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.
Marwah Almugait
Year/s of residence : 2021, Institut français
Visual arts
Saif Almurayati
Year/s of residence : 2011, FONAS (Friends of the National Art School of Sydney), Australia
Visual arts
Jenny Alnaes
Year/s of residence : 1999, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Sondos Alnakhala
Year/s of residence : 2022, Institut français de Jérusalem - Gaza Office
Architecture and design
Reem Alnatsheh
Year/s of residence : 2022, Welfare Association (Taawon)
Visual arts
Aliya Abdulhakeem Alobaidly
Year/s of residence : 2025, Fire Station
Visual arts
Poovi Alognon
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institut français
Music
Alejandro Enmanuel Alonso Estrella
Year/s of residence : 2018, Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Cinema
Khelil Aloulou
Year/s of residence : 1977, 1978, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation, Tunisia
Visual arts
Omar Aloulou
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2–12
Music
Omar Aloulou is a Tunisian composer of film and electronic music.
In 2015, he began composing primarily for the cinema, signing his first film scores, including the soundtrack to Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi, un vent de liberté, which won an award at the 2016 Berlinale, as well as Weldi / Mon Cher Enfant, which will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight in 2018. The film Benzine, for which he wrote the score, was in official competition for Best Original Score at the Aubagne International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, he composed the music for the film Black Medusa, which was selected in official competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
In 2018, he composed and produced a ciné-concert based on Friedrich Murnau’s Faust, a German legend. In it, he tries to approach electronic music by drawing inspiration from classical writing, using themes and leitmotivs and trying to imagine an orchestra made up of synthesizers.
In 2020, he released an electronic concept album entitled Olenin, a free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel The Cossacks. The creative driving force behind this album is the attempt to create narrative and descriptive music, in the manner of symphonic poems.
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Karen Alphonso
Year/s of residence : 2010, 2011, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Sophie Alphonso
Year/s of residence : 2013, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Visual arts
Laura Alport
Year/s of residence : 1997, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
Amjad Alrasheed
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français
Cinema
Shatha Alsaidan
Year/s of residence : 2025, Intermix
Visual arts
Shatha Alsaidan (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Rehabilitation Sciences (2009), as well as two Master’s degrees in management—one in Healthcare Administration (2017) and another in International Art and Cultural Management from Rome Business School (2024).
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Daniah Alsaleh
Year/s of residence : 2025, Intermix
Visual arts
Daniah Alsaleh is a multidisciplinary artist based in Saudi Arabia. She studied computer applications at King Saud University before training at Safia Binzagr’s atelier, where she built a strong foundation in traditional drawing and painting. Her early practice centred on large-scale geometric compositions inspired by Islamic patterns. She later earned an MFA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, expanding her work into themes of memory, cultural conditioning, and media influence. Moving fluidly between analogue and digital, she reinterprets traditional forms through contemporary technologies. Daniah exhibits widely in the Middle East and internationally, has participated in residencies in Saudi Arabia and Europe, and was the recipient of the 2019 Ithra Art Prize.
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Rani Alsharbati
Year/s of residence : 2023, Welfare Association (Taawon)
Visual arts
Amira Alsharif
Year/s of residence : 2019, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Visual arts
Basma Alsharif
Year/s of residence : 2014, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Sarra Alshehhi
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français
Cinema
