Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Fire Station - Qatar Museums
Saeeda Albadr
Saida Albadr is a multidisciplinary artist working with mixed media paintings and digital artworks. She specializes in using modern and contemporary art approaches to highlight and enrich Qatari identity, culture, environment, and legacy.
Saida Albadr has exhibited work at International Action Art, Greece; ZeeArts, Dubai; and International Meeting of Kasbah Artists, Spain, among others.
Saeeda Albadr, Six Mountains of Doha, 2022, mixed media on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Mother land, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 357/16 × 471/4 in. (89.99 × 119.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Diversity-patterns1, 2022, digital painting printed on canvas, 393/8 × 291/2 in. (100 × 75.01 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, incenses, 2023, mixed media on canvas, 1911/16 × 357/16 in. (50.01 × 89.99 cm).
Saeeda Albadr, Life 2, 2021, acrylic colors on canvas, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm).
Residents from Qatar
Past Resident2024: Celebrate the Studio
Vincent Chong
Vincent Chong is a queer gender-nonconforming Chinese American artist working in performance, painting, drawing, Chinese calligraphy, and seal carving. Their work explores the intersection of traditional culture with contemporary queer and trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color community in Brooklyn, New York.
Vincent Chong has exhibited work at Skanes Konstforening, Sweden; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and La MaMa Galleria, New York, among others.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom & Full Moon, 2023, performance in Columbus Park, New York, 16:40 min. Photo by Marion Aguas.
Vincent Chong, Hay Fever, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 in. (60.96 × 76.2 cm).
Vincent Chong, lungs filled with liquid breeze, 2023, oil in linen.
Vincent Chong, Psychic Simon, 2023, oil on linen, 68 × 48 in. (172.72 × 121.92 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Keli Safia Maksud
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking and embroidery. Maksud’s practice is concerned with histories of colonial encounters and their impact on memory and identities. Through her work she strives to destabilize established narratives in order to reveal state fictions.
Keli Safia Maksud has exhibited work at Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Video Brasil, Brazil; and Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, Mali, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Keli Safia Maksud, Mitumba, 2014, mixed media installation, vlisco Hollandaise wax fabric, bleach, soap, and water, installation view.
Keli Safia Maksud, Provisional Notes on Freedom, 2021, light, sound and sculptural installation, 15 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, Untitled Anthem, 2020, 4-channel sound installation on prayer mat.
Keli Safia Maksud, They Try Their Tongues, 2022, light, sound and sculptural installation, 8 min, loop.
Keli Safia Maksud, old blues new bruises, 2023, embroidery on carbon paper, light and sound installation.