Deadline: 30 June 2025
The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation in collaboration with NIROX Foundation and the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand is offering a residency in South Africa to support an Indian artist.
The residency provides a comfortable, enabling, stimulating environment – for residents to research, imagine, experience and produce diverse ideas and works, to grow personal and creative practice.
Costs Covered
- The Residency is for six to seven weeks and covers travel and production costs.
- Living arrangements are provided by the Residency.
Program Specifications
- Without impeding privacy, artistic integrity or productivity, the residency promotes and enables resident artists to:
- Engage with diverse local artists, communities, educational facilities and the unique physical environment;
- Be introduced to institutions, individuals, and places of interest.
- Interact with other resident and visiting artists, events, guests, and service providers.
- Develop their practice through exhibitions, performances, studio visits, interviews, texts and other means.
- Participate in the production and dissemination of social and other related media, including podcasts and photographic/film productions that arise naturally from the residency and ensuing encounters.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be an Indian citizen currently residing in India.
- The applicant must be born on or after 1st January 1990.
- The applicant may be an emerging and mid-career Indian artist.
- An applicant with a practice in contemporary visual art working in all disciplines may apply.
- The applicant must be proficient in English.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The applicant should not have received any prior grant from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation for any other overseas project.
For more information, visit The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation.
