ALUMNI
Below you will find details of Artica Svalbard’s alumni.
At Artica Svalbard, we value our ongoing relationship with former residents and believe in building lasting connections. If you are a past resident and would like to return to Svalbard, we would love to hear from you. Whether you're looking to build upon your previous work or embark on a new project, our doors are always open. While securing your own funding is required, you will have access to all of our facilities and the inspiring environment of Svalbard.
For more information, see our Independently-Funded Residencies page.
In residence: August - September 2026
Maggie Coblentz is a Canadian artist based in Brooklyn whose practice brings together photography, writing and cooking. Through experimental and often playful approaches, her work explores the intersections of food, science, landscape and storytelling. Previous projects have included fermenting in outer space, running a food truck at a solar observatory and experimental baking on a glacier.
In residence: July - August 2026
Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet whose practice spans collage-based painting, stained-glass sculpture and mixed-media installation. Her work explores relationships between humans and the more-than-human world, bringing together personal experience with scientific, mythological and poetic perspectives to reflect on ecological change.
In residence: July - August 2026
Jennifer Redfearn is an Academy Award–nominated and Emmy Award–nominated documentary filmmaker whose work explores the relationships between people, place, and the natural world. Her films are immersive and often character-driven, guided by deep listening, empathetic observation, and a cinematic approach to storytelling. She is drawn to stories that invite audiences to sit with complexity and continue the conversation long after the film ends.
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: July - August 2026
Aindreas Scholz is a German-Irish photographer based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photographic processes. His practice focuses on climate-adapted image-making that collaborates with sunlight, water chemistry, and plant matter, inviting rain, seawater, salinity, and disturbed soils to physically imprint the photographic surface. His works sit between aesthetics and evidence — photographs that function as material traces of place, contamination, and environmental vulnerability.
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: June - August 2026
Jessica MacMillan is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Oslo, whose work spans sculpture, installation, 3D animation, and light. Her works investigate astronomy, planetary science, and deep time through ordinary found objects and optical instruments, creating objects and experiences that connect our everyday lives with the vast cosmic scales that surround us.
In residence: June - August 2026
Alexandra Lockhart is a dancer and choreographer originally from Colorado, USA, and currently based in London, UK. Working across live performance, installation, film and photography, her interdisciplinary practice combines embodied knowledge with scientific research to explore ecological systems and our relationship with the natural world. Through movement, she seeks to create new ways of experiencing environmental change and foster a deeper sense of connection with the landscapes and ecosystems that surround us.
In Residence: July 2026
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning journalist, editor, and podcaster, and currently Lead Editor at The Fuller Project. Her work spans journalism, literature, audio, and screen, with a focus on cross-disciplinary, project-based storytelling. She was previously Editor-in-Chief of gal-dem magazine and later a Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times.
In residence: June - July 2026
Elize de Beer is a South African visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. Working across printmaking, artist books, sculpture and installation, her multidisciplinary practice explores the ways in which histories are constructed, mediated, and re-imagined.
In residence: May - June 2026
Ida Freya Köhn is a multidisciplinary artist from Germany whose practice centres on sound as both material and method. Working with field recordings from Arctic and remote environments, she creates immersive sound installations that respond to the movement of the audience, encouraging attentive listening as a way of perceiving environmental change. Köhn has an academic background in biogeochemistry and ecology and has spent much of the past decade working in Arctic regions including Svalbard, northern Norway and Iceland.
In residence: May - June 2026
Laura J. Lawson 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: 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 2026
Celine Charveriat is a sustainability and systemic change expert with nearly 30 years of experience working at the intersection of policy, research, and international cooperation. During her residency at Artica Svalbard, Charveriat will develop Noah’s Ark 2.0: Imagineering Just Coadaptation in Svalbard, an arts-based, participatory foresight project led by Pro(to)topia.
In residence: April - May 2026
Jennifer Redfearn is a professor and documentary filmmaker whose work explores the ties between people, place, and the natural world. Her films are immersive and often character-driven, guided by deep listening, empathetic observation, and a cinematic approach to storytelling. She is drawn to work that invites audiences to sit with complexity and continue the conversation after the film ends.
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: April - May 2026
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger is an environmental artist whose work explores human impact on islands and isolated environments. Through immersive residencies as an artist, traveller, and observer, she creates works that critically examine the effects of the Anthropocene and consumerism. Her multifaceted practice spans sculpture, installation, and moving image, connecting art, science, and lived experience.
In Residence: January - April 2026
Mhairi Killin is a visual artist from the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Working across drawing, print, sculpture, and film, her practice explores the fragile and interconnected relationships between land, sea, humans, and other beings, often challenging perceptions of islands as remote or marginal.
In residence: April 2026
Scott Carroll is a futurist, designer, and award-winning filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of human behaviour, landscape, and narrative—using technology to expand the liminal spaces between them. His films and interactive projects have reached nearly 80 million screens worldwide, through platforms including the BBC, PBS, Arte, EiTB, Warner Brothers, and 20th Century FOX.