Berkay Tuncay, Dalton Gata García, and Kiah Celeste
Berkay, Dalton, and Kiah will be in residence at Fountainhead from November 4 to December 9, 2026.
Berkay Tuncay
Berkay Tuncay is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, sound, artist books, prints, and installation. Drawing from internet culture, his work explores how online language, images, and symbols shift meaning when translated into physical space, examining the ways digital communication shapes self-expression and human connection. Collecting everyday online material, including comments, memes, and subtitles, Tuncay transforms familiar digital fragments into new visual and conceptual experiences. In Poems from Descriptive Noise, he reimagines subtitles describing sounds as a large-scale public installation, transforming language typically encountered on screens into visual and concrete poetry. His practice investigates the relationship between text, image, and sound, exploring language as both a means of communication and a visual medium. More recently, Tuncay has expanded his focus on artist books and publications while pursuing collaborative projects with artists, musicians, performers, and YouTubers, extending his exploration of digital culture across disciplines.
Dalton Gata García
In partnership with Untitled Art Fair
Dalton Gata García is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Drawing on surrealism, Caribbean and popular culture, his work explores themes of emigration, memory, beauty, and gender, blending stylized realism with fantastical imagery. Influenced by his background in fashion design, García reimagines traditional portraiture through exaggerated figures and artificial landscapes, from glittering oceans and alien wastelands to brutalist structures. His practice also incorporates surreal botanical forms and human-animal hybrids, creating a world of mutant flora, unexpected transformations, and flamboyant excess. Rooted in his queer identity, García's work challenges conventional notions of beauty, representation, and belonging, using theatricality and hyperbole to question fixed classifications of identity. Through these imagined environments and unconventional subjects, his practice creates spaces where ambiguity, desire, and transformation coexist, challenging the boundaries between the natural, artificial, and impossible.
Kiah Celeste
Kiah Celeste is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture and mixed media, transforming discarded, secondhand, and industrial materials into compositions that explore balance, tension, and transformation. Foraging objects from urban and industrial environments, her work combines seemingly disparate materials into sculptural forms that challenge conventional notions of function, value, and materiality. Guided by principles of sustainability and minimal intervention, Celeste creates unexpected relationships between objects through weight, gravity, flexibility, and repetition. Her recent stretched-spandex works explore the intersection of sculpture and two-dimensionality, emphasizing texture, tension, and the inherent beauty of found materials. Drawing from her multifaceted identity and experiences of belonging and difference, Celeste's practice embraces contrast and contradiction, finding cohesion in unlikely combinations. Through these unconventional assemblages, her work blurs the boundaries between the organic, surreal, and functional, creating new possibilities for discarded objects. Celeste is represented by DOCUMENT in Chicago and Lisbon and Marc Straus in New York City.
