iscp - International Studio & Curatorial Program

iscp - International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP is a residency-based contemporary art center for emerging to mid-career artists and curators
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The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is a leading, nonprofit residency-based contemporary art center in the United States for emerging to mid-career artists and curators from around the world. Founded in 1994, ISCP has hosted over 1,000 artists and curators from more than 50 countries, including the United States. In 2008, ISCP moved from Manhattan to East Williamsburg, Brooklyn to

the former factory of the Sackett & Wilhelms Lithography Company, an 18,000 square-foot building constructed in 1901. This move expanded ISCP's facilities to 36 studios, an exhibition gallery and a project space. To advance its core mission of supporting artists in producing and exhibiting a wide range of contemporary, often experimental, artistic approaches, ISCP recently launched a series of innovative exhibitions and public programs both on- and off-site. ISCP’s programming engages audiences in meaningful ways while fostering the institution’s relationship to its community. Each year, over 100 artists and curators are in residence at ISCP and approximately 10,000 individuals attend ISCP’s public programs.

May alumni spotlight ✨📌 2010 resident Richard Lewer is the recipient of the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of N...
05/29/2026

May alumni spotlight ✨

📌 2010 resident Richard Lewer is the recipient of the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales! He received the award for his portrait of Iluwanti Ken, a Pitjantjatjara Elder and ngangkar (traditional healer). The Archibald Prize is Australia’s most prestigious annual award for portraiture, presented to a portrait of a distinguished figure in the arts, sciences, or politics.

📌 2025 resident Jude Griebel and 2020 resident LaMont Hamilton are both recipients of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship! They are among 223 pioneering artists, scholars, and scientists that make up the 101st class of the Guggenheim Fellowship program, selected out of a pool of nearly 5,000 applications.

📌 2023 resident Joiri Minaya and 2017 resident Martine Gutierrez are featured in the new exhibition “Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The show features the work of German photographer Marianne Wex in conversation with contemporary artists and Black, q***r, 21st-century feminist perspectives. On view through May 2, 2027.

📌 2018 resident Benjamin Hirte is one of 15 artists featured in “Ornament & Information” at the Chicago Culture Center. The exhibition features work from artists living or working in Chicago or Vienna, who engage in the historical dialogue of the two cities. On view through July 19, 2026.

Congratulations to our alumni for these remarkable accomplishments!

Cover image: Jude Griebel’s studio for 2019 Spring Open Studios. Photo by Tess Mayer

05/28/2026

Next Tuesday❗Join us from 6:30–7:30pm at ISCP for Artists at Work with artist-in-residence TZUSOO and curator and art critic Eana Kim. They will speak about how TZUSOO’s practice constructs speculative worlds of metamorphic and sensuous life forms while engaging with questions of gender, sexuality, and psychoanalytic embodiment. They will discuss TZUSOO’s interest in desire, intimacy, leakage, and fragmentation, and how her work blurs distinctions between organism and image, attraction and discomfort, virtuality and flesh.

TZUSOO (추수, 秋水) is based between Seoul and Berlin, and her practice, spanning digital media, installation, and sculpture, is rooted in drawing. She builds the world of Agarmon—an entity born in the moment of orgasm—to address motherhood, reproduction, and the shifting relationship between the digital and the physical. TZUSOO taught at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany, and leads the animation studio Princess Computer. She has exhibited work at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) South Korea; Hessel Museum of Art, New York; and Art Museum Stuttgart, Germany, among others.

Eana Kim is a curator, critic, and art historian whose practice examines contemporary art at the intersection of technology and science, with a focus on posthumanist theory, more-than-human forms of life, and artificial intelligence. She recently joined the Vilcek Foundation as Curator and has held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Grey Art Museum, NYU, both in New York, where she contributed to projects including Jack Whitten: The Messenger (2025) and Signals: How Video Transformed the World (2023). She has published widely in Artforum, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, and Frieze, among others.

📍Tuesday, June 2, 6:30–7:30pm, 1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Video: TZUSOO, ‘The Eight Spirits of Flesh—GAN,’ 2025, video with sound, 13:06 min. Music and sound design by Maarten Vos. Commissioned by MMCA x LG OLED

: Four fully funded New York-based artist residencies supported by the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fund. Applicat...
05/22/2026

: Four fully funded New York-based artist residencies supported by the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fund.

