Open call: Residencies Cycle 3 (2025/2026)

Singapore Art Museum (SAM)’s international residency programme is opening applications for its third cycle. This cycle has a focus on the notions of allyship and solidarities, building alternative knowledges, and flowing & thinking in betweens. SAM Residencies welcomes artists, curators, educators, and creative practitioners to apply for the 2025/2026 cycle, slated to run between April 2025 and September 2026. 

Since its inception in 2021, SAM Residencies has hosted over 50 residents across 30 countries in SAM’s industrial warehouse space at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Conceived as an incubator for new approaches to art thinking and making, the residency programme offers a platform for artistic experimentation, supporting practitioners throughout their creative process, professional and artistic development, and international network building across its four residency types.

Residents are encouraged to involve communities and the public through various activations and presentations, such as talks, workshops, screenings, field trips, and new experimental formats.  

Open call for SAM Residencies Cycle 3 (2025/2026) 
SAM Residencies is now accepting applications for its Artist; Community & Education; and Curatorial and Research residencies from April 1, 2024 to May 31, 2024, 11:59pm (GMT+8). Applicants from around the world and across all mediums and disciplines may apply.  

Artist residency: Open to artists and collectives developing their artistic practices and engaging with emergent modes of artmaking. 

Community & Education residency: Open to practitioners who explore the relationship between artistic practice and forms of education or whose core practice engages with local communities or the public in various ways. 

Curatorial & Research residency: Open to curators and researchers working towards new modes of curatorial thinking and research processes.  

Selected residents will be in-residence between April 2025 and September 2026, for a period between one to six months. Applications will be assessed by an international panel comprising respected professionals from different disciplines. Due to overwhelming responses, we regret that only selected residents will be notified.  

For more details on SAM Residencies and access to the application portal, please visit our website here.  

For enquiries, contact residencies@singaporeartmuseum.sg