Current Resident: Apr 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Behdad Esfahbod

Studio #213

Curator

Asal Andarzipour

Asal Andarzipour’s curatorial work is mainly focused on visual arts with roots in her design background. Her practice merges the realms of curated, created and designed objects, and explores themes of displacement and body politics with a comparative approach. She holds a BFA from the University of Tehran, an MFA from Syracuse University and an MA from the University of Alberta. Andarzipour’s artistic career and activism as a dual-citizen woman in the diaspora are integrated into her daily life.

Asal Andarzipour has curated exhibitions at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Canada; Bleeding Heart Art Space, Canada; and Zen Center of Syracuse, New York, among others.

asalandarzipour.com

Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025

April 25–April 26, 2025

Asal Andarzipour, Mona Sahi: What if I Knew?, 2023, installation view. Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Canada.

Asal Andarzipour, For the Me I Used to Be, 2025, window display. Skirts'AFire Festival, Canada.

Asal Andarzipour, Silent and Present, 2023, installation view. Bleeding Heart Art Space, Canada.

Asal Andarzipour, Mona Sahi: What if I Knew?, 2023, installation view. Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Canada.

Asal Andarzipour, Land as Muse: Contemporary Art Concepts, curated by Asal Andarzipour, Darren Kooyman and Jacek Malec. Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Canada.

Residents from Iran

S Emsaki

United States, Iran

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency

2025

Farkhondeh Shahroudi

Iran, Germany

Goethe-Institut New York

2024

Azita Moradkhani

Iran, United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

2025

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Qatar, Brazil

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

Artist

Adriane de Souza

Adriane de Souza creates photographic narratives that intertwine documentary and personal histories. Her work delves into themes of identity, belonging, and the complexities of representation and visibility. With a background in Social Sciences from UFRJ and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Design Studies from VCUarts Qatar, she embraces a multidisciplinary approach. Recently, she has broadened her focus to include alternative photography printing and curation, exploring materiality and innovative storytelling techniques while further deepening her creative practice.

Adriane de Souza has exhibited work at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar; LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; and Doha Film Institue, Qatar, among others.

adrianedesouza.com

Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025

April 25–April 26, 2025

Photo of a man with a pink see-through cloth covering his face. The image shows his torso and he has his head tilted down, looking more vulnerable.

Adriane de Souza, I am not my father, 2019, archival paper print, 29¹/₂ × 19¹¹/₁₆ in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).

White fabric that is weaved as a carpet, hanged in a wooden stick. There are cyanotype images of women in my family who came before me. The fabric is long and it touches the ground.

Adriane de Souza, Thank you, 2023, fabric, cyanotype print, sound recording and wood, 118¹/₈ × 39³/₈ in. (300 × 100 cm).

A man wearing a thobe, a tagiyah posing as if he was putting on his thobe, with the clear blu sky behind him. Depicting a personal and intimate adjustment.

Adriane de Souza, The Process, 2020, archival paper print, 29¹/₂ × 19¹¹/₁₆ in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).

A close up of cement blocks piled on top of each other. The most blocks have an image transferred onto them that shows speakers and some blocks have the actual speaker installed inside it.

Adriane de Souza, Tchu Acha Acha: The Transformative Role of Funk, 2024, cement Blocks, paper, speakers and sound, 118¹/₈ × 78³/₄ in. (300 × 200 cm).

Two women standing side by side holding their table tennis rackets, wearing the Qatar National Uniform.

Adriane de Souza, Qawiya, 2021, archival paper print, 29¹/₂ × 19¹¹/₁₆ in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).

Residents from Brazil

Felipe de Ávila Franco

Brazil, Finland

Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation

2023

Luiza Gottschalk

Brazil

2020

Yi-Hsuan Lin

Taiwan, Brazil

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2019

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United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Past Resident
2025: Vision Fund

Artist

Akeema-Zane

Akeema-Zane (she/her) is an artist and researcher working in the mediums of literature, film, performance and sound. a²z is the arm which houses some of the artists’ music/sound practice which includes deejaying, composition and scoring/sound design.

Akeema-Zane has exhibited work at Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia; Recess Art, New York; and Weeksville Heritage Center, New York, among others.