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Canada

Past Resident
2021: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Artist

Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s practice is based in performance art, photography, video, AR and VR. Body is political. Working within the gap between body as image and body as experienced reality, Dong uses the body—often her/their own body— as a visual territory in her/their work and a primary material to activate social commentary on gender, identity, and immigration, asking what it means to be a citizen of the world today. Dong currently explores the subtle boundaries between art and technology.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong has exhibited at Manif d’Art – The Quebec City Biennial, International Digital Art Biennial; The International Digital Art Biennial, Montreal; and Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Reconnection, 2021, performance photograph.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, 2021, Installation view of 'I Have Been There' (2015–ongoing) and 'Skin Deep' (2014–20) at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Meet Me Halfway, 2021, four channel Virtual Reality video installation, dimensions variable.
Chun Hua Catherine Dong brings a robot for a road trip
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Alone Together, 2018, photograph, 40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.28 cm).
Chun Hua Catherine Dong sleeps on the Great Wall in Beijing
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, I Have Been There, 2018, performance photograph, 40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.28 cm).

Residents from Canada

Asal Andarzipour

Canada, Iran
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Behdad Esfahbod
Studio #213

Braxton Garneau

Canada
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Edmonton Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #202

Jude Griebel

Canada, United States
Canada Council for the Arts
2016
Denmark

Past Resident
2024: Danish Arts Foundation
2021: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Lotte Nielsen

Lotte Nielsen’s art document the living conditions of LGBT people, particularly youths. Through an artistic and social policy lens, she aims to facilitate the collection, study, and dispersion of information about the ‘lived experience’ of this demographic. Through her practice, the artist aims to empower these often marginalized or vulnerable communities.

Lotte Nielsen has exhibited at The Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen; Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen; and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.
Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.
Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.
Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.
Lotte Nielsen, Letters from St. Petersburg, 2021, film still.

Residents from Denmark

Lina Hashim

Denmark, Iraq
Danish Arts Foundation
Studio #207

Tora Schultz

Denmark
Danish Arts Foundation
2024

Asta Lynge and Jakob Ohrt

Denmark
Danish Arts Foundation
2025
Zimbabwe

Past Resident
2021: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy

Artist

Micha Serraf

Micha Serraf is a photographer who explores the construction and deconstruction of identity, belonging, Blackness and masculinity through photography. The artist was born in Zimbabwe and fled to South Africa at a young age. This mobility prompted Serraf to observe his behaviour and that of other foreign nationals regarding the safest shape to inhabit in new environments. This fluid presentation of self, and the ability to be malleable, are used to access forms of acceptance and camouflage. Through his practice, Serraf is interested in demonstrating the evolutionary, fluid and emotional entanglements related to the purpose, interpretations and performance of race and origin.

Micha Serraf has exhibited work at Foam, Amsterdam; Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam; C/O Berlin, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Micha Serraf: Hope Is a Dry Colour
May 19–May 22, 2022
2021 Fall Open Studios
November 13, 2021
I was born in Zimbabwe where my mother and her mother's mother’s mothers were born. My family and I left for the border of South Africa at 4 o'clock in the morning when I was almost 10 years old. These alien landscapes are still foreign to me. Yet I am the alien here. I struggle to feel safe or impart meaning on them. Chipoko is the Shona word for the soul, breath or ghost of a person or a spirit. These photographs are the visual navigation of an unknown and unplaced feeling of a deep nostalgia. An attempt to reach out to my ancestry for guidance and belonging. Each sculpture, a totem. Each landscape, different. Strong, tall, dark. A visit from my mothers.
Micha Serraf, Midzi Yedu, 2021, photograph, 291/2 × 393/8 in. (74.93 × 100.08 cm).
I was born in Zimbabwe where my mother and her mother's mother’s mothers were born. My family and I left for the border of South Africa at 4 o'clock in the morning when I was almost 10 years old. These alien landscapes are still foreign to me. Yet I am the alien here. I struggle to feel safe or impart meaning on them. Chipoko is the Shona word for the soul, breath or ghost of a person or a spirit. These photographs are the visual navigation of an unknown and unplaced feeling of a deep nostalgia. An attempt to reach out to my ancestry for guidance and belonging. Each sculpture, a totem. Each landscape, different. Strong, tall, dark. A visit from my mothers.
Micha Serraf, Rangarirai, 2021, photograph, 883/16 × 551/8 in. (224.03 × 139.95 cm).
I imagine that when we landed here our parachutes were made of silk. I imagine that when we landed here our parachutes were made of satin and embedded with diamonds. I imagine that because we look like them - we would be treated as one. I imagine that once we learned their language and adopted their ways we would be seen. I imagine that once my mother built her home they would allow us to live among them. I imagine that once we brought laughter and rain that our relationships would blossom. I imagine that here was not our first choice. I imagine that leaving home wasn’t either. Yet, we are here now. Standing among the flowers and the stones my feet can feel the soil. Rooted loosely in the ground, when I close my eyes - I imagine home.
Micha Serraf, When we landed, 2020, photograph, 2413/16 × 331/2 in. (62.99 × 85.09 cm).
We must remain vigilant and active in protecting the revolutionary disposition of transforming masculinity, advancing queer activism and disrupting gender more broadly. This project also aims to inspire critical reflections on the quality and purpose of gender in our society. To encourage people to see themselves anew through these images and begin being more introspective with their own gender fluidity, discourse and practice. With gender existing on a vast spectrum of personal freedom, this series seeks to celebrate and make visible queer identities that exist outside the dominant and popular gender imagination.
Micha Serraf, Chizvaro, 2018, photograph, 195/8 × 227/8 in. (49.78 × 58.17 cm).
Our ancestors have roamed these plains since the cradle of humankind. Cave to reed to mud to stone to brick to concrete to steel. Bearing witness to the floods, droughts, famines, seasons and the very rebuilding and restructuring of life itself. They exist among us as giants with a knowledge shaped and formed by the rivers of time and the mistakes that come with it. The forgotten royalty of our people wrapped in modernity.
Micha Serraf, Kukura, 2017, photograph, 157/8 × 235/8 in. (40.39 × 59.94 cm).

Residents from Zimbabwe

Felix Shumba

Zimbabwe
Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund
2025