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Residency Fellowship

One US-based applicant per season of the International Residency will be awarded a Full Fellowship, which covers all program fees for the season. A jury consisting of NARS staff and select art professionals review applications on the merit of artistic quality and level of need, studio practice, and the potential professional development and benefit from engaging with the NARS community. Only US-based artists are eligible to receive the Full Fellowship.

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Current Residency Fellow

Season I, 2026

Obadah Aljefri

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Guatemala

Guatemala

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Hungary

Hungary

Peru

Peru

South Africa

South Africa

Thailand

Thailand

Brazil

Brazil

Cyprus

Cyprus

Germany

Germany

Venezuela

Venezuela

Poland

Poland

Georgia

Georgia

Panama

Panama

Slovakia

Slovakia

Chile

Chile

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Philippines

Philippines

Ireland

Ireland

Singapore

Singapore

Ghana

Ghana

Colombia

Colombia

Haiti

Haiti

Scotland

Scotland

El Salvador

El Salvador

Kenya

Kenya

Iceland

Iceland

Belgium

Belgium

Tibet

Tibet

Turkey

Turkey

Uruguay

Uruguay

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Taiwan

Taiwan

Sweden

Sweden

Finland

Finland

Pakistan

Pakistan

Israel

Israel

Palestine

Palestine

Denmark

Denmark

Switzerland

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Czech Republic

Spain

Spain

Australia

Australia

France

France

Ecuador

Ecuador

Mexico

Mexico

New Zealand

New Zealand

Netherlands

Netherlands

Japan

Japan

Italy

Italy

Greece

Greece

Canada

Canada

Iran

Iran

China

China

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

South Korea

South Korea

India

India

United States

United States

Meet the Previous Residency Fellows

Season I, 2023

Rex Delafkaran

Rex Delafkaran is an Iranian American interdisciplinary artist and dancer from California, based in Washington, D.C. Delafkaran holds a degree in Ceramics and Performance Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. Using movement and objects she explores ideas of failure and hybridity among bodies, objects, identities and language. Delafkaran has exhibited and staged performances at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, DC), Panoply Performance Lab (Brooklyn, NY), Platform Art Fair (Athens, GR), Satellite Art Fair Miami (Miami, FL), Southern Exposure Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and the Textile Museum (Washington, DC) among others. She is a recent recipient of a Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant and is the Co-founder of but, also an artist run space that sells artist made products, produces exhibitions and works with a mission of empowering artists to both self sustain and experiment. Delafkaran makes her work at STABLE Arts studio in Washington, and exhibits and performs nationally and internationally.

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