Learn how the 2025 Adobe Creative Residents spent their time working with the museums.
Resident at the V&A
Inclusive Design
London, UK
Jessica Starns is a multidisciplinary artist interested in inclusive design and disability history and rights. At V&A she is exploring how disability enriches our understanding of design, researching adaptive design and objects created by disabled people for disabled people. Jessica is collaborating with the Schools team to create a supportive design studio for children, young people, and their support networks.
Resident at the V&A
Mosaics and Ceramic Tilework
London, UK
Ciara Neufeldt is a ceramic artist and educator creating objects and installations that bring playfulness and joy into public spaces. At V&A she is collaborating with the Families team to explore themes of community, care, and collective making inspired by the ceramics and mosaics collections. She is also researching the quilts collection to understand how communal making can inform her own making process.
Resident at the V&A
Photography
London, UK
Michael Akuagwu is a multimedia artist blending photography and photo-manipulation with a surreal approach to explore themes of self, identity, culture, and society. At V&A he is working with the Young People’s team to share his creative process and inspire young people to use self-portraiture as a powerful tool for self-expression.
Resident at The MoMA
Multimedia
New York, NY
Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker. At MoMA, he is creating sonic healing rooms for people who have experienced structural violence. Through performance, installation, film, song, and language, these rooms shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action.
Learn about the projects they worked on during their time as residents and see what they’re creating now.
2025 Resident
New York, New York, US
Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker. At MoMA, he is creating sonic healing rooms for people who have experienced structural violence. Through performance, installation, film, song, and language, these rooms shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action.
2025 Resident
London, UK
Jessica Starns is a multidisciplinary artist interested in inclusive design and disability history and rights. At V&A she is exploring how disability enriches our understanding of design, researching adaptive design and objects created by disabled people for disabled people. Jessica is collaborating with the Schools team to create a supportive design studio for children, young people, and their support networks.
2024 Resident
Brooklyn, New York, US
DonChristian Jones is an artist, musician, and producer committed to socially engaged art. Their work spans musical and time-based performance, albums, video, and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. In 2020, DonChristian founded Public Assistants, a community arts workshop and mutual aid resistance hub in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
2024 Resident
London, UK
Luca Bosani is a multimedia artist specializing in wearable and performance art. Their work breaks down barriers and labels, reimagining identity and providing alternatives to binary readings of the everyday. During their residency, Luca explored the V&A theater and performance collections and engaged young people through workshops and performances in the gallery.
2019 Resident
Tokyo, Japan
Aiko is a multidisciplinary artist and art director. During her residency, she experimented with mixing analog and digital tools through augmented reality to create artworks based on her ongoing “What’s possible with my illustrations?” project. Sharing her knowledge through online tutorials, she engages with the creative community and helps others build their creative careers.
2019 Resident
New York, New York, US
Born in Lima, Peru, and currently based in New York, Juan José is a digital artist and researcher. He designs and creates an image nearly every day using a combination of new tools and technologies. He started his journey with more traditional forms of visual storytelling and has spent the last several years exploring emerging technologies.
2019 Resident
Kyoto, Japan
By collaborating with artists from different fields, Takuma applies digital aspects to physical spaces and lights up the world with visuals that people have never before experienced. He spent his residency developing interactive and experiential installations and sharing his ideas and design processes with the creative community.
2018 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Based in Frankfurt and Berlin, Nadine is an XR artist working at the intersection of digital and analog to create experiences rather than images. During her residency, she combined materials such as plastic and pixels to create walkable augmented reality environments that invited community participation and engagement.
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas, US
Temi uses colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. Going beyond creating mere artwork, he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection.
2016 Resident
Portland, Oregon, US
Craig spent his residency creating a large series of light installations around the world called Light Capsules. He worked on improving his technique and optimizing his process for projection-mapping while simultaneously going deeper into the details of sign painting and typography.
2015 Resident
Brooklyn, New York, US
Kelli is an artist and designer interested in using design as a tool to explore how things work. She spent her residency exploring the question “What can paper do?” She tinkered with the material’s capacity to amplify sound, tell time, and work as a camera. She took a few everyday tech objects, stripped them down, and rebuilt them in paper pop-up book form.
2024 Resident
London, UK
Rachel Sale is an illustrator and the founder of F.A.T. Studio CIC, a not-for-profit creative studio that collaborates with people of all ages and backgrounds on local community-led art projects. During her residency, she focused on the process of mapmaking as a method of relationship building, with a particular emphasis on community participation with families.
2019 Resident
Tokyo, Japan
Aiko is a multidisciplinary artist and art director. During her residency, she experimented with mixing analog and digital tools through augmented reality to create artworks based on her ongoing “What’s possible with my illustrations?” project. Sharing her knowledge through online tutorials, she engages with the creative community and helps others build their creative careers.
2019 Resident
Sherborne, Dorset, UK
Octavia, also known as Tink, creates joyful work using vivid colors and a whimsical view of the world. She creates art as therapy to process her anxiety and depression and encourages others to discover the power of being creative as a healing and uplifting part of everyday life. She is the author and illustrator of The Joyful Journal.
