Image: Genesis (2026) by Felis Dos
Southnord Residency Programme 2026
Southnord is proud to announce Felis Dos as the winner of the Southnord Residency Prgoramme 2026 Open Call.
Felis Dos (b. 1992) is an Afro-Brazilian visual artist based in Skagen, Denmark since 2018. Working primarily with painting, he treats the canvas as a space where personal history, collective narratives and shifting identities intersect. His practice emerges from experiences of cultural displacement, memory, and the negotiation between different social and symbolic systems.
Influenced by his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás in Goânia, Brazil, Dos uses colour, rhythm and composition as structural elements that generate tension and ambiguity. His images often hold multiple references and temporalities without resolving them into a singular narrative.
This way, his practice engages with questions of ancestral lineage and identity while refusing to stabilize them. Existential reflections, like the Afro-diasporic experience, are not treated as themes, but as conditions that show how he thinks, works, and constructs images. Each piece is built through layering, erasure, and displacement, bringing together fragments from different visual and cultural histories that insist on retaining their complexity.
Dos explores painting not only as image-making, but as a method for translating experience across cultures. He has exhibited in Germany, Denmark, Egypt and Brazil to name a few and attended the Playing With Ghosts Residency organised by Aarhus University in 2024. Felis approaches art-making as a dialogical practice, integrating mediation and exchange as active elements in both the making and circulation of his work.
Image: Felis Dos
Image: um abutre, uma presa e ume testemunha (a vulture, a pray and a witness) (2025) by Felis Dos
Image: Joalene (2026) Felis Dos
Image: Touro (2026) Felis Dos