Call for Applications: 2025 AGO x RBC Artist-in-Residence Program

2025 AGO x RBC Emerging Artist Program
Three-Month Residencies for Early Career Artists

Deadline for Submissions: October 31, 2024 | 5:00 pm ET

To submit your application, visit:
2024 AGO x RBC Artist-in-Residence Program | Art Gallery of Ontario

Are you an early career artist looking for mentorship and the chance to develop your artwork at the Art Gallery of Ontario?

The 2025 AGO x RBC Artist-in-Residence Program will support three artist projects, each to be developed over a three-month residency and shared with AGO visitors. Artists are asked to respond to one of the three unique residency formats in their proposals. We invite artists to think about the engagement of people in the museum context; and how personal experience and one’s expanded practice shapes their project in the context of the AGO.

We are looking for early career artists and collectives interested in creating and developing artworks from a broad range of art practices (e.g., maker and/or social experiences, experience design, live performances, etc.) This residency is hybrid, with opportunities to connect both in-person and online with AGO staff and audiences. Three consecutive three-month residencies will run between January and October 2025.

Artists are invited to take inspiration from a specific AGO collecting area, artwork, or genre, a current or upcoming exhibition or an area of expertise within the museum, including conservation, library & archives, and education & public programs.

Engagement with AGO audiences—whether broadly defined or specific to one’s area or research-creation and its alignment to one of this year’s three thematic calls—is at the heart of this residency. Proposals must explain how AGO visitors, staff, and other collaborators will interact or engage with and through the project.

Upcoming Programs

AGO x RBC Emerging Artists Workshops: Artist Residencies in Question and Conversation
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 2 – 4 pm
Marvin Gelber Print & Drawing Study Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario
Free with registration

Haema Sivanesan, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang and Paola Poletto will critically consider the opportunity offered by artist residency programs from different perspectives both inside and outside the institution. In this performative conversation, the panelists will offer an entry point into thinking about artist residencies through questions that arise in the context of facilitating or participating in residency programs.

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Maker Friday: Weaving our Stories with Karl Mata Hipol
Friday, November 15 & 22, 2024 | 6 pm
Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Free with General Admission

This workshop reflects the methodology used by Karl Mata Hipol during his artistic residency for the AGO x RBC Emerging Artist-in-Residence 2024, which involved exploring the AGO’s collection and archives. Hipol will introduce the tradition of Ilocano Abel (weaving) while encouraging participants to incorporate other patterns, colors, and textures into their designs to tell their own stories and create unique pieces.

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