Category: Residencies

  • August 14, 2024
    FIA is thrilled to announce the artists selected for residencies in 2024: Ghazaleh Avarzamani Jordan Bennett  Leo Cocar Wong Winsome…
  • April 9, 2024
    Leo Cocar is a cultural worker from the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First…
  • April 9, 2024
    Wong Winsome Dumalagan mainly works on videography and the sculpting of images. Through moving along with the camera, composing and…
  • April 9, 2024
    Ghazaleh Avarzamani (lives and works between Toronto and London) works primarily in sculpture and installation. She is interested in how…
  • April 9, 2024
    Jordan Bennett is L’nu (Mi’kmaq), from Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk). He currently works and lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS). Having…
  • April 9, 2024
    L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer working at the intersection between food studies, the environmental humanities, and…
  • April 9, 2024
    Paul Kolling, born 1993 in Karlsruhe, Germany, studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and completed his…
  • April 9, 2024
    Amy Malbeuf is a Métis visual artist and cultural tattoo practitioner from Rich Lake, Alberta in Treaty Six territory. She…
  • April 9, 2024
    Ethan Murphy is a lens-based visual artist from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He holds a BFA in Photography Studies…
  • April 9, 2024
    Mooni Perry is a visual artist based in Berlin and Seoul. In the past few years, she has been exploring…
  • April 9, 2024
    caner teker is a survivor, choreographer and artist. teker's performances involve the parasitic, transformative and autobiographical worldmaking. Through the manipulation…
  • April 9, 2024
    Syrus Marcus Ware is a Canadian artist, activist and scholar. He lives and works in Tkaronto, Ontario, Canada and is…
  • April 9, 2024
    Zak Leazer is a researcher and master’s candidate in architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His research focuses on…
  • April 9, 2024
    Taus Makhacheva (born 1983) creates works that explore the restless connections between historical narratives and fictions of cultural authenticity. Often…
  • April 9, 2024
    Sharon Lockhart is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography, often engaging…
  • September 20, 2023
    Ute Thon is a writer and art critic based in Hamburg, Germany. As text-editor-in-chief of ART magazine and foreign correspondent…
  • August 8, 2023
    Maureen Gruben's diverse multi-media practice incorporates organic and industrial materials that are frequently found or salvaged. She was born and…
  • June 21, 2023
    Ken Lum is known for his conceptual and representational art in a number of media, including painting, sculpture and photography.…
  • June 21, 2023
    Monica Bonvicini emerged as a visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice investigates the relationship…
  • March 2, 2023
    Michelle Rawlings (b. 1980), lives and works in Dallas, TX. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of…
  • February 16, 2023
    Maria is an artist, and a co-founding member of Assemble - award winning art, architecture and design studio based in…
  • January 19, 2023
    Lewis Hammond, b. 1987, Wolverhampton, UK. Lives and works between London and Berlin. Hammond completed a Post-graduate Diploma at the…
  • January 17, 2023
    Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a researcher and curator from Harare. She is currently the Curator for Contemporary Art at the…
  • January 16, 2023
    L. Sasha Gora is a writer and cultural historian with a focus on food studies, contemporary art, and the environmental…
  • January 13, 2023
    Cooking Sections examines the systems that organise the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the…
  • January 13, 2023
    Tamina Amadyar is dealing with memories to places and situations and converts them into reduced but colorful paintings which appear…
  • January 13, 2023
    Marta Arzak is a freelance curator specialised in food and interested in exploring the links between art, food, and cooking.…
  • January 13, 2023
    Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. Most recently, she was a curator for the Toronto Biennial…
  • January 13, 2023
    Pip Day is a curator, writer, educator and advisor based in Berlin with a practice of long-term collaborative research, programming,…
  • January 12, 2023
    Tak Pham is a Vietnamese contemporary art curator and writer, and curator at Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, Alberta. Prior…
  • June 11, 2022
    New Open Call: The Rise and Fall of Tides Fogo Island Arts is announcing an open call for an experimental…
  • June 6, 2022
    FIA is delighted to announce that Marta Arzak, Cooking Sections, L. Sasha Gora, Taus Makhacheva and Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa have…
  • April 20, 2022
    Richard Sides’ works explore contemporary ideas of meaning as an existential problem. These often manifest as environments that refer to…
