Refining Your Artistic Vision

Artist Residency Programs

December 16, 2024 by Rachel Gisela Cohen
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Fine Arts: Contemporary Practices residency participant Mariajosé Fernández-Plenge, 2024. Photo by Cat Guzman.

We are delighted to highlight our various artist residency programs and intensives through the Division of Continuing Education! In collaboration with various departments, we offer residency programs in fine arts, interdisciplinary practices, design, type, illustration, and more. 


SVA’s Artist Residencies provide artists, designers and creative professionals with essential time, space and a nurturing community to advance their projects and refine their artistic vision. These residencies include summer programs held on SVA’s campus in New York City, as well as year-round opportunities in online formats.



Beyond our established studio residencies, we offer a range of cutting-edge professional immersion programs. These initiatives allow artists to delve into emerging social and technological practices while fostering critical engagement within their disciplines.

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Fine Arts: Painting and Mixed Media residency participant Allie Jonscher, 2024. Photo by Cat Guzman.

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Fine Arts: Painting and Mixed Media residency participant Julian Joseph Kyle, Photo by Cat Guzman, 2024.

SVA’s Artist Residency programs alumni are also invited to participate in our Residency Alumni Network, an online network that offers alumni of all Artist Residency programs a platform on which to share their work, engage in discussion and create connections with the community of residency alumni from around the world. Participants are encouraged to engage their cohort in discussion, share work for critique, keep in touch via remote studio visits, and update the community on opportunities and news pertinent to their developing careers in the arts. Special events hosted by residency faculty and staff will keep the dialogue going as we navigate the realities of being working artists in the present.


Together, our diverse resources and programs create a dynamic environment that supports artistic development and exploration within the vibrant contemporary art world.


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Fine Arts residency participant's trip to Governors Island, 2024. Photo by Rachel Cohen.

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