A Place for Artists
For over three decades, the Luce Center has hosted artists in residence who have plumbed the intersections of art and religion in varied ways, while contributing to our exhibitions, permanent collection, and teaching. Artists have come from a variety of backgrounds, including many different faith traditions. We value diversity in all forms, and seek to support emerging artists from underrepresented communities, while also providing opportunities for our community to engage with established artists of international reputation.
Ama BE
Ama BE is a Ghanaian-American, transdisciplinary artist who explores African relationships to land stewardship, labor, and migration. She works with botanical materials tied in paradox to hyper-commodity, migration, spirituality, and holistic remedy.
Her work has been exhibited in Senegal, Ghana, Cape Verde, London, Washington, DC and Miami. In 2024, she exhibited work in the 15th Dakar Biennale, The Wake,
Ars Electronica Festival in Austria and won a S+T+ARTS Prize Africa 2024 Award of Distinction for the collaborative project, Black Body Radiation: Rescripting Data Bodies.
She holds a Master's in Global Creative and Cultural Industry from, SOAS, University of London.
Mojdeh Rezaeipour
Mojdeh Rezaeipour is an Iranian-born transdisciplinary artist who works primarily in mixed media, installation, and film. Their research and creative projects are excavations of material memory, both personal and collective. She is a graduate of University of California Berkeley, where she studied architecture, and of Alt*Div, an alternative divinity school centering healing justice and art as spiritual practice. Mojdeh’s practice is process-led and adaptive at its core, bridging over a decade of Mojdeh’s work as an architect, storyteller, and community organizer. Mojdeh is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including The Studio Visit Fellowship at Takt Berlin (2018), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship (2020), and two Wherewithal Grants from WPA and Andy Warhol Foundation (2021, 2023). Their work and voice have been featured on many outlets including ARTnews, Image Journal, The Washington Post, and The Moth Radio Hour, among others. In 2023, she was featured by Cultured Magazine as one of “7 Artists Making Waves” in Frieze LA’s Focus Section. Mojdeh is currently based in Washington DC, where she is an Artist In Residence at the Henry Luce III Center for Art and Religion.