  • March 2, 2022
    I was born in Brussels, Belgium where I still live and work with a variety of media: painting, furniture, writing…
  • February 28, 2022
    Tanya Talaga is an Anishinaabe journalist and speaker. Talaga’s mother’s family is from Fort William First Nation and her father…
  • January 6, 2022
    Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand are a filmmaker duo based in New York. Their work has been shown in the…
  • December 22, 2021
    Application period: December 22, 2021–February 13, 2022 Fogo Island Arts is delighted to announce an open call for a new…
  • November 1, 2021
    Armand Yervant Tufenkian is an Armenian-American filmmaker, born in 1988 to parents from Aleppo, Syria. His films include Accession (2018),…
  • October 29, 2021
    Fogo Island Arts is seeking an Intern for a 3-month period. The internship is based on Fogo Island, starting March…
  • September 22, 2021
    Karimah Ashadu (b. London 1985) is a British-Nigerian Artist living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Ashadu’s practice explores labour,…
  • September 22, 2021
    David Scott Kessler is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Philadelphia. His practice fluctuates fluidly between digital 3D animation,…
  • September 15, 2021
    Marco Bruzzone (b. 1974, Genoa) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Biology at the University of Genova and Photography…
  • September 14, 2021
    Zuza Golinska (b. 1990, living and working in Warsaw and Gdansk, PL) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the impact…
  • September 13, 2021
    Teresa Baker (b. 1985) is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western, ND. She currently lives and…
  • September 7, 2021
    Nicole Travers was born and raised in the small hamlet of Little Port, Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk. Travers is a Mi’kmaw woman…
  • September 7, 2021
    Emily Pittman is a visual artist and writer based in St. John’s, NL. She earned an Honours BA (with Distinction),…
  • September 7, 2021
    Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is a Filmmaker and Cinematographer working mainly in non-fiction. His films have played and earned awards at international…
  • September 7, 2021
    Eli Kerr is a Canadian curator and writer based in Montréal. With an interest and commitment to place, scale and…
  • August 31, 2021
    Rob Crosse completed his MFA in Fine Arts at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He was a…
  • August 31, 2021
    Minh Nguyen is a writer, editor, and curator who focuses on decentered histories of conceptual, pedagogical, and cinematic arts; the…
  • August 31, 2021
    Sung Tieu is an artist based in Berlin. Currently, her work researches Post-Cold War histories, their ideological narratives and psychological…
  • August 31, 2021
    Kablusiak is a renowned multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist and curator who uses Inuk ingenuity to create work in a variety of…
  • August 27, 2021
    Eva Giolo (b.1991, Brussels) is an artist working across film, video, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at Sadie…
  • August 25, 2021
    Sharon Lockhart (Born 1964) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. In a diverse practice that includes installation, photography, film, painting…
  • August 19, 2021
    Nelson White is Mi’Kmaq painter who is a member of the Flat Bay First Nation Band (No'kmaq Village) in Flat…
  • August 19, 2021
    Fernando López Escrivá is a filmmaker and editor specialized in documentary and currently venturing in fiction. His first documentary film,…
  • August 17, 2021
    Larry Weyand is a rug hooker whose work defies the established properties of traditional floor decor, domesticity and gender. Fueled…
  • July 21, 2021
    Mark Lewis is a Canadian artist living in London, where he is Professor in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins,…
  • July 13, 2021
    Bothy Project, Fogo Island Arts and Fogo Island Workshops are delighted to announce Cross Currents, a residency and professional development project for…
  • July 12, 2021
    Kari Cwynar is a curator and editor living in Toronto, Canada. She is a Curator at Evergreen Brick Works, where…
  • July 12, 2021
    Monika Sosnowska was born in 1972 in Ryki, Poland. Sosnowska witnessed the change of Poland’s political system from Communism to…
  • July 12, 2021
    Gabriele Langendorf (b. 1961, Rheinfelden, Germany) studied painting at the School of Art and Design in Basel and at the…
  • July 12, 2021
    Nora N. Khan's research focuses on experimental art and music practices that make arguments through software. She specializes in simulation…
  • July 12, 2021
    Charlene Hahne is a visual artist based in Weimar who works primarily in the field of painting. With a focus…
  • July 12, 2021
    Shezad Dawood (born 1974) lives and works in London. His practice transcends disciplines to deconstruct systems of image, language, site…
  • July 12, 2021
