PIGSY Residency at AccentricSpace Shanghai, June - August 2026

Chinese Art Residency - PIGSY’s journey to the East!

This summer, I’ll be spending three months in Shanghai undertaking an artist residency at AccentricSpace Shanghai from June through August 2026, culminating in a solo exhibition at the end of the residency period in the water town of Zhujiajiao.

Over the past few years, my work has increasingly focused on internal language, psychological structure, repetition, and systems of controlled disruption. This residency arrives at an important point in my practice, where uninterrupted time, spatial clarity, and sustained focus have become essential to how I work.

Developing a New Body of Work in Shanghai

During the residency, I intend to develop a new body of work that continues my investigation into internal language and psychological structure.

The focus will be on a series of paintings and mixed-media works developed through repetition, layering, and controlled erasure. Much of my process involves building visual information over time — then removing, obscuring, or restructuring parts of it until something more instinctive and psychologically charged begins to emerge.

Rather than approaching the residency as a production-driven exercise, I see it as an opportunity to deepen and consolidate ideas that have been developing across my recent work.

Shanghai feels like the right environment for this next stage.

AccentricSpace Shanghai

What drew me to AccentricSpace was its emphasis on focus, spatial clarity, and sustained studio engagement.

The residency structure aligns closely with my working method, which requires uninterrupted time and a stable environment rather than pressure toward immediate outcomes. My practice tends to evolve slowly through accumulation, repetition, and extended periods of observation, so having the ability to work continuously over three months is incredibly valuable.

Residencies like this create the conditions for risk, experimentation, and refinement — things that are difficult to achieve within fragmented schedules or short-term studio periods.

Contemporary Painting, Repetition & Controlled Erasure

A large part of this residency will revolve around testing new approaches within my existing practice.

I’m interested in how repetition functions psychologically within painting — how marks, symbols, fragments of text, and layered gestures can gradually shift meaning through accumulation and removal.

The process of controlled erasure has become increasingly important in my work. Erasure, for me, isn’t about deletion. It’s about compression, concealment, memory, and restructuring visual language into something less direct but more emotionally precise.

The works produced during the residency will likely move further into this territory through painting, mixed media, layered surfaces, and material experimentation.

Solo Exhibition in Shanghai, August 2026

At the conclusion of the residency, AccentricSpace Shanghai will host a solo exhibition presenting my body of work developed during the three months as Artist in Residence.

The exhibition will bring together the paintings, mixed media works, studies, and experimental pieces created throughout the summer and will serve as both a culmination of the residency and a testing ground for new directions within my practice.

More information about exhibition dates, previews, and opening details will be announced closer to August.

Looking ahead

This residency represents an important opportunity for me to consolidate a coherent body of work suitable for future exhibition and publication while continuing to challenge and expand my process.

I’ll be sharing selected studio updates and developments throughout the residency period, and I’m looking forward to documenting how the work evolves over time within a completely new environment.

Shanghai, June - August 2026.