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.
Ehsan Norouzi
Year/s of residence : 2021, French Embassy in Iran
Literature
Ehsan Norouzi is a non-fiction writer based in Tehran. His books, all presented as travel narratives, are each a personal quest to find and record our subjective geographical and historical coordinates.
After his European travelogue comparing his experience to a 19th century Iranian traveler’s, and his acclaimed book on his train trips in Iran mixed with the history of railroad, Norouzi’s current project intends to map the Iranian modern prose, an effort started by the literary figures outside the country’s borders. The project tries to use maps and letters not only as literary themes but as new potentialities for writing.
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Maria Norrman
Year/s of residence : 2022, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
Visual arts
Heta Norros
Year/s of residence : 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, Cité internationale des arts, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Visa Norros
Year/s of residence : 1993, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Elisabet Norseng
Year/s of residence : 2024, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Visual arts
Elisabeth Norseng
Year/s of residence : 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, Frits Thaulow Foundation, Norway, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Louise North
Year/s of residence : 2005, Tasmania University, Australia
Literature
Lyn Northam
Year/s of residence : 2018, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Sara Northerner
Year/s of residence : 1987, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
Jennifer Norton
Year/s of residence : 2014, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Michael Noser
Year/s of residence : 2012, Visarte - Professional Association of Visual Artists of Zentralschweiz, Switzerland
Visual arts
Torill Nost
Year/s of residence : 2018, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Visual arts
Regina Nothdurfter
Year/s of residence : 1998, Land of Salzburg, Austria
Visual arts
Vanessa Notley
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Olivier Nottellet
Year/s of residence : 1998, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
François Nouguies
Year/s of residence : 2005, 2006, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Mohamed Nouiri
Year/s of residence : 1999, 2012, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Mohammed Noujmi
Year/s of residence : 2016, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Abed Nour Y J
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institut français
Visual arts
Elaheh Nouri
Year/s of residence : 2025, French Embassy in Iran
Literature
Elaheh Nouri (b. 1993, Iran) is a writer and youth theatre director whose practice centers on writing as a collaborative and community-driven act. Trained in theatre directing (M.A.), she works across short fiction, scripts, audio texts, and site-specific sound pieces, often developed through workshops with children, young girls, and marginalized groups. Her performable writing seeks to exist on page, stage, and in public spaces. Since 2016, she has produced children’s audio stories and engaged with oral storytelling at the Institute for Children’s Research. Her debut collection, Garotman (Noda Publications, 2021), reveals a minimalist and experimental voice within contemporary Persian fiction. Nouri has adapted classics like The Little Prince and The Little Black Fish into puppet scripts, and in 2019 created A Brief History of Almost Everything, a street play exploring ecological themes. Central to her practice are participatory workshops such as The Gaya (2022–23), co-written and performed by students. In 2025, she designed an audio-walk in Lale Park, Tehran, merging environmental and historical storytelling. Influenced by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, she integrates these tools into her writing and teaching, turning collective expression into public art.
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