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.
Françoise Samuel
Year/s of residence : 1990, 1994, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, Visarte - Professional association of Swiss visual artists
Visual arts
Kristine Samuelson
Year/s of residence : 1988, Stanford University, USA
Spectacle vivant
Luana Pilar San Jose
Year/s of residence : 2012, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Parvaneh Sanai
Year/s of residence : 1972, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Music
Matti Sanaksenaho
Year/s of residence : 2016, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Pirjo Sanaksenaho
Year/s of residence : 2024, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Architecture and design
Mohammad Mehdi Sanati Forosh
Year/s of residence : 2020, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Deicy Sanches
Year/s of residence : 2022, Trame
Cinema
Deicy Sanches is a French movie director and artistic director, of Cape Verdean origin. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts, Literature and Languages, with a specialization in Cinema and Audiovisual from the University of Paris Nanterre.
Attracted by art, her creativity expresses itself through directing, dancing and staging. Because of her heritage and her sensitivity, she is interested in the question of identity, colonization and double culture in her film projects. She pays particular attention to archival images, their documentary value and their memorial dimension.
She has been practicing hip-hop dance for the past fifteen years, and she also addresses subjects related to hip-hop culture, dance and clothing. After training with dancers and choreographers Thierry Anoman and Francis Mbida, she developed her dance independently and combined it with her film practice. In 2020, she wrote and directed the film Envahisseurs about hip-hop dance and the notion of circle, which she exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, as part of the Audi talents program.
As a filmmaker, her desire is to develop a singular view of the world, to appropriate it in a subjective way, by filming reality through her “presence-in-the-world”.
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Alfredo Sanchez Ariza
Year/s of residence : 1966, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Francisco Sanchez Bernier
Year/s of residence : 2002, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Fernando Sanchez Castillo
Year/s of residence : 2000, Alumni Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France
Visual arts
Christian Diaz
Year/s of residence : 2026, FireStation
Visual arts
Fabien Sanchez
Year/s of residence : 1965, 1971, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Francisca Sanchez
Year/s of residence : 2006, Alumni Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France
Visual arts
Frédéric Sanchez
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2015, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez
Year/s of residence : 2018, Centre national de la danse
Dance
Alfeo Sanchez Pereira
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français d'Indonésie, Fundação Oriente
Visual arts
Alfeo Sanches Pereira (Alfe RM) was born in Tutuala, in the far East of Timor-Leste. His mother taught him how to draw to keep him by her side as she wove Tais, the traditional textile of his country. They were in the grip of a brutal Indonesian occupation (1975 – 1999). As his country gained Independence, Alfe was trying to complete his severely interrupted secondary education. He had limited options until he heard about the new Arte Moris free art school which became his home from 2004 to 2010. Alfe is a visual artist practicing painting, illustration, sculpture and street art. His art has been part of many struggles for social justice and sovereignty in Timor-Leste, which is still coming to terms with 500+ years of colonisation, occupation and foreign intervention. He has refined his practice through festivals and cultural exchanges around the world and solo and collective exhibitions in Dili, Switzerland, France, Macau and Australia.
© Alfeo Sanches Pereira-Self-portrait, 33 x 48.3 cm, Acrylic on glass, Dili, 2023
Miguel Sancho
Year/s of residence : 1989, 1991, 1995, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Gandchimeg Sandag
Year/s of residence : 2005, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Henrik Sandas
Year/s of residence : 2016, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
