Residents

Resident 2026

(Lima, Peru, 1995) works between Lima and Iquitos. He holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences from Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National School of Fine Arts of Peru. His work challenges the discourses of power constructed around Indigenous peoples. Through affection, tropicality, and community, he proposes new ways of engaging with Indigenous belief systems and explores possibilities for self-governance rooted in the concept of buen vivir (good living). He has received an Honorable Mention in the Curatorial Competition for the Peruvian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (2025), First Prize at the ICPNA Contemporary Art Competition (2024), the Economic Incentives for Culture grant (2023), and First Prize at the 24th National Visual Arts Competition, Pasaporte para un Artista (2021). His work has been presented at Balsa Bufeo, Arte+Amazonía (2025), the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel (2024–2025), the Museo de Grabado ICPNA (2025), Galería Younique (2025), Museo de Antioquia (2025), Radio Tsonami (2024), and Museo Barda del Desierto (2022–present), among other venues.

Resident 2026

Sergio Rojas Chaves is a Costa Rican artist who explores the desire for proximity to tropical nature: its commodification, consumption, and the ways in which it is loved, absorbed, possessed, and perpetuated across different contexts. His projects, which encompass sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance, focus on the relationships between humans, plants, and animals, challenging anthropocentrism through affection and ornamentation. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at Istituto Svizzero Roma, Stadtgalerie Bern, the 12th Salón ACME in Mexico City, Budapest Galéria, Macalline Art Center Beijing, Kunsthaus Baselland, MADC San José, among others.

Resident 2026

Her practice moves fluidly between drawing and sculpture, developing hybrid processes and surfaces that explore the material and conceptual relationships between artistic traditions, craftsmanship, and new technologies. Drawing on mythology and its mutations, Latin American folklore, and science fiction, her work addresses monstrosity, ecological collapse, and mutant forms of survival. During her residency at La Nueva Fábrica, she aims to delve into the intersections between Mayan mythology, colonial Christian imagery, and local legends specific to the region, while learning traditional woodcarving, painting, and estofado (polychrome gilding) techniques in the workshop of a master artisan from Antigua Guatemala.