2018 Resident
Sacramento, California, US
Anna speaks to audiences of all ages through heartwarming stories. As a resident, she gained agency representation, built an award-winning portfolio of whimsical and diverse subjects, and presented at Adobe MAX, Lightbox Expo, and Adobe Live. Now she’s exploring children’s publishing, collaborating with beloved brands, and sharing her knowledge through online education.
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas, US
Temi uses colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. Going beyond creating mere artwork, he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection.
2017 Resident
Lakewood, Ohio, US
Passionate about street art, skateboard-smithing, and design, Chelsea spent her residency developing a line of longboards showcasing her artwork. She explored the public perception of female strength, individuality, sustainability, product quality, and the functional and accessible application of art, sharing the stages of her process all the way through production.
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Rosa is a designer and illustrator currently living in Berlin, Germany. During her residency, she created the Walk of Happiness project, decorating streets, walls, and shop windows with inspiring designs and messages. She has shifted her focus from lettering to illustration, but she loves to combine all her passions. Besides making art, she is a DJ and producer.
2016 Resident
Columbus, Ohio, US
During their residency, Syd focused on a digital illustration series inspired by all of the change they witnessed growing up in the Rust Belt. They also built a creative community where others could learn, share, and work alongside them, and they explored the digital sticker store trend, creating the Facebook-infamous Trash Doves.
2015 Resident
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Becky used her residency to build and launch Chipper Things, a lifestyle and paper brand that celebrates play and delights in the ordinary. She began the year with her #100DaysOfGettingStarted project, in which she illustrated something new every day for three months. She also created The Roommate Book, an illustrated guide to roommate life that was published by Andrews McMeel.
2025 Resident
London, UK
Michael Akuagwu is a multimedia artist blending photography and photo-manipulation with a surreal approach to explore themes of self, identity, culture, and society. At V&A he is working with the Young People’s team to share his creative process and inspire young people to use self-portraiture as a powerful tool for self-expression.
2025 Resident
New York, New York, US
Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker. At MoMA, he is creating sonic healing rooms for people who have experienced structural violence. Through performance, installation, film, song, and language, these rooms shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action.
2021 Resident
Atlanta, Georgia, and San Antonio, Texas US
Hallease is a filmmaker, digital storyteller, and creative entrepreneur. She has produced original online content for PBS Digital Studios, Target, Google, and YouTube through her production company StumbleWell. She hosts creative conversations with fellow artists on her podcast “Tryna Be Somebody,” and she teaches storytelling via Skillshare.
2021 Resident
Los Angeles, California, US
Shirin, also known as Queen Shirin, is a Los Angeles–based creative with a drive for storytelling through informative and empowering content. Born and raised in Maryland, Shirin always had big dreams of working in the beauty industry, so she built and pulled up her own seat at the table. Through her work, she hopes to inspire others to be the best version of themselves.
2021 Resident
New York City, New York, US
Tanya, also known as Guptanya, is a New York–based art director, multimedia artist, and former NASA engineer. In 2021, she became the first Indian-American to join the Adobe Creative Residency. Since then, she’s directed more than 100 social editorials for Tom Ford Beauty, Disney, and more. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Teen Vogue.
2020 Resident
London, UK
Christina creates staged scenes that fuse reality with colorful abstract motifs. Working across disciplines with an unapologetic color palette, she creates impactful images and cinemagraphs. Her long-term goal is to run a full-service photography studio and multidisciplinary practice that merges physical and virtual elements in digital images.
2019 Resident
Munich, Germany
For her project Seeing Music, Amelie worked with musicians to create surreal visualizations of their lyrics. She built backgrounds and props, posed the musicians, created her artwork, and shared her process from start to finish on social media. She hopes to creative-direct music videos and short films, and work with theaters, musicians, and actors to visualize their ideas.
2019 Resident
Austin, Texas, US
During her residency, Cyn mentored aspiring artists in the techniques of visual language and storytelling via an empathic lens. In “This is your artist speaking,” her YouTube video podcast, Cyn advocates for your inner artist in a series of conversations discussing the techniques and culture of the creative industry while navigating her own artistic identity.
2019 Resident
New York, New York, US
Passionate about storytelling, Tyler is creating a video series that shares his experiences as an emerging artist alongside the experiences of established artists navigating their influence. He’s posting to Instagram and YouTube each day to bring the community into his creative process. He hopes to tell stories that help people feel empowered to follow their dreams.
2018 Resident
New York City, New York, US
As “Hungry Boy,” Aaron creates photographs, animations, and short-form videos in the food and lifestyle spaces. Coming from a fashion background, he seeks to create work that lives beyond genre in the grey areas of art and style. His clients include Adobe, Afterpay, Disney, Ferrero North America, Goldbelly, The Not Company, Smirnoff, Spotify, and Under Armour.
