Visual Arts Residencies in France

ACEA – Ateliers de Création et d’Expression Artistique

3-4 Grande Rue, France

Name of Residency: ACEA – Ateliers de Création et d’Expression ArtistiqueACEA invites emerging and established artists of all disciplines for a time and space away from their usual environments. We provide an opportunity for artists to reflect, research, create, and present in the small, rural village of Marnay Sur Seine, France. ACEA allows regional, national, and international artists the opportunity to exchange professional and emotive approaches towards new experiences and aesthetic realitie

AiR le PARC

Pampelonne, France

AIR le PARC is an artists' residency, project and research centre located in a 19th-century notary's residence (established 1596) in Pampelonne, Tarn, France. It offers temporary living and working space to professional artists across all disciplines, with spacious rooms, studios, and communal areas for artistic projects, presentations, and feedback sessions.

Artistes en résidence (A·R)

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Artistes en Résidence (A·R) is a non-profit organization founded in in Clermont-Ferrand, France, supporting contemporary art creation through residencies for artists and researchers without obligation of output, emphasizing research, experimentation, and immersion in the territory. It offers three types: intramuros residencies in Clermont-Ferrand (including 100-day stays for artists and 1-month for curators), crossed residencies with international partners, and co-creation residencies with locals, providing curatorial support, a 160m² studio at La Diode cultural center, shared housing, and resources. The program fosters artist mobility via a network of local, national, and international partners.

Associaltion BeArtz

3 Rue Leon Berard, France

Artist Residencies and Workshops between the Pyrenees and the French coast

Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre - ACCR

Paris, France

The Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre (ACCR) coordinates residency programs in French cultural centers located in historic monuments, primarily the Odyssée program for foreign artists, researchers, and cultural professionals, and the Nora program for refugee artists in France. These residencies support projects in fields like music, architecture, visual arts, writing, film, and more, offering free accommodation and technical resources to foster interdisciplinary creation and intercultural exchange.

Association Tournefou

Palis, France

The Association Tournefou is a multidisciplinary artist residency program located in the village of Pâlis, France, offering residencies for visual arts, writing, arts and crafts, and other disciplines in a restored 18th-century farmhouse with workshops and accommodation. Residencies last a minimum of one month up to three months, are self-funded with costs around 1200-1400€ per month covering workshop, housing, and meals, and culminate in public presentations of work. It emphasizes creation, research, local integration, and exchanges between artists and the community.

Association ZM/X, founded in , is a non-profit organization providing reasonably priced studios and accommodation for artists of various disciplines in the Auvergne region of France. It offers a 35 m² studio and a 30 m² apartment in Saint-Hérent, enabling visiting artists to live and work amid a variety of cultural facilities. The Atelier Morange serves as a 20 m² project space for exhibitions and cultural activities.

Name of Residency: Atelier Artist in ResidenceAtelier Artist in Residence is a creative sanctuary dedicated to nurturing artistic expression across disciplines. Our mission is to provide artists with uninterrupted time and inspiring space to pursue their work in a supportive, immersive environment.Welcoming visual artists, musicians, writers, and textile artists, Atelier offers a haven for focused exploration and meaningful creative development. Residents are encouraged to engage deeply with the

Atelier Calder

Saché, France

Atelier Calder, established in 1989 in Alexander Calder's former studio and home in Saché, France, is the oldest artist residency program of its kind in the country, hosting international visual artists for three-month periods to create new work with technical and financial support. Artists receive accommodation in a furnished house, access to a 300 sqm studio equipped with tools, a €5,000 stipend, and €6,000 production budget, culminating in public open studio events. The program supports projects in visual arts like installation and sculpture, selected by a board including representatives from the Calder Foundation and French cultural institutions.

