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
Restarting Studio 88’s newsletter gave us a chance to look back at 2025 and the first half of 2026. This period marked a time when Studio 88 began to take on a wider role.
Artists continued to come to Doi Saket for time, space and the chance to focus on their work. Alongside the residency itself, however, there were more exhibitions, collaborations and opportunities beyond Chiang Mai.
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Rebekah Alexander is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer based in Richmond, Virginia, USA, whose practice bridges contemporary art, graphic design, illustration, and digital experiences. She plans to continue developing “Big Beasts” during her residency with Studio 88 in November.
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Maria Pechioli is a Milan-based interdisciplinary artist and producer. Her practice explores the interconnected relationships between humans and nature, as well as between individuals and communities. She will be participating in the Studio 88 “SensoryScapes” programme in November. Maria will be working on her performance ‘Mirrorless’.
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On 26 September, Studio 88 welcomed artists, storytellers, educators and visitors for Gathering of Stories, the main public event of Storyscapes Festival 2026.
Reviving Nature began with a question: how might artists help us pay closer attention to the natural world and our relationship with it?
The first programme in 2024 brought together artists working across different disciplines and perspectives. I was present during that first edition. It gave me a deeper understanding of how environmental issues connect places and people, often in ways we do not immediately see. Air pollution, for example, respects no national boundaries. The haze that blanketed Singapore and Malaysia, caused by man-made fires in Indonesia last month, was a stark reminder of this.
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Stephanie Lachnit (artist name — La Steff) is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer and audio producer. She will be participating in the Studio 88 “SensoryScapes” programme in November 2026, working on her new Sonic Statement based on the field recording made in Doi Saket and Chiang Mai.
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Rath Chun is a documentary filmmaker and visual artist with a background in architecture. He is Co-Founder/Content Creator/Creative Director at Aglaia Docufilms. He has collaborated with Studio 88 and its artists since 2025, continuing to engage with Chiang Mai’s local creative scene and the international arts community.
Read moreStudio 88 is an independent artist residency in Doi Saket, Chiang Mai. We are building a place where artists can focus on their practice, and where the space, its surroundings, and the community around it can grow together.
We welcome people who share an interest in what we are building, whether through employment, collaboration, or contributing their skills and experience.
Explore our current opportunities, or get in touch if you see a way you could contribute.
Come help us shape what Studio 88 can become.
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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