2018 Resident
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Based in Rotterdam, Laura is a conceptual portrait photographer from Germany. During their residency, they created the documentary project “Beauty of Age.” They interviewed and took portraits of 35 elderly people to show that there is so much more to age than what society sees, including beauty, life wisdom, and first-hand knowledge of our history.
2017 Resident
Brooklyn, New York, US
A photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, Aundre spent his residency exploring the daily lives, challenges, and perspectives of a diverse range of people throughout the US. In his project “Stories from Here,” a snapshot of America through the eyes of its residents, he captured photographs, made video content for the first time, and shared his process.
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
A German photographer based in Berlin, Julia is passionate about nature, traveling, and unique types of cultural storytelling. She spent her residency exploring and documenting places and cultures in Europe that are tied to folktales. She tried different photography styles, combined photos and videos into compelling stories, and shared what she learned with the community.
2016 Resident
Dallas, Texas, US
With over 900,000 subscribers on her self-titled channel, Sara creates and uploads docuseries, tech reviews, and vlogs. Through her work, she explores the intersection of technology and creativity. During her residency, Sara made “Creative Spaces TV” to explore the creative spaces of artists, discover the tools they create with, and find inspiration in their creative journeys.
2018 Resident
London, UK
Isabel is a creative director, designer, and researcher who creates experimental digital and physical work on the themes of typography, culture, and design. During her residency, she used typography and design to visualize language in more playful and experimental ways, something she continues today with global residencies, talks, installations, and design projects.
2018 Resident
Dallas, Texas, US
Temi uses colors, patterns, dimensions, and textures to showcase the diverse aspects of his Nigerian heritage, emphasizing that black is a beautiful canvas. Going beyond creating mere artwork, he aims to design meaningful experiences that challenge conventional beauty standards and inspire introspection.
2017 Resident
Louisville, Kentucky, US
Jessica uses data and personal narratives to create compelling visual stories that break down complex information to drive social change. She spent her residency working on new approaches to her creative process and design execution, and she taught the creative community how to equitably work with impacted communities and nonprofits.
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
Rosa is a designer and illustrator currently living in Berlin. During her residency, she created the Walk of Happiness project, decorating streets, walls, and shop windows with inspiring designs and messages. She has shifted her focus from lettering to illustration, but she loves to combine all her passions. Besides making art, she is a DJ and producer.
2016 Resident
Berkeley, California, US
Christine spent her residency thinking of ways to use graphic design to encourage people to document their lives in creative and meaningful ways. She launched her first product, the Everyday Explorers Co. Travel Journal kit, and learned how to balance new ideas with the financial and practical limitations of building and growing a creative business.
2021 Resident
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Shea is a multidisciplinary designer specializing in UX/UI and web design. He got his start creating Myspace layouts for friends and family. Since then, he has worked across the sports, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. His work aims to combine his roots in studio art with technology and user-centered design thinking.
2020 Resident
Denver, Colorado, US
Maddy spent her residency exploring the intersection of mindfulness and tech, discovering ways we can design for digital well-being. Now she’s a freelance product designer and content creator focused on helping designers better their craft through intentional practice. Her YouTube channel features “Design with Me” videos, fun redesigns, tutorials, and advice about the industry.
2019 Resident
Seattle, Washington, US
Julie spent her residency exploring how to “design out” consumer food waste and combat climate change through a series of food-waste ventures, speaking engagements, and workshops. Since then, she’s worked with Imperfect Foods and the NY Sanitation Foundation, and she was named a Circular Economy Pioneer by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
2019 Resident
Berlin, Germany
As a freelance UX and innovation designer, Patricia is passionate about exploring emerging technologies such as AI, XR, and the metaverse. Focusing on the future of experience, Patricia consults clients on how to design innovative and engaging digital products and services. Patricia hosts a podcast called “The Future of UX,” where they explore the latest trends and ideas in the field.
2018 Resident
Saint Louis, Missouri, US
Andrea is a senior product designer passionate about creating sustainable and affordable communities. Her residency work focused on designing for automation, and she went on to work on the AI/ML team at Apple. She currently works at a startup designing software to make homebuilding efficient, transparent, and affordable for both builders and homeowners.
2017 Resident
Brooklyn, New York, US
As an interaction designer, Natalie is interested in the intersections of design and philosophy. As a resident, she created digital solutions in the spaces of professional networking, charitable giving, public resource access, and educational news. She also created a notebook detailing her creative process to help make UX design more accessible to the creative community.
2024 Resident
London, UK
Jacqui Ramrayka is a British-Guyanese ceramicist. Her work explores memory, grief, the Indo-Caribbean diasporic identity, the history of indentured labor in the Caribbean, and the double diasporic experience (of migration to the Caribbean and then the UK). During her residency, she worked with the V&A Schools program exploring themes of diasporas, home, and belonging.
Illustrations by Masha Foya
Masha is a Ukrainian artist and recipient of an Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund grant. She uses her unique style to explore new ways of conveying emotion through art by breaking from literal representation. Masha studied fine arts at Kyiv Polytechnic University.