A space for making and thinking in Chiangmai
Studio 88 Artist Residency is a creative home where global voices meet local roots. It is located in a rustic town of Doi Saket, 25 km from Chiang Mai, City of Crafts and Folk Art, in Thailand. Studio 88 has been a long-held dream of international cultural manager and Doi Saket local Sasiwimon Wongjarin (Aom). … Read more About
Studio 88 Artist Residency is based in the northern Thai town of Doi Saket, 25 kilometres from the creative city of Chiangmai. Studio 88 provides space to experiment with the process of creating, as well as time out from the busy day-to-day life in order to relax and reflect.Read more The Residency
Studio 88 Artist Residency is a space to experiment, play, share, make mistakes and learn in the northern Thai town of Doi Saket. Set in a rural landscape just 25 km from the cultural city of Chiangmai, Studio 88 gives time and space to focus on creating, rather than producing outputs. Studio 88 is now … Read more Apply Now
Generative AI is rapidly changing how creative work is produced, distributed and understood. Its technologies, uses and consequences are still developing.
Studio 88 wants to state the principles that guide our position.
We are concerned by generative AI systems that use creative work without the knowledge, permission or meaningful participation of the people who made it.
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Sometimes you know something in your life is changing before you know what comes next.
For Jay Cheng, that feeling has appeared more than once.
Her life has taken her from Hong Kong to Canada and, eventually, Chiang Mai. For many years, she built a life and practice around millinery. Then, quite simply, she stopped feeling the same joy in making hats.
“I didn’t know why,” she says. “Maybe I was tired, maybe I needed a break.”
Rather than push herself through it, she slowed down.
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Millie Tyler, a multidisciplinary artist from the United Kingdom, will be participating in the Studio 88 “Summer Residency” programme in September 2026. She will spend 3 weeks in Doi Saket, exploring the natural surroundings of the town and working on her new installations.
Millie works with photography, installation, collage, and graphic language. The core question of her artistic work is the interaction between identity and nature. For example, in her project “Girls in Nature”, Millie explores feminine identity, memory, and fantasy in nature through prints. For her ongoing project “Altar series”, she creates temporary installations made of objects and images she has collected and created over many years. These “altar” compositions hold her personal experiences with spirituality, mental, and physical health.
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Tidtaya Sinutoke is a Thai musical theatre composer, writer, and musician. She will be participating in the Studio 88 “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected Southeast Asian artists who have received a full residency waiver. She will spend 2 weeks in Doi Saket, working on her new multidisciplinary performance.
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Reviving Nature 2027 International Artist Residency and Festival is now calling for applications.
Residency period January – March 2027. Application deadline 31 October 2026.
The art world has an odd habit of waiting to be chosen.
Apply for the residency. Hope you get in. Find a gallery. Get noticed by a curator. Win the grant. Get invited to the exhibition. Meet someone who knows someone. None of these things is bad. Artists need opportunities, and many good things begin with someone opening a door. The challenge comes when being chosen starts to feel like validation of your work.
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Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. He will be participating in the Studio 88 “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected Southeast Asian artists who has received full residency waiver. He will spend 2 weeks in Doi Saket, working on his unique audio works.
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Storyscapes Festival 2026
Stories as Community
Beginning 26 September 2026
Studio 88 Artist Residency, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai
Stories help us understand where we come from, encounter lives different from our own, and find common ground.
Storyscapes Festival 2026 explores the theme Stories as Community: how stories carry knowledge and culture, shape identity and belonging, and bring people together across different backgrounds and generations.
The festival begins on 26 September with Gathering of Stories, its principal public event. It continues with Guardians of Phaya Luang, an immersive story adventure created especially for young children, alongside further activities during the festival period.
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Jay Cheng is a Hong Kong-born artist and practitioner currently living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, whose creative journey has evolved through different forms of making, identity and care. Currently in transition from her longstanding practice as a hat-maker towards healing and mediumship, Cheng is exploring this transformation through her healing art. Her first exhibition “A Moving Ceremony: The Art of Becoming” is taking place at Studio 88 in September – October 2026.
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In July 2026, we were honoured to welcome Professor Michael Huang 黄天祥 from the Department of Architecture at Nanhua University, Taiwan, to Studio 88 as part of our Creative Research Stay programme. Professor Huang was in Chiang Mai on an exploratory visit and came to Studio 88 on recommendation.
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