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ISCP is a residency-based contemporary art center for emerging to mid-career artists and curators

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.

10/29/2026

October alumni spotlight ✨

📌 2024 resident Paloma Contreras, 2025 resident Cem Örgen, and current resident Liesl Raff, are among the artists featured in the Sixth Triennial titled ‘The Outside Expands.’ Taking partian inspiration from a July 1979 urban intervention by the Brazilian collective 3NÓS3 (3Us3) and X Galeria (X Gallery), the triennial turns to artists who challenge fixed notions of territory, identity, gender, and sexuality, and imagine new forms of kinship, connection, and collaboration. On view from February–May 16, 2027.

📌 As a part of PAF New York 2026, 2021 and 2026 resident Valentýna Janů will present a new video at exploring contemporary nightlife culture and the visual language of neo-noir. The show, titled ‘Bestiary of Darkness,' will take place on November 2, 2026, alongside live performances, which will periodically activate the video screening.

📌 2024 resident Sandra Mujinga has been selected for the ’s 2027 Great Hall commission! Mujinga, whose work draws from Afrofuturist tradition to examine questions of self-representation, preservation, and appearance, will present a site-specific installation in the institution next November.

📌 Congratulations to 2025 resident Ella Gonzalez, whose work ‘A Room’s Proportion, above or below’ will be on view at in Toronto as a part of its longstanding Flack Clerestory Commission Program. Recalling the artist’s memories of domestic interiors and the notion of the threshold, the work considers overlapping rooms, histories, and perspectives. On view through March 21, 2027.

Cover image: Valentýna Janů, ‘Snap’ (cropped), 2023, live performance, 20 min. Courtesy of the artist

10/21/2026

We are thrilled to announce artist Coco Fusco as our Fall Open Studios guest speaker!

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her performances and videos have been presented at the Venice and Sharjah Biennales, Frieze Special Projects, and three Whitney Biennials, among other international exhibitions. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others. Fusco has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the 2023 Free Speech Defender Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. She is the author of several books, including ‘Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba’ (2015), ‘English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas’ (1995), ‘A Field Guide for Female Interrogators’ (2008), and contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications. Her retrospective, 'Tomorrow I Will Become an Island,' opened at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin in 2023, accompanied by a monograph published by Thames & Hudson. Fusco is a Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art and is represented by Mendes Wood DM in New York.

Check out the participating artists and curators on our website 🔗

📌Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 6–9pm
⏰Open Hours: Saturday, November 14, 1–6pm
📍1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn

10/19/2026

Presented in a series of photographs, Verónica Gaona’s ‘For Those Who Do Not Return in Life, There Is Always Death (Homage to David Gomez)’ uses the materials and rituals surrounding trucks to explore death, memory, and return. A truck adorned with funeral flowers enacts a ritual inspired by Mexican vigils, its spinning tires inscribing circular marks onto the road.

On another work on view, ‘Untitled (Elijah),’ from ‘Sentir un consuelo aunque sea del suelo (To Feel Comfort, Even If It’s from the Ground)’ (2026), a truck-bed liner becomes a provisional memorial, adorned with artificial funerary flowers and candle wax pooling like spilled blood. Together, these works evoke the possibility of dying far from one’s place of origin and the longing to return. The truck embodies this tension, carrying ties to family and place across borders while evoking the distances and absences they produce.

Texas-based artist Verónica Gaona (.gaona.art) draws on her upbringing along the U.S.–Mexico border to explore the connections between migration, labor, architecture, and economic systems. Working with salvaged truck parts, building materials, glass, and industrial remnants, she examines the infrastructures through which people, goods, and capital move. Across sculpture, installation, photography, and performance, Gaona approaches diaspora as an ongoing social practice rooted in relationships to land and ritual, while bearing witness to the failures of capitalism and immigration policy.

She is one of the eight artists featured in ‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless,’ opening October 27 at ISCP. 🔗 in bio to learn more.

10/16/2026

Meet the October residents 👋

Epiphany Couch, Tsuyoshi Anzai, Tina Pasotra, Diana Tamane, Netta Weiser, Sidian Liu, Maya Dixon, Anna Pajak, and Alfredo Frías

Thank you to the generosity of our residency sponsors. Welcome to ISCP! 🧡

Cover: Alfredo Frías, ‘In praise of the shadow,’ 2020

10/15/2026

IT’S BACK❗Join us November 13 and 14 for Fall Open Studios, an international contemporary art exhibition by the 33 artists and curators in residence from all around the world 🌍

This year, we are honored to host artist Coco Fusco (The Real Coco Fusco) as our guest speaker.

Open Studios offers audiences access to artists’ and curators’ private studios, where residents share recent projects, works in progress, site-specific installations, and archives with thousands of art professionals and enthusiasts from New York and beyond. This fall, join us for an opportunity to engage in dialogue about contemporary art with artists and arts professionals from around the world!

