Natsuki Kagawa

Studio 88 Artist Residency is pleased to welcome Natsuki Kagawa, an emerging Japanese artist whose practice bridges mindfulness, neuroscience, and the art of self-healing. For Natsuki, art is not confined to a finished work but is a living, evolving practice of inner connection and awareness. Joining our residency in November 2025, she aims to deepen her understanding of healing art through psychological, emotional, and somatic perspectives, while immersing herself in Thailand’s rich spiritual and natural landscape.

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Nontawat Machai

Studio 88 is delighted to introduce Nontawat Machai (Golf) — a visionary artist, curator, and leading figure in Chiang Mai’s performing arts scene. Renowned for his contribution to performance art, festival creation, and the preservation of performing arts history, Golf plays an integral role in shaping the region’s cultural landscape. Studio 88 has had the pleasure of collaborating with him on numerous occasions, and we are excited that he is now actively engaging with our artists-in-residence program.

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Roman Ne

Roman Ne is a Zurich-based multimedia artist and digital consultant. With a background in new media, sound, and Web3 tools, his work spans visual design, immersive audio, and experimental mindfulness formats. After five years as a core team member of Acud Macht Neu in Berlin, he now develops conceptual and participatory projects such as Hardcore Yoga Nidra, exploring collective attention and contemporary states of rest. He is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November-December 2025. 

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Virginia Kennard

Virginia Kennard is Live Artist, Choreographer, Producer, Dance Writer from New Zealand. Her work spans over 15 years, and includes performance installations to dance reviewing, producing to pole performances. An eclectic live artist, she holds an MA Performance from Leeds Beckett University, UK and is currently based in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025. 

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Ebony Rattle

Ebony Rattle is a performance artist, arts worker and disability advocate of Irish and Ukranian Jewish ancestry based on Wurundjeri Country, Australia. Their work investigates performance art through an experimental and accessible methodology, predominantly examining metaphysics; alternative universes steeped in questioning identity, existence, possibility, actuality, corporeality, informed by their own lived experience as a physically disabled queer person. They are artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025. 

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Katherine Clarke Langlands

Katherine Clarke Langlands is a visual and conceptual artist whose work is shaped by the natural world and the interplay between the abstract and the tangible. She is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025. She would use this residency to explore her evolving relationship to performance, which is new medium for her, within her art.

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Testimonial – Natthawut Jaikla

Natthawut Jaikla is a visual artist and sculptor selected to participate in the Studio 88 x NY20+ residency in Chengdu, China. His artistic practice focuses on terracotta, mixed media, and installation art. Through his work, he addresses significant social issues, including human rights, animal rights, climate change, and cultural concerns.

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Call for Applications – Reviving Nature 2026

Studio 88 Artist Residency invites artists worldwide to apply for Reviving Nature 2026 in Chiang Mai, Thailand — program dedicated to exploring art, nature, well-being and creative exchange. Ranging from three to eight weeks, the residency takes place from January 4, 2026 to February 28, 2026, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The deadline to apply for this extended call is November 29, 2025.

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Anders McDonald

Studio 88 is delighted to welcome Anders McDonald as our Photographer in Residence this October 2025. With over three decades behind the lens — from film and darkroom beginnings to mastering today’s digital craft — Anders brings a rich blend of experience, curiosity, and storytelling to his practice. During his time in Chiang Mai, he will revisit the region after four decades, exploring its people, landscapes, and evolving culture through a fresh photographic lens.

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