Below you will find details of all the current and future residents at Artica Svalbard. If you would like to contact any of our residents feel free to email info@articasvalbard.no
In residence: August 2025 – April 2026
Ashley Middleton is an artist and researcher whose work explores the evolving relationship between the body, technology, and the environment. Working across installation, sound, video, and photography, she creates immersive experiences that integrate scientific inquiry with sensory perception. Guided by rhizomatic methodologies, embodiment practices, and a feminist phenomenological perspective, her projects investigate how attention, ritual, and intuitive knowledge shape ecological awareness.
In residence: August - October 2025
Christian Danielewitz, a Danish visual artist, researcher, and writer, and Bianca Hisse, a Brazilian visual artist and choreographer, come together as a collaborative duo whose work spans across multiple disciplines. Their practices focus on geopolitical issues, the extraction of raw materials, digital materialities, and how spaces are choreographed by economic and social forces. Their collective approach combines visual art, research, and performance to critically engage with urgent global and environmental concerns.
In residence: September - October 2025
Clara Arnaud is a French writer and winner of the Ecology Novel Prize in France. Her literary work—both fiction and non-fiction—explores political and ecological themes, questioning our way of inhabiting the world. She has travelled extensively off the beaten track, mostly on foot or horseback, and has also worked as a consultant in international cooperation, leading missions across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
In residence: October 2025
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is a researcher in childhood studies at Inland Norway University. Her work centres around children living in hypermobility, whether it is themselves or significant others who move. Through a lens of Psychological Anthropology, she unravels interrelationships of childhood, life-course, and the powerful institutions that influence children and youth's everyday lives. Her case studies include the Norwegian Foreign Service and Longyearbyen, a socially transient Arctic settlement under Norwegian authority.
In residence: October - November 2025
David Samuel Stern is a visual artist whose practice examines photography as a physical, craft-based process and its deep relationship with portraiture and time. His work has been commissioned by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, and exhibited at venues including Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
In residence: November 2025
Emma Henderson is an artist, producer, and arts educator based in the west of Scotland. Working across printmaking and textiles, she creates natural inks through slow, experimental processes informed by textile histories and craft legacies. During her residency, Henderson will develop a shared natural printmaking toolkit and establish a pigment library as a collaborative resource for current and future residents.
In residence: November - December 2025
Amy Hoagland creates sculptural installations that explore the human relationship with nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky, USA, in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2022. A recipient of a 2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honouring the Future.
In residence: November - December 2025
Emilia Phillips is an American poet and author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (2024) and Embouchure (2021), as well as four chapbooks. Their poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Phillips is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English, MFA in Writing Program, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
In residence: November - December 2025
Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her practice is deeply rooted in climate-conscious making, with climate change and ecological grief forming the conceptual backbone of her work. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BS from Skidmore College, and her work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally.
In residence: January - February 2026
Michelle Calcatelli is an international cooperation professional with over 20 years of experience working across agriculture, innovation, and policy. Specialised in resource mobilisation, proposal development, and strategic programme design, Calcatelli has helped organisations secure funding, shape impactful portfolios, and influence international policy agendas. With expertise in cross-cultural collaboration and global partnerships, their work is driven by a strong interest in climate resilience and the challenges of remote regions.
In residence: May - June 2026
Audun Aagre is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author with extensive experience across Norwegian media, including Aftenposten, VG, NRK, and SVT. He has published several books combining text and photography and has worked across the fields of politics, culture, and technology. Currently a senior advisor at the Norwegian Media Authority, Aagre also brings a long-standing interest in Arctic history.
In residence: May - June 2026
Soghra Khurasani is a printmaker based in Vadodara, Gujarat. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2023), where she received a Special Mention. Khurasani’s practice often uses the metaphors of scars, wounds, and skin to explore hidden histories, trauma, and ecological change.
In residence: May - June 2026
Laura J. Lawson (b. 1988, USA) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work connects the humanities to interstellar exploration. She holds a BA from Austin College in Texas and an MFA from the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, sound, and writing, with a focus on creative inquiry into planetary science and outer space.
In residence: June - August 2026
Todd Anderson is a mid-career artist and collaborative master fine art printer whose practice spans printmaking, digital photography, drawing, and book arts. Born in Minnesota, USA, he earned his MFA in Printmaking at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. For over fifteen years, Anderson has collaborated with scientists, writers, and fellow artists to produce monumentally scaled, limited-edition artist’s books and print portfolios addressing the global climate crisis.
In residence: July - August 2026
Nora Adwan is an Irish–Palestinian artist based in Bergen. Her work explores how identity, memory, and the body are shaped by displacement and exile, with a particular focus on female histories and perspectives. Drawing on multiple geographical contexts and personal experiences, Adwan weaves narratives that move between poetry, fiction, and documentary.
In residence: August - September 2026
Working collaboratively across installation and publication, Jun Zhang and Yindi Chen explore intersections between science and mythology, with a particular focus on more-than-human narratives. Rooted in ecofeminism, queer ecology, folk medicine, and critical fabulation, their practice draws from multiple knowledge systems to question the construction of a homogeneous worldview.
In residence: August - November 2026
Apichaya (Piya) Wanthiang is an artist based in Oslo. She holds a BA from Sint-Lukas, Brussels, and an MA in Fine Arts from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB). Working primarily with painting and installations that incorporate light, sound, and text, Piya constructs environments to explore how spaces influence perception, behaviour, and interaction.
In residence: September - October 2026
Since 2022, Annike Flo and Lexie Owen have worked together as a duo, alongside their individual artistic practices. Lexie’s work centres on social practice and the development of structures that support collaboration and collective action, while Annike’s focuses on material explorations that unfold relationships between the human and non-human.
In residence: September - October 2026
Marit Beate Kasin is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer focusing on environmental issues, land use, and nature conservation. Since 2008 she has worked as a political reporter and led the investigative project Hytteparadokset, which examined the environmental consequences of Norway’s rapid cabin development.
In residence: October - November 2026
Tanya Park is a heritage specialist, academic, and photographer whose work bridges architecture, cultural heritage, and climate change. She holds a PhD from Japan, with a thesis on “Architectural Preservation Process in Japan: Theoretical discourse and its application.” During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Tanya will combine photography and text to explore the cultural heritage of Svalbard through its buildings
