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.
Margaret Clyde
Year/s of residence : 1979, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Hernan Coa
Year/s of residence : 2012, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Elizabeth Coats
Year/s of residence : 2014, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Visual arts
Ivan Cobal
Year/s of residence : 1986, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Vincentiu Coban
Year/s of residence : 1982, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Dwigth Coburn
Year/s of residence : 1985, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Kristin Coburn
Year/s of residence : 2006, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Thomas Coburn
Year/s of residence : 1988, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
Visual arts
Claire Cocano
Year/s of residence : 2008, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Benedetta Cocco
Year/s of residence : 2025, European Investment Bank
Visual arts
Benedetta Cocco (Cagliari, 1997) completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Mario Airò, and Aron Demetz. In 2024, she collaborated with Anna Maria Maiolino on exhibition setups for the Venice Biennale. She works from her studio at Emeroteca dell’Arte in Venice, partnering with Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation and Musei Civici (MUVE) on cultural events and exhibitions. In May 2025, she exhibited in Artefici del Nostro Tempo, a Venice Architecture Biennale project, and later unveiled her first public monument in Piazza Ferretto, created with local families. Her art explores time, memory, culture, dreams, and interiority, focusing on textile craftsmanship as a source of narratives and dreamlike, organic assemblages of the authentic self, inspired by Sardinian heritage and urban experiences.
Courtesy of the artist
Carla Coch
Year/s of residence : 2015, Alfred University, USA
Literature
Jean-Marc Cochereau
Year/s of residence : 1973, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Annelise Cochet
Year/s of residence : 2001, Alumni Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France
Visual arts
Malcolm Cochran
Year/s of residence : 2016, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Sadhbha Cockburn
Year/s of residence : 2023, National Art School
Visual arts
Ellen Cockerham Riccio
Year/s of residence : 2024, Virginia Center for the Arts
Music
Jane Cocks
Year/s of residence : 1985, 1986, Cité internationale des arts, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
Visual arts
Joel Cocks
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Visual arts
Joel Cocks is an artist from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Joel studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, New Zealand and he works with self-recorded visual archives, repurposing material from performances and video productions into new videos, scenographies, and installations. Since 2016, he has collaborated with Tarren Johnson, exploring cultural reproduction and fragmented memory through systems and poetry. Tarren Johnson grew up in North County San Diego, where she began studying dance and writing as a child. She continued her studies at CalArts in Los Angeles before moving to Europe, where she built a decade-long career in the performing arts. Her debut long-form poem, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, was published by Giselle’s Books. Tarren has performed at venues and festivals such as the Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Faurschou New York, Romaeuropa, Manifesta 11, and Art Basel.
Together, their work transposes contexts, enabling performance to exist in incomplete and indeterminate states; it spans performance, image-making, and the recontextualization of personal and archival material. Their evolving body of work explores fragmentation, cultural reproduction, and the peripheries of spectacle and has been showcased at Volksbühne, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Les Urbaines, Sophiensæle, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Systema, and the public program of the Paris Internationale and New Theater Hollywood. Tarren and Joel were laureates of La Becque’s principal residency program. In 2025, they will present a solo exhibition at The Physics Room in New Zealand.
Emmanuel Codjia
Year/s of residence : 1998, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Baptist Coelho
Year/s of residence : 2019, Institut français
Visual arts
