Current Residents
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #306
Artist
Ella Gonzales
Ella Gonzales is a Filipina Canadian artist working between painting and Computer-Aided Design programs. Her practice explores the materiality of painting, soft architecture, and narratives of migration as related to the Filipino diaspora.
Ella Gonzales has exhibited work at Mercer Union; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery; and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, all in Canada, among others.
Ella Gonzales, Twofold, 2024, installation view. Unit 17, Vancouver. Photo by NK Photo.
Ella Gonzales, Temporary Lacework, 2025, acrylic on piña silk, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm). Unit 17, Vancouver.
Ella Gonzales, Fill, pack, fold, 2024, acrylic and oil on linen, canvas, jusi silk and piña silk and wood support, dimensions variable. Unit 17, Vancouver.
Ella Gonzales, A Room’s Proportion, 2025, installation view, gouache on silk and polyester. Unit 17, Vancouver.
Ella Gonzales, Walls Close Together, 2025, acrylic and gouache on jusi silk, 108 × 144 in. (274.32 × 365.76 cm). Unit 17, Vancouver. Photo by Olympia Shannon.
Residents from Canada
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
Studio #211
Artist
Kris Lemsalu
Kris Lemsalu is a contemporary artist based in Tallinn, Estonia, and Vienna, Austria. She studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Eccentric in her use of color and materials, Lemsalu incorporates props, costumes, and natural elements to create immersive installations that, in her words, “give birth to a world of shamanic force, visionary weirdness, and collective revival.”
Kris Lemsalu has exhibited work at 58th Venice Biennial, Italy; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Germany; and Secession, Austria, among others.
Kris Lemsalu, Born as Bird, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.
Kris Lemsalu, Sepeak easy, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.
Kris Lemsalu, Let Me Talk To The Boss, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.
Kris Lemsalu, Run Water, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.
Kris Lemsalu, Run Water, 2025, ceramics, dimensions variable.
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #221
Curator
Abirami Logendran
As a film curator, Abirami Logendran is drawn to hybrid practices and interdisciplinary approaches that reflect her cross-field background in design, art, film, mathematics and media theory. She has developed programs on migration and diaspora experiences, engaging with international artists like The Otolith Group, Sky Hopinka, Kamal Aljafari, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and more. With strong interests in postcolonial theory, she critically examines contemporary culture through both conceptual and material lenses. She is also an active artist and critic.
Abirami Logendran has curated exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus, Olso; Kunsthall, Oslo; and Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, among other things.
Abirami Logendran, Commitments to Mirror-Writing, 2025, talk. Screening of Into the Violet Belly by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Silver Series #8, "The Otolith Group" exhibition, 2024, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Artist talk with Shirin Nest, 2025. Opening of"Silver Series#7," Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Diamond Heist, group exhibition, 2025, prints, drawings, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Diamond Heist, group exhibition, 2025, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
