angel resting (2025) by Maite de Orbe.Maite de Orbe is the ICA's Artist Development Resident for 2026.
Working across photography, performance, and moving image, De Orbe's residency will centre on research and development, with public sharing throughout the programme. The residency is designed to support artists at pivotal moments in their practice, such as a shift in medium or the emergence of new research.
The Artist Development Residency recognises the importance of time, space, and institutional support in sustaining artistic practice. It provides a dedicated period for research and experimentation, alongside access to the ICA’s public programme, enabling artists to share work in progress at key stages. Rather than focusing on a single outcome, the residency supports an open-ended approach, foregrounding process, dialogue, and development.
About the artist
Maite de Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working with photography, performance and moving image. Combining these media, their practice is focused on the complexity of identity making, touching on sexuality, gender and queerness, belonging, migration and community. Working collaboratively with dissident communities, de Orbe’s practice uses a visual documentary language at first that then lures into fantasy and world making, by prioritising love, intimacy and sensuality.
De Orbe is a Barbican Young Visual Artist alumni (2021-23), their work has been shown at PORT Magazine, The Financial Times, The Face, Dazed, Metal Magazine and has been shown at Frieze Art Fair, Barbican Centre, ICA, Reference Point, The Horse Hospital, and Bermondsey Project Space among others.
With thanks to supporters Julia Rees and Oscar Murillo.
Self-portrait (2026) by Maite de Orbe.
