One US-based applicant per season of the International Residency will be awarded a Full Fellowship, which covers all program fees for the season. A jury consisting of NARS staff and select art professionals review applications on the merit of artistic quality and level of need, studio practice, and the potential professional development and benefit from engaging with the NARS community. Only US-based artists are eligible to receive the Full Fellowship.
Vietnam
Saudi Arabia
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Hungary
Peru
South Africa
Thailand
Brazil
Cyprus
Germany
Venezuela
Poland
Georgia
Panama
Slovakia
Chile
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Ireland
Singapore
Ghana
Colombia
Haiti
Scotland
El Salvador
Kenya
Iceland
Belgium
Tibet
Turkey
Uruguay
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Sweden
Finland
Pakistan
Israel
Palestine
Denmark
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Spain
Australia
France
Ecuador
Mexico
New Zealand
Netherlands
Japan
Italy
Greece
Canada
Iran
China
United Kingdom
South Korea
India
United States
Ali Kaeini's paintings and textiles, inspired by Iranian history and architecture, explore themes of memory, forgetfulness, war, and solitude. He achieves this by reproducing silhouettes of museum artifacts and recycling used fabrics. Ali earned his MFA from VCU in 2023 and was awarded the MacDowell Fellowship and VMFA Professional Award in 2024. He currently lives and works in New York.
Read more
A multi-media artist based in the American Southwest and Pakistan; Sarah Ahmad’s work confronts environmental racism. The ‘nature gap’ and the disproportionate weight of climate disaster experienced in rural and marginalized communities. Ahmad’s Sacred Geometric patterns illuminate creation’s underlying oneness. She employs public art in service of earth-centered, community healing.
Read more
Basharat Ali Syed's practice explores the collective catharsis inherent to post-colonial identity and examines the regressive dichotomy of ontological existence within a cross-border conflict nation. The work assembles to interrogate the variance of colonial legacies of structural violence and dispossession. The encounter with political displacement has disrupted conventional notions of belonging, compelling the cultivation of a sense of home in places that were never inherently home. His practice explores the remnants of memory in cultures of oppression while evoking ironic hybridity between reverence and violence.
Read more
Mar Figueroa is an Ecuadorian-born painter currently based in New York. In her surreal autobiographical paintings, she explores her multifaceted identity and honors her Andean heritage. In 2020, she was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient in the Art & Style and Immigrant categories. More recently, she was an artist in residence at Silver Art's Project in the World Trade Center and awarded the Hopper Prize in 2023. She currently serves as a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts. Mar Figueroa received her education at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Read more
wei works at the intersection of Performance, Sound, Movement, Print Media, and Design. Their practice researches and expresses the mapping of Queerness and Foreignness. Their work investigates the betwixt & between under the homogenous timeline that is experienced by the marginalized, as well as examines the ephemeral togetherness to trace the imprints of existence by contextualizing one’s and one’s collective’s present. Their current project emphasizes reconfiguring object/subject relationships within the confines of systems that exclude queer and immigrant bodies and re-evaluates the definition and experience of authenticity within the generations of the Asian diaspora and Asian immigrants.
Read more