Research Residencies with Housing

MA UMI RESIDENCIES is a self-funded, not-for-profit international hub for artists and researchers located on the northern peninsula of Ishigaki Island, Japan, fostering experimentation with land, ocean, and local communities amid climate change concerns. It hosts one resident at a time for short-term stays of about 14 days, emphasizing fieldwork, interdisciplinary practices, and public presentations without being results-driven. Founded by artist and architect Valérie Portefaix, it includes sites like Green Rabbit, Pink Turtle, and Blue Seahorse, promoting sustainable ecological and economic models.

Residencia Corazón (Corazon)

La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Residencia Corazón, located in La Plata, Argentina, offers a dynamic Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program for international artists, curators, and writers. The program provides a fully personalized experience for each participant, offering support in navigating the local arts scene, research, production, and post-production of works. Artists, writers, and curators from all disciplines are welcome, and residencies are available with or without exhibition opportunities. The residency offers accommodations in private rooms, access to studio spaces, and curated networking with local artists and institutions. While the residency does not offer financial support, it assists artists applying for grants in their home countries by providing necessary documents. Residencia Corazón offers a vibrant space for creative exploration and engagement in Argentina’s cultural scene.

Arthaus Residency

Havana, Cuba

Arthaus Residency, established in 2016 in Havana, Cuba, is a vibrant hub for international artists and researchers. It champions the production, exhibition, and exploration of contemporary art through its diverse programs. Positioned in the heart of Havana, Arthaus Residency not only offers a space for creative practice and experimentation but also serves as a catalyst for promoting the internationalization of Cuban culture. The residency emphasizes collaboration with local art professionals and encourages participants to engage deeply with the sociocultural landscape of Cuba. Each artist embarks on their project with the support of Arthaus staff, focusing on practice, essay, production, research, and culminating in a final presentation to the local audience. With a hosting capacity for four participants, Arthaus fosters an intimate yet dynamic artistic environment. The residency accommodates artists, researchers, and curators, providing a Colonial house for living and working spaces. The selection process is conducted by the Colectivo Arthaus, ensuring a diverse and rich artistic exploration. To apply to our Programs follow this link: https://linktr.ee/arthausartistresidencyhavana For questions, please contact mediaarthaus@gmail.com We offer: - Accommodation in single rooms in a Colonial house - Work space - Exhibition space - Use of media production equipment (projectors, cameras, lights, sound, video editing, etc.) - Curatorial assistance - Visits to Cuban art galleries and artist studios - Invitations to artist talks and workshops - Access to a Spanish-English translator - Transportation to and from Havana Airport for an extra fee.

Mudhouse Residency

Agios Ioannis, Greece

The Mudhouse Residency, situated in the serene village of Agios Ioannis on Crete, Greece, is a haven for artists seeking inspiration from the stunning natural environment, solitude for creative growth, an artistic community for enriching professional practices, and a deep cultural immersion in a region with a rich historical background. Founded in 2015, the Mudhouse is now in its eighth year and offers three two-week sessions each summer to a diverse, multicultural, and multi-generational group of international contemporary artists. The residency welcomes artists from various disciplines, including visual arts, writing, music, and performance, fostering dialogues across traditional boundaries. Participants are invited to share their work with fellow residents through presentations and to partake in a closing exhibition that integrates the local historical and natural scenery. The Mudhouse is distinct for its commitment to affordability and diversity, achieved through the support of individual donors and foundations, which allows the provision of both full and partial fellowships determined by a competitive, juried process based on merit and financial need. The residency fee covers accommodations, as well as lunch and dinner served daily, with artists encouraged to explore Crete's rich landscape and historical sites.

32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust

Kampala, Uganda

32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust is a contemporary art organization in Kampala, Uganda, offering artist residencies focused on creation, experimentation, and career development since 2011. The program provides access to studios, library, resource centre, workshops, and public programming at their purpose-built art centre, with flexible formats including self-funded and fully funded options for Ugandan, East African, and international artists.

A cobert

Moià, Spain

Residències a cobert is an artist residency program in Moià, Spain, offering space and conditions for artistic and research projects in fields like plastic arts, performing arts, literature, cinema, performance, science, technology, gender studies, and history, excluding musical projects. It supports small groups of 2-4 adults or creative collectives from any nationality, with stays of 1-4 weeks between May and September, including separate work space and housing. The program fosters dissemination, advice, and synergies with local cultural agents in a rural setting.

AIR Besiendershuis

Nijmegen, Netherlands

The AIR Besiendershuis is a residency program hosted in the historic Besiendershuis in Nijmegen, Netherlands, offering stays typically lasting two months for artists, writers, journalists, and interdisciplinary creators to develop projects in collaboration with local host organizations, resulting in public events and programs benefiting the city. It emphasizes dynamic, open cultural initiatives, including partnerships with institutions like Wereldmuseum and Radboud University for themes such as arts meeting science and societal issues like colonial history. Residencies vary in duration, with examples of three months for journalistic projects and shorter summer stays.

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.

AiR Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

AiR Tilburg, run by the SEA Foundation in Tilburg, Netherlands, offers residency programs for visual artists, curators, and writers at all career stages, providing live/work studios for research, production, and professional development. Residencies typically last up to 3 months, with flexible options including short exploratory stays or extended development trajectories, and include public programs, exhibitions, and mentoring. Fully funded fellowships are available to select participants, covering studio use, stipends, production costs, and additional support.

AIR Wro

Wrocław, Poland

AIR Wro is one of Poland's longest-running artist mobility programmes, developed as a legacy of Wrocław's European Capital of Culture designation. It supports Polish and international artists, curators, researchers, journalists, activists and animators through residencies and study visits, focusing on contemporary culture, urban issues, and international cultural exchange.

AiR zusa

Berlin, Germany

AiR zusa is a non-product-oriented residency program in Berlin designed to provide artists, cultural managers, curators, and arts and culture activists from Ukraine and other countries at risk with a safer space for rest, mental health support, and professional resilience-building. The program emphasizes process, self-reflection, and personal growth rather than artistic output, offering participants time to heal and reconnect with local and international cultural networks.

Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art

Jerusalem, Israel

Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art offers a non-thematic Artist-in-Residence program in its historic Tile Factory building in Jerusalem's Old City, providing accommodation and studio facilities to Palestinian and international artists, curators, and researchers for developing new work and engaging with the local community. The program promotes cultural exchange, critical thinking, and artistic expression while encouraging residents to consider Jerusalem's socio-political context and participate in public events. It serves as an incubator for ideas, fostering connections between local and global art scenes.

American Academy in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany

The American Academy in Berlin is a private, nonprofit institution offering semester-long residential fellowships to American scholars, artists, writers, composers, and journalists for advanced independent research and creative work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy. Fellows reside at the Hans Arnhold Center on Lake Wannsee and engage in transatlantic dialogue through public lectures, readings, performances, and discussions.

Art Aia

Sesto al Reghena, Italy

Art Aia - Creatives / In / Residence is an international artist residency program located in a former agricultural center near Sesto al Reghena, Italy, focusing on artistic production, research, ecology, sustainability, and eco-therapy practices. It nurtures the creative process, facilitates cultural exchange across borders, and offers residencies for developing projects, performances, workshops, and experimentation in a natural rural setting. The program supports various activities including experimental film, installations in gardens and vineyards, and hosts up to 7 guests in a guest house or private accommodations.

Art House Holland

Leiderdorp, Netherlands

Art House Holland by Lagom is an artist residency and gallery in Leiderdorp, Netherlands, offering self-directed residencies for 3-6 artists in a rural setting near cities like Leiden and Amsterdam. It supports culture professionals including artists, writers, and curators from any discipline and nationality to develop creative or research projects in a trans-disciplinary, collaborative environment. Residencies last a minimum of one month up to three months, with private spaces, but require a fee of 895 euros per month from March to October.

Art Junction Residency

Udaipur, India

Art Junction Residency is an independent, non-profit artist residency program located in the rural village of Badanga near Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, founded in to foster cultural exchange, creative exploration, and collaboration among emerging and established artists from diverse backgrounds. It offers short to medium-term stays in eco cottages with shared studios, supporting a wide range of disciplines including visual arts, performance, new media, and more, while hosting community workshops, exhibitions, and public talks. The program emphasizes immersion in a peaceful natural environment to encourage experimentation and dialogue with local culture.

Art/Sci Awarded Residency

Oregon, United States

The Art/Sci Awarded Residency at PLAYA in Summer Lake, Oregon, is a funded program for artists and scientists whose work promotes dialogue and positive environmental change, hosting cohorts of 6-10 participants in 1- or 2-bedroom cabins free of charge. Residencies last 5, 11, 17, or 25 nights, with applicants selecting from fixed dates, and residents cover their own travel and food costs. Open to global applicants, it supports interdisciplinary work including visual arts, writing, music, design, and science in a remote rural setting.

Arte Utile (AU) Residence

Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia

The Arte Utile (AU) Residency, established in in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, is hosted in a replica of Pino Poggi's former studio and welcomes Slovenian and international artists and theorists in literature, new media art, and visual arts to research the Arte Utile movement and address contemporary social and political challenges. The one-month program fosters social dialogue through practices like exhibitions, happenings, public interventions, and lectures, encouraging reinterpretation of Pino Poggi's socially engaged concepts. It is managed by raum AU and typically hosts one resident at a time, with facilities including a studio, exhibition space, workshops, and nearby housing.

Artist in Residence Bergen at USF Verftet

Bergen, Norway

The Artist in Residence Bergen at USF Verftet is a program offered by USF Verftet, a former sardine factory turned contemporary culture house in Bergen, Norway, providing 3-month residencies to professional foreign artists in all fields to foster collaborations with local artists. It includes a rent-free studio and accommodation, though artists must cover all other expenses like travel and materials. Note that as of January , Bergen municipality has withdrawn funding, leading to reduced residencies and a delayed application ; contact air@usf.no for updates.

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.

Arts Initiative Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) is a residency program in Tokyo that hosts artists, curators, writers, educators, and practitioners for 1-3 month research-focused stays, emphasizing interdisciplinary work, international exchange, and connections to the Japanese art scene rather than production or studio work. It operates on a partnership model with international organizations, providing housing in a converted Japanese storehouse in Yukigaya or central apartments, and encourages participation in AIT's educational and dialogue activities. Recent themes include holism, well-being, climate crisis, art brut, spirituality, and alternative education.

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.

Atelier Austmarka

Austmarka, Norway

Atelier Austmarka is a non-profit artist residency located in the scenic village of Austmarka, Finnskogen, in Southeast Norway near Sweden, offering a peaceful retreat for creative individuals to engage in artistic practice and research. The residency provides private accommodation and shared studio space in a remote natural environment surrounded by forests and lakes, emphasizing reflection, rest, and creative exploration rather than promotion or public exhibition.

Atelier Mondial

Basel, Switzerland

Atelier Mondial is an international and interdisciplinary artist residency program in Basel, Switzerland, hosting guest artists from partner institutions worldwide in its seven studios for stays typically lasting three to six months. It provides live-in studios, stipends for living expenses, and opportunities for open studios and exhibitions at Salon Mondial. The program also offers grants to regional artists from Basel, South Baden, and Alsace for residencies abroad in fields like visual arts, literature, fashion & textiles, dance & performing arts, and curation.

Atelierhaus Hilmsen

Wallstawe OT Hilmsen, Germany

Atelierhaus Hilmsen is an artist residency program in Wallstawe OT Hilmsen, Germany, supporting the education and professional development of artists and scholars from around the world through partnerships with international institutions, emphasizing arts and humanities. Residents work in complete freedom for an intensive three-week period in spacious studios, fostering diversity, cultural understanding, and spontaneous collaborations amid a wondrous environment. Founded by artist Hans Molzberger in 1993, it offers facilities like painting studios, sculpture yards, housing, and post-residency opportunities such as exhibitions.

Ateljé A-M

Örträsk, Sweden

Ateljé A-M is an artist residency in Västra Örträsk, Swedish Lapland, housed in a former 1958 free church with studio, apartment, and facilities for visual arts, literary arts, research, sculpture, design, environmental art, and music.

Avatar Audio and Electronic Art

Québec, Canada

Avatar is an artist-run centre in Québec City dedicated to research, creation, production, and dissemination of audio and electronic artworks. The organization offers multiple residency programs ranging from one to four weeks, designed to support emerging and established artists in developing innovative sound art projects with access to specialized studios, equipment, and technical expertise.

