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.
Orama Nigou
Year/s of residence : 2023, High Commission of the French Republic in French Polynesia
Visual arts
A researcher in textile arts, it is after graduating from the Centre des Métiers d’Arts, that the artist specializes more in featherwork, a discipline that she experiments and develops around a major artifact of Polynesian heritage: the “Maro’ura”. This fragment that she reinterprets in her work was the subject of an eponymous exhibition at the musée du quai Branly in Paris.
Her approach stems from an in-depth research of the methods, practices and ancestral know-how of the Polynesian heritage around the textile, to then transpose this knowledge by a contemporary reinterpretation of the “gesture”. The artist relies on the past to bring a reflection of the current world and its ecological issues related to textiles. She also brings, through her work, visibility to the Polynesian heritage and an anchoring of the past in our contemporary society.
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Michele Nigrini
Year/s of residence : 1994, 2017, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Staffan Nihlen
Year/s of residence : 2014, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Visual arts
Sayaka Niikura
Year/s of residence : 2006, Nagoya Music School, Japan
Music
Antti Niinimaki
Year/s of residence : 1975, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Adoka Niitsu
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2016, Joshibi University - Art and Design, Japan
Visual arts
Zourab Nijaradze
Year/s of residence : 1993, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Majdal Nijim
Year/s of residence : 2015, City of Paris, France
Music
Nik M Shazmie
Year/s of residence : 2026, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
Visual arts
Tiina Kaarina Nikander-Porhola
Year/s of residence : 1992, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Akbar Nikanpour
Year/s of residence : 2006, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Mojgan Nikbakht Edlo
Year/s of residence : 2010, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Pero Nikcevic
Year/s of residence : 1987, 1988, Cité internationale des arts, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Lea Nikel
Year/s of residence : 1980, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Iida Nikitin
Year/s of residence : 2025, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Oleksandra Nikitina
Year/s of residence : 2026, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Visual arts
Aapo Nikkanen
Year/s of residence : 2018, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Anton Nikkilä
Year/s of residence : 2018, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Maj-Britt Niklasson
Year/s of residence : 2001, Cité internationale des arts, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Adam Niklewicz
Year/s of residence : 1996, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
