Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist and filmmaker from Tupi, South Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines based in Rome, Italy. His work has been performed and shown at numerous international film festivals and contemporary art venues.

Mhairi Killin is a visual artist who lives on the Isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland where she works with the precious relationships between land, sea, humans, and other living beings.

Nastassja Simensky is an artist based in Nottingham, UK. She uses fieldwork to explore and understand how complex issues around history and heritage, power and governance, ecology and the geopolitics of extraction are crystallised in specific geographies.

We are pleased to welcome back artist Inma Herrera who returns to Longyearbyen continue her project Artic Tales of Mother Earth. Herrera is a Helsinki-based artist, recipient of the Ducat Prize in 2020, and a former resident at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome from 2017 to 2018.

Ellen Heck works as a printmaker in North Carolina. Over the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored specific questions about identity—its creation, variability, persistence and change—by combining subject matter and thematically resonant printmaking techniques.

Endre Harvold Kvangraven is a writer, researcher, and wildlife enthusiast. His research centers on the relations between humans and birds in contemporary Scandinavian literature.

Januario Jano is an interdisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in London, Luanda and Lisbon. He holds a MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, and his practice spans across sculpture, video, photography, textile, sound installations, and performance, and it is substantially research-based.

Kamil Kak is an artist based in Oslo and Berlin, navigating the intersections of queer liberation, immigrants' experiences, and the fragility of recent historical narratives.

Cathrine Alice Liberg is a Norwegian-Singaporean artist and printmaker working in a variety of techniques, including lithography, photogravure, cyanotype, etching and mezzotint. Her art revolves mainly around the family portrait, where she contemplates the stories that were lost through her family’s migration, and how descendants can never become reliable narrators of their ancestors’ lives.

Ellen Viste lives in Bergen, where she works as a communication adviser at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Having a background as a meteorologist and climate researcher, she has also worked extensively with popular science writing on weather and climate.

Roald Berg is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Stavanger, working mainly with polar history, foreign and defense policy history. During his residency at Artica, he will embark on a book about the history of Norwegian polar imperialism, centered on one of the key players who was around at the turn of the century.

Trine Hamran (b. 1971) is a freelance writer and journalist, trained as a social anthropologist and has a master's degree in journalism. She has worked as a journalist for a number of years, as a freelancer and for NRK, Dagsavisen, Finnmarken and Sør-Varanger Avis.

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.

Ruth Maclennan is an artist and researcher based in London and northern Scotland. Her art practice includes films, video installations, photographs, writing, drawing and interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects.  For the past ten years Maclennan has been researching experiences of climate heating and geopolitics.

Nicole Rafiki lives and works between South Africa and Norway. Rather than producing finished products as an end result, Rafiki treats art making as a practice of remembrance, healing and cultural analysis.

Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India) Artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences.

Helene Sommer is a visual artist based in Oslo. Through video, text and installation she questions the way we understand and relate to our surroundings and its history, particularly in regard to the premises and politics of the sciences.

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist based in London whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.

Yamile Calderón is an artist born in Colombia, based in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. She has recently published her second photo book, Narcos & Homes, and was awarded Bildende Kunstnernes Hjelpefonds (BKH) Fotokunstprisen 2020 (Photo Art Prize).