Ayatana Artists' Research

Ottawa, Canada

The Ayatana Artists' Research Program, now known as Biophilium, is a Canadian artist residency focused on encouraging artists' engagement with wildlife, ecology, nature, and life sciences through thematic research expeditions, seminars, and workshops. It previously offered weeklong in-person stays with excursions to natural habitats, labs, and observatories near Ottawa, including housing and meals, but has shifted to two-week online study seminars. Connections are maintained with Ottawa institutions like the National Gallery of Canada and local universities.

Baltic Analog Lab

Riga, Latvia

Baltic Analog Lab Residency is an artist-run program in Riga, Latvia, offering 1-2 month stays in a renovated apartment above the lab, with access to darkrooms, working spaces, screening facilities, analog film equipment, and sound tools through collaborations with Skaņu Mežs and Erica Synths. It supports individual projects in analog photochemical film, photography, sound, and interdisciplinary practices, encouraging public presentations, workshops, or screenings in a collaborative environment. Residents pay a 500 EUR monthly fee, with no stipend provided, but invitation letters for funding are available.

Baltic Art Center

Visby, Sweden

Baltic Art Center (BAC) is a prominent artist residency program based in Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden, since 2001, serving as an international meeting place in the Baltic Sea region for contemporary artists. It provides artists with time, space, and resources to develop new ideas and projects individually or collaboratively. BAC focuses on contemporary art practices and has hosted programs like The Site Residency.

Bamboo Curtain Studio

Taipei, Taiwan

Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS) is an independent arts organization in Taiwan that has operated for over 25 years, hosting 6-8 international artists per year for 1-3 month stays. The residency emphasizes site-specific work, environmental art, and cross-cultural exchange, welcoming visual artists, performing artists, curators, and professionals from various creative disciplines.

BAR Project

Barcelona, Spain

BAR Project is an independent, mobile, non-profit curatorial organization in Barcelona that promotes artistic exchange through international residencies for artists and curators, focusing on transdisciplinary dialogue, hospitality, and collaboration. It offers 3-month residencies where participants develop projects related to the city, utilizing partner-provided apartments in the Eixample district and studios at Fabra i Coats, along with material and economic support.

BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta

Schlanders, Italy

The BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta residency program invites artists, researchers, designers, technologists, and hybrid practitioners to collaborate and experiment in the unique cultural and ecological environment of South Tyrol, Italy. Located in the repurposed Caserma Druso military barracks in Schlanders, it offers 24/7 access to studios, production spaces, and workrooms for stays of 2–24 weeks (recommended 1–4 months), fostering a vibrant community through shared dinners, open studios, and exhibitions. The program supports interdisciplinary work at the intersection of economy, culture, education, and social development in this rural Alpine setting.

Bee Time

Vejer de la Frontera, Spain

Art and ecology research projects exploring the intersection of art and ecology, focusing on the interrelationships between beekeeper, bee, and landscape through bee-centered beekeeping and systems thinking.

Bibliothek Andreas Züst

Oberegg, Switzerland

The Bibliothek Andreas Züst in Oberegg, Switzerland, offers studio residency stipends for national and international cultural workers in disciplines such as visual arts, literature, new media, music, theatre, design, architecture, film, and photography, with projects focused on the library or its sub-areas. Residencies typically last 4-6 weeks at the Alpenhof panorama lodge, providing free accommodations, meals, studio access, travel costs coverage, and optional living stipends up to CHF 750. The program supports individuals, duos, collectives up to 5 people, and families, emphasizing research into cultural diversity.

Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre

Prenton, United Kingdom

Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (BOARC) is a not-for-profit, self-organising study site in Prenton, UK, offering low-cost temporary workspaces for individuals and groups to conduct research, experimentation, and communal projects in a flexible environment. It supports a wide range of fields including art, music, theatre, philosophy, bodywork, and more, with facilities like studios and stays up to a month. Practitioners define their own projects without pressure for public presentation, fostering concentration and community.

Blitz Valletta

Valetta, Malta

Blitz Valletta is an independent, not-for-profit contemporary art space in Valletta, Malta, founded in , that supports experimental and radical arts practices through residencies, exhibitions, and public programs focused on digital culture and contemporary existence. The residency program, launched in and supported by Valletta Foundation, targets artists, curators, writers, and researchers in fields like film, photography, sound, installation, and digital media, offering live-in spaces, mentorship, production support, and public presentations. Recent iterations include the OPEN Digital Residency Programme with 3-month online durations, research phases, international mentorship, and online exhibitions.

Botkyrka Konsthall

Tumba, Sweden

Residence Botkyrka is a context-based interdisciplinary residency program hosted by Botkyrka Konsthall for internationally active artists, curators, architects, researchers, art educators, and cultural workers interested in site-specific work in Botkyrka. It provides a two-bedroom apartment in Fittja as a temporary home for researching and exploring new forms of art in public spaces, supporting projects that require longer stays and local participation. Residencies typically last one to two months, with stipends, housing, travel support, and production budgets offered in certain programs.

Brechts Hus is a restored 19th-century thatched house in Svendborg where Bertolt Brecht lived in exile (1933-39). Now a residency for artists and researchers, offering a peaceful space for creative and scientific work, managed by a society to inspire local culture.

Brno House of Arts

Brno, Czechia

The Brno House of Arts residency program, known as Brno Artists in Residence (BAiR), has hosted visual artists, curators, and theoreticians since to foster exchange between Czech and international art scenes, with facilities in the House of the Lords of Kunštát including studios and accommodation. It connects residents to the G99 gallery for exhibitions and provides production support, stipends, and open studios events. Typical stays last two months, such as March-April or May-July periods.

Bucharest AiR

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest AiR is an artist residency program in Bucharest, Romania, founded in , that hosts practitioners working with new media, performance, research-based work, video, installation, and site-specific interventions related to language, voice, public speech, and discourse. It offers tailor-made living and working spaces of around 50 square meters in or near the city center, with flexible durations of 1 to 3 months, ongoing applications year-round, and encourages transdisciplinary collaborations and public events like exhibitions or presentations. Residents must live and work in Romania during their stay, with priority for projects engaging the local Romanian context.

BY ART MATTERS Residency is a non-profit program under the BY ART MATTERS contemporary art museum in Hangzhou, China, offering contemporary artists and researchers a dynamic space for living, working, showing, and sharing to foster international and domestic art exchange. It provides fully-equipped studios (50-100 sq. m each) with separate bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms, accommodation for 7 days to 3 months, a living stipend, and opportunities for public presentations and artist talks. Initially aimed at overseas artists, it now focuses on Chinese artists due to travel restrictions, with plans to resume international residencies.

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Montreal, Canada

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal offers the Emerging Curator Residency Program, enabling emerging curators under 30 to propose and develop innovative projects on contemporary architecture, urban issues, landscape design, and related dynamics during a three-month residency. Finalists undergo a two-month remote mentorship in , with the selected candidate residing on-site between January and June to collaborate with the CCA team, culminating in project completion by . The program provides financial support including CAD 12,000 for travel, housing, and living expenses, plus separate project production funding.

Capacete

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CAPACETE is Brazil's oldest artist residency program, founded in 1998 in Rio de Janeiro by Helmut Batista, operating as an independent, discursive platform for researching and documenting aesthetic, social, and political processes in Brazil and South America. It integrates residents into the local context through seminars, talks, workshops, and exchanges, with programs lasting typically 3 to 12 months. The residency emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, intercultural exchange, and community involvement, including 8 hours weekly maintenance of the space.

Carpathian literary residence

Slavske, Ukraine

Permanent residency since hosting writers, translators, literary researchers, and cultural managers in the Carpathians for 2 weeks of focused work, events, lectures, readings, and excursions.

CAS Contemporary Art Stavanger

Stavanger, Norway

CAS – Contemporary Art Stavanger is an online art magazine and residency program in Stavanger, Norway, hosting self-directed residencies for writers, critics, and researchers in art writing since . The program emphasizes independent research, critical analysis, and producing texts published on their platform, with specific iterations like the 'Itchy Fingers' Writing Residency on Art Books involving exploration of library collections and festival participation. Residencies typically last two weeks and provide support including accommodation, honorarium, and workspace.

Casa Planas Creative and Cultural Centre

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Casa Planas Creative and Cultural Centre in Palma de Mallorca offers artist residencies for creators and researchers focusing on contemporary art, tourism imagery, and the Planas Archive, providing workspaces, accommodation for some programs, and opportunities for collaboration, research, and public presentation.

CCA Tashkent

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Tashkent offers fully funded 8-week artist residencies welcoming emerging and established artists, writers, and researchers from around the world to engage with Uzbekistan's cultural heritage and local communities. The program runs three times annually with four to five participants per cohort and includes opportunities for cross-cultural collaboration, public engagement, and exhibition of final work.

Cemeti Institute for Art and Society

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Cemeti Institute for Art and Society's artist-in-residence programme in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, supports post-studio based practices through artistic research, knowledge exchange, and connections with local communities, artists, curators, and academics. It runs twice yearly in March-May and September-November, each period hosting one Indonesian artist and one or two international artists via partner organizations. Residents engage in public events like Kamar Tokek sessions and culminate in a final presentation such as an exhibition, performance, or community project.

Centro Huarte

Uharte Huarte, Spain

Centro Huarte in Huarte, Spain, is a contemporary art center that hosts artist residencies focused on research, production, and engagement with local communities and contexts, often in collaboration with organizations like CAPP, Idensitat, and Etxepare. Residencies typically involve hybrid models combining studio work, public exhibitions, and social immersion, with past examples including architecture labs, care practices, and transversal aesthetics projects lasting from one to six weeks. The program emphasizes artistic experimentation in visual and plastic arts, connecting artists with the surrounding villages near Pamplona.

CHIOSC/ KIOSK AIR

Chişinău, Moldova

The CHIOSC/ KIOSK AIR is an artist and curator residency program launched in by Oberliht Association in Chișinău, Moldova, encouraging the creation of new works in relation to local contexts and public spaces. It supports short-term residencies for artists, curators, architects, and cultural practitioners through research phases involving walking tours and discussions, leading to productions like workshops, presentations, and interventions. Residencies are tailored individually and focus on Moldova's social, cultural, and political realities.

Chongqing Dimensions Art Center (DAC)

Chongqing, China

Chongqing Dimensions Art Center (DAC) in Chongqing, China, offers artist residencies through programs like the Regular Residency Program for contemporary artists, curators, and designers worldwide, and the Emerging Artists Residency Program for those under 35, emphasizing cross-disciplinary research, creation, and symbiosis of art and society. Residencies provide free opportunities with facilities including studios for photography, wood, fabric, music, exhibition halls, and support for public activities like exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. Applications are open via email to info@chongqingdac.org, with durations from half a month to several months, including comfortable housing and workspaces in downtown Chongqing.

Christiania Researcher in Residence

Copenhagen, Denmark

The Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) program, based in Copenhagen's Freetown Christiania, has hosted artists and academic researchers since with a focus on studying Christiania as a unique field. It provides residency opportunities to foster open, critical, and reflective dialogue about the autonomous free town. Residencies have included housing in dedicated spaces like the CRIR house in Mælkebøtten.

CMCArts

Frederiksted, United States Virgin Islands

CMCArts offers an Artist-in-Residence program in a restored waterfront building in Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, connecting artists with the Caribbean to develop their professional practice while educating and diversifying the arts culture. The program provides a fully-furnished private suite apartment with kitchen, bathroom, and living room/studio space, plus shared facilities like a ceramics studio for multi-media production. Residents have opportunities for public presentations and are ideal for self-directed creatives seeking a reflective rural environment.

The Collège européen des traducteurs littéraires de Seneffe is an international literary translation residency program established in 1996 that hosts translators from around the world working on Belgian Francophone literature. Located in renovated outbuildings of Seneffe Castle near Brussels, the program provides an ideal working environment for translation projects lasting from two weeks to one month, with opportunities to meet Belgian authors.

Congress of Cultural Activists

Zbarazh, Ukraine

The Congress of Cultural Activists (CCA) runs the Nazar Voitovich Art Residence (NVAIR) in Travneve near Zbarazh, Ukraine, focusing on sustainable development, civil society, and art that explores local social contexts, history, and landscapes through collaborative projects. It provides artists with three studios equipped for painting, printmaking, and ceramics, plus community connections and promotional video documentation. The program emphasizes socially engaged art in a quiet rural setting with historical significance.

Contemporary Art Center Kitakyushu

Kitakyushu, Japan

Non-profit center est. 1997 in Kitakyushu for study/research in contemporary art. Offers fellowships for young artists/curators in art, curatorial work, design, architecture; includes studios, seminars, exhibitions.

