Apply for 2024 Visual Arts Residencies at Banff Centre
Explore new directions in your work with artists from around the world while being inspired by studio spaces and facilities in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Banff Artist in Residence: Spring 2024 & Summer 2024
Spring Deadline: January 10 | Program Dates: May 6–June 7, 2024
Summer Deadline: April 10 | Program Dates: August 12–September 13, 2024
The Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) program offers visual artists the space and time to engage in intensive, self-directed research and studio practice in a supportive learning environment. Participants are provided with a studio, accessible 24 hours a day, as well as targeted access to our extensive facilities.
This program is for visual artists with an exhibition/publication record who have completed formal training in visual arts at the post-secondary level, or who have equivalent experience and recognition from their peers.
Banff International Curatorial Institute: Art, Writing, Practice
Deadline: February 7 | Program Dates: July 2–19, 2024
Co-led by faculty Tina Campt and Macarena Gómez-Barris with guest lecturers Saidiya Hartman and Jack Halberstam, Art, Writing, Practice is a residency and public symposia on art writing with a particular focus on experimental forms. A program of the Banff International Curatorial Institute, Art, Writing, Practice is open to writers, critics, scholars, curators, and creative writers interested in arts-based writing and seeking mentorship in this field.
Visual Arts Thematic Residency: Get LIT! Language, Image, Text
Deadline: February 21 | Program Dates: June 24–July 26, 2024
Led by faculty Joi Arcand, Whess Harman, August Klintberg, and Michael Turner, this five-week residency invites visual artists working in all mediums to explore language, image, words, and text through self-directed studio practice and research creation.
The application fee for each program is $65 ($35 for applicants who identify as Indigenous).
For more information, visit banffcentre.ca.
