Past Resident
2024: Guadalupe Phillips

Artist

Paloma Contreras

Paloma Contreras Lomas works across various media, including film, drawing, writing, sculpture, and video. Her practice explores themes such as the landscape as a witness in Mexico, autofiction, and class horror. Through a blend of research and humor, and by weaving together genres like horror and science fiction, Contreras Lomas creates installations that immerse viewers in narratives shaped by her vision of Latin American political historiography.

Paloma Contreras Lomas has exhibited work at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, among others.

Paloma Contreras, Amar a Dios en tierra de indios, es oficio maternal, 2023, installation, dimensions variable.

Paloma Contreras, Uno muere muchas veces, Lazarito, 2023, charcoal and graphite in canvas, 78 × 314 in. (198.12 × 797.56 cm).

Paloma Contreras, ¿Y usted cómo se supone que se llamaba?, 2024, oil on canvas, 47³/₁₆ × 47³/₁₆ in. (119.89 × 119.89 cm).

Paloma Contreras, La fiebre de oro, 2023, film, 23:31 min.

Paloma Contreras, SIEDO antes SEIDO, 2023, sculpture made of plush and textile, 89⁵/₁₆ × 35 × 35⁵/₁₆ in. (226.82 × 88.9 × 89.66 cm).

Residents from Mexico

Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi

United States, Mexico

The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund

Studio #303

Joaquin Segura

Mexico

ISCP Alumni Fund

2008

Josué Mejía

Mexico

Fundación JUMEX Arte Contemporáneo

2021

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Norway, Thailand

Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2025

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Studio #220

Artist

Apichaya Wanthiang

Apichaya Wanthiang creates environments that activate embodied knowledge and somatic memories, exploring how different spaces shape our perceptions, behaviors, and interactions. She primarily works with painting and installations that incorporate light, sound, and text. While each exhibition centers on a specific theme, these serve as a prelude to examining complex and often invisible structures, such as the cumulative effects of racism or the impact of memories on our present actions.

Apichaya Wanthiang has exhibited work at Munch Museum, Oslo; Storage Art Space, Bangkok; and UKS Young Artists’ Society, Oslo, among others.

apichayawanthiang.com

Events & Exhibitions

Summer Celebration and Open House

July 16, 2025, 5–9pm

Spring Open Studios 2025

April 25–April 26, 2025

28'54'' video installation projected on three layers of netting, coconut and palmyra leafes, headlamps, four paintings

Apichaya Wanthiang, the night laid a hundred eyes on my skin, installation, 2024.

Apichaya Wanthiang, Gleaned from, 2024, painting installation.

16 Agar(red algae) sheets stretched on 16 steel frames, a 38 min soundtrack and light sequence played in a loop.

Apichaya Wanthiang, Some Body Else, 2022, installation.

spread across four rooms, recycled and new wood, cotton, colored pigments, clay, concrete, hay, chicken wire, foam, cheesecloth, plastic, TVscreen, raspberry pi, light filters, silicone

Apichaya Wanthiang, I've been here before, 2020, installation.

corridor, heated clay sculptures, alternating ‘breathing’ led cycles, and two videos of insects at night and rituals of feeding spirits.

Apichaya Wanthiang, Evil spirits only travel in straight lines, 2018, installation.

Residents from Norway

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen

Philippines, Norway

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

2024

Sandra Mujinga

Norway

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

2024

Håkon Lillegraven

Norway

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

2023

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Philippines, Norway

Past Resident
2024: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Curator

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen is an art historian and curator based in Trondheim, Norway. She served as the Interim Director of Kunsthall Trondheim from May to December 2023 and currently holds the position of Curator. Pedersen’s curatorial practice focuses on perspectives that combine alternative realities, spiritualities, knowledge systems, and technology. Recently, she has explored themes of diasporic ancestry, neuroplasticity, and memory, inspired by her own experiences as a second-generation Filipinx immigrant. Pedersen is also the Chair of The Norwegian Association of Curators.

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen has curated exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Curators at Work: What Is Kept and What Is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Korakrit Arunanondchai , Songs for dying, installation view, 2021, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, curated by Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.

Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, A Body of Memory (from neurons to the sea), installation view, 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ann Lislegaard, Unweaving the binary code – Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022, exhibition curated with Stefanie Hessler. Dimensions variable. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim

Panteha Abareshi, INVALID PLEASURES, installation view, 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, curated by Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ann Lislegaard, Unweaving the binary code, 2022, Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022, exhibition curated with Stefanie Hessler. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.

Artist talk with Yngvild Sæter in front of her work 'Mother (altar XXVIII)', 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.