Surf Point is a nonprofit organization on the coast of York, Maine that supports diverse visual artists and art workers through a residency; stewards 46 acres of coastal and forested land; hosts public programs; and promotes and shares research on our historic legacy.
Residents
Rachel Gloria Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, ME. Adams has developed a vibrant, graphic pattern-based visual language filled with references to the natural world and motherhood that possesses an heirloom quality. Her work takes form by way of quilting, painting, design and murals.
Olivia Berke is an emerging artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College with an emphasis on sculpture and ephemeral art in the Early Modern period.
James Eric Francis Sr. is a prominent member of the Penobscot Nation who serves as the tribe's Director of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Tribal Historian. His work is dedicated to exploring and preserving the intricate relationship between Maine's Native American peoples and the land.
Victoria “thirteenvic” DelValle (b. 2000) is a Diasporican illustrator, painter, and designer based in Boston, MA. Her practice began in spoken word poetry, performing at Louder Than a Bomb, Brave New Voices, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
Kyle Downs is an artist that lives in Bowdoinham, ME. Downs received an MFA in sculpture from the Ohio State University, his BFA from Maine College of Art, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014.
Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker who uses social practice, visual art, and performance to create immersive worlds of magic and liberation.
Rozalinda Borcilă is a Romanian artist, researcher, and activist based in Chicago. She is interested in tracing the ways colonial violences coalesce around material extractions and flows of capital, in institutional grammars and forms of possession -- but also around modes of feeling, modes of relation, and everyday experiences of being in place.
Shona is an Australian lens-based artist whose work explores phenomenology and qualities of visual perception. Working exclusively with the medium of analog film, her abstract animations and photographs seek to touch, explore, and recreate the experience of seeing and feeling.