    Cana Bilir-Meier lives and works in Munich and Vienna. She studied visual art and art education at the Academy of…
  • July 12, 2021
    Niko Abramidis & NE was born in 1987, he lives and works in Munich and Berlin. In his practice, Abramidis…
  • July 12, 2021
    Artur Żmijewski (b. 1966, Warsaw) is a Polish artist, filmmaker and photographer. Between 1990 and 1995, Żmijewski studied in the…
  • July 12, 2021
    Ashes Withyman* lives and works in Montreal. Solo exhibitions include: A Dark Switch Yawning, Neptune Skeletons Thronging, Black Bucket Prolonging,…
  • July 12, 2021
    Janique Vigier (b. 1989, Winnipeg) is a curator and writer based in upstate New York. She is the Assistant Editor…
  • July 12, 2021
    Michael Staniak (b. 1982, Melbourne) earned a BFA and an MFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne; as…
  • July 12, 2021
    Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn is based between Berlin and Bangkok. Their interdisciplinary practice combines writing, performance, installation and moving image to explore…
  • July 12, 2021
    Questions of belonging, tolerance and identification often underpin the work of Zac Langdon-Pole. Born in Auckland, New Zealand (1988), Langdon-Pole…
  • July 12, 2021
    Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer originally from Whitehorse, Yukon. She was co-curator of the SITE Santa Fe Biennial,…
  • July 12, 2021
    Corinna Schneider (b. 1989, Saarbruecken) started studying Communication Design at the School of Fine Arts Saar in 2009. In 2013,…
  • July 9, 2021
    Aslan Gaisumov (b. 1991) lives and works in Grozny, Chechnya. Gaisumov is developing an oeuvre that feeds on, but also…
  • July 9, 2021
    Oscar Enberg (b.1988, New Zealand) is an artist based in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Taste and Power (2018), Hopkinson Mossman,…
  • July 9, 2021
    Thomas Bayrle (b. 1937, Berlin) is a Frankfurt-based artist whose works spans mediums and movements including Pop, Op, and Conceptual…
  • July 9, 2021
    For the past 17 years Elizabeth McIntosh has explored abstraction beyond the conventions established by Modernist abstract painting. Based in…
  • July 9, 2021
    Born in Berlin, Leon Kahane grew up in the setting of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). His artistic practice…
  • July 9, 2021
    Charles Stankievech (b. 1978, Canada) is an artist whose research has explored the notion of “fieldwork” in the embedded landscape,…
  • July 9, 2021
    Joseph Del Pesco is a curator, writer and publisher. Since 2009 he has been Director, and in 2016 became International…
  • July 9, 2021
    Brian Jungen lives and works in the North Okanagan, British Columbia. Solo exhibitions include Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2016); Kunstverein Hannover…
  • July 9, 2021
    Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn (b. Côte-des-Neiges, Canada) is a research-based artist who lives in Stockholm. She completed the Whitney’s Independent Study…
  • July 9, 2021
    Jan Paul Evers was born in Cologne in 1982. From 2005 to 2011, he studied Fine Art at the Braunschweig…
  • July 9, 2021
    Brenda Draney holds a BA in English and a BFA in Painting from the University of Alberta, as well as…
  • July 9, 2021
    Keren Cytter is a New-York based video, film, installation, and performance artist. After studying at the Avni Institute in Tel…
  • July 9, 2021
    Jeremy Shaw (b. 1977, North Vancouver) works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and…
  • July 9, 2021
    MAP Office is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (b. 1966, Casablanca, Morocco) and Valérie Portefaix (b. 1969, Saint-Étienne,…
  • July 9, 2021
    Walter Scott is an interdisciplinary artist working across writing, illustration, performance and sculpture. In 2011 while living in Montreal, he…
  • July 9, 2021
    Nico Ihlein works and lives in Berlin. He studied Information Science at Freie Universität Berlin and Experimental Media Design at…
  • July 9, 2021
    Nadia Belerique (born 1982; lives and works in Toronto) constructs installations that engage with the poetics of perception and asks…
  • July 9, 2021
    Mark Mann is a freelance writer based in Montreal. He writes about science and tech for Motherboard at Vice, and…
  • July 9, 2021
    Flaka Haliti (born 1982, Prishtina) lives and works in Munich. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Prishtina University in…
  • July 9, 2021
    Marko Lulić lives and works in Vienna. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His work deals intensively with topics…
  • July 9, 2021
    Goran Petrović Lotina works as a researcher, curator and theorist in visual and performing arts and film. He holds a…
  • July 9, 2021
    Born in Chicago, Illinois, Rea Tajiri is a filmmaker and visual artist. She earned both her BFA and MFA from…
  • July 8, 2021
    Wilfred Almendra is a French/Portuguese artist who lives and works in Cholet, France. His work draws upon architectural influences found…
  • July 8, 2021
