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.comCurrent Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Nov 30, 2024
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #221
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 Filipina 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.
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Studio #222
Artist
Stanley Wany
Stanley Wany’s practice spans large-format works on paper, illustration, and installations, focusing on his multi-ethnic identity and the reappropriation of Black representation in the West. His work engages with the concept of “creolization,” a term popularized by Martinican author Édouard Glissant, through its materiality and form. Central to Wany’s practice is extensive research, encompassing African-Canadian, African-American, and Caribbean history and culture, as well as African myths and traditions.
Stanley Wany has exhibited work at Galerie de l’UQAM; Plug In Contemporary Art Institute; and Ottawa Art Gallery, all in Canada, among others.