Meet the Artists: Session 7
Ad Minoliti, Tobias Bradford, and Walker Bankson
Ad, Tobias, and Walker will be in residence at Fountainhead from September 16 to October 14, 2026.
Ad Minoliti
Ad Minoliti is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans geometric abstraction, painting, installation, design, and community-based programming. Using expanded painting as a point of departure, their work explores queer and crip theory, childhood, animalism, science fiction, and the legacy of Latin American modernism, creating speculative environments that challenge conventional ideas of identity, space, and cultural agency. Minoliti’s practice extends beyond the studio through functional and fictional institutions, including the Feminist School of Painting, Bird Hotel, and Sala Peluche, a nonprofit art space in Buenos Aires with a trans and anti-racist exhibition program. Minoliti has participated in the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Aichi Triennale, Bienal del Mercosur, and FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. A recipient of seven national awards, as well as numerous grants and international residencies, their work has been exhibited internationally across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Tobias Bradford
Tobias Bradford is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans kinetic sculpture, animatronics, mechanics, and installation. Drawing from psychology, magic, puppetry, technology, and mythology, his work explores the complicated experience of inhabiting and managing the human body, particularly ideas of autonomy, compulsion, self-perception, and the unsettling limits of control over one’s body and mind. Through mechanically animated sculptures, Bradford brings humor and absurdity to themes of shame, loneliness, longing, and dread, using the uncanny qualities of animatronics to give physical form to intimate psychological experiences. Bradford has presented solo exhibitions at Company Gallery, New York; Sinne, Helsinki; Örebro Konsthall, Örebro; and Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm. His work has been exhibited at the Design Museum, London; Uppsala Konstmuseum; The Bowes Museum; and Accelerator, Stockholm, and has been featured in the OpenArt Sculpture Biennale.
Walker Bankson
In partnership with YoungArts
Walker Bankson is an American artist, photographer, woodworker, and organizer whose practice centers on long-term collaboration with underrepresented communities across the American South. Drawing from his experience as a union organizer, his work explores how history is performed, suppressed, and fictionalized within contested spaces, using photography and education as tools for collective storytelling and exchange. For the past five years, Bankson has returned to his former high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he leads photography workshops and collaborates with students to document their experiences within a community shaped by racial segregation and inequality. His work examines the tensions between adolescence, place, and institutional infrastructure while creating opportunities for young people to represent their own experiences through image-making. Bankson is a 2025 PhotoWork Junior Fellow, a recipient of the 2024 Anthropologie x YoungArts Leading with Creativity Award, and a two-time YoungArts National Award winner. His work has been exhibited in Atlanta, Richmond, Montgomery, and New York, with an upcoming solo exhibition at Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, in 2027.