Convento Sâo Francisco

Mértola, Portugal

The Convento São Francisco de Mértola is an artist residency program housed in a historic 400-year-old Franciscan monastery on the outskirts of Mértola, Portugal, overlooking the Oeiras and Guadiana rivers. It hosts emerging and established artists, designers, writers, musicians, filmmakers, researchers, and others for creative work, reflection, and connection with nature in a tranquil environment. The site, restored by a Dutch family, features self-contained studios, shared workspaces, an exhibition space in the former church, and supports experimental research on art, ecology, science, and education.

Cooperative Nostates

Piirintie 1, Finland

Peripeteia Artist Residency, run by Cooperative Nostates, is an artist residency located within the historical Törnävä mental hospital area in Seinäjoki, Western Finland. It provides accommodation, workspace, and access to tools in a collective workspace surrounded by parks and conservation areas, with members of the cooperative offering visiting artists a sense of community and local network during their stay.

Cove Park

Helensburgh, United Kingdom

Cove Park is an international artist residency centre on a 50-acre rural site overlooking Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland, near Helensburgh, hosting national and international artists, writers, researchers, and creative practitioners across all art forms and career stages. The program supports research, experimentation, development, and production of new work in a supportive environment with communal facilities and events. Residencies vary from funded opportunities with stipends and housing to self-funded stays, typically lasting 2-4 weeks.

Creative Residency

Elizabethtown, United States

Craigardan's Creative Residency Program in the Adirondacks offers 2 weeks-3 months for interdisciplinary artists, scholars, farmers, chefs. Provides housing, studios, scholarships ($850-$1350/week), stocked kitchen, access to programs.

Creative Residency at O Castro Art Village

O Saviñao, Spain

Rural creative residency in Galicia's Ribeira Sacra for artists, filmmakers, writers, researchers. Geodesic domes, shared studio, kitchen. Emphasizes sustainability, site-responsive work, optional film mentorship. 2 weeks-2 months.

Curatoría Forense is an itinerant contemporary art residency program founded in that operates across multiple Latin American countries, with Uberbau_house in São Paulo serving as its primary base since . The program focuses on research, documentation, and reflection on contemporary art as a political tool, emphasizing collaborative work, public interventions, and exchange between participants and local cultural agents throughout Latin America.

Dados Negros

Villanueva de los Infantes, Spain

The Dados Negros AIR residency program, run by Fundación Pepe Buitrago at the Centro de Holografía y Artes Dados Negros in Villanueva de los Infantes, Spain, supports national and international artists in developing contemporary art projects focused on research, creation, or holography-related work. Residencies last from 15 days to 1 month typically in July, providing individual housing in shared double rooms with bathroom, kitchen-dining area, workspace, and a €300 stipend. Selected projects may lead to evaluation, production, and exhibition at the center.

Darat al Funun

Amman, Jordan

Darat al Funun's artists-in-residence program, initiated in 1995, creates a stimulating environment for artists from the Arab world and abroad to explore new fields, work, exhibit, and conduct workshops. Housed in historic 1920s buildings in Amman alongside archaeological sites, it supports creative encounters through collaborations like UNESCO-Aschberg and Pro Helvetia, and includes initiatives such as the relaunched Summer Academy for regional artists. Residents produce works for exhibitions and utilize spaces like The Lab for experimental projects.

Darb 1718

Old Cairo, Egypt

Darb 1718 is a contemporary art and culture center in Old Cairo's Fustat district, offering a multidisciplinary residency program for artists, writers, researchers, visual artists, and curators to produce, practice, and present projects in an immersive cultural setting. Residents receive private rooftop accommodation amid historic sites and the Fustat ceramic village, with access to exhibition spaces, workshops, and performance venues, though it is a paid residency where artists cover costs. The program emphasizes cross-cultural exchange and community engagement in authentic Cairo.

DCR Guest Studio's

Den Haag, Netherlands

DCR Guest Studio's is a cultural incubator in The Hague that houses 40 permanent studios for artists and designers and rents guest studios to art institutions and cultural organizations to facilitate artist-in-residence programs, productions, and work periods. Located near the center of The Hague with convenient access to cultural venues and transportation links, the studios provide private kitchens, bathrooms, shared facilities, and wireless internet.

Designers in Residence Kortrijk

Kortrijk, Belgium

Designers in Residence Kortrijk is an annual 3-month intensive residency program that invites three recently graduated designers and makers from diverse creative disciplines to develop experimental projects in Kortrijk, Belgium. Participants work within the region's creative community, engaging with citizens, entrepreneurs, and educational institutions while having access to maker facilities and expert support.

Deveron Projects

Huntly, United Kingdom

Deveron Projects is a UK-based arts organisation embedded in Huntly, a rural town in north-east Scotland, that has hosted international artists for 30 years. The residency program offers flexible artist residencies ranging from weekends to three months, supporting artists in socially engaged and community-collaborative work through access to custom-built accommodation, community resources, and intensive curatorial support.

Domestic Data Streamers

Barcelona 08028, Spain

Domestic Data Streamers offers an experimental artist residency program called Hey Human! in Barcelona, focusing on data, music, writing, and new media, providing 2-4 week stays with accommodation, 24/7 studio access, team assistance, weekly feedback sessions, and a small presentation event.

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.

EIGHT, critical institute for arts and politics

Athens, Greece

EIGHT is a cultural space in central Athens that hosts an artist residency program open to artists, theorists, and researchers across artistic, curatorial, and critical practices, particularly encouraging research-based work engaging with socially/politically engaged practices, alternative ecologies, and urban interventions. The program provides time and space for developing, testing, and presenting work through an initial work-sharing presentation, meetings with the collective, and a final public presentation, with opportunities for collaboration on hybrid events across art, politics, and theory. Located near Exarcheia and Omonoia square, it supports urban research and social action in response to Greece's socio-political landscape.

EKWC European Ceramic Workcentre

Oisterwijk, Netherlands

The EKWC European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, is an international artist-in-residence and research centre focused on ceramics, welcoming around 60 artists, designers, architects, and other creative professionals annually for 12-13 week residencies to experiment with clay and develop innovative works. It provides advanced studios, workshops, accommodation in separate apartments, technical equipment like kilns and CAD/CAM machinery, a soundlab, library, and guidance from experienced staff, emphasizing research, experimentation, and material exploration often for those new to ceramics. Programs include EKWC Classic for individual practice and the new EKWCLab for specific projects requiring prior ceramics experience.

The Embassy of Foreign Artists (EOFA) is an international residency program based in Geneva, Switzerland, established in , that welcomes artists, researchers, and cultural actors from around the world. The program provides logistical and financial support for creative development, with a focus on bridging artistic and scientific practices around themes such as imagination in research processes.

Enclave Land Art

L'Alcudia de Crespins, Spain

Non-profit association created in November building international projects linked to contemporary art. Land art creative residency focusing on dialogue between human beings and nature.

Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Bloomington, United States

The McKinney International Art and Design Residency at Indiana University Bloomington's Eskenazi School invites established international artists and designers for a 4-6 week residency. Selected residents receive studio space, lodging, an $8,000 USD fellowship, health insurance, and up to $500 in supplies, while participating in the McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture Series and coordinating public-facing activities such as studio visits and workshops.

Espace Darja

Casablanca, Morocco

Independent space founded in by choreographer Meryem Jazouli. Dedicated to contemporary dance, artistic creation, choreographic experimentation, innovative educational projects, and artistic research.

Estudio Abierto

Oaxaca, Mexico

Estudio Abierto is an artistic residency in Oaxaca focused on research and production of contemporary art and design, fostering dialogue with local artisans and cultural actors through collaborative immersion.

Eye Artist and Scholar in Residence

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Eye Artist and Scholar in Residence program at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam invites artists and scholars to explore its vast collection of approximately 60,000 film titles, photos, posters, and archives, hosted at the Eye Collection Centre with access to research facilities, vaults, and ateliers. Participants develop projects leading to public presentations such as screenings, lectures, installations, or publications, with occasional open calls to diversify selections. Past residents have worked with themes like slapstick films and human behavior, culminating in exhibitions at Eye's project space.

Finnish Society of Bioart

Helsinki, Finland

The Finnish Society of Bioart, based in Helsinki, Finland, organizes the Ars Bioarctica residency program at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in sub-Arctic Lapland, emphasizing art-science collaborations focused on the Arctic environment. It offers residencies typically lasting 2-4 weeks or one month, open to artists, scientists, and interdisciplinary teams from various disciplines and career stages, with access to labs, field equipment, and living facilities. Additional initiatives include the biannual Field_Notes field lab and partnerships in programs like Learning Materials in Helsinki.

Flat Time House (FTHo) is a gallery, archive, and artist's residency space in the former studio home of British conceptual artist John Latham (1921-) in London, opened in to explore his practice and 'Flat Time' theory. It offers artists a place to live, work, and engage with the public, supported by curatorial and education staff, often resulting in site-specific works and exhibitions. Residencies vary in duration, such as summer or winter periods, and culminate in public programs or solo shows.

FLORA ars+natura

Bogotá, Colombia

FLORA ars+natura is a non-profit contemporary art space in Bogotá, Colombia that specializes in the relationship between art, nature, and the body. The residency program hosts international and Colombian artists for stays ranging from 2 months to a year, providing studio space, accommodation, curatorial mentorship, and opportunities for collaborative practices and cultural exchange.

Fogo Island Arts

Fogo Island, Canada

Fogo Island Arts is an international residency program founded in 2008 that invites professional contemporary artists, curators, writers, filmmakers, musicians, designers, and thinkers to live and work on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada, fostering creation, research, and connections around themes of sustainability, ecology, economy, and belonging. Residents stay in saltbox houses within local communities, with access to individual studios in scenic locations, and are expected to engage publicly through presentations or workshops. The program, part of the Shorefast Foundation, supports a range of disciplines and has specific opportunities like the fully funded 6-8 week Newfoundland and Labrador Artist Residency.

Fogo Lento

Pedroso, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Fogo Lento is a non-profit cultural association founded in , focused on transdisciplinary artistic creation, training projects, and audience mediation, with CAMPO serving as a rural research space for artistic and cultural projects in Pedroso, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. CAMPO hosts residencies in a complete apartment, rehearsal room, workshop space, and 1.5 hectares of outdoor land, emphasizing connections between nature, art, science, literature, and crafts. It supports alternative teaching methodologies and community activities like workshops and performances.

Fondation Thalie

Brussels, Belgium

Fondation Thalie is a multidisciplinary artist residency in Brussels founded in that supports contemporary creation through exhibitions, artist residencies, and patronage. The residency program welcomes visual artists, writers, and performers to work on projects in a modernist building in the heart of Brussels's gallery district, with residencies typically lasting two months.

Footnote Centre for image and text

Belgrade, Serbia

The Footnote Centre for Image and Text is an artist-run residency program in Belgrade, Serbia, situated in a 1930s house in the Dorćol historical district, supporting artistic research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary practices focused on image, text, audio-visual, and multimedia work. It targets emerging and established multimedia practitioners for periods of living and working in the city. The program fosters transdisciplinary approaches through community space activities.

Fordham University

Bronx, United States

Private Jesuit research university established in 1841. Enrolls over 16,000 students across three campuses in New York State, offering degrees in over 60 disciplines with a rigorous core curriculum spanning science, literature, history, theology, philosophy, and arts.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House

Buffalo, United States

The Martin House Creative Residency Program at Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House in Buffalo, NY, is a project-based residency offering creative individuals 2-4 weeks onsite to develop new works inspired by this iconic 20th-century architecture. It supports artists across various disciplines and researchers focusing on related themes, with residents receiving a $5,000 stipend, up to $1,000 in travel expenses, and housing in the Wright-designed Barton House. Participants must deliver a free public program, performance, or exhibition sharing their Martin House-inspired work.

Fundación Knecht-Drenth

Callosa d'en Sarrià, Spain

The Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth (FCKD) in Callosa d'en Sarrià, Spain, provides live-work ateliers in four monumental buildings for temporary use by artists, writers, translators, and scientists primarily from the Netherlands and Flanders. Founded by patrons Tijmen Knecht and Helen Knecht-Drenth, the program supports creative and scholarly work in a picturesque setting between the Sierra de Bernia and Sierra Aixorta mountain ranges.

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts

Toronto, Canada

Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts offers fully subsidized month-long residencies for professional artists on Toronto Islands, providing uninterrupted time to think, create, and experiment. The center hosts various residency types including self-directed programs, thematic residencies, and specialized programs like graduate research-creation residencies, accommodating up to 19 residents at a time.

