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.
Susan Johnson
Year/s of residence : 2023, 1989, 1992, Virginia Center for the Arts, Australian Arts Council
Visual arts
Tarren Johnson
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.
Tom Johnson
Year/s of residence : 1981, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Tonika Johnson
Year/s of residence : 2023
Visual arts
Rachelle Johnston
Year/s of residence : 2010, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Literature
Bernard Joisten
Year/s of residence : 1990, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Kirsi Jokelainen
Year/s of residence : 2009, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Radovan Jokic
Year/s of residence : 2001, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Kalevi Jokinen
Year/s of residence : 1991, 1994, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Raija Jokinen
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2016, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Sirpa Jokinen
Year/s of residence : 2009, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Elina Jokipii
Year/s of residence : 2003, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Rita Jokiranta
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2014, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Dorota Jolda
Year/s of residence : 1992, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Nicole Jolicoeur
Year/s of residence : 1996, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Carmen Jolin
Year/s of residence : 2010, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Spectacle vivant
François Jolivet
Year/s of residence : 1974, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Alexandre Joly
Year/s of residence : 2007, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Visual arts
Jean-René Joly
Year/s of residence : 1981, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Joan Jonas
Year/s of residence : 1993, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
