Residency Program

Our Artist-Residency Program provides a dedicated space for creative exploration, collaboration, and cultural exchange. It welcomes emerging artists from diverse disciplines to immerse themselves in a supportive environment where experimentation is at the forefront of the process.

Through this framework, Cheng Huai’s Residency offers participants the chance to pursue an artistic project while drawing on the wide range of resources made available by the organization.

By selecting artists whose work engages with contemporary dialogues, the program cultivates a setting that encourages critical exchange and experimentation.

Current Artist-in-Residence

Elias Doering | Medium: Pen and Ink

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Artist Bio

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Elias Doering is a pen-and-ink artist from the U.S. East Coast whose work is primarily black-and-white and often presented as comics of the sea. Their drawings explore liminal spaces where hyper-industrialization meets nature, probing how such environments affect human psychology. Doering’s imagery draws heavily from natural shapes found in tidepools along rocky coasts.

Objective Psyche: A Collaborative Narrative Project

What it is:
‍Objective Psyche is a collaborative art project that uses social media and public input to shape a visual narrative. The initial medium is pen and ink; as the story grows, it may evolve into a multimedia project depending on audience feedback.

How it works:
Short three-panel installments are published. At the end of each, viewers propose and vote on what happens next, and the winning idea guides the following installment.

Narrative seed:
‍The story centers on CAARL—Collective Autonomy Assisted Research Lifeform (a nod to Carl Jung's collective unconscious)—who awakens in a padded cell. The “no-exit” setup is a first puzzle designed to test the audience’s problem-solving; the narrative continues after CAARL escapes.