Past Resident
2026: Canada Council for the Arts

Heather Nicol

Heather Nicol is an installation, sculpture, and sound artist whose creative processes and outcomes are rooted in social engagement. Her site-specific interventions are often large scale, featuring audio scores principally built with her recordings of voices. She considers the historic, utilitarian, and acoustic properties of places where audiences can pause, listen, and imagine. Through sensory encounters and tactile constructions, she invites reflection on the complicated human desire for connection, and the associated pleasures and anxieties of being seen and heard.

Heather Nicol has exhibited work at The Bentway; The National Arts Centre; and The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre, all in Canada, among others.

Ivan Lam

Ivan Lam is one of Malaysia’s leading contemporary artists. A graduate of the Maine College of Art (1998), he began his career as a printmaker and gained early recognition for his CMYK series before transitioning into painting. Over the past 23 years, his practice has been defined by bold experimentation with resin, performance, and conceptual approaches that explore identity, consumerism, and social tension. His work is held in notable collections including Louis Vuitton and the Singapore Art Museum.

Ivan Lam has exhibited work at the 2019 Venice Biennale, Italy; S.E.A. Focus, Singapore; and Art Basel, Hong Kong, among others.

Hermann Grüneberg

The adult figures in Grüneberg’s ceramics bear traces of actions and interventions. Their origins and journeys remain an expressive mystery. Experience has accumulated within them, deepening their faces and inevitably aging them. A sense of calm has returned to their postures. History, too, has settled on them like the heavy dust of the road, religions, myths, generations, and epochs layered upon their surfaces. Other elements drift among them: hoods and crowns, third parties or their images, a strange murmur, and laughter echoing from the plates.

Hermann Grüneberg has exhibited work at SPAX Projects, Paris; Brutto Gusto, Berlin; and Galerie Herold, Hamburg, among others.