Qatar

Past Resident
2024: Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Artist

Saeeda Albadr

Saida Albadr is a multidisciplinary artist working with mixed media paintings and digital artworks. She specializes in using modern and contemporary art approaches to highlight and enrich Qatari identity, culture, environment, and legacy.

Saida Albadr has exhibited work at International Action Art, Greece; ZeeArts, Dubai; and International Meeting of Kasbah Artists, Spain, among others.

This painting has won the second place of a drawing competition called discover Doha and now it is owned by Qatar (MIA)

Saeeda Albadr, Six Mountains of Doha, 2022, mixed media on canvas, 31¹/₂ × 31¹/₂ in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).

Mother land painting shows the stages that Qatar has to go through to become this rich country and powerful. (This artwork has been shown in 3 different exhibits so far in Doha)

Saeeda Albadr, Mother land, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 35⁷/₁₆ × 47¹/₄ in. (89.99 × 119.99 cm).

This artwork has been made for the international day of cultural diversity and It shows us how fabrics imported from foreign countries can be part of our heritage, creating cultural diversity for us.

Saeeda Albadr, Diversity-patterns1, 2022, digital painting printed on canvas, 39³/₈ × 29¹/₂ in. (100 × 75.01 cm).

Gold leafs, acrylic markers, acrylic paints , colored paper , gesso and crayons.

Saeeda Albadr, incenses, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 19¹¹/₁₆ × 35⁷/₁₆ in. (50.01 × 89.99 cm).

I won a prize for this painting through art competition called (consolidation) held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and it’s owned now by the diplomatic club of Qatar.

Saeeda Albadr, Life 2, 2021, acrylic colors on canvas, 31¹/₂ × 31¹/₂ in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).

Residents from Qatar

Dana Agal

United States, Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

Fouz Saif

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2024

Muneera Al-Buainain

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2024

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United States

Past Resident
2024: Celebrate the Studio

Artist

Vincent Chong

Vincent Chong is a queer gender-nonconforming Chinese American artist working in performance, painting, drawing, Chinese calligraphy, and seal carving. Their work explores the intersection of traditional culture with contemporary queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color community in Brooklyn, New York.

Vincent Chong has exhibited work at Skanes Konstforening, Sweden; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and La MaMa Galleria, New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Vincent Chong in conversation with Melinda Lang

February 20, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

A public performance in Manhattan Chinatown's Columbus Park for both my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and the elders who spend time in that park. Black dress by Shawna Wu. Wig by Paul Keo. Green cape sewn and stoned by the Artist.

Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.

Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.

This image also represents a new direction in my work, which I am interested in exploring. Now that I have spent so much time working to paint realistically, I have been increasingly interested in painting from memory, imagination, and dreams.

Vincent Chong, Hay Fever, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm).

A Painting, which began with spontaneous fan brush marks, which I then began to render as it grew organically.

Vincent Chong, lungs filled with liquid breeze, 2023, oil in linen.

A painting of my dear friend Simon Sok. Simon is a member of my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and chosen family in Brooklyn, New York. The painting depicts Simon in his home with a selection of his favorite objects

Vincent Chong, Psychic Simon, 2023, oil on linen, 68 × 48 in. (172.72 × 121.92 cm).

Residents from United States

Laura Lappi

Finland, United States

Alfred Kordelin Foundation

Studio #201

Ailyn Lee

United States, South Korea

Anonymous

Studio #210

Angel Lartigue

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #217

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Kenya, Tanzania

Past Resident
2024: Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Artist

Keli Safia Maksud

Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking and embroidery. Maksud’s practice is concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their impact on memory and identities. Through her work she strives to destabilize established narratives in order to reveal state fictions.

Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Video Brasil, Brazil; and Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, Mali, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2024 Spring Open Studios

April 12–April 13, 2024

Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2014, mixed media installation, vlisco Hollandaise wax fabric, bleach, soap, and water, installation view.

Keli Safia Maksud, Provisional Notes on Freedom, 2021, light, sound and sculptural installation, 15 min, loop.

Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2020, 4-channel sound installation on prayer mat.

Keli Safia Maksud, They Try Their Tongues, 2022, light, sound and sculptural installation, 8 min, loop.

Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, embroidery on carbon paper, light and sound installation.

Past Residents

Saeeda Albadr

Residents from Qatar

Dana Agal

Fouz Saif

Muneera Al-Buainain

Vincent Chong

Events & Exhibitions

Residents from United States

Laura Lappi

Ailyn Lee

Angel Lartigue

Keli Safia Maksud

Events & Exhibitions