Atelier de la Rose

66 Place de la Bastide, France

Name of Residency: ATELIER DE LA ROSEWe provide a supportive environment in which artists and writers can pursue their creative projects. The option of Sally’s home cooking means you have more time for your work.Residencies are self-financed and are more like a retreat. There is no pressure for visual artists to produce an exhibition at the end of their stay. The centre is small, which allows us to adapt to your requirements.There is just one facility, the studio.  It is exclusively yours during

Atelier Samuel Beckett

11 Vieille Cote, France

Name of Residency: Atelier Samuel BeckettAn artist-led, Beckett inspired, self-directed, self-catering residency in a 2 bedroom(en-suite), private house with a dedicated library of books by and about the Irish writer Samuel Beckett.  There is also a p0ssibility of consultation or mentorship from Gare St Lazare’s joint artistic directors, Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett.  The bedrooms, living room and the library can serve as workspaces within the house with another workspace possibility in

BRAZZA

10 rue aristide briand, France

Name of Residency: BRAZZA Art ResidencyWe have hosted painters, writers, dancers, visual artists, photographers.We coordinated several art projects with our NGO : camera obscura, photo workshops, Exhibitions,  a writer residency and several experimental cinema residency.Residency Programme since: 2019Description of Organisation: The residency is located in the South West of France, in the Cognac region. We welcome artists, authors and researchers, individual and groups. We work locally to promot

Caza d’Oro

Le Mas-d'Azil, France

Caza d'Oro is an international contemporary art center and artists' residency located in Le Mas-d'Azil, Ariège, southwestern France, dedicated to artistic research, creation, and dissemination since . It offers artists a three-month residency period with a stipend (bourse) and production resources in a rural context, fostering engagement with the local territory and community through contemporary art. The program also hosts art critics and presents exhibitions to promote vital contemporary works in the region.

Chateau d'Orquevaux (Château d'Orquevaux)

Orquevaux, France

The Chateau d'Orquevaux artist residency, set in France's tranquil Champagne-Ardenne, offers an idyllic environment for artists and writers. This program features private studios and bedrooms, set within a historic French chateau, providing a serene space for creative endeavors. All meals are included, allowing residents to fully immerse in their art without daily distractions. The Denis Diderot Grant, awarded to participants, assists with residency costs, highlighting the program's dedication to supporting artists. Community engagement is encouraged through artist presentations, literature nights, and group art activities, fostering a rich cultural exchange. The residency, accommodating around 15 artists at a time, ensures an intimate and supportive atmosphere. A welcoming champagne dinner introduces artists to the Chateau and fellow residents, setting the tone for a collaborative experience. The program, while offering vegetarian options, focuses on delivering a genuine regional culinary experience, enhancing the overall artistic journey.

Cité internationale des Arts

Paris, France

The Cité internationale des Arts, founded in 1965, is a renowned artist residency program in Paris, France. It facilitates cross-cultural dialogue and offers artists from around the world a platform to engage with the public and professionals. Annually, over 1,200 artists participate in the residency, with more than 300 new residents each month. The Cité collaborates with 135 long-standing partners from over 60 countries, fostering a rich environment for creative exchange. The residency provides 326 studios across two locations: Marais and Montmartre. These studios are designed to support various aspects of contemporary creation, offering spaces for production, experimentation, and research. Each studio, ranging from 20 m² to 60 m², includes a workspace, kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping area. Residents can host guests for extended periods, subject to additional charges. Artists can apply for residency through the Cité's selection committees or via its network of long-standing partners. The Cité organizes different commissions by discipline and thematic, and also collaborates with institutions to support emerging international talents through residency programs and grants.

Dos Mares

Marseille, France

Dos Mares is an international art research center founded in in Marseille, France, offering tailor-made residencies focused on research, creation, and training rather than production, welcoming visual artists and curators from around the world. Residencies typically last 1-3 months, include private housing, shared studios equipped for various media, weekly curatorial discussions, logistical support, and stipends ranging from €1,000-€1,500 per month. The program emphasizes rethinking artistic practices in a supportive environment conducive to encounters and professional networking.

DRAW international

Caylus, France

DRAWinternational is a drawing research centre in Caylus, France, hosting international artists for residencies focused on research, experimentation, and production of drawing in all its forms, examining concepts, methods, and material significance within contemporary drawing. Artists receive individual studios, academic support, critiques, cultural visits, weekly communal meals, and shared self-catering accommodation in a medieval building, with opportunities for open studios and public engagement. Residencies typically last several weeks to a few months, supporting professional practice extension and community integration.

Echangeur22 is a non-profit artist residency association in Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres, France, dedicated to promoting contemporary creation by hosting international artists. It provides extensive facilities including 400m² of workshops and housing, such as complete ceramics, printmaking, screen-printing, production, photographic/video studios, and more. The program is supported by regional cultural authorities and features associated curators and artists from various countries.