Visitors will also have the opportunity to view exhibition ‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless’ featuring artists Seba Calfuqueo, Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz, Verónica Gaona, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Simon Liu, Brenda Mallory, Kara Springer, and Nardeen Srouji.

🥂Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 6–9pm
⏰Open Hours: Saturday, November 14, 1–6pm
📍1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Design by Erika Wentworth

10/13/2026

Last month, ISCP and hosted a walking tour in conjunction with our exhibition 'Hans Rosenström: Conspirare' 💦🌱 Over the 2.5-mile round-trip route, Restoration and Marine Projects Coordinator Gus Perry guided participants from the industrial waterfront of Newtown Creek to Plank Road, offering an up-close look at one of New York City’s most environmentally complex landscapes and the ways it informed Rosenström’s site-specific installation.

A huge thank you to Gus Perry for leading the tour and to everyone who joined us!

10/08/2026

Featured in our upcoming exhibition ‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless,’ Simon Liu’s film ‘Let’s Talk’ (2023) considers how the shifting political and territorial realities in his hometown of Hong Kong shape personal memory, identity, and anxieties about an uncertain future. Through abstraction and rapid montage, the city appears in fragments that collide, disappear, and return. Liu’s film echoes the exhibition’s exploration of borders as lived conditions, embedded in everyday spaces and experiences.

Born in Hong Kong and based in Brooklyn, he works across short films, multichannel video, mixed-media prints, and 16mm projection. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art, and The Shed in New York; MOCA Los Angeles; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and has presented at festivals including TIFF and Sundance.

Liu is one of the eight artists featured in ‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless,’ opening October 27 at ISCP.

10/05/2026

“I started making work that is more of an experience and relates to the viewer’s body instead of trying to relate to the space.” — Hans Rosenström for BOMB Magazine

Thank you to and for this wonderful, in-depth interview with .rosenstrom about ‘Conspirare’ and the ideas behind it.

This is the final week to view the exhibition at ISCP, come check it out before it closes ✨

🔗 Read the full interview in the selected press section of our website

10/02/2026

Join our team! ISCP is seeking a full-time Development Manager in East Williamsburg.

The Development Manager is responsible for a range of essential organizational activities and reports to the Executive Director. The Development Manager supervises the Development Associate.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Strategize with Executive Director and board Fundraising Committee and draft annual fundraising plan, lead fundraising initiatives, including grant applications, fundraising events, individual giving
• Liaise with Executive Director on new sponsor outreach planning and ex*****on
• Prepare funding applications for individuals, government, foundation, and corporate support; manage interim and year end reporting to funders
• Manage and direct fundraising events, including the planning and coordination of benefits, auctions, cultivation events, sale of editions
• Work on the multi-year capital campaign, in collaboration with two other staff members and a board committee
• Work with the board Fundraising Committee, including organization of regular committee meetings and reporting on development at Board meetings
• Conduct prospect research
• Liaise with funders regarding special projects as needed
• Liaise with Director of Finance and Operations on budget for fundraising
• Liaise with communications staff to supply text for newsflashes pertaining to fundraising initiatives
• Build the overall fundraising capacity of the institution
• Advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at ISCP

-Please see job description for full list of responsibilities-

Details:
• Hours: 40h a week
• $75,000-80,000
• Benefits: Benefits include paid holidays, vacation, paid sick time, health insurance, and 401k plan

APPLY: Send your resume, cover letter, with name and contact details for two references, in PDF format to Bo Hubbard, [email protected] with “Development Manager” as the subject line.

🔗 in bio for full posting.

09/30/2026

September alumni spotlight ✨

📌 Congratulations to 2024 resident Sandra Mujinga and 2021 resident Anna Estarriola, who have both been shortlisted for the 2027 Ars Fennica Award, Finland’s most prestigious contemporary art prize! Their work will be presented alongside the other shortlisted artists at the in Helsinki from October 15, 2027–March 26, 2028. Following its presentation at Kiasma, the exhibition will travel to in Norway.

📌 2026 resident Sean Wang is among the artists featured in ‘Obscured Portraits: Seen and Unseen,’ an exhibition at in Taipei exploring photography, perception, and the representation of blind and visually impaired people. Bringing together works by artists from Taiwan and around the world, the exhibition considers how photography can expand our understanding of what it means to see. On view through October 26, 2026.

📌2023–24 resident Joiri Minaya and 2017 resident Martine Gutierrez are among the eight artists featured in ‘Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives,’ at . The exhibition that brings Marianne Wex’s groundbreaking feminist photographic project into dialogue with contemporary artists exploring the relationship between bodies, gender, and public space. On view through May 2, 2027.

Cover image: Joiri Minaya, ‘Containers,’ 2017, dimensions variable.’ Documentation of performance at Wave Hill, performed by Ivonne Tejeda. Photo by Emil Rivera. Courtesy of the artist

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