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Past Resident
2025: National Arts Council, Singapore

Artist

Guo-Liang Tan

Guo-Liang Tan is a visual artist whose practice centers on painting, from which works in other media and modes of presentation occasionally emerge. Surfaces, whether painterly or not, serve as sites for staging gestures of affect and a haunting dialogue with the ghosts of abstraction. His process is marked by gaps and overlaps, fragmentation, and the gathering of traces. Tan is particularly interested in how these elements expand and reorient our perception of the body, time, and attention.

Guo-Liang Tan has exhibited work at Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; and Sifang Satellite Space, Shanghai, among others.

Guo-Liang Tan, It Moves It, 2023, acrylic on aeronautical fabric and wood, 67 × 86⁵/₈ × 19⁷/₈ in. (170.18 × 220 × 50.5 cm).

Guo-Liang Tan, Slow Release II, 2024, acrylic on aeronautical fabric, wood, 47 ¹/₄ x 38 in. (120 x 96.4 cm)

Guo-Liang Tan, Slow Release II, 2024, acrylic on aeronautical fabric and wood, 38 × 47¹/₄ in. (96.52 × 120.01 cm).

Guo-Liang Tan, Another Folding Scene, 2024, installation with painted fabric and sound.

Guo-Liang Tan, Another Folding Scene, 2024, installation, dimensions variable.

Guo-Liang Tan, Another Folding Scene, 2024, installation, dimensions variable.

Guo-Liang Tan, Opening Sequence IV, 2025, acrylic on aeronautical fabric and wood, 59¹/₈ × 51¹/₄ in. (150.18 × 130.17 cm).

Residents from Singapore

Stephanie Jane Burt

Singapore

National Arts Council, Singapore

2019

Sookoon Ang

Singapore

National Arts Council, Singapore

2011

Ana Prvacki

Slovakia, Singapore

National Arts Council, Singapore

2008

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Denmark, Iraq

Past Resident
2025: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Lina Hashim

Lina Hashim’s artistic practice delves into themes of cultural identity, resistance, and spirituality, blending traditional Arab motifs with contemporary technology to create immersive, thought-provoking experiences. Through performance, installation, and visual art, Hashim explores the intersections of oppression and empowerment, often employing repetition and symbolism to reveal deeper truths. Her work invites audiences to engage both physically and emotionally, sparking dialogue around race, gender, and the body within personal and global contexts.

Lina Hashim has exhibited work at Norton Museum of Art, Florida; Nikolaj Art Gallery, Copenhagen; and East Wing, Dubai, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Lina Hashim in Conversation with Justine Ludwig

July 30, 2025, 6:30–7:30pm

Summer Celebration and Open House

July 16, 2025, 5–9pm

I exhibit ritual objects, religious artifacts, personal correspondence, and psychiatric records to explore the curse I’ve been told I bear. In a lecture performance, I confront the audience with my research, asking: Am I cursed, or am I losing my mind? I guide the audience’s movement through the exhibition space.

Lina Hashim, The Touch, 2020, installation.

Who am I (2023) explores issues of colonialism, misrepresentation, and the Western portrayal of Muslim women as oppressed. In this solo exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal, I transform the space using mirror mosaics, calligraphy, and gold decoration, reflecting both my cultural heritage as a Muslim and my identity as a woman. The installation challenges stereotypes and invites a deeper reflection on personal and collective narratives.

Lina Hashim, Who am I, 2023, installation.

The work is based on the history of western art, where especially binarity was represented and depicted, which for this performance can create discomfort, as only binary division principles are used among the audience. In the work ODALISQUE the audience travels into the artist Lina Hashim’s work as a female artist with a Muslim cultural background. At the same time, the audience is also taken into the Western, white art history, where the portrayed brown woman is often portrayed as the odalisque; a mute, seductive, female slave in a harem. Through this work, Hashim wants to redefine the story that has been told through art history and create a space for retelling the cemented ideology of the erotic harem. Hashim is interested in the representation of the odalisque figure in Western painted art, particularly during the period of Orientalism, as a masculine colonial construct, and the contemporary ideas of liberation and rescue of the same woman.

Lina Hashim, odalisque, 2024, performance.

Unlawful Meetings (2014) captures the secret sexual encounters of young Muslims, photographed with a hidden camera in places like cars or bushes. Torn between their desires and strict sexual morality, these moments are shown without revealing faces, preserving anonymity. The grainy, cloudy images evoke voyeurism while maintaining a moral boundary, emphasizing the tension between curiosity and privacy. While the photos are not illegal, their ethical ambiguity stems from their deeply private nature, which is why identification was avoided.

Lina Hashim, Unlawful meetings, 2014, photography.

Residents from Denmark

Villiam Miklos Andersen

Denmark, Germany

Danish Arts Foundation

Studio #207

Tora Schultz

Denmark

Danish Arts Foundation

2024

Asta Lynge and Jakob Ohrt

Denmark

Danish Arts Foundation

2025

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Iceland

Past Resident
2025: Icelandic Art Center

Artist

Melanie Ubaldo

Melanie Ubaldo creates monuments to unbelonging. Her artistic practice constitutes an examination of profound intersectionality through autobiography. Her works are characterized by vulnerable autobiographical narratives surrounding racism, prejudice, power, and discrimination. Using diverse media, her large-scale installations address themes of home, memory, poverty, displacement, immigration, and identity. Despite their scale, her works simultaneously convey a delicate quality, mirroring the fragility and precariousness of their subject matter.

Melanie Ubaldo has exhibited work at The National Gallery of Iceland; Akureyri Art Museum; and Reykjavík Art Museum, all in Iceland, among others.