Goyki 3 Art Inkubator

Sopot, Poland

The AiR Goyki 3 Art Inkubator is a residency program run by Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, a local government cultural institution in Sopot, Poland, dedicated to visual arts, literature, performing arts, music, and science popularization. It supports research-focused projects engaging with Sopot's context, offering curatorial support, networking, and typically two-month stays in spring (April-June) or autumn (September-November). Residents must organize at least one public meeting related to their work.

Greylight Projects

Heerlen, Netherlands

Greylight Projects in Heerlen, Netherlands, is an artist-run residency program founded in , offering 3-month stays in a former school building to support multidisciplinary visual artists' research on themes like space, time, environment, and audience relations through installations, performances, video, sound, and other media. Residents receive guidance, participate in networking via Borderland Residencies or collaborations like schrit_tmacher Festival, and culminate in public presentations or open studios. The program provides studio-living spaces, workshops, garden, and exhibition areas in a dynamic community hub.

Ground e.V.

Perleberg, Germany

Ground e.V. in Perleberg, Germany, runs the FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY, an interdisciplinary educational residency program that brings together artists, creative minds, a resident chef, and experts for experimentation, discussion, and conceptual cooking around themes like 'Voice as Object, Object (H)as Voice.' Held in Wüsten-Buchholz near Perleberg, approximately 1-1.5 hours from Berlin, it features modules with prominent guests, public events, closed sessions, and a final 'simmering' period of rest, typically lasting 3.5 weeks such as from July 31 to September 24 in past editions.

The Gruber Jez Foundation, founded by Austrian sculptor Gerda Gruber in Cholul near Mérida, Mexico, serves as an artist residency program that supports emerging artists through workshops, community building, and collaborative production in a rural setting. It fosters a creative environment where artists engage in research, sculptural work, and exhibitions alongside Gruber and peers, contributing significantly to Yucatán's art scene. Residencies have hosted international artists for periods like one year, emphasizing hands-on mentorship and material exploration.

Gullkistan, Center for Creativity

Laugarvatn, Iceland

Gullkistan, Center for Creativity is an artist-run residency program in Laugarvatn, Iceland, offering a peaceful environment for artists, scholars, and creative professionals of any discipline to work and find inspiration amid stunning natural surroundings. It provides shared studio spaces, comfortable accommodation in cabins and studios, and a hands-off approach that emphasizes solitude and personal creative focus. The program welcomes individuals, families, and groups year-round with a minimum stay of one month.

Gyeonggi Creation Center

Ansan-si, South Korea

Gyeonggi Creation Center is South Korea's largest art residency facility, opened in October , supporting creative activities and research by domestic and international artists across multiple disciplines. Located in Ansan-si, Gyeonggi Province, the center provides studio spaces, workshops, and hosts exhibitions, performances, and international exchange programs.

Heima Art Residency

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

Heima Art Residency is an independent, non-profit, artist-run collective house founded in that offers 6-week residencies for LGBTQIA+ artists and activists from around the world. Located in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland, the program provides a 350 square meter living and studio space where residents live, work, and collaborate together while engaging with the local community. The residency emphasizes cultural exchange, artistic skill-sharing, and creating a safe space for queer artists and activists.

Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway, has hosted an artist residency program since 1987, open to international artists, curators, writers, researchers, and other contemporary art professionals for research, production, and exchange with the local scene. Residencies typically last 1-2 months or 4-8 weeks, often themed (e.g., curatorial practices, writing), and include covered travel, furnished accommodation, stipend, workspace, and support for public presentations.

IATRUS Residency

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

The IATRUS Residency Program, founded in by the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Media, is an artist residency located in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria's former capital. The program invites artists, curators, designers, and creative practitioners to engage with the vibrant art scenes of both Veliko Tarnovo and Sofia, offering uninterrupted self-managed work time, mentorship, and opportunities to present work through exhibitions, performances, and artist talks. Season III focuses on 'A Good Neighbour,' exploring collaborative work and community engagement rooted in everyday proximity.

In Ruins

Amendolara, Italy

In-ruins is a nomadic artist residency program organized by Associazione Archeofuturo, dedicated to the intersection of contemporary art and archaeology, hosting artists, curators, and researchers in southern Italian towns near monumental archaeological sites. The edition took place in Amendolara at the Sibarys Archaeological Park and Amendolara National Museum, emphasizing site-responsive, interdisciplinary exploration of themes like memory, mythology, and Mediterranean heritage. It offers an open-ended structure with accommodation, studio spaces, and access to sites, relocating annually to new locations such as Basilicata in .

Institute for Provocation

Beijing, China

The Institute for Provocation (IFP) is a Beijing-based independent art workspace, think tank, and curatorial platform that hosts artist residencies focused on the thinking and research process before artwork creation, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural provocations. It supports research, workshops, lectures, and experiments stretching borders between art, architecture, design, and other fields, introducing international artists to local networks since . Residencies provide shared studios and housing in central Beijing's Dongcheng district.

Institute for Public Architecture

New York, United States

The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA) offers the Independent Project Residency, an 11-week live-in program at the historic Block House on Governors Island, inviting emerging and mid-career practitioners in architecture, urbanism, design, art, and research to develop independent projects focused on the public realm. Fellows live and work in a communal environment, engage with the public through Open House events, and culminate in an exhibition of their work. The program provides access to NYC's networks while offering solitude on the island, with facilities including living accommodations, studio, and library.

International Institute of Puppetry

Charleville-Mézières, France

The International Institute of Puppetry in Charleville-Mézières, France, offers research residencies through its Research & Innovation Center to encourage scholarly research on puppetry arts, support artistic creation, and strengthen links between research and creative communities. Residents gain access to the library, mentoring, networking, and free accommodation at Villa d'Aubilly or IIM apartments, with stays typically lasting from one week to two months. The program requires a research contract and production of a written, audiovisual, or multimedia record of the work.

Israeli Center for Digital Art

Holon, Israel

The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon offers an Artist-in-Residence Program initiated in for artists, curators, and contemporary art critics, enabling them to stay in Holon, conduct research and production influenced by the Israeli context, and participate in the center's programming. Residents receive studio space with computer, internet, video archive, and sound studio access, plus accommodation in Holon. The program fosters international collaborations and potential exhibitions at the center.

KAB Library and Residency

Tokyo, Japan

KAB Library and Residency is a membership library and artist residency program located in an old renovated folk house in Kyojima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, operating as a guesthouse for international artists and curators to immerse in research and creation. Established in January by a private organization, it combines a mysterious library with lodging facilities in the heart of old Tokyo. Visitors are welcome by appointment only, with easy access from nearby stations like Keisei-Hikifune.

Kauko Sorjonen Foundation

Vihtavuori, Finland

The Kauko Sorjonen Foundation in Vihtavuori, Finland, partners with Art Center Järvilinna to offer residencies for professional visual artists, providing access to workshops in glass, art casting, metal, blacksmithing, graphics, ceramics, and visual arts, as well as opportunities for writers. Residents receive accommodation in a dormitory with private rooms sharing facilities or a studio apartment for longer stays, along with free exhibition space at Järvilinna Villa (except summer months). The program suits artists collaborating with permanent residents or pursuing independent projects, with costs including 250 €/month for room and 10-20 €/day for workshops plus materials.

Kinono Tinos Art Gathering

Tinos, Greece

Kinono Tinos Art Gathering is a multidimensional cultural organization in Tinos, Greece, since , running the 'Four-plus one- Elements' residency program that integrates the landscape, seasons, and elements (earth, water, air, fire, plus time) into artistic creations. It hosts interdisciplinary artists for site-specific works including visual arts, performing arts, sound, film, workshops, and research projects in non-urban island locations, fostering collaboration with locals and producing content for a digital artistic map of Tinos. The program emphasizes reflection on nature, tradition, history, and metaphysics, with past editions like the residency involving around 45 participants across five landmarks.

Klaipeda Culture Communication centre

Klaipeda, Lithuania

The Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC) offers an International Art Residency program for Lithuanian and international artists, curators, researchers, and creators to live and work in Klaipėda's old town. The process-based residencies encourage artistic research, community engagement, and experimentation, with residents implementing individual projects and participating in local activities, workshops, and presentations.

Klaustrid AiR

Skriðuklaustur, Iceland

Klaustrið AiR is an artist residency program at Skriðuklaustur in East Iceland, managed by the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute, offering 3-6 week stays for Icelandic and international artists, writers, scholars, composers, musicians, dancers, and other creatives in a quiet apartment within the historic Writer’s House. The program prioritizes projects related to Gunnar Gunnarsson’s life and works or East Icelandic studies, providing housing without rental fees (only a modest confirmation fee) but no stipend, in a peaceful rural setting ideal for focused creative or academic work.

Knockvologan Studies

Fionnphort, United Kingdom

Knockvologan Studies is a remote artist residency program on the Ross of Mull near Fionnphort, Scotland, founded by artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp, serving as a hub for creative research in art, literature, field research, and nature preservation. It welcomes residents in fields like visual art, performing arts, film, photography, literature, music, architecture, and design for stays of 2 to 6 weeks, with proposals accepted year-round and no fixed fee based on involvement. Residents have access to facilities including the Knockvologan Prism and Studio in the barn, and opportunities to present work to the local community.

Kriti Gallery Residency

Varanasi, India

Kriti Gallery Artist Residency in Varanasi, India, is an unstructured, free program founded in - by Navneet Raman to foster cultural dialogue among international artists, locals, and the historic city. It provides private studios in a lush garden setting 3-4 km from the Ganges, accommodating artists across disciplines for 1-3 months year-round with no deadlines or exhibition requirements. Now part of Banaras Cultural Foundation, it supports over 200 artists from 26 countries through stays, workshops, exhibitions, and interactions.

Kultur einer Digitalstadt e.V.

Darmstadt, Germany

Kultur einer Digitalstadt e.V. is a platform in Darmstadt, Germany, for artistic research, interdisciplinary discussions, and cultural networking in the digital city context, offering artist residencies at the studio house Ludwig-Engel-Weg 1 on Rosenhöhe. Their Artist-in-Science-Residence (AiSR) program provides 6-week stays linked to collaborations with research institutes like hessian.AI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum, and ESOC, open to artists of all disciplines. Residencies typically include housing, a studio, stipend, and opportunities for exhibitions and public engagement.

Kultur Service Steiermark GmbH

Graz, Austria

Kultur Service Steiermark GmbH, also known as Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, operates artist residencies in Graz, Austria, including the Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.) program providing studios for international artists and theorists to foster networking in the Styrian cultural scene, and the Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) in collaboration with Camera Austria for lens-based artists. These programs offer housing in central Graz locations, stipends ranging from €1,000 for one-month stays to €1,100 monthly for minimum two-month residencies, working spaces, and opportunities for presentations and local connections. They support emerging talents across visual arts, photography, literature, and theory, emphasizing research, production, and engagement with Graz's vibrant art scene.

Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf

Niederer Fläming, Germany

The Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf offers an international and interdisciplinary residency program for individual artists, writers, scholars, and groups at Schloss Wiepersdorf, a castle in rural Brandenburg, Germany, about 75 km south of Berlin. Fellows receive free room and board, a monthly stipend of €1200, and a €480 material grant, with stays typically lasting 1-3 months (often three months in spring, summer, or fall periods). The program supports fields like literature, visual arts, composition, and research, providing studios, ateliers, conference rooms, and opportunities for presentations and networking.

Kunst Asyl

Quedlinburg, Germany

Kunst Asyl is an artist residency program in Quedlinburg, Germany, founded in by Armenian artist and curator Narine Zolyan, offering artists the opportunity to work in the UNESCO World Heritage City while focusing on themes of global integration, universal human values, and local history related to 'After the Wall against the Border'. It provides ready-to-move-in accommodations with kitchen, toilet, and shower, plus a 20 square meter studio, at a cost of 220 euros per week, aiming to foster a 'Culture-Integration-Dialogue' between artists from Europe and beyond, with partners in Russia and Armenia.

Kunsthuis SYB

Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands

Kunsthuis SYB is an artist residency program in Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands, that provides artists with a six-week stay to conduct research, experiment, and foster new collaborations based on project proposals. It offers a furnished apartment, studio space, organizational support, artistic feedback, publicity, a project budget, and culminates in public weekend access and a final presentation.

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen

Innsbruck, Austria

Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is a postgraduate center in Innsbruck, Austria, for production, research, and exchange in visual arts and art theory, offering a Fellowship Program that supports artistic and theoretical projects through residencies. The program provides fellows with apartment studios for living and working, a monetary award, production budget, travel support, and access to multimedia-equipped project spaces, fostering exchange with experts and public presentations. It targets visual/media artists, critics, theorists, and curators for typically five-month stays, combining residency benefits with non-university research opportunities.

