Three Years of Programming with satis.FACTORY
A semi-annual update on the artists, residencies, and initiatives supported by HSC&A's partnership with satis.FACTORY.
Since 2024, Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory has partnered with satis.FACTORY to fund residencies, production stipends, and travel for artists working in and from Costa Rica, Central America, and the broader Americas. The partnership supports interdisciplinary practice across visual art, performance, film, sound, and publishing.
2026 Resident Artists
HSC&A's financial support sponsors four artist residencies at satis.FACTORY Casa: three Costa Rican artists through Bocetos, satis.FACTORY's local residency program, and one Maya-Kaqchiquel artist through the international residency program.
VERÓNICA NAVAS
Bocetos: February – March 2026
"Over the past few years, I have devoted my time to observing, mapping, caring for, and cultivating—from various perspectives—what plants do and communicate. This led me to pay attention to the soil: its nutrients, our food sources, our consumption choices, policies related to nature, and the impact we have on other species and forms of life."
/ Verónica Navas
Verónica Navas's practice engages plant knowledge, soil ecology, and embodied ritual. During her Bocetos residency, she cultivated medicinal plants in the satis.FACTORY garden while producing a textile installation and graphite works on paper. Her open studio, Pequeños Remedios (Small Remedies), connected Indigenous plant knowledge, the chemistry of natural dyes, and contemplative material practice.
JONATHAN TORRES
Bocetos: April 13 – May 3, 2026
"The use of fragile materials combined with complex installations in non-traditional spaces transforms the viewer into a co-creator and co-destroyer."
/ Jonathan Torres
Jonathan Torres is a researcher, professor, and artist at the University of Costa Rica whose work investigates the boundary between the organic and the synthetic. Using electronic waste as primary material, he constructs participatory installations that incorporate touch, manipulation, and degradation into the viewing experience. His Bocetos residency continues his ongoing research into machine decay, post-natural processes, and material reuse.
MIMIAN HSU
Bocetos: June 29 – July 26, 2026
"My work is autobiographical, but it reaches beyond intimism, questioning what identity is and what it means to inhabit a 'cultural body' shaped by the transformations and obligations of the Asian migrant in the West."
/ Mimian Hsu
Mimian Hsu, also known as Hsu Fung, is a Costa Rican artist of Taiwanese descent. Her family emigrated from Taiwan to Costa Rica in the 1970s, during a period of formal diplomatic relations between the two nations. Her practice examines cultural hybridization, diasporic identity, and the lived experience of occupying overlapping cultural frameworks.
MARILYN BOROR BOR
satis.FACTORY Casa Workshop: April 1–5, 2026
"My artistic projects rely on constant analysis and critique, with the aim of preserving and reviving the languages of indigenous peoples."
/ Marilyn Boror Bor
Marilyn Boror Bor is a Maya-Kaqchiquel artist from Guatemala working across painting, photography, printmaking, installation, and performance. Her practice interrogates how colonial systems deploy language — written and spoken — to control identity, territory, and historical narrative. She has exhibited at the São Paulo Biennial, the Aichi Triennale, and institutions across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America. Her work is held in the collections of the Museo Reina Sofía and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá. Her workshop at satis.FACTORY Casa extends her research and pedagogical practice into the local artistic community.
Programming Review: 2024-2025
Ximena Carnevale / EnProceso, 2024
Throughout 2024 and 2025, the partnership supported sixteen artists across satis.FACTORY's full programming. The 2024 cohort included Costa Rican filmmaker Kim Torres and visual artist Priscilla Romero (Bocetos), Mexican visual artist and educator Aisel Wicab (satis.FACTORY Casa), and Spanish dancer and choreographer Ximena Carnevale, who developed her performance work CRIOLLA through EnProceso.
Emilia Yang / satis.FACTORY Casa, 2025
In 2025, programming expanded across Bocetos (Mariela Richmond, Carlos Fernández, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Alejandra Ramírez), satis.FACTORY Casa (Emilia Yang, Milton Gillen), the El Chanchito grant initiative (Andrea y Katherine), and EnProceso (Yeinner Chicas, María Ganzaráin Pina, Mayra Barraza).
