Applicants must create an account to access the submission portal.
Applications are now open for SAM’s Artist; Community & Education; and Curatorial & Research residencies. The studio-based residencies will take place within a period of one to six months. We welcome applicants from around the world and across all mediums and disciplines.
SAM Residencies Cycle 3, which will take place from April 2025 to September 2026, focuses on notions of allyship & solidarities, building alternative knowledges, and flowing & thinking in betweens.
Find out more about SAM Residencies.
Residency Types
Artist residency: Open to artists and collectives developing their artistic practices and engaging with emergent modes of artmaking.
Community & Education residency: Open to practitioners who explore the relationship between artistic practice and forms of education or whose core practice engages with local communities or the public in various ways.
Curatorial & Research residency: Open to curators and researchers working towards new modes of curatorial thinking and research processes.
Selected residents will be in-residence between April 2025 and September 2026, for a period between one to six months. Applications will be assessed by an international panel comprising respected professionals from different disciplines.
Applicants will be required to submit the following in PDF format:1. Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Resume2. Portfolio3. Statement of Interest (1000 words)
In the Statement of Interest, we welcome applicants to respond to the areas of focus guiding this cycle: allyships and solidarities, building alternative knowledges, flowing and thinking in betweens.
Due to overwhelming responses, we regret that only selected residents will be notified.
Open Call Applications for Cycle 3 (2025/26)
Applicants must create an account to access the submission portal.
Applications are now open for SAM’s Artist; Community & Education; and Curatorial & Research residencies. The studio-based residencies will take place within a period of one to six months. We welcome applicants from around the world and across all mediums and disciplines.
SAM Residencies Cycle 3, which will take place from April 2025 to September 2026, focuses on notions of allyship & solidarities, building alternative knowledges, and flowing & thinking in betweens.
Find out more about SAM Residencies.
Residency Types
Artist residency: Open to artists and collectives developing their artistic practices and engaging with emergent modes of artmaking.
Community & Education residency: Open to practitioners who explore the relationship between artistic practice and forms of education or whose core practice engages with local communities or the public in various ways.
Curatorial & Research residency: Open to curators and researchers working towards new modes of curatorial thinking and research processes.
Selected residents will be in-residence between April 2025 and September 2026, for a period between one to six months. Applications will be assessed by an international panel comprising respected professionals from different disciplines.
Applicants will be required to submit the following in PDF format:1. Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Resume2. Portfolio3. Statement of Interest (1000 words)
In the Statement of Interest, we welcome applicants to respond to the areas of focus guiding this cycle: allyships and solidarities, building alternative knowledges, flowing and thinking in betweens.
Due to overwhelming responses, we regret that only selected residents will be notified.