Kyoto Art Center

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto Art Center's Artist-in-Residence Program supports emerging artists and researchers in pursuing creative activities in Kyoto, alternating annually between visual arts and performing arts, with focused on visual arts, literature, and cross-genre works. Participants must plan and implement public exchange projects and communicate in English or Japanese, with stays up to three months between April and March . The program provides accommodation, a studio, round-trip economy airfare, a 200,000 JPY production subsidy, and coordinator assistance.

La Casa de Belmonte

Belmonte de San José, Spain

La Casa de Belmonte is a writer's shelter and creative residency located in a solitary village surrounded by almond and olive trees in Spain. The residency provides dedicated workspace, accommodation, and access to natural surroundings for writers and creative professionals, with minimum stays of 3 days and typical stays of one to two weeks or longer.

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 Ira De Dios

Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Ira de Dios is an independent artist-run space in Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in , that facilitates artistic exchange and contemporary art practice through residency programs, exhibitions, and collaborations with institutions. It provides a collaborative environment for national and international artists, researchers, and curators to experiment, reflect, and engage with the local art scene, culminating in open studios and public presentations. The program emphasizes process-oriented research, with durations from 1 to 6 months, and offers scholarships for Argentine artists while assisting internationals with funding applications.

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.

La Métive

Moutier-d'Ahun, France

La Métive is a multidisciplinary arts residency program located in Moutier-d'Ahun, Creuse, France, focused on fostering social cohesion, cultural action, and exchanges between artists and local rural communities through contemporary practices. It welcomes artists and teams in early project stages, providing accommodation, workspaces, and variable residency grants while supporting family needs. Residencies last from 1 week to 3 months, often non-consecutively, in a renovated historical mill with facilities like studios, a stage, and a garden.

La Source

Saint Thégonnec Loc Eguiner, France

La SOURCE is an international and interdisciplinary art residency center in Brittany, France, dedicated to practice-led research on 'Love-Studies' through inner-connective, inter-connective, and eco-connective layers, offering immersive programs like the Temenos fellowship with 11-week sessions in fall, spring, and summer. It provides facilities including studios, a greenhouse dome, hearth kitchen, wellness area, and valley for land art, culminating in exhibitions, conferences, and publications, with a Post-Graduate Diploma for completing three sessions. Residencies feature daily fees on a sliding scale for housing but no program fees beyond room, board, and admin costs, welcoming creators in conceptual, performance, installation, socially engaged, land art, and other fields.

laberinto projects

El Congo, El Salvador

Laberinto Projects is an arts, culture, and education platform in El Congo, El Salvador, offering artist residencies including self-directed residencies (minimum three weeks, typically one month) and master artist workshops (one week) to foster contemporary art practices, social inclusion, and dialogue. Located overlooking Lake Coatepeque, it provides shared housing, meals, and opportunities for cultural exchanges, with scholarships available including $500 awards and fully funded options for Central Americans. The program supports established and emerging artists, writers, scholars, and creatives from diverse disciplines.

Laznia Center for Contemporary Art

Gdansk, Poland

The Artists and Curators in Residence Program at Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, Poland, is dedicated to Polish and international artists, curators, and researchers across various disciplines, focusing on art in public space, art & science, international exchange, and education. Since , over 100 participants have engaged in residencies held in the converted top floor of the Łaźnia 2 building in Nowy Port, which includes living spaces, gallery, workshops, studio cinema, and library. The program features bilateral exchanges, an AIR Incubator for young artists, and open calls like those offering long-term research residencies with housing, per diems, and fees.

Le Cube

Rabat, Morocco

Le Cube – independent art room in Rabat, Morocco, is an art center offering artist residencies, exhibitions, and research programs focused on contemporary artistic practices that explore social, cultural, political questions, and historical narratives. It provides housing options including a 70m² apartment in the city center or an integrated space within the art room, supporting experimental art for Moroccan and international artists since . Residencies typically last up to 3 months, with programs like 'new generation' and 'summer’s lab' nurturing emerging artists through production, exhibition, and support.

Le Maupas A.I.R. is a ceramic art and design center and artists residency located in the small village of Le Maupas, Sussey, in the Côte d'Or region of Burgundy, France. It offers individual residencies focused on research and development, as well as project-based residencies with access to technical expertise, providing working spaces, kilns, and facilities at cost price. Accommodation is available in the adjacent 'relais' with guest rooms, kitchen, and additional amenities for artists, partners, or children.

Les Récollets

Paris, France

Les Récollets is an 80-unit furnished international residence in Paris's 10th arrondissement dedicated to hosting established researchers, scientists, and artists from around the world. The center provides accommodation with hotel-like services and fosters interdisciplinary creative exchange among residents from diverse fields. It serves as a space for artists and researchers to develop specific projects while engaging with Paris's cultural institutions and community.

Lost and Found Lab Residency

Cos Cob, United States

Artist residency in Cos Cob, CT, honoring James Stevenson. Offers 2-4 week invitation-only stays for visual artists, scholars, writers, curators exploring visual art and written word. Includes $1000 stipend, housing, studio, library, and access to archives.

Lugar a Dudas

Cali, Colombia

Lugar a Dudas is an independent, non-profit artist residency and contemporary art space in Cali, Colombia, founded in 2005 by artist Oscar Muñoz to foster research, dialogue, reflection, and experimentation among local and international artists and curators. The residency program, started in 2006, provides an interactive platform for process-based work without rigid structure, encouraging exchanges with the local art community through talks, open studios, and access to facilities. It emphasizes visual arts but is open to diverse fields like curation, performance, dance, writing, and activism, while offering comfortable housing in a nearby house with shared workshops and communal areas.

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.

Makan Art Space is an independent contemporary art platform established in in Amman, Jordan, functioning as a dynamic hub for artists, cultural producers, and activists. It operates artist residency programs, workshops, exhibitions, and collaborative projects with a focus on experimental art practices and social engagement. The space serves as an alternative to formal institutional art venues, fostering local and international artistic exchange and networking.

Mandarina Borda

Palmera, Spain

Mandarina Borda is an Art, Geometry and Agroecology project located in Palmera, Valencia, Spain, founded in as a space for creation and experimentation that rethinks the interaction between humans and their natural environment. The residency accommodates a maximum of three artists simultaneously and utilizes materials from the local agricultural territory, including orange orchards, to facilitate artistic creation and research.

Manifesta Art and Culture

Manaus, Brazil

LABVERDE is a transdisciplinary art and ecology platform based in the Brazilian Amazon that promotes artistic creation through intensive 10-day residencies combining seminars, workshops, forest tours, and boat trips. The program, developed in association with Manifesta Art and Culture and the National Institute for Amazonian Research, aims to foster innovative artistic language while exploring environmental issues and the Amazon's biodiversity.

Matadero Madrid

Madrid, Spain

The Centre for Artists in Residence (CRA) at Matadero Madrid in Nave 16 offers multidisciplinary residencies for artists, musicians, educators, and cultural agents, providing workspaces, resources, and time for research, experimentation, and reflection away from market pressures. Residents share facilities like auditoriums, editing rooms, kitchens, and workshops, fostering a community with team support, mentors, and public events such as Open Days three times a year. Programs like El Ranchito provide international residencies with studios, living allowances, and production support, connected to Matadero's cultural ecosystem.

Migration in Changing Climates

Oregon, United States

The Migration in Changing Climates Fellowship is a residency program offered through the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx) at Oregon State University, targeting established and emerging artists working in any discipline to explore themes of migration amid climate change, potentially in collaboration with sites like PLAYA. It emphasizes supportive, generative experiences at the intersections of arts, humanities, science, and technology, such as unplugged retreats or interdisciplinary projects. The program aligns with environmental and creative research initiatives in Oregon.

MMCA International Artist/Researcher Residency

Dobong-gu, South Korea

International residency program run by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Supports artists and researchers with live-in studios, monthly grants, and creative exchange opportunities.

Mouhit Space

Tunis, Tunisia

Mouhit Space is an artist residency program in Tunis, Tunisia, supporting creative practitioners at all levels through a convivial environment for reflection, experimentation, and community engagement. It offers mentorship, self-directed stays, production support, and integration into local and international art scenes, with facilities including shared workspaces, private bedrooms, a garden, and a sound studio. Residents are encouraged to host open studios, workshops, or exhibitions to connect with the public.

Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH

Susch, Switzerland

The artist residency 'Temporars Susch' by Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH in Susch, Switzerland, offers individual residencies to artists of all disciplines, writers, curators, cultural producers, and researchers in a historic Chasa next to a medieval monastery, emphasizing contemplation, intellectual exchange, and disconnection from production pressures without requiring tangible outcomes. Residents engage with the community through workshops, talks, or discussions and benefit from the inspiring Engadin valley setting historically linked to figures like Nietzsche and Giacometti. The program provides accommodation, travel expenses, and a weekly stipend of 350 CHF, with typical stays of 2-4 weeks.

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.

Narva Art Residency

Narva, Estonia

Narva Art Residency (NART), founded in , is a cultural platform in Narva, Estonia, on the Estonian-Russian border at the historic Kreenholm site, facilitating international artist residencies, exhibitions, talks, and workshops. It welcomes artists across diverse disciplines including Visual Arts, Music, Performance, Architecture, Design, Film, Literature, and Curatorial Practices, emphasizing creative exchange, community engagement, and socially engaged projects. Operated by the Estonian Academy of Arts with Narva Gate and supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture, it provides free accommodation, shared working spaces, kitchen, and access to the Kreenholm factory.

Nau Côclea

Camallera, Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain

Nau Côclea is a Contemporary Art Center founded in 1996 in Camallera, Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain, offering artist residencies for performing and visual artists, researchers, and writers focused on research, production, and presentation of contemporary art projects in collaboration with the local community. Residencies provide accommodation in a small rural house for up to 4 artists, access to studio/workshop spaces, office/library, and support, with stays typically ranging from 7 days to 3 months. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary work, including sound art, visual arts, audiovisual, circus, and research, often culminating in public presentations.

New Roots Foundation

Santa Ana Antigua, Guatemala

The New Roots Foundation runs a multidisciplinary artist residency program at La Nueva Fábrica, a contemporary art center in a historic textile factory in Santa Ana, Antigua, Guatemala, welcoming emerging and established artists, curators, scholars, and cultural practitioners without restrictions. Residents stay 2-8 weeks with on-site housing, a USD $2,000 stipend, airport transfers, mentoring, and access to studios, textile looms, wood/metal workshops, and exhibition spaces, while encouraged to engage in public programs and community activities. The program fosters reflection, research, dialogue, and interdisciplinary collaboration between local and international participants.

NGO Cultural Traffic

Staryi Merchyk village, Ukraine

Kharkiv-based NGO supporting artistic/research practices via residencies, exhibitions, projects in eastern Ukraine. Runs Slow River House rural residency for focused work, nature engagement, recovery.

NGO TRANSLATORIUM

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine

NGO TRANSLATORIUM runs the BAZHAN residency program in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, for poets and poetry translators, offering two-week stays in a cozy apartment in the old town to work on poetry projects, collections, translations, or performances. The program provides coverage of travel, accommodation, per diem, curator support, and opportunities to share work publicly, with priority for writers from war-affected regions. Launched in , it is financed by the Creative Europe Programme in cooperation with Versopolis.

Nowa Szkola/New School

Kopice, Poland

Nowa Szkoła is an artist residency program housed in a renovated Prussian school building in Kopice, Poland, offering individual and group residencies for creative professionals including artists, musicians, researchers, and cultural theorists. The program emphasizes sustainable practices and community engagement, with participants able to rest, work, research, and collaborate in nature while meeting other creative individuals.

NPO ANEWAL GALLERY

Kyoto, Japan

NPO ANEWAL GALLERY in Kyoto, Japan, runs non-profit international artist residency programs such as Kyoto Kinugasa Art Residence for Community (KKARC) and AN AIR, welcoming artists, writers, curators, researchers, and educators worldwide for personal exploration, professional development, co-living, and community collaboration. These programs provide accommodation, workspaces or studios (including garage studio for visual artists), and facilitate connections with local culture, historical sites, galleries, and artists, often in partnership with Kyoto Art Center. Residencies emphasize interaction with the Kinugasa area community, urban planning insights, and broadening artistic viewpoints beyond disciplines.

