Current Residents
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.
Residents from Canada
Keli Safia Maksud

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