Applications are now open through 🔗 in bio for talented, culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged young artists who are New York City-based. Applicants must be aged 30 or younger, identify as a person of color, and demonstrate financial need and must reside in one of the five boroughs of New York City.

Benefits include:
• $3,000 monthly stipend
• 24-hour access to a private furnished studio space
• Regular studio visits from Visiting Critics
• Field Trips to museums, galleries and other cultural venues
• Participation in Open Studios and Artist Talks
• Becoming part of a growing network of 2,000 international artists and curators who are ISCP alumni
• And much more!

Important details:
• Application deadline: June 3, 2026
• Residency dates: December 1, 2026 – May 31, 2027 and October 1, 2026 – February 28, 2027
• Notification: End of June 2026
• Eligibility: Visual artists who identify as a person of color working in all media are invited to apply. Applicants may not be ISCP alumni, residents in another studio program at the same time as The New York Community Trust Van Lier Residency, or enrolled in school. Artists must be age 30 and under, residents of one of the five boroughs of New York City, for a minimum of one year prior to application date, be eligible to work in the United States via a 1099 U.S. form, and demonstrate financial need. All applicants should be a United States citizen or legal Permanent Resident of the United States, 18 years or older, may not be enrolled in any other degree seeking or other studio program at time or residency.

Click 🔗 in bio for more details!
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📷: Install view of ‘Bryan Fernandez: En tránsito’ by 2025 The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund resident Bryan Fernandez at ISCP’s Project Space, 2026. Photo by Martin Parsekian

Last week, ISCP Director of Programs and Exhibitions Melinda Lang () and ISCP Board members Sarah Duzyk and Danny Báez, ...
05/19/2026

Last week, ISCP Director of Programs and Exhibitions Melinda Lang () and ISCP Board members Sarah Duzyk and Danny Báez, hosted an alumni breakfast in celebration of all of the ISCP alumni participating in the 2026 Venice Biennale () ⭐

It was wonderful to catch up and see so many familiar faces. Thank you to everyone who joined us! 🧡

📢 Next Week! Join us at ISCP on Tuesday, May 26, from 6:30–7:30pm for Artists at Work with artist-in-residence Merve Tun...
05/18/2026

📢 Next Week! Join us at ISCP on Tuesday, May 26, from 6:30–7:30pm for Artists at Work with artist-in-residence Merve Tuna and psychoanalyst Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou.

Focusing on sculpture and materiality, they will discuss themes of play and control, regressive states during the creative process, and how experiences of desire, loss, trauma and embodied encounters take form through objects.

About the speakers 🗣️

Merve Tuna works at the intersection of craft, psychoanalysis, and narrative. Her object-oriented practice centers on the body and its psychosexual registers, exploring how personal and collective traumas are communicated through objects. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, film, and mathematical models, Tuna uses material experimentation and humor to give form to what exceeds language. Her work has been presented at the LOKART 3.0 – Biennale of Fine Arts in Hungary, the Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam in Turkey, and the Istanbul Design Biennial, among others.

Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a New York-based psychoanalyst originally from Cyprus and Greece. Her clinical work encompasses a wide array of issues, such as trauma, anxiety, and depression, working with people across a wide range of genders, sexualities, and ethnicities. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and is the 2025-2026 Avenali Chair in the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Avgi is the author of ‘Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia’ (2023) and is currently completing her new book manuscript, provisionally titled ‘The Offer of Sa**sm: Enigma and Confusional Aesthetics in the Anti-Reparative Turn.’

📍Tuesday, May 26, 6:30–7:30pm

Join us next Tuesday, May 19, to celebrate the release of the exhibition catalogue for ‘Alice Wang: Windstorm on Saturn,...
05/13/2026

Join us next Tuesday, May 19, to celebrate the release of the exhibition catalogue for ‘Alice Wang: Windstorm on Saturn, Basalt Columns, M**A, Serotonin’ with artist Alice Wang, writer Bettina Funcke, and ISCP’s Director of Programs, Melinda Lang.

