An artist in a yellow cap hangs a green striped painting in the House of Somos studio, behind a window painted with Artist Residency In Session

In residence

Artists

We give handpicked artists a studio, a blank wall, and no brief. From renowned painters to a Michelin chef who traded the kitchen for a paintbrush, they move in and bring their world into ours. Some of their art stays on our walls, building a collection one residency at a time. The faces change, but the house keeps a little of everyone.

Coming soon

to somos

Javiera Gart

Upcoming residency: November 21 – December 6.

Douglas De Castro

Upcoming residency: February 1 – February 28.

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Latest Residency

BB Bastidas

A skate trip at eighteen sent BB Bastidas deeper into art. Back home, friends started asking for board graphics. That path led to work for Baker, Zero and DGK, with the same restless appetite carrying him into paintings, murals and film. Southern California roots, and plenty of ground covered since

Past Artists

Jess Mudgett

Horses, birds, cowboys and a lot of country between them. Jess Mudgett pulls the American West into bold shapes with the punch of tattoo flash.

Oscar Reitan

Oscar Reitan's work brings together childish expression, raw attitude and a deep appreciation for the sacredness of simple things.

Heavy Chest

Heavy Chest started in a bedroom. It grew legs, many of them. For our first music residency, Andre Smith turned the SOMOS art room into a recording studio.

Artist wearing a red cap and white shirt sitting on a black office chair by a large window, painting a canvas with abstract plant designs against a wooden wall.

Magnus Reid

Magnus Reid started painting after restaurant service in London. A chef with another way to get his hands dirty.

Man with tattoos wearing a beige short-sleeve shirt and black pants sitting on a black office chair in a room with wooden walls, near colorful paintings and a volleyball on the floor.

Colin Holloway

Loose figures. Strong color. Colin Holloway works from a studio in Joshua Tree, moving between painting and music and building both in layers.

A person wearing a floral bucket hat, striped blue shirt, and sunglasses hanging on the shirt sits barefoot on a terrazzo floor indoors, painting blue shapes on white paper sheets laid out around them.

Lucas Beaufort

Lucas Beaufort came to painting at twenty-seven, with a skateboarder’s eye and a head full of strange company.

Zac Chambers

Zac Chambers pays attention to the people keeping a place running. Workers, markets, passing gestures.

Allegra Pacheco

Allegra Pacheco follows an obsession until it becomes something you can look at. Or sit through in a cinema.

Josh Peterson

Josh Peterson makes color do more than sit on a surface. Resin tints, sharp pinlines, fabric inlays and abstract pours come from the same hands that shape his boards.

Several framed artworks leaning against a wooden wall, illuminated by sunlight: a large piece with a dark abstract shape in a red frame, a smaller frame with a fish illustration, and another with two colored fins in blue and red.

Christian Montano

Christian Montano’s work starts with a fish on the table, caught by him of course, and printed using gyotaku, the Japanese practice of printing directly from a catch.

Silhouettes of two people and three motorcycles on a beach at sunset, with the sun low over the ocean and a small thatched shelter on the right.

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Painters, makers and artists, if Santa Teresa feels like somewhere you’d like to create, we should talk.

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