2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Poland
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Oliver Croy

The Austrian artist Oliver Croy concluded his residency with an exhibition at the Locker Plant. Croy's work ranges across a variety of media to playfully engage different aspects of contemporary architecture and real estate. He is particularly interested in alternative or unconventional types of housing—the sort that has been hand-built in out-of-the-way places by solitary obsessives or small groups of like-minded dreamers. Croy is interested in the sometimes utopian, sometimes purely practical concerns which motivate people to build these unorthodox structures, and in the unusual, often cast-off materials employed in their making. Croy has also compiled and edited two books. Sondermodelle (Special Models) (2001) and Hot Properties (2006).

For his show at the Locker Plant, Croy exhibited a work-in-progress featuring hand-painted signage the artist created during his stay in Marfa. Each sign bore a phrase or slogan plucked from newspaper porn ads, the words blown up tenfold or more from their original size and carefully painted by hand to mimic to the original newspaper fonts. Croy then photographed the signs standing in front of select houses in Marfa.

Oliver Croy was born in Austria in 1970. He graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and lives and works in Berlin. Croy has exhibited work in numerous venues across Europe, including L'attitude des autres, Marseilles; Atelier Tilman Wendland, Berlin; Kunsthalle Malmoe, Sweden; and the Overgarden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. He has also exhibited work at the MAK Center, Los Angeles in 2003 and 2004 and at the Inax Gallery in Nagoya, Japan in 2004. In September 2006 Croy had a solo exhibition at the Overgarden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and participated in the Werkleitz Biennale at the Halle Stadtturmgallery in Innsbruck, Austria.