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Singapore, Singapore

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is a research-oriented, studio-based residency programme that has supported over 210 artists, curators, and researchers since 2014. The programme provides fully-funded residencies with curatorial support, enabling multiform creative processes and facilitating interdisciplinary knowledge production. Residents become active contributors to the Centre's cultural life and develop public programmes including talks, workshops, open studios, screenings, and performances.

Nubuke Foundation

Accra, Ghana

The Nubuke Foundation offers artist residencies at its Centre for Textiles and Clay in Loho, near Wa in Ghana's Upper West region, providing a self-directed program for artists, writers, designers, curators, scholars, and creatives to explore their practice. Started in 2022 under ACP-EU support, it has hosted over 15 participants and emphasizes textiles and clay while being open to diverse fields. Residents produce work-in-progress, public projects, exhibitions, and community engagements.

Oak Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary

Upperville, United States

The Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residency in Upperville, Virginia, offers 2-week or 5-week sessions for artists, conservation practitioners, researchers, scholars, scientists, and writers to pursue creative projects focused on plants, landscapes, gardens, and the natural world. This flagship program, started in , provides time and space for independent work alongside optional activities like library visits, landscape exploration, and volunteering at the Biocultural Conservation Farm. Selected residents receive stipends of $800 for 2-week stays or $2,000 for 5-week stays, with housing and ground transportation from Dulles Airport or Union Station.

Oaklands Farm

Wellington, South Africa

Oaklands Artist in Residence (OaklandsAiR) is an artist-run program on a farm in the mountains 90km from Cape Town, South Africa, offering a focused, nature-immersive environment within the Limietberg World Heritage Site for fine artists, writers, researchers, and landscape architects. Residents live in self-catering cottages and work in private studios in a converted foaling barn, with access to natural materials, outdoor spaces, and Wellington's creative network including kilns and presses. The residency emphasizes rural tranquility, biodiversity, hiking trails, and proximity to Cape Town's arts scene.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)

Oslo, Norway

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) offers an invitation-only International Studio Programme in Oslo for international artists, curators, and cultural practitioners linked to specific research and projects in Norway. The program provides accommodations and studios at OCA's location in Grünerløkka, Oslo, encouraging residents to engage with the local art scene and foster exchanges with Norwegian professionals. OCA primarily focuses on promoting Norwegian contemporary art internationally through grants and outbound residencies, with the Oslo program being a key inbound opportunity.

ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich

Krems, Austria

ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich offers an Artist in Residence program in partnership with AIR – Artist in Residence Niederösterreich, targeting foreign architects, artists, musicians, and writers to foster international cultural exchange and building culture in Lower Austria. The program provides a studio and living space free of charge, a scholarship (e.g., €3900 for ~2.5-month stays), networking opportunities, and access to a 40m² exhibition space in Krems. It emphasizes practice-related projects on environmental issues, living environments, and local interaction, with annual open calls for applicants who have completed studies in building culture fields.

PACA_Proyectos Artísticos Casa Antonino

Gijón, Spain

PACA_Proyectos Artísticos Casa Antonino is an artist-run space founded in by Virginia Lopez in a rural farmhouse near Gijón, Spain, focusing on contemporary art, environmental practices, community engagement, and artistic education through international residency programs. Residencies emphasize site-specific interventions that foster connections with the local community, landscape, history, and territory, promoting cultural, social, and environmental interpretations. The program provides workspace, housing in the traditional Casa Antonino farmhouse, and support including logistics, networking, curatorial feedback, and public presentations.

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.

Palais de Tokyo – Le Pavillon

Paris, France

The Palais de Tokyo – Le Pavillon (also known as Pavillon Neuflize OBC) was an artist-in-residence program and research lab at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, directed by Ange Leccia from 2001 to 2017, hosting over 130 international emerging artists. It offered an eight-month residency from November to June, sponsored by curators, featuring collective projects abroad and in France, plus solo exhibitions or performances at Palais de Tokyo. Residents received a monthly stipend, a studio at Cité Internationale des Arts, shared workspace at Palais de Tokyo, and coverage of program-related expenses.

PARADISE AIR

Matsudo-city, Japan

PARADISE AIR is an artist-in-residence program in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, housed in the vacant floors of a former hotel above a pachinko parlor, launched in to support artists, curators, and researchers. It offers three main programs: SHORTSTAY (about 3 weeks, open year-round), LONGSTAY (3 months with comprehensive support including travel and accommodation), and LEARN (fostering city interactions). The program aims to enrich Matsudo's culture through artist-resident collaborations.

Peru Athens Residency

Athens, Greece

ARCAthens' flagship Athens Residency offers fully-funded 2-month fellowships for visual artists, curators, and scholars. Includes housing, $2,000 prize, weekly stipend, air travel. Open to non-Greek residents; features networking and public events.

Pfaelzer Hof

United-Kingdom

Pfaelzer Hof Artist Residencies is an artist-led cultural development project in Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, offering residencies for artists, writers, and composers in a renovated former hotel since . It provides spacious apartments with natural light, a shared outdoor terrace, a 24/7 accessible project and exhibition space, and connections to local galleries and Trier University workshops. Residencies last 1-6 months from April to October, with fees varying and a €1500 monthly stipend available in some cases.

Phoenix Athens

Athens, Greece

Phoenix Athens is a nonprofit artist-run gallery and residency in Athens that provides international and local creatives with space, facilities, and time to develop their artistic practice while engaging with the local community. Founded in by artist Dimitri Yin, the residency emphasizes inclusion, social justice, ecology, and multiculturalism through its Villa Exarcheia program, which offers lodging, workshop access, and exhibition opportunities.

Pike School of Art - Mississippi

Summit, United States

Pike School of Art – Mississippi (PSA-MS) is a contemporary art center near McComb, Mississippi that offers artist and writer residencies in the Deep South. The residency program invites creative professionals to engage with the region's culture and history while providing studio space, accommodations, and opportunities for public presentations and community engagement.

Points Center for Contemporary Art

Wuxi Shi, China

Points Center for Contemporary Art (PCCA) is a non-profit residency in Jinxi Ancient Town, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. Focuses on curatorial practices, visual art, new media, video, performance, installations, and public engagement research for international artists and curators.

Popps Packing

Hamtramck, United States

Popps Packing is an international artist residency program founded in , housed in a 4,500 sq ft former meat-packing plant on the Hamtramck/Detroit border, welcoming emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists for immersive studio-based practices. It accommodates two artists at a time in a communal loft-style warehouse with shared studio, kitchen, bath, workshops, gardens, and outdoor spaces, fostering connections through events, exhibitions, and community engagement. Facilities best suit sculpture, installation, architecture, landscape projects, photography, film, painting, and research.

Pragovka Gallery

Praha 19000, Czechia

Pragovka Gallery in Prague, Czechia, runs an artist residency program (AIR Pragovka Gallery) launched in , providing artists and curators with an 80m² studio in a former industrial car factory area to work and research intensively. The program supports Czech and international participants through fully equipped apartments, artist fees, travel costs by agreement, materials contributions, and PR/production aid, with past residents exhibiting in the gallery and public spaces. Residencies typically last 2-8 weeks, tailored to the project, with themed open calls like 'Mutual Benefits' for .

RAMA Residências Artísticas

Torres Vedras, Portugal

RAMA – Residências Artísticas is an artist residency program located in the villages of Maceira and Alfeiria in the municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal, aimed at national and international artists, researchers, and curators for research and experimentation. It promotes interaction between professionals, crossing of artistic practices, sharing of knowledge, and relationships with the local community, culture, traditional crafts, history, and rural landscape. Residencies last 1 to 4 months or longer, offering customized programs with mentoring, studio visits, and options for accommodation plus studio or studio only, hosting up to 4 artists simultaneously.

Rangøya International Cultural Centre

AVERØY, Norway

Rangøya International Cultural Centre in Averøy, Norway, offers free artist residencies aimed at fostering international collaboration, requiring at least two nationalities to be present during stays. The program supports writers, translators, and other creative practitioners in a spacious house with four bedrooms, desks, shared kitchen, living room, library, and a separate working room. Residencies typically last one month, with open calls for periods like January to May , and encourage community engagement through local events.

Raumars Artist-in-Residence

Rauma, Finland

RaumArs Artist-in-Residence, established in 1997 as one of Finland's oldest programs, is located in Rauma and supports professionals from various artistic fields for community/participatory art or independent projects, welcoming curators, researchers, and families. Residencies typically last 1-5 months, with selections based on high-quality work plans implemented in Rauma or Satakunta, and the program now operates from a renovated 1925 wooden art house with gallery space opened in . It fosters regional cultural development through collaborations with local institutions and offers networking support.

Raw Material Company

Dakar, Senegal

RAW Material Company's Ker Issa is a residency program established in 2011 that welcomes multidisciplinary artists, writers, researchers, and curators to engage with Dakar's contemporary art ecosystem. Operating as the residential component of RAW Material Company—a center for art, knowledge, and society—it has hosted over 50 practitioners from diverse nationalities in an intellectually rigorous and socially engaged environment.

Rejmyre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies

Rejmyre, Sweden

Rejmyre Art Lab Center for Peripheral Studies is an artist-run organization in Rejmyre, Sweden, founded in by artists Daniel Peltz and Sissi Westerberg, focusing on long-term, place-based artistic research exploring rural, industrial, ecological, and social contexts through ensemble residencies and embedded practices. It offers funded international residency programs like Tropism and Refuging, providing stipends, housing, production support, and access to spaces such as the Refuging Pavilion, with emphasis on collective reflection, community engagement, and site-specific installations. Activities include post-MFA fellowships, experimental glass projects, seminars, exhibitions, and pedagogical programs in the village.

Residencia de Estudiantes

Madrid, Spain

The Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid is a historic cultural center founded in 1910 that hosts nearly 3,000 researchers, artists, and professionals annually for interdisciplinary exchange, debate, and creation through events like lectures, exhibitions, and concerts. It has accommodated luminaries such as Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, and Luis Buñuel, and continues to offer short-term stays, typically less than a week, in 90 rooms. The residency promotes critical thinking via interactions among residents from diverse fields and visiting intellectuals.

Residency 108 is an artist residency program located on 108 acres of pastoral land in Germantown, NY, co-founded in by artist Anne-Katrin Spiess and art historian Jamie Morra to foster connections between art, nature, and ecology. It invites emerging and established artists, writers, and thinkers of all disciplines, particularly those working with nature, ecology, and temporary outdoor land-art installations, providing time and space for creative practice. The program appears to have concluded, as its website states it 'was located' in Germantown.

Rimbun Dahan

Kuang, Malaysia

Rimbun Dahan is a private arboretum and arts centre in Kuang, Malaysia, established in 1994, offering residencies primarily for visual artists, choreographers, writers, and researchers from Southeast Asia to develop their work in a serene garden setting. It provides various programs including the Southeast Asian Arts Residency for ASEAN artists (2 months, with accommodation, studio, stipend, and limited travel support) and paid options for non-ASEAN artists longer than one month. The centre hosts 16-20 artists at a time across 5 studios, focusing on Malaysian and regional creators while welcoming international engagement.

Rybon Art Center

Teheran, Iran

Rybon Art Center was an artist-run initiative based in Tehran, Iran, established in to promote artistic innovation, experimentation, and international exchanges among established and emerging artists through residencies, workshops, and exchange programs. It launched its first artist-in-residence program in in collaboration with local institutes, later developing exchange programs like the Iran-China collaboration due to challenges with international residencies. The center ceased operations around , with its website now serving as an archive of projects from to .

Sacatar Foundation

Itaparica, Brazil

Instituto Sacatar is the longest continuously-operating artist residency in Brazil, founded in 2001 on the island of Itaparica across the bay from Salvador, Bahia. The residency provides fully-funded fellowships to artists of all disciplines from around the world, hosting up to eight artists at a time across five annual sessions. Since its inception, Sacatar has awarded residencies to over 550 artists from more than 75 countries.

The Sanskriti Foundation, based in New Delhi, India, offers artist residencies at its Sanskriti Kendra campus on the outskirts of the city, welcoming artists, scholars, writers, and craftspersons from all disciplines since 1993. Residencies run from September to April, with stays from a minimum of 2 weeks up to 12 weeks, providing studio-apartments that combine living and working spaces in a serene environment fostering creative work and interaction with local artisans. Direct applications are accepted year-round, though participants cover costs including lodging, meals, and studio space, with options for shared accommodation.

Sapporo Artist in Residence

Sapporo, Japan

S-AIR (Sapporo Artist-in-Residence) was established in 1999 with partial funding by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to run an artist-in-residence programme in Hokkaido. Since , S-AIR has hosted 3 artists and one curator/researcher each year, mostly on an exchange basis, fostering unique arts and culture at an international level by inviting leading contemporary artists and promoting exchange with local artists and communities.

