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An international self-funded residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, Nes accepts applicants from all creative fields and career stages

Nes Studio

Residents share an open plan studio located in the old fish factory

Group and Short Term Residencies

Nes offers short-term residencies to art collectives or study abroad programs

Open Call

Apply for fall residencies in Sept/Oct/Nov 2026

Opið Hús

allir velkomnir! 27. júní kl 16-18, 2026

Artist-in-Residence Chelsea Wong

Chelsea Wong is an emerging artist from Sydney, Australia, practising on Wallumedegal and Gadigal lands. She is a recent graduate in 2026 from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Fine arts degree majoring in drawing and photography. She works across...

Writer-in-Residence Yana Zgurskaya

Yana Zgurskaya is a writer and a translator born and residing in Kazakhstan. Her writing is largely centered around working with memory and lived experience, as well as exploring the relationship between form and content. While at Nes, she has been piecing together a...

Artist-in-Residence Cristián Salineros

Cristián Salineros develops his work based on sculptural thinking as structural thinking, understood from a contemporary perspective in relation to our own behaviors, space, landscape, architecture, and construction methods, linking issues essentially related to space...

Writer-in-Residence LJ Jensen

LJ Jensen is a non-fiction writer from Brooklyn, NY. Their essays can be found in The Rumpus, Catapult, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere. They are an alum of Kenyon Writers Workshop and McCormack Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly Tin House), and a recipient of fellowships...

Artist-in-Residence Kiley Brandt

My time in Iceland has been spent finishing ideas that I started last year about tides, the ocean, the internet and belonging. I have also been exploring research into anti-AI practices and the social/environmental impacts that algorithms, AI complacency and...

Artist-in-Residence Jacinta Maude

I’m Jacinta Maude, a visual artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, working across painting, installation and sculpture. My practice explores a range of themes, with a particular focus on motherhood - both as an intimate act of care and as something shaped by...

Writer-in-Residence Erika Thorkelson

Erika Thorkelson is a writer of Icelandic, French and English ancestry who has lived in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Dublin and a small town in Japan. Her essays, criticism, journalism and short stories have appeared in The Walrus, Chatelaine, Room Magazine and Maisonneuve...

Artist-in-Residence Idris Salaam

Idris Salaam (b. 1996, Brooklyn, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, video, and installation. He received his BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2021. Salaam's work has been exploring how rituals and structures of labor...

Artist-in-Residence Tegan Brozyna Roberts

I create dimensional, paper collages that explore my relationship to the environment. My work is not a replica of a physical place, but, rather, an expression of it. Referencing ideas of healing and repair, I deconstruct the world around me and then translate these...

Artist-in-Residence Giordano Cioni

Artist-in-Residence Giordano Cioni (@giordano.cioni) is an Italian artist working across sculpture, film, and photography, exploring Western symbolism, ritual, and myth through a queer lens. Part of their practice investigates landscape as an archetypal force; a...

Musician-in-Residence Scott Murphy

Scott Murphy was recently interviewed by RÚV English to talk about homemade synthesizers, inspiration from the island of Hrísey, and the "crunchy analog feel of his music." Listen to núna by Scott Murphy on bandcamp.

Artist-in-Residence Hannah Brinson

Hannah Brinson is an American narrative artist and illustrator with a focus on picture book illustration. She works primarily in traditional media including pastels, colored pencils, markers, watercolor, and collage. Whether she is creating a stand alone piece, a...

Artist-in-Residence Manon West

Manon West was born 1999 in Ireland. In 2022, she received her Honors BA in Contemporary Art at the Atlantic Technological University, Galway. She works in multiple mediums, focusing on classical figurative art and surrealism. Her personal environment is a central...

Artist-in-Residence Alexa R. McGinn

Alexa R. McGinn is a Canadian playwright, actor, and writer based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) in Alberta. She has performed at the Victoria Fringe Festival, the Calgary Fringe Festival, and the Common Ground Festival. She had produced her own work, including a solo-show,...

Artist-in-Residence Iuliia Lebed

Iuliia Lebed is a scenographer and craft artist who works with space, objects, and materials to tell stories. She started with painting and exhibitions, but later moved to stage design and applied art, where objects become part of a living scene. Her work includes...

Heather Pinkham in Concert

Musician-in-residence Heather Pinkham gave a solo concert in Hólaneskirkja on Wednesday January 28 at 17.00. The Program included Heather's own piano compositions, as well pieces by Claude Debussy, Arvo Pärt, and William Bolcom. HEATHER PINKHAM is a pianist, composer,...

Artist-in-Residence Celine Pierre

Celine Pierre is a composer and an artistic director. Her's work stems from the fields of painting and performance, architecture, from experimental cinema, improvisation and music creation. Celine Pierre composes visual and sound crossings, taking the form of...

Artist-in-Residence Thom Zahler

Thom Zahler is a comic book creator and animation writer. He created the Line Webtoons hit series Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label as well as the Harvey-nominated Love and Capes, Long Distance and the time-traveling wine comic Time and Vine. His latest project is The...

Writer-in-Residence Pei-Fen Hsu

Pei-Fen Hsu is a Taiwanese female poet and writer. Her earlier work focuses on intimacy, emotional experience, psychosomatic conditions, and the ways individuals struggle to adapt to the world. In recent years, she has begun using research and writing experiments to...

Artist-in-Residence Kate Hendry

Kate Hendry is an emerging visual artist and educator based on Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. Hendry received her Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2024. As a self described, "unreliable narrator" her oil paintings explore the...