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Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025

Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council

Studio #211

Artist

Manjot Kaur

Manjot Kaur’s drawings, paintings, and time-based media seek to de-patriarchalize women’s bodies while celebrating the sovereignty of nature. She cross-pollinates ancient mythologies and histories to reflect on relationships between humans and more-than-humans. Her practice moves between speculative fiction, archetypal allegories, and precarious ecologies, challenging the human-centered worldview and advancing a mode of thought that dismantles hierarchical notions of being.

Manjot Kaur has exhibited work at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Drawing Room, London; and Stiftelsen Tensta konsthall, Sweden, among others.

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Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025

Creative Australia

Studio #210

Artist

Arini Byng

Arini Byng is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the affective qualities of materials, gestures, and settings. Working across photography, performance, video, and painting, she creates intimate studies of movement and form that engage with political and personal histories. Recent works incorporate her family archive to reflect on lived experience, drawing from her Black-American-Anglo-Celtic heritage to examine how culture and memory shape selfhood, offering a nuanced perspective on diasporic identity.
Arini Byng has exhibited work at National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore; and Gertrude Contemporary, Australia, among others.

arinibyng.com

Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025

Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin

Studio #205

Artist

Neda Saeedi

Neda Saeedi’s multidisciplinary practice explores power structures, historiography, and materiality through sculpture and installation. Engaging with the socio-political dimensions of architecture, urbanism, and environmental violence, she uses material symbolism to expose systemic tensions. Themes of segregation frequently recur, often expressed through garden motifs as spaces of control. Through site-specific installations, she transforms familiar elements into spatial narratives that prompt viewers to confront layered histories. Combining aesthetic precision with incisive critique, her work reveals the ecological and social consequences of modernity.
Neda Saeedi has exhibited work at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria; Klosterruine Berlin, Germany; and Argo Factory, Iran, among others.
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