Open Call for FCINY Residency 2025

DURATION:

January–March 2025 (3 months)

PARTNERING INSTITUTION:
Pioneer Works

The curatorial residency is tailored for a professional curator seeking time for curatorial research and networking in New York. In 2025, the residency will be organized in collaboration with our new residency partner, Pioneer Works. The curator will have access to a desk space at Pioneer Works during the residency, and they’ll be part of the community of artists, scientists, and other art professionals visiting and working on site at the center.

Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led nonprofit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that fosters innovative thinking through the visual and performing arts, technology, music, and science. Pioneer Works provides visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers, and educators, the resources and platform they need to expand their practices. Pioneer Works has three floors of interconnected studio, performance, exhibition, and multipurpose spaces, which cultivate collaborations past the boundaries of traditional institutions by placing makers and thinkers in proximity to each other. We support onsite production through our science, design, recording, and ceramics studios; media, virtual environment, and technology labs; darkroom; and garden. Multi-disciplinary programs, exhibitions, residencies, and performances are presented to the public, of which the majority are free.

DURATION:

April–June 2025 (3 months)

PARTNERING INSTITUTION:
Pioneer Works

The residency offers an artist the opportunity to focus on a certain project, while enjoying the wide networking possibilities and a community offered by the residency partner. In 2025, the residency will be carried out with our new partner, Pioneer Works. The residency includes a studio space at the center. Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led nonprofit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that fosters innovative thinking through the visual and performing arts, technology, music, and science.

Pioneer Works provides visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers, and educators the resources and platform they need to expand their practices. Pioneer Works has three floors of interconnected studio, performance, exhibition, and multipurpose spaces, which cultivate collaborations past the boundaries of traditional institutions by placing makers and thinkers in proximity to each other. We support onsite production through our science, design, recording, and ceramics studios; media, virtual environment, and technology labs; darkroom; and garden. Multi-disciplinary programs, exhibitions, residencies, and performances are presented to the public, of which the majority are free.

DURATION:

July–September 2025 (3 months)

PARTNERING ORGANIZATION:

Office of Tangible Space

In 2025, the FCINY offers one three-month residency for product/furniture/spacial designers. The design residency is tailored for a designer seeking time for research, community-building, and developing networks in New York. The resident is hosted by Office of Tangible Space.

The primary objective of the residency is to provide the designer with a setting for research, learning from the US industry, and developing networks. Based on the application and proposal for the residency, Office of Tangible Space will coordinate with FCINY during the selection process on how to best support the designer while in the city for their residency. Prior to the start of the residency, Office of Tangible Space will meet virtually with the designer to discuss any plans for their time in New York, and offer helpful information to best be prepared ahead of traveling. 

Office of Tangible Space is an interdisciplinary design studio founded by Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti specializing in architecture, interiors, furniture and curation, with projects ranging from the object-scale to the urban. Their work is grounded in a human-centric approach that is achieved through warmth and materiality – the creation of space that feels lived in and strengthens a feeling of comfort and contentment. Much of the work attempts to bring in play and engagement through form, texture, through the use of new and unexpected materials, details and color. Office of Tangible Space has offices in Brooklyn and San Francisco.

DURATION:
October–December 2025 (3 months)

PARTNERING INSTITUTION:

Cooper Union

The FCINY offers one three month residency for architects in October–December 2025 (October and November are hosted by Cooper Union, in December the resident will work independently)

The FCINY´s and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture´s Visiting Scholars Programme is an opportunity for experienced scholars to visit the The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture for a period of three months. Visiting Scholars are expected to interact and form networks with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture staff and students, to plan or conduct research, publications and/or development projects, and to participate actively in the academic life of the School of Architecture. The chosen scholars will have access to the School of Architecture premises, networks, and library (with workstations).