Zheng Huang // March 2019 Zheng Huang is a Chinese art curator based in Paris, France. While Zheng´s usual art practice concerns criticism,  exhibition production and art curation, coming to Iceland Zheng shifted her interests towards using video as a media. Zheng Huang // March 2019 Zheng created a series of three short videos related…

Luowei Liao // March 2019 Luowei Liao is a Chinese visual artist based in Tokyo, Japan. Luowei joined us to admire Iceland waking up from its winter hibernation. Since Luowei lives in one of the most modern cities on our planet, she found surrounding nature extremely interesting and described being close to nature as the most enjoyable experience. She enjoyed long…

Ariel Kessler // March 2019 Ariel Kessler is a visual artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined the Factory team for the month of March 2019. Ariel Kessler // March 2019 Ariel fell in love with Iceland, during her first visit to our beautiful country six years ago. When deciding on the residency destination, Iceland seemed…

Aaron Scott // February 2019 Aaron Scott is an American designer, based in New York City, who stayed with us for the month of February. Aaron Scott // February 2019 Aaron came to Iceland in search of a new direction for his work. He states that the landscape is being a huge factor and inspiration during his process…

Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas // February 2019 Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas is a Mexican photographer, who joined us for his third time in Stöðvarfjörður in February 2019. He describes the main subject of his interest as a relationship between human being and the environment. Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas // February 2019 Alfredo started his project connected to Söðvarfjörður in 2017…

Patricia Casey // February 2019 Patricia Casey is a visual artist, based in Sydney, Australia. During her first residency in Fish Factory, Patricia came to stay with us at the peak of Icelandic summer in June 2017. This time, hoping to experience real Icelandic winter, she decided to arrive in the windy and snowy month of February. Patricia…

Ruth Waterhouse // February 2019 Ruth Waterhouse is an illustrator coming from Cumbria, England. Living by the sea and the fells at home, Ruth wanted to discover the similarities and differences between the pace and characteristics of her homeland and small Icelandic town of Stöðvarförður. Ruth Waterhouse // February 2019 Before arriving at the Creative Centre, Ruth´s…

Elisabeth Kuklenyik // February 2019 Elisabeth Kuklenyik is a Chicago based comics artist, illustrator and educator. She stayed with us in the cold and icy month of February. Elisabeth joined us to work on her comic book series My Mother of Old Bones. The story is a mixture of biographical threads and explorational journeys into Elisabeth´s Eastern European roots.…

  Alec Aita // January, February 2019 Alec Aita is an American visual artist based in Berlin, Maryland, who joined us for the cold months of January and February. Alec earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Salisbury University. Alec Aita // January, February 2019 During his residency time in Fish Factory, Alec decided to switch his sculptural…

Laura Casassas // January 2019 Laura Casassas is a design researcher and educator from Barcelona. She joined us for the snowy month of January. During her stay with us, Laura worked on writing and revisiting her master thesis Using is caring (about), in which she questions the field of critical design and its relation with…

Inkeri Viljanen // January 2019 Inkeri Viljanen is a Finnish painter based in Vasa, Finland and stayed with us for the month of January 2019. Inkeri describes her dark sense of humour and other human beings as her main inspiration, emphasizing that art does not have to be serious. During her residency, Inkeri was working on…

Niko Mitsuko // November 2018 Niko Mitsuko is an American artist working in fields of painting, photography and mixed media. She was staying with us in the month of November 2018. In the past years, Niko has established herself as a professional artist working with galleries across the United States and Europe. Believing that art is a…

Áine Kelly // November 2018 Áine Kelly is an Irish visual artist specialising in photography and sculpture. She graduated in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2016. Áine Kelly // November 2018 During her time with us, she made work with ice that was often foraged from the mountains…

Santiago Zarzosa // November 2018 Santiago Zarzosa is a European artist based in Minneapolis, MN USA. He was born and educated in Spain. He has been exhibiting and selling his works over the last few decades. Zarzosa works predominantly with oil painting, drawing and etching. During the residency in November 2018, he expanded his multidisciplinary…

Mikkel Odehnalu // October 2018 Mikkel was with us in the month of October. He is an animator and lives in the Czech Republic where he studies PhD in arts at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín where he also did MA at the Department of the Animation. His works are mainly focused on nature,…

Courtney Powell // October 2018 Courtney Powell is a Canadian artist, based out of Vancouver, BC, and was with us for October 2018.  She is a muralist and painter, and obtained her BFA from York University. During her residency, Courtney created a mural featuring Iceland’s national flower, mountain avens, and two of its birds, the arctic tern…

Nika Winn // October 2018 Nika Winn is a visual artist from Kansas City, MO in the United States. She spent the month of October 2018 at the Fish Factory to explore new modes of working in her studio practice. During her time here Nika worked with canvas that she painted, cut out and then…

Ben Davis // October 2018 Ben Davis is a photographic artist and bookmaker from the Greater New York City area. He was with us for the month of October 2018. While at the Fish Factory he spent a lot of time exploring the fjord and surrounding mountains/landscape. He also started to experiment with night photography.…

Christopher Johns // October 2018 Christopher Johnsey is a painter from Sheffield in the UK.  He studied BA Fine Art at Middlesex University, London, graduating in 2010. Chris makes reportage drawings and paintings, poetry and sound recordings, exploring the relationship between the environment and the human race, and our impact. During his month with us in October,…