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.

Binh Danh

Yee Ling Tang

Kerry Skarbakka

Philip Zimmermann

Don Gregorio Anton

Abigail Hadeed

Lisa M. Robinson

Beatrix Reinhardt

Hank Willis Thomas

Migdalia Valdes

Suzanne Opton

Ben Gest

Jennifer Greenburg

Peggy Nolan

Angelika Rinnhofer

Michael Schreier

Kanako Sasaki

Martin Kollár

Rik Pinkcombe

Keith Johnson

Susan Lipper

Tone Stockenström

Pipo Nguyen-duy

Myra Greene
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.