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Introducing our Season III, 2026 International Residency Artists: Peyton Peyton ()

Peyton Peyton is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work grows from sustained encounters with materials. Through weaving, sculpture, and performance, she follows moments of instability and adaptation, creating works that occupy the space between structure and improvisation. Peyton holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University.

Image: 'Groundhogs Day', 2026

Introducing our Season III, 2026 International Residency Artists: Sophia Oppel ()

Sophia Oppel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Toronto, Canada. Oppel’s art practice deploys transparent substrates (glass, mirror, the screen), paired with 3D rendered imagery as a framework to consider the paradoxes of legibility under surveillance capitalism. Oppel is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto and a Sessional Instructor at OCAD University's Fine Art Department. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally, including exhibitions with Zalucky (Toronto), the CAFKA Biennial (Kitchener), Ed Video (Guelph), Blouin/Division (Toronto), InterAccess Gallery (Toronto), Queen Specific (Toronto), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Bunker 2 (Toronto), Forest City Gallery (London, Ontario), The Plumb (Toronto) and Xpace Cultural Center (Toronto), Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm, Sweden), and site-specific projects in Tokyo, Japan and Istanbul, Turkey.

Image: 'Autoscopy', 2024.