bEam arts
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS
ISABELLA DIGRAVINO
Based in Toronto, Canada, Isabella highlightswhat it feels like to come into one's own shell. Being able to capture the highs and lows of life through travelling and sharing her experiences with the world. A graduate of Art History from York University, she studied modern Greek history in June 2025 with Professor Sakis Gekas who inspired her solo exhibition in Downtown Toronto “Synginisi” that revolved around their time in Greece together.
Her residency project will outline the most neutral ways of life in Thessaloniki, capturing the mundane and being a realist to the people she meets.
SHAY AMITAI
Shay Amitai (1996) is a visual artist. She has a master in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent,Belgium. Her photographic work centers around family relations and the stretching distance between loved ones. Her work is recognizable by her use of textile, bright colors combined with tenderly black and white images, text and different textures.
She uses elements of her personal life and people around her as a form of roots to narrate stories. Amitai is working in a playful way about emotional topics. She experiments with different ways of telling stories as in (textile) books and installations.
SHANGARI MWASHIGHADI
Shangari Mwashighadi is an anti-disciplinary, Kenyan-American artist. Her practice is currently concerned with analyzing how value is assigned to certain aspirational experiences, objects, and resources. Along with how the sense of sight is manipulated in the process of making something perceived as valuable or valueless. Seeking to subvert conventional notions of value, she investigates how time shifts value and how its passing can magnify or diminish it.
VEERLE VAN NUFFELEN
Veerle Van Nuffelen is based in Gent, Belgium where she lives and works, making ceramics installations. Ceramics is het main medium to create work, using experiment and research. The relationship between people and nature is an ongoing fascination for Veerle. She often focuses on social themes and sustainability. Collaborations with other artists and organizations give her work a participatory and interactive character. As an art teacher at the Royal Art Academy of Dendermonde, she has been involved in art and cultural education for more than two decades. In her studio in Ghent, she works in a neighborhood oriented manner with the necessary attention for what is located in the periphery of society.
As well as social and artistic projects, Veerle focuses on her sculptural work, which is characterised by experimentation with texture and layerd materials. She often uses waste materials to create new works. She navigates between the old and the new, seeking to connect history with contemporary issues through ceramic materials.
ISABELLA DIGRAVINO
Based in Toronto, Canada, Isabella highlightswhat it feels like to come into one's own shell. Being able to capture the highs and lows of life through travelling and sharing her experiences with the world. A graduate of Art History from York University, she studied modern Greek history in June 2025 with Professor Sakis Gekas who inspired her solo exhibition in Downtown Toronto “Synginisi” that revolved around their time in Greece together.
Her residency project will outline the most neutral ways of life in Thessaloniki, capturing the mundane and being a realist to the people she meets.
ISABELLA DIGRAVINO
Based in Toronto, Canada, Isabella highlightswhat it feels like to come into one's own shell. Being able to capture the highs and lows of life through travelling and sharing her experiences with the world. A graduate of Art History from York University, she studied modern Greek history in June 2025 with Professor Sakis Gekas who inspired her solo exhibition in Downtown Toronto “Synginisi” that revolved around their time in Greece together.
Her residency project will outline the most neutral ways of life in Thessaloniki, capturing the mundane and being a realist to the people she meets.