Jenny Hsieh is an illustrator and designer based in Vancouver, BC. Her work is inspired by daily life, exploring simple yet contemplative moments. Using light and colour she examines the quiet stillness that allows for a chance to reflect and appreciate one’s surroundings. During her residency at Studio Kura, she will focus on these themes while drawing inspiration from her time in Itoshima.
karen shangguan is an artist and writer from vancouver, canada who specializes in poetic narratives derived from daydreams and sensitive thoughts. her first graphic novel, quiet thoughts, was published in 2022, while she has since been working on her second.
Zuzana Radicova is a visual artist whose practice centers on textile-based works, with a particular focus on quilted tapestries. With a strong background in textile & graphic design, she often integrates visual languages that mimic hand-drawn elements, creating a dialogue between digital precision and tactile imperfection. Drawing on techniques from both traditional craft and contemporary mixed media, her work combines Japanese influenced aesthetics with explorations of form, color, and materiality. Her process involves deconstruction and reconstruction, resulting in patterns and compositions that emphasize the sculptural presence of the artwork itself. Color plays a central role in her practice, shaping atmosphere, evoking emotion, and guiding the viewer through shifting visual narratives.
Chen Jingkai is an Art Director and the founder of Chenjingkaioffice, based in Taipei, Taiwan. After earning his BA degree from an art college, he worked in advertising companies in Taiwan for four years. He then spent a year in Edinburgh, where he briefly studied architectural history, an experience that sparked his long-term interest in space, structures, and the cultural context of design.
In 2011, he became an independent art director. Since then, Chen Jingkai has collaborated with clients such as Nike, Sony, Samsung, and more. He enjoys working with people around the world and transforming his graphic language into various forms of possibilities.
In 2014, he founded the shoe brand chenjingkaioffice, marking the beginning of his interest in business development, and expanding his design practice beyond two-dimensional visuals into physical products, space design, and brand storytelling.
Dorthea , born in Germany, is living and working in the UK.
She lives and has a studio practice in London. Her preferred form of work is sculptural and she loves exploring with a variety of materials, stone, wood, plaster, clay, recycled packaging materials, found objects and many others.
Having neglected her drawing practice, she would like to use this time at Studio Kura to play with pen and ink, as well as beach combe to find flotsams and jetsams to draw and build with.
Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin (イングリッド・ユズリー・マチュリン)は、ニューヨーク市を拠点とする独学の第一世代ハイチ系アメリカ人アーティストです。彼女は2024年ソーホーハウス・フェロー、ニューヨーク・ファウンデーション・フォー・ジ・アーツ「アーティスト・アズ・アントレプレナー・フェロー」、そして2023年ルバス・プロジェクツ・グラント受賞者です。2022年から2023年にかけて、ロサンゼルス・レイカーズの「In the Paint」プログラムに参加し、サーチ・アートによる「The Other Art Fair」の2022年ニュー・フューチャーズ賞を受賞しました。
マチュリンのパブリック・ミューラル活動には、アトランタでのPeacock TV「Fight Night」、ユナイテッド・ウェイ・アトランタ、アダルトスイム、ダラスでのNFLフィルムズの依頼による壁画制作などがあります。彼女はコリン・キャパニックの「Know Your Rights Camp」やベッドスタイ・ウォールズともコラボレーションを行い、その作品はフルトン郡アーツ&カルチャー、ジョイ・シモンズ、マーロン・ニコルズらのコレクションに収蔵されています。
Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin is a self-taught, first-generation Haitian American artist in New York City. She is a 2024 Soho House Fellow, a New York Foundation of the Arts Artists as Entrepreneur Fellow, and a 2023 LeBasse Projects Grant recipient. From 2022 to 2023, Mathurin contributed to the Los Angeles Lakers’ “In the Paint” Program and earned The Other Art Fair’s 2022 New Futures Award by Saatchi Art.
Her residencies include the Carrie Able Gallery in New York and Project Art in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions feature her solo show at Sovern LA in Los Angeles, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Jamaica Arts Center, and IPC Art Space in Miami, FL.
Mathurin’s public mural campaigns include Peacock TV’s Fight Night in Atlanta, United Way Atlanta, Adult Swim, and NFL Films’ commissioned mural in Dallas, TX. She has collaborated with Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp and Bed-Stuy Walls, with her artworks in the collections of Fulton County Arts & Culture, Joy Simmons, and Marlon Nichols.
Based in her studio in Lower East Side New York City, Mathurin remains dedicated to inspiring and mentoring the next generation of emerging artists within her community.
Julie Lindell (b. 1959) Is an installation artist from Seattle, WA. In 2012 she moved to New York City. Her work centers around the use of objects and their function. Often altering function to reflect new possibilities and identities.
Dora Miller is a production designer and artist from East London. Her approach brings fantasy and surrealism to spatial design, developing sculptural and experimental spaces through set design and scenography. She also works with lighting and projection, and uses architectural drawings, 3D renders, and model-making to shape her projects.
Her practice as a spatial designer has recently developed through a Master’s in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art, where she explored how social habits and possible futures shape the environments we inhabit. Alongside her commissioned work for film, fashion, and music, Dora pursues drawing, painting, and maquette-making as ways to test spatial ideas at more intimate scales. She also develops community projects, including playgrounds and sensory environments designed for neurodiverse users.