Published by ISCP and designed by Masato Nakada, the book includes an introduction by Lang and an essay by Funcke that consider Wang’s practice through questions of perception, geometry, and our relationship to planetary and cosmic systems. Publications will be available for purchase at the event.

Bettina Funcke is a New York–based writer, critic, and editor who has published extensively on contemporary art and philosophy. Her forthcoming book, ‘Interrupture: New York Art, 1999–2024,’ will be published by No Place Press. She also edited ‘100 Notes—100 Thoughts for Documenta 13’ and has written for publications including Artforum, Bookforum, Spike, Mousse, The Brooklyn Rail, Fillip, and Texte zur Kunst, among others.

📍Tuesday, May 19, 6:30–7:30pm, 1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Meet the May residents 👋​​Aske Thiberg, Michaela Payer & Martin Gabriel, Robert Gabris, Elena Ketra, Selma ParlourThank ...
05/12/2026

Meet the May residents 👋

​​Aske Thiberg, Michaela Payer & Martin Gabriel, Robert Gabris, Elena Ketra, Selma Parlour

Thank you to the generosity of our residency sponsors:

Welcome to ISCP! 🧡

First image: Robert Gabris,’You Will Never Belong Into My Space,’ 2021

Last Monday, ISCP’s Annual Benefit raised over $100,000 to advance the practices of innovative artists and curators from...
05/11/2026

Last Monday, ISCP’s Annual Benefit raised over $100,000 to advance the practices of innovative artists and curators from all over the world and serve the New York City public year-round.

We are extremely grateful for the generosity of artists, galleries, and individuals who donated artworks and experiences to the silent and live auction; honorees Aruna D'Souza, Laurie Sprayregen, and Frank WANG Yefeng; our event host SLAG℞ auctioneer Sarah Krueger from Phillips; and the many individuals who could not attend but supported us from afar.

Our sincerest thanks go to Sophie O. Riese and Sarah Duzyk, 2026 Annual Benefit Co-Chairs; the 2026 Annual Benefit Committee; and to our partners and sponsors; .official

Thank you for being part of ISCP's 2026 Annual Benefit!

Photos by Tess Mayer

Tuesday at ISCP❗Join us from 6:0–7:30pm for Artists at Work with artist-in-residence Tore Hallas and curator Evan Garza...
05/09/2026

Tuesday at ISCP❗Join us from 6:0–7:30pm for Artists at Work with artist-in-residence Tore Hallas and curator Evan Garza.

Hallas will speak with Garza about his exploration of fatness and q***rness as intertwined identities shaped by religion, class and mental health, as well as by broader social and systemic forms of oppression. They will discuss how Hallas’s work reflects on the ways bodies and minds marked as ‘other’ encounter and navigate the world.
About the speakers 🗣️

Tore Hallas works across video, photography, and text to examine embodiment, intimacy and belonging. Themes of movement and displacement, both physical and symbolic, recur throughout his work. He has exhibited at KINDL–Centre for Contemporary Art, Germany; Fuglsang Kunstmuseum; ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen,all in Denmark, among others.

Evan Garza is a contemporary art scholar, q***r art historian, and curator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. They recently edited ‘Steve Locke: I Said What I Said,’ the artist’s first career monograph. Honors include a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency, a Fulbright Scholarship at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), and curatorial grants from Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation. Garza has held curatorial and institutional leadership roles at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Texas, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (now SMFA at Tufts). Garza was cofounder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR).

📍Tuesday, May 12, 6:30–7:30pm, 1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Image caption: Tore Hallas, 'YOU ARE CLOSER TO GOD WHEN YOU DO NOT INDULGE,' 2024, video, 22 min.

04/30/2026

Watch as Gina Tribotti, Director of Development at ISCP, gives us a sneak peak of a few of the works featured in this year’s Annual Benefit!

Powered by , ISCP’s auction runs through April 21–May 5 and features over 40 works by emerging, mid-career, and world-renowned artists ⭐

Head to the 🔗 in bio to buy your ticket and make sure to download the Artsy Mobile App and register to bid.

📍Monday, May 4, 6:30–8:30pm, SLAG&RX Gallery

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