Paul Nickson Atia
Khazanah Arts Residency
2024
Paul Nickson Atia is a young artist from Malaysia. His main interest lies in exploring narratives and conceptual frameworks of architecture, art, culture, and subjects of identity along with social and historical contexts. Themes of spirituality, time, modularity, memory, and desire are central to his practice in constructing and claiming meanings. The grid paintings from his series Obsession (Form(s) of Prayer(s), 2019) characterised by a myriad of painted squares and mark-making set the fundamental representation of his visions throughout his works across painting, installation, photography and collage.
Khazanah Arts Residency
Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, in collaboration with Acme, developed the Khazanah Arts Residency Programme, a 12-week residency programme designed for emerging Malaysian artists based at Acme studios. An initiative under the Khazanah Residency Programme, the arts residency is an annual programme designed to develop and prepare young artists for the next growth phase in their professional careers. Typically, artists for this residency programme are nominated by galleries and residencies in Malaysia and subsequently selected by Khazanah Nasional Berhad and Acme.
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