Sarai Media Lab

Delhi, India

Sarai Media Lab is a prominent new media initiative at CSDS in Delhi that hosts artist residencies, fellowships, and collaborative projects focused on urban space, media culture, and contemporary practices. The program invites artists, scholars, and practitioners from South Asia and internationally to engage in creative and experimental work across various media forms including video, audio, digital, and installation art.

SAVVY Contemporary Residency

Berlin, Germany

The SAVVY Contemporary Residency in Berlin hosts national and international curators, artists, writers, thinkers, researchers, and cultural professionals for periods of at least 3 months, challenging residents to engage with Berlin’s socio-political context and explore trans-disciplinary issues beyond geographical constraints. Residents work from premises in a former power plant in Neukölln, offering workshops, seminars, or lectures, with accommodation in private rooms in a shared flat 500m away, though no production studios are available. The program emphasizes decolonial practices, public-oriented research, and topics like Afro-Pacific affinities and innovative exhibition-making, often through partnerships like REFLEKT for practitioners from Southeast Asia.

Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) is a rural artist residency in Aberdeenshire that supports artists through collective learning and experimentation with various materials and processes. The program offers highly subsidized group residencies where artists live and work together for four weeks, with access to specialized workshops including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing, and stonework, supported by skilled technicians and a programmed schedule of social and professional exchange activities.

SEA AIR

Silba, Croatia

SEA AIR is an off-grid, process-oriented artist residency on Silba, a car-free island in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, inviting international artists, writers, sound explorers, herbalists, and cultural practitioners for 2–8 week stays in a remote forest home powered by solar energy and rainwater. The program emphasizes ecological awareness, intuitive processes, ritual practices, and deep listening, with no pressure for results, offering solitude, freedom, and the island itself as a studio. It welcomes queer, BIPOC, and emerging artists, with a basic donation (~25 EUR/day) covering utilities or alternative contributions like barter and workshops.

SeMA NANJI Residency

Seoul, South Korea

SeMA Nanji Residency, operated by Seoul Museum of Art since , supports visual artists and researchers with 25 studios, labs, galleries in Nanji Hangang Park. Focuses on international collaborations post-; offers overseas opportunities.

Shadowcliff Artist Residency

Grand Lake, United States

Artist residency bringing together diverse artists, creatives, researchers, and cultural caretakers, providing time, space, and access to Grand County's natural and cultural resources.

Shandaken: Storm King is a free, process-focused artist residency established in as a collaboration between Shandaken Projects and Storm King Art Center. The program provides artists with exclusive use of a four-bedroom farmhouse and private studio space on Storm King's grounds, supporting experimentation and research without production requirements.

Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Sharjah Art Foundation Residency Programme invites visual artists, writers, poets, researchers, musicians, performance artists, filmmakers, and other creatives to explore and expand their experimental, interdisciplinary practices in Sharjah, UAE. Selected participants receive flights, transportation, accommodation, a monthly stipend, and access to the Foundation's networks and resources at venues like Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. Residencies typically last 2-3 months, such as from 17 November 2025 to 15 January 2026 or 2 February to 30 March 2026.

Sonic Acts

Utrecht, Netherlands

Sonic Acts offers artist residencies focused on sound studies, new media, and electronic arts, often fully funded and including accommodation, fees, and access to events like the Sonic Acts Biennial. Programs such as 'The Walls Have Ears' take place in Amsterdam, while others like OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas occur in Utrecht with online components. Residencies support researchers, artists, and scholars in developing writing projects, new artworks, or eco-acoustic practices.

Sorry No Rooms Available

Uzhhorod, Ukraine

Sorry No Rooms Available is an international contemporary art residency program based in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, operating year-round since at the Intourist-Zakarpattia hotel, fostering artistic research and integration into the local cultural scene of Transcarpathia. Residents typically stay 1-3 months, producing a site-specific project or exhibition in Uzhhorod or the region, along with an artist talk, lecture, or workshop, while engaging with the area's rich history and diverse communities. It emphasizes decentralization of Ukraine's cultural economy, cultural exchange, and supports Ukrainian artists with institutionally critical projects related to heritage and education.

Space Department Nara

Nara, Japan

SPACE DEPARTMENT Nara is a design hub and artist-in-residence facility in the World Heritage city of Nara, Japan, welcoming artists, architects, designers, researchers, and students focused on spatial design, architecture, and creative activities related to 'space.' It supports residents in conducting research, creating works inspired by Japanese culture and philosophy, and presenting results through workshops, events, exhibitions, or talks to connect with local communities. Residencies typically last 1-6 months, with private accommodation and workspace provided for a fee, and no stipend offered.

Spatial Sound Institute

Budapest, Hungary

The Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, is a research and development center for spatial sound technologies and practices, hosting a multidisciplinary artist residency program since that invites creators from various disciplines to develop projects using the 4DSOUND system. Residents receive training, technical support, mentoring, and lodging with shared facilities and daily lunches, culminating in project presentations such as performances, installations, or publications. The program focuses on new sound content, acoustic environments, and listening research, housed in the AQB arts complex on the Danube.

Steirischer Herbst

Graz, Austria

Steirischer Herbst is an annual contemporary art festival in Graz, Austria, offering various residency programs including the Research Residency Fellowship for scholars and artists to access its extensive archives and engage with its history and interdisciplinary topics. These residencies typically last one month, provide stipends, housing allowances, and travel support, and culminate in public presentations or events during the festival.

Studio Rizoma

Palermo, Italy

Fondazione Studio Rizoma in Palermo, Italy, runs two residency programs: Generative Residencies (2-4 weeks) for artists, collectives, activists, or thinkers to develop project ideas on-site with team support, and Production Residencies for extended production of those projects with dedicated budgets. Residents receive a per diem of €300 per week, plus travel and accommodation, and engage with Palermo's context through local connections.

Tenuta Valente

Capaccio Paestum, Italy

Tenuta Valente is an artist residency program located in Capaccio Paestum, Southern Italy, welcoming professional artists of all disciplines to work in a peaceful, bucolic environment surrounded by the Cilentan Coast countryside. The program offers residents private en-suite bedrooms and access to a shared 200-square-metre studio to develop individual projects and engage with the local art community.

The Blank Residency

Bergamo, Italy

The Blank Residency, established in in Bergamo, Italy, by The Blank Contemporary Art network, hosts Italian and international artists and theorists for medium-to-long term stays to develop practical and theoretical artistic research. It provides accommodation and studio space in a 130sqm apartment in an 18th-century building, fosters connections with local and international communities, and concludes with Open Studios and project presentations. The program operates through open calls and invitations, promoting contemporary art via exhibitions, exchanges, and networking.

The Guesthouse

Cork, Ireland

The Guesthouse is an artist-led residency program in Cork's Shandon area that hosts visual artists, filmmakers, sound artists, composers, and researchers for 1-3 month stays. The initiative facilitates experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community engagement through a shared creative space centered around social gatherings and artistic exchange.

The Life on a Leaf Residency

Turku, Finland

The Life on a Leaf Residency is an artist and researcher program hosted in a unique leaf-shaped house in Turku, Finland, designed as a total artwork by Jan-Erik Andersson and architect Erkki Pitkäranta, focusing on themes of urban space, built environment, art, architecture, and their intersections. Residents live and work in the three-story 147 m² house on a spacious plot bordering a natural forest in Hirvensalo, suitable primarily for planning, drawing, and computer-based creative or research work, with support from a residency coordinator for local contacts. The program duration is typically 2-6 months, with rent required but no stipend provided.

The Luminary's Residency

St. Louis, United States

A nationally recognized, research-driven residency supporting emerging and mid-career artists, curators, and critics in developing new work through focused inquiry and engagement with St. Louis's cultural landscape.

The Muzychi Expanded History project

Muzychi, Ukraine

The Muzychi Expanded History project is a private artist residency program organized by artist Alevtina Kakhidze in her house in the rural village of Muzychi near Kyiv, Ukraine, since . It supports international artists, art theoreticians, and curators, particularly those who are football fans, allowing them to work closely with nature in a sustainable garden setting. The program contributes to local artistic development amid challenging contexts like the Russian invasion.

The Ou Gallery

Vancouver Island, Canada

The Ou Gallery is a gorgeous and intimate place to nurture your creative rest and renewal. Artists and writers have 24-hour access to their own designated studio in a 100 year-old boat-building workshop and a thoughtfully appointed private bedroom in a shared suite with a fully equipped kitchen and bathroom. Our Great Room, with its modern fireplace, original fir floors, 12’ ceilings and huge windows overlooking a creek fed by Mount Swuq'us (and frequented by herons and owls) is a perfect spot to unwind and connect with other creatives after a full day in the studio. Located in the Quw'ustun Valley, in the heart of Vancouver Island, a stunning, nature-filled place. Come here to decompress, gather new inspiration alongside like-minded artists and devote space and time to your work. There is no fee to apply. Residencies are two or four weeks long. See website for details: www.theougallery.com.

The Pharos Trust

Nicosia, Cyprus

The Pharos Arts Foundation (also referred to as The Pharos Trust) is a non-profit cultural foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus, offering a residency program for artists, musicians, scholars, and composers to create new works, deliver lectures, workshops, and masterclasses. It supports both established and emerging creators from Cyprus and abroad in inspiring surroundings, fostering artistic exchange at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The program is part of broader initiatives including festivals, exhibitions, and the planned Pharos Centre for Art, Culture and Dialogue with accommodation for residents.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

BERLIN, Germany

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany, hosts an artist residency program since , providing artists with studio space in the historic Kleiner Fotorefraktor building, accommodations in Potsdam, and a stipend paid in three monthly installments. Selected by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Potsdam Town, and PIK, residents integrate into the PIK community to foster interdisciplinary exchanges between artists and climate researchers on global sustainability. Note that a distinct 'Planetary Transitions' residency exists at the nearby RIFS Potsdam, not PIK.

The Residency Project

Pasadena, United States

The Residency Project (TRP) @ 880 in Pasadena, California, offers 3-week artist residencies in a Craftsman bungalow, providing private rooms, shared studio space, a $300 stipend, and support for creative research and experimentation without requiring a finished product. It emphasizes amplifying underrepresented artists including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, artists with disabilities, and parents, while encouraging sustainable practices and collaborative cohabitation. Residents have access to a fully stocked kitchen, peer mentoring, and Pasadena's vibrant arts scene.

The Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency

Ithaca, United States

The Sue-Je Lee Gage Sunlit Residency in Ithaca, NY, honors anthropologist Dr. Sue-Je Lee Gage. It offers year-round short-term stays and a subsidized summer program for scholars, artists, writers, and activists focused on social justice, human rights, and arts. Provides private bedrooms, kitchen, studio space.

Toji Cultural Foundation

Wonju, South Korea

The Toji Cultural Foundation in Wonju, South Korea, offers a residency program primarily for foreign writers, artists, and scholars in various cultural and artistic fields, providing a space to create works in a natural, tranquil environment while interacting with Korean artists. The program typically runs for two months from September to October, including accommodation, meals, and workspaces at the Toji Cultural Centre. It supports creative activities without mandatory outputs, fostering friendships among 16-19 residents.

Toronto Artscape Inc.

Toronto, Canada

Toronto Artscape Inc. operates artist residency programs, most notably at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands, offering affordable short-term studio and accommodation rentals for artists seeking focused creative work in a distraction-free environment. The organization is a not-for-profit that develops real estate projects, programs and services to empower artists and connect them to communities across Toronto.

Transformation des Geschehens is a project-based artist residency program in Tübingen, Germany, focused on artistic research processes and transdisciplinary strategies for artists of all kinds. Participants engage in a 4-week stay to work, think, discuss, develop ideas, and present outcomes such as installations, videos, performances, lectures, or workshops. The program is hosted by the art association Shedhalle and plattform in a former slaughterhouse space to explore neglected perspectives of human knowledge.

Treasure Hill Artist Village

Taipei, Taiwan

The Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan, is part of the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Taipei program, which provides international artists with residency opportunities, free accommodation, studios, and spaces for presentation and rehearsal to foster innovation, experimentation, and cross-cultural exchanges.

U-BOOT Lab

Rima, Italy

U-BOOT Lab is a multidisciplinary research group founded in , based in Genoa, Italy, that develops culture-based social innovation projects through the hybridization of artistic and scientific research for community engagement in vulnerable territories. It organizes artist residencies like 'Ninety Percent of Everything,' targeting artist collectives under 35, with activities at Palazzo Ducale Genova, the port, and aboard cargo vessels, resulting in installations, performances, and publications. Selected collectives receive a €4,000 gross fee covering research, travel, accommodation, and subsistence for the 15-day program from May 15-30, .

