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.
Jan Owen
Year/s of residence : 2001, 2002, 2004, Australian Arts Council, Cité internationale des arts
Literature
Leisha Owen
Year/s of residence : 1999, Tasmania University, Australia
Visual arts
Melody Owen
Year/s of residence : 2007, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Wayde Owen
Year/s of residence : 2006, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
Visual arts
Bradley Owens
Year/s of residence : 1991, Stanford University, USA
Literature
Kate Owens
Year/s of residence : 2007, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Michael Owens
Year/s of residence : 1979, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Emmanuel Owusu-Bonsu
Year/s of residence : 2010, Institut français
Music
Seiko Oya
Year/s of residence : 2004, Nagoya Music School, Japan
Music
Emiko Oyama
Year/s of residence : 1998, 2004, 2007, Cité internationale des arts, Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design Tokyo
Visual arts
Hisanosuke Oyama
Year/s of residence : 1977, Musashino Art University, Japan
Visual arts
Vivian Oyarbide
Year/s of residence : 1997, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Ahmet Eyup Oygar
Year/s of residence : 1969, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Christelle Oyiri
Year/s of residence : 2022, Art Explora
Visual arts
Born in 1992 in the Paris region, Christelle Oyiri is a Paris-based French producer, DJ (under the pseudonym Crystallmess), writer, and artist of Ivorian and Guadeloupean origin. Combining film, music, performance, and sculpture, her radically interdisciplinary work deals with themes of colonial alienation and alternative temporalities. Faced with the deliberate erasure of narratives outside the dominant canon, Christelle Oyiri looks for information between the lines. Her research is focused on the tonalities, textures, and visual vernacular of the music, art, popular culture, and youth cultures within and outside the African diaspora. Her work has been shown in several institutions and exhibitions around the world such as Cinéma Nova, Brussels, Gaîté-Lyrique, Lafayette Anticipations, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Festival Les Urbaines, Switzerland.
Christelle Oyiri’s project Gentle Battle examines her research on belligerence, defense mechanisms, and trauma responses through her relationship with one of her countries of origin: Ivory Coast. Her focus is on Logobi, a dance from the streets of Abidjan, whose movements are based on the art of bluffing and mimicry. Logobi never reallyexisted as an actual dance on the dance floor, gaining relevance and strength through battles, competitions, and confrontations. At the end of the 2000s, it became a phenomenon amongst black French youth from the Paris banlieues. Atribute to logobi’s influence on Parisian urban culture, Christelle Oyiri’s project will take the form of a video, featuring dancers as well as interviews with therapists, psychiatrists, and members from the African communities in theParis region.
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Nicolas Oyuela
Year/s of residence : 2012, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Visual arts
Ai Ozaki
Year/s of residence : 2024, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso
Visual arts
Born in Saitama, Japan, Ai Ozaki studied at Tokyo Zokei University (2013-2017) and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2022-2024). Through video, sound, photography, ceramics, text, and painting, her work explores how her body interacts with ‘the Other,’ which refers to both people, all living beings, and herself. She is interested in our difficulty to understand each other and our own bodies. In her practice, she explores an imaginary communication with these ‘incomprehensible entities’ that are ‘others,’ focusing on themes such as sexuality and food.
Rui Ozawa
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2016, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Yasemin Ozcan Kaya
Year/s of residence : 2012, Foundation for Culture and Art in Istanbul (IKSV), Turkey
Visual arts
Jun Ozeki
Year/s of residence : 1976, 1999, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yagiz Ozgen
Year/s of residence : 2024, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV)
Visual arts
