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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.

gonzalesella.com

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.
krislemsalu.org

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