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Warsaw, Poland

The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw offers interdisciplinary artist residencies since 2002, hosting over 300 professionals including artists, curators, researchers, and collectives from more than 50 countries. These invitation-based or open-call stays, lasting several months, emphasize individual practice, experimentation, research, and collaboration with local context, providing access to production facilities and leading to diverse outcomes like performances, lectures, and community projects.

University of Victoria & Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist Scholar Residency

Victoria, Canada

The University of Victoria & Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Artist Scholar Residency is an annual program for artists and scholars to create work for exhibition or publication inspired by Jeffrey Rubinoff’s sculptures and the park experience, typically spanning 2-6 weeks in September-October at the Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, BC, plus one week at UVic in Victoria to engage with faculty and students.

The Jan van Eyck Academie is a multidisciplinary post-academic institute in Maastricht, Netherlands, offering an 11-month residency program that welcomes 30-42 participants annually from around the world. The residency supports artists, designers, architects, curators, writers, and other creative practitioners to develop, materialize, and disseminate their research through access to studios, specialized labs, and a collaborative community.

Villa Eläintarha

Helsinki, Finland

Villa Eläintarha is an artist residency program housed in a historic wooden villa built in 1889, located in central Helsinki next to Töölönlahti bay, offering short-term stays for professionals from various art disciplines, culture production, and education. Managed by the Myymälä2 cooperative since in partnership with the City of Helsinki and HIAP, it prioritizes artists invited for specific projects, research, or events by local grassroots organizations, with plans for public events to enhance networking and community access. The residency provides accommodation without dedicated studios, suitable for small-scale work like writing or digital projects, and features 5-6 rooms, shared kitchen, living areas, and laundry facilities.

Villa Gress

Stege, Denmark

Villa Gress is a professional work retreat and writing residency in Stege, Denmark, offering peaceful accommodations in four historic houses with 17 rooms and 23 beds for individuals and groups seeking concentration and inspiration. Founded in by Pia Thanning and located in the scenic park of Marienborg Gods, it has hosted over 4,000 guests including writers, researchers, and artists. Stays are flexible, bookable via email or phone, just 5 minutes' drive from Copenhagen.

Villa Kujoyama

Kyoto, Japan

Villa Kujoyama is a pluridisciplinary research residency located in Kyoto, Japan that has welcomed established and emerging artists, artisans, and creators since 1992. The residency provides time and space for residents to dedicate themselves fully to their practice and research while engaging with artistic, cultural, academic, and economic communities across Japan. It is operated by Institut français du Japon and supported by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.

Villa Medici

Roma, Italy

Villa Medici, home to the French Academy in Rome since 1803, is a prestigious artist residency on Rome's Pincian Hill that welcomes nearly 70 artists, writers, researchers, and craftspeople annually for stays ranging from two weeks to one year. The program provides fully funded residencies with accommodation, studio space, and support across diverse disciplines including visual arts, music, literature, architecture, and crafts, maintaining a legacy of artistic patronage dating back to 1666.

Villa Medici – French Academy in Rome

Rome, Italy

The Villa Medici – French Academy in Rome offers residency programs for French-speaking artists, authors, researchers, and craftsmen from all disciplines, including visual arts, music, literature, architecture, design, choreography, theater, and art history. Residents and fellows stay for periods ranging from two weeks to one year, focusing on creative, experimental, or research projects in a supportive environment that encourages interdisciplinary exchanges. Fellows receive grants covering room, board, workspace, and artistic support, while shorter residencies are available through thematic calls and partnerships.

Villa Sträuli

Winterthur, Switzerland

Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a non-profit contemporary art center established in 1999 that offers tailor-made international artist residencies emphasizing interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange, diversity, and inclusion for artists, curators, and researchers of all disciplines and backgrounds. Residents receive professional curatorial, technical, and production support, integration into public programs, networking opportunities with local and international cultural scenes, and access to facilities including three autonomous studios with living spaces. Applications can be made directly or via partner institutions like Pro Helvetia, with residencies varying in duration from two months to several months depending on the program.

Water & Rock Nature

Thassos Island, Greece

The Thassos artists' retreat, also known as Water & Rock art residency, is a nature-focused program on Thassos Island, Greece, welcoming artists, writers, musicians, researchers, and scientists to nurture creative expression in a mountainous village setting surrounded by forests and sea. It emphasizes cross-disciplinary exchanges, art-nature excursions, community living, and immersion in the local Greek island lifestyle, with options for guided hikes, yoga, and permaculture volunteering. Residencies typically last 1 week to 1 month, housed in a shared house with studio spaces, though a separate marble sculpting-focused retreat exists.

We-Che Art Residency

Ruta 259 km50, Argentina

We-Che is the place we chose to live and work, it is an artist run project, founded and designed by artists for artists. Located near Trevelin in the Chubut region of Patagonia Argentina, it is indeed the most austral Art Residency. We offer a tranquil workspace in an inspiring environment, a place to connect with other artists and engage with Patagonia as a complex natural, historical, and cultural ecosystem, fostering a respectful relationship between art and nature. located on 2ha piece of landscape, crossed by a river, planted of pine trees and native trees and bush. In a rural and natural area, bordering the Cascadas de Nant Y Fall Protected Natural Area and just a few kilometers from the southern entrance of Los Alerces National Park. We-Che is situated on the 259 Road, approximately 13km from the town of Trevelín and 15km from Futaleufú and the Chilean border. Located close to the historic village of Trevelin (10km) founded by Welsh immigrants. In a beautiful natural nest, in the heart of a valley facing the pre-Andean mountains, backing onto a protected natural area of over 40 hectares, crossed by a river and its waterfalls. Facing the 16th of October Valley, its vineyards, its famous and vast 5million tulip field, and the majestic mountains in the background. Beautiful changing skies and clear nights without light pollution. We-Che Welcome international nature-focused artists, writers and creative searchers, emerging or established, of any country and any discipline if their project fits to We-Che’s structures and facilities. Depending on the project, we can adapt our spaces and set up different equipments. That’s why we recommend applicants to detail their projects and needs. We-Che offers 2 distincts AIR program. General AIR program for fully self directed projects. Artists are free and autonomous in their practice and how they use their time at We-Che. If needed obviously we may punctually give a hand, and normal help and support. The duration can be modulated from 1 week to 2 month. General Residency cost : 350 USD / week - 1300 USD / month Special BOOK project AIR program half guided residency with a minimum duration of 1 month (extra weeks can be added to adjust to the final project, especially if combining with creation and /or production. A gradual mentorship and individual support aiming to achieve a personal book projects, or an Artbook project during the residency, from A to Z Residency for book project cost : 1600 USD / month - 350 USD / extra week Austral Spring 2026 residencies in September October and November 2026 Austral Summer 2026/2027 residencies in December 2026 and January 2027 Deadline application: september 31 Capacity We-Che can currently welcome up to 3 (max 4) artists simultaneously Accommodation Each artist have a private room, a private bathroom with toilet and shower, and a private desk. Studioworkshop All residents have access to the shared working living space a shared kitchen, laundry space. Interior and exterior workspace, and to the Eclectic Evolutive Library. Free wifi in private and shared space. How to apply Download and fill the application form on our website > how to apply section email it to We-Che: hola@wecheartresidency.ovh we try to answer everyone within 3-5 business days. You may also send us a pdf with a brief description of your project or what you want to achieve in We-Che along with some pictures of related works and any information that can help us understand. For more information and details about the AIR programs, the application, our equipments and facilities, or about the local context feel free to visit We-Che’s website and if you stil have questions to write us at hola@wecheartresidency.ovh Weblinks : Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weche_residency/ Website : https://wecheartresidency.ovh/

West Dean College

West Dean, United Kingdom

The West Dean College Residency Programme at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in the UK offers professional artists, writers, makers, and researchers onsite stays of one to three weeks (with occasional longer options like six weeks) to develop work, experiment with materials, and access workshops and facilities. Residents engage with students through tutorials, workshops, and presentations, continuing the legacy of founder Edward James in supporting early- to mid-career practitioners focused on craft, making, and sustainability. Various partnership residencies provide full board accommodation, studio space, and sometimes stipends.

Who Cares?

Huarte, Spain

Who Cares? is a Creative Europe-funded artist residency program focused on care practices and interdependence, hosted by Centro Huarte in Huarte, Spain, as part of a collaboration with Idensitat (Barcelona), SPACE (London), Rupert (Vilnius), and Grey Area (Korcula). The residency takes place in Habitación, a hybrid residency-exhibition space at Centro Huarte that serves as both workspace and public exhibition area on weekends, with artists receiving mentorship and sharing their process online. It ran from 1 September to 24 October (potentially extended for international artists), emphasizing integration with local communities.

Wild Wonderful Rural

Harpers Ferry, United States

Wild Wonderful Rural Residencies by V4L Arts offers customized creative residencies in Harpers Ferry, WV, focusing on rural transition themes via participatory research. Provides production help, space, admin support, networking. Open to all disciplines; 2 weeks-2 months.

Wildacres Environmental Artist-In-Residence

Little Switzerland, United States

The Wildacres Environmental Artist-in-Residence Program, launched in at Wildacres Retreat in Little Switzerland, NC, welcomes artists, scientists, and professionals focused on global environmental issues like climate change, extinction, and habitat loss, selecting candidates for their intellectual rigor and activism. Residencies last 1-2 weeks from April to October, providing secluded cabins for focused creative work in a natural mountain setting. The program supports disciplines including art, social practice, writing, research, and environmental science, with no cost to participants.

WOWArtSci Supported

Carson, United States

Supported residencies for artists and scientists on the Taos Volcanic Plateau in Northern New Mexico. Features a private casita, studio space, and access to 20 acres with dark skies (Bortle 2).

Wyspa Progress Foundation

Gdansk, Poland

The Wyspa Progress Foundation, founded in 1994 in Gdansk, Poland, operates an interdisciplinary artist residency program called Wyspa AIR Port, aimed at introducing international researchers, theoreticians, critics, and creators of visual culture to the Tricity and Polish art scene. Residents collaborate with curators and project coordinators, access production resources, and engage in several-week stays focused on research and experimentation in their chosen fields. The program supports bold initiatives exploring connections with new technologies, ecology, posthumanism, and experimental forms at their Art Lab Wyspa venue on Sobieszewo Island.

Yamaguchi Shoten

Kyoto, Japan

Yamaguchi Shoten is an academic book publisher in Kyoto offering artist-in-residence stays in a historic Mingei-style building. Welcomes artists, designers, researchers, writers interested in folk art, handicrafts for 1-2 month residencies with shared facilities.

Youkobo Art Space

Tokyo, Japan

Youkobo Art Space is a Tokyo-based artist residency program providing studios, accommodation, and exhibition spaces for domestic and international artists to create new work, engage in research, and foster cultural exchange. Established in a former clinic, it offers flexible residency options prioritizing artists' goals across various disciplines, with opportunities for community involvement and networking. The program operates on a self-funded rental basis without financial support.

ZKM Center for Art and Media

Karlsruhe, Germany

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, hosts various artist residencies focused on media art, digital technologies, performative art, and interdisciplinary practices, often in collaboration with international partners. Programs like the Rauschenberg Residencies, Web Residencies, and specialized calls for machine learning or videopoetry artists provide opportunities for research, production, and experimentation at their Hertz-Lab facilities. Residencies typically last from four weeks to three months and offer stipends, housing, and access to advanced technological resources.

Zoma Contemporary Art Center

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC) is an eco-sensitive, educational artist-in-residence village in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, co-founded by artist Elias Sime and Meskerem Assegued, featuring architecture built with traditional techniques and recycled materials. It serves as a museum, garden, and residency space that inspires artists through sustainability, material innovation, and integration of tradition with contemporary practice, particularly suiting installation artists and sculptors. The program fosters knowledge exchange, hosts workshops with international artists, and integrates residents into Ethiopia's creative networks.

Zvona i Nari

Ližnjan, Croatia

Zvona i Nari (Bells & Pomegranates) is a library and literary retreat in Ližnjan, Croatia, offering free residencies to writers, poets, translators, editors, publishers, scholars, and others in the literary field to work on creative projects while engaging with the local community through readings or library activities. The program provides fully furnished houses on a country estate, accommodating 2-4 people each, with stays determined individually based on project needs and community involvement. Guests must contribute to the library's daily operations and respect shared spaces, with no stipend provided but housing free; food and travel are self-funded.