Current Residents
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2026
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #220
Artist
Wendimagegn Belete
Wendimagegn Belete is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complex interplay of culture, memory, identity, heritage, spirituality, and epigenetic inheritance—a form of memory transferred across generations in unconventional ways. He works across diverse mediums, including installation, moving images, painting, photography, textiles, and found objects. By interweaving physical and digital archival materials, he creates richly layered works that craft dynamic narratives, traversing both temporal and spatial boundaries.
Wendimagegn Belete has exhibited work at The National Museum in Olso, Norway; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine, among others.
Residents from Ethiopia
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Studio #305
Artist
Rafaela Foz
Rafaela Foz works with conceptual contrasts, exploring boundaries between matter and image, weight and lightness, presence and impermanence. Her multimedia practice employs materials such as charcoal dust, real and false stones, minerals, and collected objects as vectors of time — geological, bodily, and historical. Moving between installation, drawing, projection, and collage, she weaves elements that evoke fragmented landscapes, dense atmospheres, and materiality — always in tension with aesthetic contemplation and the systems that shape perception.
Rafaela Foz has exhibited work at Paço das Artes; Brazilian Art Museum; and Espaço Delirium, all in Brazil, among others.
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #208
Artist
Ghazaleh Avarzamani
Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s research examines and disrupts hidden social hierarchies. Through her practice, she probes the fallacies and inequities embedded in inherited knowledge and cultural manuals. By crafting visual narratives that both deconstruct and reconstruct time and space, she reconfigures materials to expose dysfunction and failure, drawing on collective human memory and overlooked knowledge. Her work uncovers the extraordinary within the ordinary, offering new ways to represent what is too often taken for granted.
Ghazaleh Avarzamani has exhibited work at Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and Frieze Sculpture, London, among others.