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
Sonali Arnaz Mehta-Rao is a South Asian American visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores identity, ecology, and ancestral memory as interconnected and continuously evolving processes. Through her practice, Sonali navigates shifting notions of belonging across geographies, cultures, and spiritual traditions. In June 2026, she will participate in the Evolving Identities programme at Studio 88 Artist Residency.
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Bali Ong is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose practice moves fluidly between digital media, installation, animation, photography, and graphic design. Drawing from both artistic and technological backgrounds, Ong explores the relationships between identity, culture, memory, and evolving digital realities. Their work often blends visual storytelling with interactive and immersive approaches, reflecting a deep curiosity about how personal and collective identities are constructed and transformed through contemporary media. Through experimentation across disciplines, Ong creates works that are both playful and reflective, inviting audiences into layered visual experiences shaped by cultural hybridity, technology, and human connection.
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Chris McCabe is a British poet, visual artist, and educator working between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Da Nang, Vietnam whose interdisciplinary practice explores identity, ecology, and human relationships with the more-than-human world. Selected for the Evolving Identities residency programme at Studio 88 Artist Residency in June 2026, he will further develop Animal Imperatives, an ongoing series of poems and watercolour paintings that reimagines animals as poetic guides for survival, transformation, and coexistence.
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Studio 88 Artist Residency is now accepting applications for StoryScapes 2026, Stories That Carry Worlds, a themed residency dedicated to storytelling as a living cultural force — a way of carrying memory, transmitting knowledge, questioning inherited beliefs, and imagining new futures. Residency Period: 6 September – 31 October 2026 (3–8 weeks). Application Deadline: 15 July 2026.
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Neil Patrick Stewart is an American actor, director, movement specialist, and educator whose work investigates the intersection of highly rigorous physical theatre and vulnerability. Based in Texas, USA, his practice is grounded in the Droznin Russian Movement System and explores how a single kinetic body can embody multiple characters, emotional states, and psychological landscapes. He is selected for the Evolving Identities residency in May-June 2026.
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Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald is an emerging Australian–Thai artist whose practice moves fluidly across lens-based storytelling, installation, painting, and participatory forms. In May 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme, and will develop a new body of work that marks a pivotal moment in her practice, embracing slower, more contemplative modes of making.
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Ayza Akhtar is a South Asian diasporic artist, writer, and mixed reality practitioner whose work moves through the shifting terrain of identity as lived, negotiated, and continually re-authored. In May-June 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme, investigating femininity as a sensorial, shifting experience and tracing the moment it becomes sovereign.
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Aurelie Rousseau is a French visual artist and writer exploring presence, memory, and emotional perception through watercolour, photography, video, and text. Her work evokes a longing for slowness, reverence, and embodied awareness. In May 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme, and will develop an inquiry into femininity as a lived, embodied, and shifting experience.
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Ben Robinson was born in Dillsboro, a rural town in southern Indiana (USA). He studied photography at Indiana University and received my BFA, along with a minor in Art History, in 2016. He currently lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. He has had exhibitions in the United States and abroad. He previously joined Studio 88 as an artist-in-residence and has since returned for several exhibitions. In May 2026, he returns once again to present a new body of work, alongside leading a photography and darkroom workshop.
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Jameel Haiat is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Chiang Mai, whose practice is shaped by a rich intercultural background. With over 25 years of experience in the themed entertainment industry, working on large-scale and highly interactive projects, his work explores a dynamic interplay of personal history, cultural identity, and storytelling—infused with both tenderness and tension. Guided by a philosophy of boldness and originality, he creates works that inspire and provoke, bringing a distinctive voice to his upcoming exhibition as part of Studio 88 Artist Residency’s Evolving Identities programme in May 2026.
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