Category: Artist in Residence

Dennise Vaccarello & Manuel Mata Piñeiro

Dennise Vaccarello and Manuel Mata Piñeiro are our February artists in residency. Dennise Vaccarello Multidisciplinary artist based in Galicia, Spain Her body of work is centered around the landscape as a space of creation, to develop pictorical, sonorous,...

Olga Selvaschuk

Olga Selvashchuk holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in studio practice. Olga is an interdisciplinary artist working with a wide range of media. Ceramics, wood, metal, photos, and videos are common elements...

Cheng Yin Ngan

Cheng Yin Ngan is the Gil Artist in Residence for the month of December 2018. She will exhibit the results of her stay in Deiglan the weekend of 29th – 30th of December. Cheng yin ngan was born...

Nathalie Lavoie

Nathalie Lavoie is a visual artist based in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, a remote community in Canada’s subarctic. In the North, she developed a distinctive artistic style taking advantage of the long, spectacular winters. Her artistic practice stems...

Emmi Jormalainen

Our October Artist in Residence is Emmi Jormalainen, illustrator and artist from Helsinki, Finland. “I draw books where the stories are told entirely with images and methods of visual storytelling. The books are often called silent books since they...

Artists in Residence for 2019

Gil Artist Selection Panel has selected the Gil Artists in Residence for 2019. The panel is made up of Sóley Björk Stefánsdóttir as representative of Gil Society Board, Arna Valsdóttir, artist and teacher and Ólafur Sveinsson, artist and...

Salman Ezzamoury

Artist in residence for the month of August is Salman Ezzamoury. Salman Ezzammoury, born in Tetouan, North Morocco, 1959, moved to the Netherlands at a young age. His studies of Photography at the College of Applied Photography in...

Sonja Lefèvre-Burgdorf

I am a German painter working with mixed media, in general on canvas in big formats. My work is non figurative, more an expression of what I see and feel. The environment has a big impact and especially...

Dana Neilson

Dana Neilson is a Canadian artist based in Helsinki, Finland. A photographer by education her practice also includes ceramics, sculpture and video art. The overarching theme is her work is the relationship humans have with their environment and...