Artists in Residence – Studio 88 Artist Residency

Sonali Arnaz Mehta-Rao

May 29, 2026May 29, 2026Studio88

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.

Bali Ong

May 28, 2026Studio88

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.

Chris McCabe

May 28, 2026Studio88

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.

Neil Patrick Stewart

May 23, 2026May 23, 2026Studio88

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.

Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald

April 30, 2026April 30, 2026Studio88

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.

Ayza Akhtar

April 30, 2026May 28, 2026Studio88

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.

Aurelie Rousseau

April 30, 2026April 30, 2026Studio88

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.

Tatsuhiro Kurafuji

April 4, 2026April 5, 2026Studio88

Tatsuhiro Kurafuji is a Japanese artist, Singapore-based, whose practice moves between myth, ecology, and material imagination, reviving local histories through an intimate dialogue with nature. Joining Studio 88 Artist Residency in April–May 2026 as part of Reviving Nature 2026, he brings a research-driven approach that listens closely to the land—its breath, memory, and unseen rhythms. Rooted in animism and shaped by years of observing how landscapes “desire” and transform, his proposed project in Doi Saket explores the translation of environmental sound into sculptural form, where voiceprints of nature become living, breathing objects.

Aziza François

February 15, 2026Studio88

Aziza François is a Brussels-based musician, composer, and vocalist working at the crossroads of sound, embodiment, and ecological awareness. Her artistic practice is informed by a mixed cultural heritage and a transnational life shaped by multiple relocations. In February 2026, she joins Studio 88 Artist Residency as an Artist-in-Residence as part of the Reviving Nature: Botanical Breath program, to further develop an immersive sound-based project exploring music, sensory experience, and collective listening.

Robin Lesley Nimanong

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026Studio88

Robin Lesley Nimanong is a Dutch–Thai dance artist based in Amsterdam whose work moves fluidly between dance, performance, and media. They join Studio 88 as an Artist-in-Residence in February 2026 as part of the Reviving Nature: Botanical Breath program, where they will continue developing their current research project, Children of Zeus, which explores the body and plants as interconnected living archives of breath, memory, and resilience. This residency is supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten through the Nieuwe Makers Regeling (Young Makers support).