Current Artist in Residence

Dahlia (Colón; matronymic maiden name) Bloomstone is a Puerto Rican/American artist and Hunter College MFA graduate with a BFA from Bard College. Dahlia has developed a body of work rooted in video, which has evolved to encompass animation, video games, sculpture, code, dance, film, sound, and performance. However, her focus for the past two years has been on video games. Her practice explores domesticity, joy, respectability politics, social value, and mutual aid. With humor, vulnerability, and political urgency, she surveys the technologies and ecologies around the social value and social implications of sexual commerce and investigates the paradigm shifts in these economies.

She has exhibited with Hauser & Wirth, Beverly's, Rhizome, and Mass Gallery, among others. Dahlia has received prestigious grants and fellowships, including the SPCUNY Actionist grant from the Mellon Foundation and a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture fellowship. She is a co-founder of New Uncanny Gallery in New York. Recently, her work has been presented at Blade Study Gallery, Electronic Arts Intermix, and CultureHub, as well as the culminating Whitney Museum Independent Study Program show at Westbeth Gallery in May 2025.  Dahlia’s work is also affiliated with the White Columns Gallery artist registry.

Currently, Dahlia is a Professor of Contemporary Art at Ramapo College and a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (ISP).