Galerie Huit Arles

8 rue de la Calade, France

Name of Residency: Résidence Huit ArlesThe artists in residence  live and work within the thick stone walls of a prestigious 17th century mansion, magnificently restored. Exhibition spaces and convivial living spaces occupy the ground floor and lower floors. The floors include occasional seminar rooms, guest rooms,  self-catering apartments and studios for artist residencies.AiR at Galerie Huit Arles offers a retreat away from the distractions of everyday life and a valuable opportunity for arti

La chambre d’eau

Le Favril, France

La chambre d’eau is a multidisciplinary artist residency program established in in Le Favril, Hauts-de-France, France, supporting research, creation, production, and diffusion of contemporary artistic practices, particularly those engaging with territorial issues like landscape, environment, and rural development. It offers 2-3 residencies per year, typically lasting around three weeks (which can be split), with housing, travel support, stipends of 1500- euros, production assistance, and workspaces provided. Residencies emphasize immersion in rural territories, collaborations with locals, and public encounters, often linked to events for visibility.

La Fontaine Artist in Residence

417/419 Chemin des Murets, France

La Fontaine Artist Residency is nestled in the peaceful countryside in Provence, France

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse

Mulhouse Cedex, France

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse is a contemporary art center in Mulhouse, France, offering various artist residencies including programs for young creators, textile artists from Mexico, curators, and researchers, often in partnership with international networks like Atelier Mondial. Residencies typically provide accommodation, studios, stipends or grants ranging from €3,000 to €10,000, and support for research or production, with durations from 2 months to a year. It emphasizes experimentation, cross-border collaboration in the Upper Rhine region, and public engagement through exhibitions and events.

Name of Residency: La Maison KintsugiOur objective is to nurture self-directed individual practice in an inspiring and supportive environment, where residents can find their own balance between creative practice, rest, social activities and exploring this fabulous area. The residency is currently open during the months of April, May, June and September, October, November.The Residency has a grand piano, keyboard, studios for drawing, painting, writing and photography.  We have desks, easels and

La Maison verte du jardin botanique

25 rue du four, France

Name of Residency: La Maison VerteThe Botanical Garden of Marnay-sur-Seine (one hour from Paris) offers residencies of creation and research at La Maison Verte within the artistic program Pays’Art.La Maison Verte hosts artists for a residency of creation: from May to September. It hosts also artists for a residency of research during the winter: from October to April. For residencies of creation, la Maison Verte will organize a public presentation of the artist’s project.Artists can stay from 2

La Malterie is a non-profit artist resource center in Lille, France, offering studios and a residency program for visual artists and performers focused on artistic research, professionalization, and experimentation in a former industrial building. Residencies last 1 to 3 months, provide studio space on a 300sqM plateau, career guidance, professional networking, and opportunities for public sharing through exhibitions or events, though no housing or stipend is offered.

La Muse

1 rue de la Place, France

Name of Residency: La MuseAt La Muse, you come to write, paint, draw, photograph, compose a concerto or a song… It is also the ideal place to reflect on a project, imagine a novel, complete a doctoral thesis, be inspired by nature or its readings and explore new ways of being. Everyone is free, without constraints, to write a hundred pages a day or to dream of the perfect canvas, to spend their days alone or to share the creative energy of other residents, to go to mushrooms in the undergrowth o

La synagogue de Delme

Delme, France

The Centre d'art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme in Delme, France, operates an artist residency program in the former presbytery of Lindre-Basse, in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park. Housed in a refitted historic building, the program supports contemporary artists through production and exhibition opportunities, complementing the center's temporary shows in the converted 19th-century synagogue. Selected artists receive a residency allowance and production budget to develop site-specific projects.

La Tempera Creative retreat in Burgundy

6-8 route des Vilnots, France

La Tempera is a creative & artistic retreat in Burgundy. Create, connect and get things done in the countryside, 2 hours away from Paris.

LE HUIT

Rue de l’île, France

Name of Residency: LE HUIT“Le Huit” in the lovely village of Mirepoix, in South-East of France, is a residency for artists, that includes everything an artist needs in terms of accomodation and work space. Located at 5 min. walking from the 13th century square of Mirepoix, “Le Huit” is a restored house, built during the 1940s, that has been rethinked as a space for artistic creation. The restored 115 square meter building includes now a full equipped groundfloor with a kitchen, a living room and

Les Ateliers du Plessix-Madeuc

Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France

Les Ateliers du Plessix-Madeuc, based in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France, supports young visual artists, particularly painters and illustrators under 35, through three-month residency programs offering individual studios, accommodation, a stipend, and art equipment. Residents engage in research and production, participate in public events like open days, conferences, and workshops, and exhibit their work at the end, leaving one piece for the organization's collection for five years. The program, running since and in its current location since , fosters interactions between artists and diverse local publics in a coastal setting.

