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 Safavi
Year/s of residence : 2011, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland
Visual arts
Elyas Saffaran
Year/s of residence : 1996, 1997, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Stefan Saffer
Year/s of residence : 2011, Bavarian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and the Arts, Germany
Visual arts
Nadia Safieddine
Year/s of residence : 2022, Institut français
Visual arts
Aman Safieh
Year/s of residence : 2018, HUANG YI STUDIO+
Visual arts
Morimasa Sagawa
Year/s of residence : 1986, Ferris University, Japan
Music
Mohsen Saghafy Khorasany
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Music
Irina Saghyan
Year/s of residence : 2013, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Henri Sagna
Year/s of residence : 2006, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Louis Saguer
Year/s of residence : 1981, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Fatemeh Sahaf
Year/s of residence : 2015, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Abbasali Sahafi Moghaddam
Year/s of residence : 2020, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Araks Sahakyan
Year/s of residence : 2025, 2–12
Visual arts
Transdisciplinary artist and performer Araks Sahakyan (1990) focuses her research on memory, uprooting and migration.
After graduating from ENSAPC in 2018, Araks pursued a Year of Research and Creation in Arts & Sciences at ENS Paris-Saclay. Her work has been presented at the New Wight Gallery UCLA (Los Angeles), the Fiminco Foundation (Paris) and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Netherlands). In 2024, she will participate in the Nuit Blanche in Paris.
Winner of the FoRTE (Île-de-France) and TAMAT (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) awards, she has been in residence at the Drawing Factory, the Abbaye de Maubuisson, and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement.
Araks Sahakyan is taking her practice in a new direction, focusing on the body and its relationship to living things.
© Photo by Evgeniya Chapaikina
France Manoush Sahatdjian
Year/s of residence : 2017, Cité internationale des arts
Theater
Iradj Sahbai
Year/s of residence : 1975, Institut français
Music
Gaby Sahhar
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Visual arts
Gaby Sahhar is a French-Palestinian artist based in London. Their multidisciplinary practice explores representations of queerness in the public sphere, examining how these depictions influence queer consciousness and communities.
Sahhar creates dialogue on themes such as migration, gender, and the intersection of queer identity with urban and corporate spaces. Using a range of mediums including painting, film, and installation, they illustrate the psychological and physical frameworks that challenge borders and identity.Their work delves into the tension between identity, resistance, and the social fabric of architecture, shedding light on these complex and intersecting themes through research and visual archives.
Sahhar’s exhibitions include: Magasins Généraux, Pantin (2024); Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2024); CIRCA (2024); MAC VAL, Paris (2023); PAGE (NYC), New York (2022); Fragment Gallery, New York (2022); Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022); and other notable venues such as the Museum of Moscow (2020) and the South London Gallery (not specified but mentioned in other contexts)
Etem Sahin
Year/s of residence : 2023, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV)
Visual arts
Abderrazak Sahli
Year/s of residence : 1970, 1979, Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation, Tunisia
Visual arts
Anne Charlotte Sahli
Year/s of residence : 1992, Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Visual arts
Ghizlane Sahli
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Visual arts
