The Damsels, artists in residence as part of the exhibition “Sprialing, Twisting, Unraveling: Explorations in Pattern and Form”. ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, July 13, 2024–June 29, 2025. Photograph by Tim Trumble.
About the Artist Residency Program
Overview
Established in 2011, the ASU Art Museum Artist Residency activates Arizona State University’s distinguished faculty, scholarship, research and vast relationships with institutions in the broader Phoenix metropole to enable innovative and experimental studio directions. Museum staff, university faculty and institutional partners expand artists’ research, resourcing and project development capacities. Selected artists are multi-disciplinary with process-based methods that respond to the museum’s unique site and culture.
How do I become an artist-in-residence?
The museum’s curatorial team invites resident artists and scholars. The museum invites 3–5 artists or collectives per year across media. At this time, there is no formal application process.
What is the duration of the residency period?
Each residency period is bespoke and tailored to fit the artist and their proposal. The duration varies and is contingent upon project requirements.
What is accomplished during a residency period?
Artists are encouraged to leverage the museum’s and the wider university’s vast resources through workshops, classroom visits, research travel, laboratory work, education programming, civic engagement, independent study, interdisciplinary consultation, exhibitions, newly commissioned projects, and performances among other projects. Artists are especially encouraged to undergo research within the museum’s dynamic holdings.
Residents have made scholarly contributions across various academic fields and have recently exhibited internationally in venues such as Documenta, Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Pacific Standard Time Los Angeles and Desert X, among others.
We center art and artists in the service of social good and community wellbeing.