Top Artist Residencies in Los Angeles
In L.A., artists never lack sources of inspiration, exhibition openings to attend, and chances to meet new faces in the art world. With the support of residencies, artists can soak up what the buzzing Los Angeles art scene has to offer while deepening their practice. So what are you waiting for? Check out our list of top artist residencies in Los Angeles, California and find out which ones might be right for you!
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, free from the pressure of production or material exchange. They strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist’s time at the residency. The duration of residencies varies from seven (minimum) to fourteen days.
Rewards: Accommodation.
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18th Street Arts Center | Various Residency Programs
18th Street Arts Center is an artist residency program with a mission to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art-making. 18th Street encourages contemporary artists from around the globe to create new work within a supportive environment. They provide artists with space and time to take risks in ways that further the development of their practices, where the creative process is just as important as the outcome. They’ve also fostered and supported the work of many of Los Angeles’ most engaging and diverse artists and have built bridges to artist communities around the globe.
Rewards: Accommodation, funding, production & more
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The Residency Project | Residency Program for Underrepresented Artists
The Residency Project (TRP) provides time and space in support of creative research, artistic experimentation, and arts-based community engagement with an emphasis on creating opportunities for practitioners who are traditionally underrepresented in the arts—women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, artists with disabilities, and parents—as well as artists who give consideration to the environmental impact of their work and who actively pursue sustainable practices. The residencies are not medium-specific and are perfect for creative practitioners from many different disciplinary backgrounds or with a cross-disciplinary practice.
Rewards: Accommodation, funding, studio & more
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MAK Center | Artists- and Architects-in-Residence
Every year the MAK Artists- and Architects-in-Residence Program offers six-month residencies to international artists and architects. Residents live and work in the Mackey Apartments, and present projects in exhibitions at the end of their term in March and September. Offering long-term support to projects working at the intersection of architecture and the visual arts, the residency aims to create new interdisciplinary opportunities and confrontations.
Rewards: Accommodation, production, exhibition, & funding.
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Grand Central Art Center | Artist-In-Residence Program
The Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center Artist-In-Residence program is an ongoing project. Each year the university invites three artists from around the world to live and work at the art center for a period of one week to four months. The length of stay and specific projects the artist works on are negotiated with each artist. The artist lives and works in proximity with the twenty-seven Cal State Fullerton visual arts graduate students who also live and have studios in the art center.
Rewards: Accommodation, workspace, collaboration & more.
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