Mariela Richmond / Bocetos, 2025
HSC&A supported publishing collaborations with AZETAguía, as well as the upcoming publication of FINCAS, a collection of critical essays from local researchers, artists, and cultural practitioners in Central America, in collaboration with FURIACA.
We also launched the inaugural international artist in residence program, with our first recipient, William Camargo, whose work is currently on view in Los Angeles at the HSC&A gallery space.
William Camargo: All That I Can Carry, currently on view at HSC&A through May 30, 2026
“Satisfactory is not only a space that promotes art but also a reminder of the importance of interdisciplinarity in contemporary artistic practices, which is still hard to find in many parts of the country. This project offers opportunities, support, funding, and the necessary conditions for it to function professionally, making participants feel truly welcome. At a time when the arts are perceived almost as acts of rebellion in the country, satisFACTORY fills a crucial void for many of us.”
“satis.FACTORY is a space for artistic experimentation, deep listening, companionship, and bonding with members of the arts community in Costa Rica and Central America. I am very grateful that it exists. I think it is vital that this community space—which helps the artists it curates flourish—subsist in the absence of art institutions (especially in countries such as Nicaragua in the midst of dictatorship) that are flexible, careful, and that can critically support the path and practices of Central American artists.”
Partnership Model
HSC&A's funding covers the full operational footprint of each residency: travel, accommodations, production stipends, studio access, and shared meals. That infrastructure also extends into satis.FACTORY's community-facing programming — Emilia Yang's convenings with Nicaraguan exiles in Costa Rica, Mariela Richmond's discursive sessions with rural women confronting seed privatization, Sergio Rojas Chaves's mask-making workshop and neighborhood walk. Across each program, HSC&A's support funds artistic practice and public engagement as a single continuous endeavor.
Carlos Fernández / Reunión (Bocetos) 2025
“SatisFACTORY stands out among the various projects that survive in San José. I say survive, precisely, because it is difficult to sustain them, and for these initiatives to contribute, support, and connect artists with other cultural workers and with each other. satis.FACTORY provides workspaces and community, public outreach, and connections to other professionals. In this sense, satis.FACTORY's contribution is more structured, precise, and forward-looking than other initiatives, and has had an impact on the regional visibility of emerging and mid-career artists. It also stands out for its notable interdisciplinarity, which allows for new initiatives."
/ Fernando Chaves Espinach, Curator/Journalist/Collaborator
Looking Ahead
Three years into the partnership, HSC&A and satis.FACTORY remain committed to supporting artists working in and from Central America, and to the long-term infrastructure that makes interdisciplinary, contextually grounded practice possible. We are grateful to the artists, collaborators, and supporters who have made this work possible.
“satis.FACTORY represents the vibrant, experimental spirit driving Costa Rica’s contemporary art scene. By supporting their full programming year, we’re investing in a cultural exchange that benefits artists on both sides of the border. Together, we’re building bridges between local and international art communities, creating pathways for artists to thrive and for audiences to experience meaningful, innovative art.”
“This collaboration goes beyond traditional funding models. It creates sustained, meaningful exchange between two dynamic art communities, supporting artists who are pushing boundaries and challenging conventional practices.”
/ About satis.FACTORY
satis.FACTORY is an independent arthouse where curation, communal care, nourishment, and collective reflection come together around diverse artistic practices and disciplines. Our mission is to support and foster artistic production, mobility, and critical thinking throughout Central America. Our programming includes visual arts, performing arts, and arts professionalization. Since 2021, we have managed an artist-in-residency program designed to establish professional networks among artists and cultural practitioners worldwide.
Our residency curates and supports creative processes to help them thrive, encouraging cross-pollination of disciplines through experimentation, play and collective learning.
We operate as a flexible and collaborative organization with performative qualities, determined to have a social, political, and cultural impact.
For more on satis.FACTORY, or to support future residencies and programming, please be in touch with Hannah at hannah@hannahsloan.com.
