Take Your Practice Further in a Visual Arts Residency at Banff Centre
Engage with leading contemporary faculty, access exceptional studios, and develop your practice in Banff’s inspiring mountain setting.
Visual Arts residencies at Banff Centre offer dedicated time, spacious studios, and thoughtful mentorship for project-based studio practice. Participants are guided by accomplished faculty through research, experimentation, and peer-engaged learning.
Visual Arts Thematic – On Other Archives
Application Deadline: May 6, 2026
Program Dates: November 2–December 4, 2026
Working with institutional, personal, fictional and/or speculative archives, participants are invited to think critically about the archive as a method or “technology” for re-storying social and cultural narratives. Themes may include but are not limited to familial/ancestral lineages and cultural inheritance, oral histories, micro-histories, absence, amnesia, and re-memory. Participants will engage in stimulating discussion and mentorship by leading faculty, artists Deanna Bowen and Krista Belle Stewart, and curator Tarah Hogue.
Visual Arts Thematic – Future Figurations
Application Deadline: June 3, 2026
Program Dates: January 25–February 26, 2027
Drawing on ideas of speculative futures, science fiction, myth-making, and world-building, artists are invited to research, imagine, and create possible selves and possible worlds, exploring concepts of embodied futurity.
In this program led by artist-faculty Rajni Perera and Marigold Santos, the concept of futurity is considered as an anti-oppressive and restorative force of hope and possibility. By decolonizing ideas of the body as defined by Eurocentric and heteronormative conditions, new possibilities of selfhood, agency, and self-reclamation are considered.
To learn more and apply, visit banffcentre.ca/visual-arts.
