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.
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.
Courtesy of the artist
Gholam Hossein Nouri Nekah
Year/s of residence : 2010, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Catherine Noury
Year/s of residence : 2002, 2003, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Jaako Nousiainen
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2014, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Richard Nova Milne
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2011, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Stéphanie Nova Milne
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2011, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Nils Nova
Year/s of residence : 2004, Cité internationale des arts, Visarte - Professional Association of Visual Artists of Zentralschweiz, Switzerland
Visual arts
Pedro Novaes
Year/s of residence : 1997, Institut français
Music
Karolina Noemi Novak
Year/s of residence : 2008, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Vladimir Novak
Year/s of residence : 2019, Croatian Association of Visual Artists
Visual arts
Petra Novakova-Ondreickova
Year/s of residence : 2007, Union of Visual Artists of Slovakia
Visual arts
Zvonko Novakovic
Year/s of residence : 1986, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Janet Novas
Year/s of residence : 2018, Centre national de la danse
Dance
José Maria Novelo Izquierdo
Year/s of residence : 2012, Institut français
Visual arts
