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.
Image: Erika Choe, 'Horns of a Broken Back', 2025.
Image: Erika Choe, 'Horns of a Broken Back', 2025.
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Coral Saucedo Lomelí was born in Mexico City and completed her undergraduate studies in fine art at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena CA and an MFA at Yale University. She has done residencies at Yaddo (New York), RUINA (Oaxaca), The Lighthouse Works (New York), SOMA (Mexico City), at a construction site in San Borja #928 (Mexico City), Jacobo and Maria Studio (Oaxaca), and with the AA School of Architecture (Xilitla). She was awarded the Provost Grant and the San Marino Art League Scholarship as well as a Fonca/Conacyt Grant which made possible her studies at Yale University. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. We sat down with Coral to talk about her experience as a Fellow at the International Residency
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Rex Delafkaran is an Iranian American interdisciplinary artist and dancer from California, based in Washington, D.C. Delafkaran holds a degree in Ceramics and Performance Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. Using movement and objects she explores ideas of failure and hybridity among bodies, objects, identities and language. Delafkaran has exhibited and staged performances at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, DC), Panoply Performance Lab (Brooklyn, NY), Platform Art Fair (Athens, GR), Satellite Art Fair Miami (Miami, FL), Southern Exposure Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and the Textile Museum (Washington, DC) among others. She is a recent recipient of a Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant and is the Co-founder of but, also an artist run space that sells artist made products, produces exhibitions and works with a mission of empowering artists to both self sustain and experiment. Delafkaran makes her work at STABLE Arts studio in Washington, and exhibits and performs nationally and internationally.
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