A space for making and thinking in Chiangmai
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.
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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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International Artist Residency & Festival — Third Edition
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
One Sponsored Residency Place Available
Studio 88 Artist Residency invites artists and creative practitioners from around the world to join the third edition of Reviving Nature in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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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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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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Hatnim Lee is a Brooklyn-based photographer specialising in portraiture, creative direction, and editorial storytelling. For her first visit to Thailand, she has chosen to undertake a residency at Studio 88, where she will engage with local communities through photography, exploring the people, cultures, and traditions of Northern Thailand.
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Nancy Lu Rosenheim is a visual artist from Chicago, Illinois, USA, whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking. A Studio 88 Artist Residency alumni, she returns in July–August 2026 for a solo residency, continuing an evolving body of research that began during her previous stay in Chiang Mai.
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Ellie Hatte is an Australian photographer partaking in the “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected partially funded international artists. In Doi Saket, she will continue her photo series “Light Beings”.
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Tran Minh Chau is a Vietnamese photographer partaking in the “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected Southeast Asian artists who has received full residency waiver. Studio 88 was inspired by her work and chose Tran Minh Chau to grant her full funding to participate in the residency in Doi Saket.
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