    Augustas Serapinas is based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his BA in Sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art in…
  • July 8, 2021
    Isa Melsheimer, born 1969 in Neuss, Germany, studied at the University of Arts, Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include: We live…
  • July 8, 2021
    Jumana Manna is a visual artist working primarily with film and sculpture who was raised in Jerusalem and lives in…
  • July 8, 2021
    Ieva Epnere (b. 1977) lives and works in Riga, Latvia. She creates photographs, video works and films where personal, private…
  • July 7, 2021
    Edgar Leciejewski explores the various social and scientific uses of photography. His work employs an experimental, analytic approach to the…
  • July 7, 2021
    Nicole Lattuca is a curator and educator originally from Massachusetts, USA. Lattuca received her M.A. in Exhibition and Museum Studies…
  • July 7, 2021
    Generally I am interested in the human condition, with a specific interest in the things we say. There is no…
  • July 7, 2021
    The Namibian-born violinist George Alexander van Dam has been a committed performer of contemporary music since the early stages of…
  • July 7, 2021
    Agnes Walsh was born in Placentia, Newfoundland. She is a poet and a playwright. She has published two collection of…
  • July 7, 2021
    Jerry Ropson started out from Pollard’s Point, a tiny community in rural Newfoundland. Ropson received his BFA from Memorial University,…
  • July 7, 2021
    Steffen Jagenburg sees the world reflected in the people who live there. Just as colours seep into each other, so…
  • July 7, 2021
    Theodore Zachary Cotler is the author of two collections of poetry, House with a Dark Sky Roof (2011) and Sonnets to the…
  • July 7, 2021
    Mark Clintberg is an artist and art historian based in Montreal, Quebec. He has shown his work in institutions across…
  • July 7, 2021
    Holly Ward is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, multi-media installation, architecture and drawing as a means to examine…
  • July 7, 2021
    Patrick Staff is an artist based in London working with video, installation, performance and publishing. Previous projects have explored the…
  • July 7, 2021
    Tobias Spichtig's work is based on a discourse concerning images and their meaning—more specifically, the overwhelming presence of the media…
  • July 7, 2021
    Robin Simpson is an art historian, curator and student based in Vancouver where he is currently a Ph.D. student in…
  • July 7, 2021
    Steve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts to produce complex…
  • July 7, 2021
    Samuel Thomas Martin is the author of the story collection This Ramshackle Tabernacle (Breakwater, 2010), short-listed for the BMO Winterset Award and…
  • July 7, 2021
    Chris Kabel was born in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands in 1975. He graduated in 2001 from the Design Academy Eindhoven. In…
  • July 7, 2021
    Lyn Hughes was born in Wales in 1952, and lived in South Africa for eighteen years before settling in Sydney in…
  • July 7, 2021
    Katie Bethune-Leamen works in sculpture, video and installation. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph, and has exhibited…
  • July 7, 2021
    My name is Danai Anesiadou. I was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Belgium, and now live in Brussels.…
  • July 7, 2021
    Hannah Rickards lives and works in London. She is the recipient of the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize in 2018, the…
  • July 6, 2021
    Rory Middleton (1977) lives and works in Portobello, Scotland. He studied at Leith School of Art, Edinburgh and Falmouth School…
  • July 6, 2021
    Johan Lundh is a Swedish curator, writer, and translator working internationally. Together with Canadian curator and writer Aileen Burns, Lundh…
  • July 6, 2021
    Janice Kerbel studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at the Emily Carr College of Art in…
  • July 6, 2021
    David Kelley was born in Portland, Oregon. He is an artist working with photography, video, and installation. His recent projects draw…
  • July 6, 2021
    Aileen Burns is the co-CEO of the Remai Modern in Saskatoon.  Burns is also a co-curator of the 2013 Turner…
  • July 6, 2021
    Zin Taylor (1978, Canada) is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium. “Thoughts about a subject, turned into forms about a…
  • July 6, 2021
    Andreas Siqueland lives and works in Oslo. His practice is concerned with the relationship of art to nature and notions…
  • July 6, 2021
    Silke Otto-Knapp is originally from Germany. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design,…
  • July 6, 2021
    Kevin Schmidt was born in 1972 and is based in Toronto. Schmidt's practice explores the role of the artist in…
  • July 6, 2021
    Oliver Lutz's work explores conditions surrounding the individual including methods by which s/he is understood and defined through media and…
  • July 6, 2021
