Artist-in-Residence Program
Interested in applying for a residency at Light Work?
Please review our guidelines.
Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 400 artists have participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence Program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.
The residency includes a $5,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.

Liz Johnson Artur

Jan McCullough

Steven Molina Contreras

Marion Wilson

Leonard Suryajaya

Melissa Catanese

Arko Datto

David O. Alekhuogie

Christie Neptune

Harold Mendez

Alanna Fields

Poloumi Basu

Rafal Milach

Arpita Shah

Ka-Man Tse

Pao Houa Her

Mark McKnight

Kris Graves

Zora Murff

Cian Oba-Smith

Sarker Protick

Meryl Meisler

Cristina Velásquez

Carolyn Drake
Artists-in-Residence earlier than 1999 are not archived online, however we hope to do so in the future.
Information about earlier artists can be found within individual issues of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual.