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Residency

Current Artist-in-Residence

A dedicated space for creative exploration, collaboration, and cultural exchange.

The program welcomes emerging artists from diverse disciplines to immerse themselves in a supportive environment where experimentation is at the forefront of the process. By selecting artists whose work engages with contemporary dialogues, the residency cultivates a setting that encourages critical exchange — with participants drawing on the wide range of resources made available by the organization.

Black-and-white portrait of Elias Doering in a striped shirt, facing the camera
Elias Doering — Artist-in-Residence

Elias Doering

Medium: Pen and Ink

Elias Doering is a pen-and-ink artist from the U.S. East Coast whose work is primarily black-and-white and often presented as comics of the sea. Their drawings explore liminal spaces where hyper-industrialization meets nature, probing how such environments affect human psychology. Doering's imagery draws heavily from natural shapes found in tidepools along rocky coasts.

Residency Project
Objective Psyche — A Collaborative Narrative Project
Pen and Ink
Pen-and-ink comic page of hand-lettered panels recalling a found duckling and dancing alone in the kitchen
From Objective Psyche. Pen and ink, Elias Doering
Pen-and-ink comic page of densely cross-hatched panels with coffins, subway cars, and falling figures
From Objective Psyche. Pen and ink, Elias Doering