    Siddhartha Das is a Delhi-based cultural professional who works through art and design. As a designer Das often strategizes and…
  • July 6, 2021
    Mike Penton is a singer and musician who grew up on Fogo Island, in the community of Joe Batt’s Arm.…
  • July 5, 2021
    Zachary Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. His work examines the nature of propaganda, politics, nation-building, religion, and…
  • July 5, 2021
    In Michele Di Menna’s artistic practice, the contrast between time-based and static works are a central component, as well as performative and…
  • July 5, 2021
    Abdul Sharif Baruwa is a visual artist who lives and works in Vienna. Baruwa’s practice involves material observation and experimentation as…
  • July 5, 2021
    Steven Cottingham is an artist working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada). His…
  • July 5, 2021
    Corrie Jackson is a curator and collection manager. She is currently the RBC Senior Art Curator, directing the management and…
  • July 5, 2021
    Karsten Födinger was born in 1978 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Realized…
  • July 5, 2021
    Endri Dani was born in 1987 in Shkodra, Albania. He lives and works in Tirana, Albania. Initially training as a painter,…
  • July 5, 2021
    Yvonne Mullock is a graduate from The Glasgow School of Art and is currently located in Mohkinstsis/ Calgary, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory. Her…
  • July 5, 2021
    (b. Mexico City, 1983) With five feature films, Yulene is one of the most prolific directors from Latin America in…
  • July 5, 2021
    Yotaro Niwa (b. 1973, Awaji Island, Japan) is a Berlin based artist. The subject matter of his recent work was a complex…
  • July 5, 2021
    Willem de Rooij (b. 1969, Beverwijk, NL) investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images through a variety of media. Appropriations and…
  • July 5, 2021
    Will Gill earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1991, with a focus on sculpture.…
  • July 5, 2021
    Selma Makela lives and works in Galway, Ireland, Graduating from CCAM Galway in 2007. Her painting practice references meteorological and geological phenomena as…
  • July 5, 2021
    Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens’ collaborative practice combines a concise approach to the form and construction of the art object with a…
  • July 5, 2021
    Ricardo Okaranza was born in Spain and is now based in Berlin. In 2007 he left a 25-year career as a professional…
  • July 5, 2021
    Pó Rodil is a transdisciplinary performance artist from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Their practice is based on problematizing and researching queer life and…
  • June 29, 2021
    Paul P. (1977, Canada) first became known for his drawings and paintings of young men that systematically re-imagined found erotic…
  • June 29, 2021
    Marlene Creates is an environmental artist and poet who lives and works in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador. Underlying all…
  • June 29, 2021
    From 2013 onwards line kramer and marjolijn kok formed the artist's collective THE KOKRA FAMILY. This family developed from a…
  • June 29, 2021
    Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. 1983, New Orleans) is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. He uses magazines, advertising, cinema, and…
  • June 29, 2021
    Lucy Pawlak is a troublemaker whose body of work focuses on making room for improvisation and play within structure. She deploys a…
  • June 29, 2021
    Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She received her BA…
  • June 29, 2021
    Based in Vienna and Brussels, Leander Schönweger constructs scenarios that tell no story, but create atmospheres with their own open,…
  • June 29, 2021
    Keto Logua (b. 1988 in Sokhumi, Georgia) is a Georgian artist based in Berlin. Logua’s practice addresses realm of knowledge, nature and corresponding scientific…
  • June 29, 2021
    Working with a variety of media including installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass, Newby is a sculptor who is committed…
  • June 29, 2021
    Geoff Butler is a painter, writer and amateur musician. He generally works in series or themes to better explore ‘the…
  • June 29, 2021
    Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, specializing in the study of documentary and artists’…
  • June 29, 2021
    Eleni Bagaki is an interdisciplinary artist based in Athens, Greece. Bagaki holds a Master’s in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London. In her  artistic practice,…
  • June 29, 2021
    Darryn Doull is currently the Curator of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, with previous appointments as the Curator of Canadian Art at The Rooms…
  • June 29, 2021
    Anna-Sophie Berger (b. 1989, Vienna, Austria) is an artist living and working in New York and Vienna. She has had…
  • June 29, 2021
    Anita Nowak, PhD is an empathy expert and award-winning educator at McGill University, passionate about Next Gen leadership. She is…