projects from various arts collectives, non-profit organizations and local artists.
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Meet Our Team
Rick Garzon // Gallery Director
Garzon is currently the Gallery Director at Residency Art in Inglewood, CA. Born and raised in Inglewood, Garzon saw that there was a dearth of commercial art spaces in South Central that centered artists’ of color and provided a platform for their work. This led to the formation of Residency Art, which is committed to celebrating contemporary artists that continue to make projects for communities of color.
Before his work in the art space, Garzon worked in advertising and media planning as Media Director at the Publicis Groupe in Los Angeles and New York. Garzon has served on the Young Professionals’ Advisory Board of InnerCity Arts and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture public art selection committees. Garzon has curated several noteworthy exhibitions including The New Contemporaries 1&2, Vaguely Political by Devin Reynolds, 1992: An Examination of the Iconography from the '92 LA Rebellion and Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty by Devin B. Johnson. He has also led curatorial efforts for Felix Art Fair, Art Basel Miami and Our LA Voices at Grand Park.