Artists in residence
Each year, the Cité internationale des arts welcomes more than 1,000 artists from around the world, offering them a space for creation, research, and exchange in Paris, in the Marais and Montmartre districts. Open to all artistic disciplines—visual arts, music, literature, film, design and architecture, performing arts, and curating—it enables artists to develop their projects in an environment that fosters experimentation and meaningful connections.
Wen-Ying She
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Visual arts
WORKING HARD is the brainchild of creative duo WEN-YING SHE (b.1989) and PO-YU KUO (b.1989) since 2015. They work on the border of audio memories and installation. For them, Working Hard is more than a name of the art collective but a method of aesthetic practice to reconstruct an imaginative space via archival approaches.
After they gained their MFA sculpture degree from National Taiwan University of Arts, their creations evolve along with their experience working and living at different artist residencies. From an individual angle, they observe and experience the collective life of different cultures and societies. Through field research and artistic practice, they unveil the soon-to-be-forgotten social landscapes by conjuring the memories of a distinct, culturally hybridized immigrant history.
Their works have been exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei), National Taiwan Museum of fine arts, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab), and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts among others. They also participated in residency projects at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany), Pedvāle Open Air Art Museum (Latvia), Mexico, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
Working Hard (Wen-Ying SHE & Po-Yu KUO)
Geoffrey Shea
Year/s of residence : 1988, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Garry Shead
Year/s of residence : 1973, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Visual arts
Tamar Sheaffer
Year/s of residence : 2016, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Charles Shearer
Year/s of residence : 1982, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Lesley Shearer
Year/s of residence : 2000, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Thomas Sheehan
Year/s of residence : 1985, 1989, Académie of Architecture, France
Visual arts
Jessie Shefrin
Year/s of residence : 1968, 2000, Alfred University, USA, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Abdel Salam Shehada
Year/s of residence : 2012, City of Paris, France
Spectacle vivant
Evgeny Sheherbinin
Year/s of residence : 2006, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Bashkim Shehu
Year/s of residence : 1978, 1980, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Music
Marjan Sheikh Zadeh
Year/s of residence : 2010, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Azar Sheikhbahaedinzadeh
Year/s of residence : 2016, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Taher Sheikholhokamaie
Year/s of residence : 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, Cité internationale des arts, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Thomas Shell
Year/s of residence : 1969, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Edwin Shelton
Year/s of residence : 1983, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Naomi Shemer
Year/s of residence : 1996, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Music
Jackie Shemesh
Year/s of residence : 2018, Association Belmachine
Architecture and design
Or Shemesh
Year/s of residence : 2017, Cité internationale des arts
Music
MUSIC
COMPOSITION
Or Shemesh, born in 1981 in Be’er-Sheva, Israel, is a composer. He is a post-graduate Meisterschüler student of composition at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdly University for Music and Theater in Leipzig.
Constantly seeking new ways to expand the limits of musical grammar, he introduces various raw, non-musical, readily found and familiar resonant materials within new musical contexts to de-familiarize them and activate their potential musicality.
Or Shemesh’s compositions have been performed in diverse venues including: the Sirga festival in Flix, Spain by the French Ensemble Soundinitiative, at the Felicia Blumenthal Hall in Tel-Aviv by the Austrian Phace ensemble, the Stainer Center in Holon, Israel in the frame of the project “Composing for immigrant musicians,” the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart and others.
Or Shemesh is a scholarship holder and research fellow of the ELES network for the years 2016-2018. In addition, he won several Excellency scholarships, among them the David Herzog Scholarship of the city of Graz, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship, the Swiss Associates of the Tel-Aviv University Scholarship, and others.
Noémi Shemi
Year/s of residence : 1973, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
