18th Street’s International Artists in Residence Exchange program facilitates creative inter-cultural collaboration and experimentation among artists. In addition we strive to build a critical forum and context for the examination of such work by forging new relationships with arts agencies and centers around the world. Now in its 13th year, our program has hosted over 200 residencies in partnership with the countries of Australia, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, Sudan, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
(Eligiibility for our International Program is limited to cooperative partnerships with foreign government agencies and private foundation funding programs.)
Matana (m(a)-ta-na\) Roberts; internationally recognized, chicago born saxophonist/multidisciplinary sound conceptualist; working in various mediums of performance inquiry; has created alongside visionary experimentalists of this time period in various areas of improvisation, dance, poetry, visual art, theater; as a saxophonist, documented on various sound recordings as collaborator, side woman and leader. some recent work focused on …
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Mexican Artist Gustavo Gomez’s residency is supported by the Jumex Foundation. His work focuses on learning, understanding, and using the structures and epistemic tools of other branches of knowledge in order to generate objects and concepts that explore nature, matter and perception phenomena.His interests have developed into trying to create a hybrid between the knowledge …
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Born in Osaka, Japan, Michiko Yao is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work explores the psychology behind the unique social behaviors and fantasies of Japanese women, and the relationship of two imperialisms, Western and Japanese. Her work has been exhibited in many venues including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, REDCAT, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Japanese …
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