Maison Les Buis

1 Chemin du Puits, France

Name of Residency: Maison Les Buis Rural Artist RetreatOur objective is to offer space to help connect to the wonder child, to the spontaneity and the innocence of the ‘not knowing’. Receptivity is the keyword, we are all artists for we cannot help but create, the aim is to stay receptive, attentive so that we catch that precious moment of inspiration. This is important and can be a challenge in the midst of a busy world with information overload. This residency is about giving yourself Space an

Maisons Daura

Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France

Maisons Daura is an international artist residency program in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France, housed in the former home of Catalan painter Pierre Daura and managed by the Maison des arts Georges et Claude Pompidou contemporary art center. It supports contemporary creation across all disciplines through spring residencies (minimum 8 weeks, typically 3 months) for groups or collectives and autumn residencies (minimum 5 weeks, 1.5 months) for young Occitanie art school graduates and international artists, fostering exchange with local communities.

Nancy B. Negley Artist Residency program

58 rue du Portail Neuf, France

Name of Residency: The Dora Maar HouseThe Nancy B Negley Residency Program providesone to three months in residence at the Dora Maar Housea private bedroom and bath and a study or studio in which to worka travel award for travel from a fellow’s home to the Dora Maar Housea grant based upon the length of stay at the Dora Maar HouseResidency Programme since: 2007Description of Organisation: The Nancy B. Negley Artists Residency Program, based at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, hosts resid

Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies

Nantes, France

The Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies offers an international artistic and research residency in 'Arts, Societies and Contemporary Mutations' to professional artists from the Global South. The residency runs for 6 months and supports artists whose work dialogues with humanities and social sciences to explore contemporary societal and environmental changes.

PAF, Performing Arts Forum

St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France

PAF (Performing Arts Forum) is an artist-run residency located in a former convent in St. Erme, 150km northeast of Paris, France. It serves as a platform for professional and emerging practitioners and activists across performing arts, visual art, literature, music, new media, theory, and cultural production who seek to research and determine their own working conditions. The residency is initiated and run by artists, theoreticians, and practitioners themselves as a user-created, informal institution.

Pépinières Européennes de Création

Paris, France

Pépinières Européennes de Création is a European network supporting artistic residencies and creation programs for emerging artists across various disciplines, including multidisciplinary and visual arts projects. It partners with organizations to launch open calls for residencies in locations such as France, Poland, Italy, and Belgium, often providing grants like €10,000 plus accommodation. Recent calls include residencies focused on themes like the Art of Remembrance and illustration/graphic literature.

Name of Residency: The Old Girls SchoolThe Old Girls’ School will be opening ad an Artist Residency in 2023.A calm outside space in the garden, either in the sun or under the shade of the trees.An independent workshop : The Studio which is 4,8 meters on 8 meters (13 feet  on 26 feet) bathed with light all day, exposed stone walls, sand and gravel floor. There is a sofa, a working table. This will be your space.On the main floor you will have access to the kitchen (which is shared with your hosts

Triangle - Astérides

Marseille, France

Triangle-Astérides is a contemporary art center and residency program in Marseille, France, offering 10-week research residencies for emerging and mid-career visual artists from France (excluding Marseille residents) and internationally. The program provides a studio, shared housing, curatorial support, professional networking, a monthly stipend of 1000 euros, and an open studio fee. It operates three sessions per year at La Friche la Belle de Mai, focusing on research, experimentation, and public engagement in contemporary art.

Van Doesburg House

Meudon, France

The Van Doesburg House in Meudon, France, is a historic studio-dwelling designed by Theo van Doesburg and his wife Nelly in the late 1920s, now serving as an artist residency since the 1980s for professionals in visual arts, design, architecture, literature, and performing arts. It provides an inspiring environment for research, idea development, new work creation, and international networking, often supported by Dutch funds like Mondriaan Fund and Performing Arts Fund through open calls. Residents use the house's facilities, including living space for up to 4, studio, piano, garden, and access to Paris via RER.