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.
Eiichi Yokoe
Year/s of residence : 1999, Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan
Visual arts
Tomoe Yokoi
Year/s of residence : 1970, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yumiko Yokoi
Year/s of residence : 2009, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Music
Seiji Yokokawa
Year/s of residence : 1971, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Mikio Yokomori
Year/s of residence : 1975, 2007, 2016, Association for the Promotion of French teaching in Japan (AFEP) , Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Haruka Yokonami
Year/s of residence : 2026, Nagoya School of Music
Music
Chiaki Yokota
Year/s of residence : 2009, Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan
Visual arts
Yuki Yokota
Year/s of residence : 2002, Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan
Visual arts
Zenichi Yokoyama
Year/s of residence : 1968, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Rami Yolzari
Year/s of residence : 1985, 1986, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Yona Lee
Year/s of residence : 2020, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yona Lee was born in 1986 in Busan, South Korea. She lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand, and completed MFA at Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010.
Yona Lee makes sculptural objects and installations that combine elaborate linear structures of stainless steel tubing with everyday objects of urban and domestic spaces. Yona Lee’s larger and more complex installations invite viewers to enter into and interact with the work in places. Her work allows itself open to being read as structure or system, as serious or funny, as aggressive or playful, as authoritarian or utopian, as utilitarian or pointless, as site-specific or self-contained, as light touch or heavy duty.
As well as large-scale and site-responsive installations, Yona Lee’s oeuvre includes discrete yet related sculptures that comprise smaller compositions of metal tubing with selected readymade objects such as lamps, mops, tables, and bus handles.
A new large-scale sculptural commission by Yona Lee will be exhibited for the 2020 Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea, and her work is concurrently the subject of a solo exhibition at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Yona Lee’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand; and Westspace, Melbourne, Australia.
Her work has recently featured in thematic exhibitions including the 15th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2019); and Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Seoul, South Korea (2016). She undertook residencies at SeMA Nanji and Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea in 2016, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand in 2020.
Yona Lee ‘In transit (highway)’
Tuguldur Yondonjamts
Year/s of residence : 2010, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yumiko Yonemura
Year/s of residence : 1986, 1994, 1995, Association for the Promotion of French teaching in Japan (AFEP) , Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yoriko Yoneyama
Year/s of residence : 2025, Nagoya University of the Arts
Visual arts
Man Shih Yonfan
Year/s of residence : 1980, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Peng Yong
Year/s of residence : 2022, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Visual arts
Wee Loon Yong
Year/s of residence : 2026, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
Visual arts
Xiao Yong
Year/s of residence : 2019, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)
Visual arts
Charlotte Yonga
Year/s of residence : 2026, Elles & Cité
Visual arts
Born in 1985 in Paris, Charlotte Yonga is a Franco-Cameroonian artist whose work explores the construction of identities through experiences of displacement, otherness and emotions. She examines the politics of representation that shape North-South relations. Her dramaturgical approach explores how bodies, shaped by both strength and vulnerability, become spaces for storytelling. Since 2021, she has been developing a body of work in photography and drawing centred on interpersonal connections and emotions, viewed as sensitive strategies for liberation. A graduate of ENSAPC, she has exhibited at Paris Photo, Art-O-Rama, Landskrona Photo and LagosPhoto, amongst others.
Charlotte Yonga © Raphaël Goutte, 2024
Hristo Yonkov
Year/s of residence : 2010, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
