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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.

10/02/2026

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

09/29/2026

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents ‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless,’ a group exhibition bringing together eight artists—Seba Calfuqueo, Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz, Verónica Gaona, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Simon Liu, Brenda Mallory, Kara Springer, and Nardeen Srouji—who approach borders from distinct geographic, cultural, and historical positions. Rather than representing them primarily as geopolitical lines, the artists focus on what happens around and across them: what is interrupted, what endures, and what is transformed or remade.

Join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, October 27 from 6–8pm.

The exhibition takes its title from Gloria Anzaldúa’s seminal book ‘Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza’ (1987), in which her understanding of borderlands extends beyond geography to encompass cultural, linguistic, psychological, and spiritual experiences. At a moment of intensified nationalism, forced displacement, and increasingly restrictive border regimes, the exhibition asks not only what borders divide, but what moves through them, endures despite them, and connects across them. The works consider repair not as an erasure of rupture, but as an ongoing practice of adaptation and resistance.

‘The Skin of the Earth Is Seamless’ is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions, and a resource bibliography by Nicolas Poblete, Programs and Exhibitions Intern.

🗓️ October 27, 2026–February 12, 2027 at ISCP

Image: Seba Calfuqueo, ‘Culpa (Guilt),’ 2023, digital video, 9 min. Filmed by Diego Argote. Courtesy the artist

09/28/2026

Kick off the fall season with us at ISCP! Next Tuesday, October 6, from 6:30–7:30pm, join us for Artists at Work, where artist-in-residence Madeleine Andersson will present her thought-provoking performative lecture, 'Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism.'

Beginning with the proposition that “the thing called civilization began not with the advent of written language but with the first toilet,” Andersson will trace the historical relationship between the human body and modern sewer systems. She will examine how the development of waste-management infrastructure reshaped sensory experience and ideas about cleanliness, morality, and the body, and consider these transformations in relation to shifting social, spiritual, and political structures governing bodily waste.

About the artist 🗣️

Andersson's practice proposes alternative historizations and speculative structures to expose and disrupt the psychosocial dimensions of knowledge production. Her multidisciplinary work across video, sculpture, and performance brings together academic discourse, scientific instruments, pseudoscientific excitement, social media, and horror films in playful installations. Through these unexpected combinations, Andersson investigates the intersection of science and pop culture, self-experimentation, quests for inner truth, and encounters with perversion.

📍1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Image: Madeleine Andersson, ‘Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism,’ 2026, lecture performance, 55 min.

09/15/2026

Meet the September residents 👋

John Guzman, Yao Qingmei, ChiuLing (Charlie) Chen, Carolina Maki Kitagawa Frisby, Xenia Bond, Madeleine Andersson, Tina Stefanou, Liesl Raff, Jessica Segall, Darius Žiūra, Milan Loviška & Otto Krause, Elise Macmillan, Power Ekroth, Agate Tūna, Bryony Dunne, and Gi (Ginny) Huo

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

Cover: Carolina Maki Kitagawa Frisby, ‘Dangerous Child and Running Over Memories,’ 2022-23, cropped

09/10/2026

OPENCALL: Fully-funded three-month residency supported by SAHA Association at ISCP!

Applications are now open through 🔗 in bio for the SAHA Association Residency at ISCP dedicated to artists from Turkey that want to engage with ISCP's unique programming and creative community.

Benefits include:

•$10,861 US stipend
•24-hour access to a private furnished studio space
•Regular studio visits from Visiting Critics
•Field Trips to museums, galleries and other cultural venues
•Participation in Open Studios and Artist Talks
•Becoming part of a growing network of 2,000 international artists and curators who are ISCP alumni
•And much more!

Important details:

•Application deadline: September 29, 2026
•Residency dates: March 1–May 31, 2027
•Notification: Artists will be notified by October 26, 2026
•Eligibility: Applicants must be artists from Turkey. Artists who have not previously lived or worked in New York will be given priority.

Visit ISCP’s ‘Apply’ page (scroll down), or click 🔗 in bio, for more details.
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Image: Merve Tuna's ISCP Studio, 2026. Photo by Martin Parsekian

09/09/2026

Next Tuesday❗Join us at ISCP from 6:30–7:30pm for Artists at Work with ISCP artist-in-residence Yao Qingmei and curator Xiaoyu Weng. They will discuss the development of Yao’s performance and moving-image practice, from early works in which she used her own body to intervene in everyday reality to her evolving engagement with performers and the camera and with the embodied presence of the audience. They will also consider her interest in rehearsal, repetition, and bodily control, and how these relate to labor and vulnerability.

About the speakers 🗣️

Yao Qingmei is an artist based between Paris and Wenzhou, China, working across video, performance, and installation. Her practice stages choreographed situations prone to breakdown, exploring the tension between control and instability as bodies confront systems of rules and constraint. Drawing on cinematic language, physical gestures, and scenographic frameworks, she transforms everyday actions into performative situations that expose power dynamics and moments of vulnerability.

Based in New York and Kassel, Germany, Xiaoyu Weng is co-curating the upcoming Documenta 16. She is the director of Art in General in New York, and from 2021-2023 she was Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she served as Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York also curated the fifth Ural Industrial Biennial in 2018–19 in Yekaterinburg. From 2010 to 2015, she held the position of director and curator of Asia Programs at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco.

📍1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Image: Yao Qingmei, ‘Fencing – Landscape Fight,’ 2019-21, three-channel HD video installation, color and sound, 18:50 min.

08/31/2026

August alumni spotlight ✨

📌 The Cultural Center of the Philippines () has appointed 2024 resident Carlos Quijon Jr as chief curator of its contemporary art museum. Quijon () is an art historian, curator, and critic based between Manila and New York. For the past two years, he has served as the inaugural C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) research fellow for Southeast and East Asia at MoMA, New York, and previously curated ‘Ahmad Fuad Osman: Archipelagic Alchemy’ at ISCP.

📌 The High Line and the Chanel Culture Fund have commissioned 2021 resident Alison Nguyen (.c.nguyen) to create ‘Prior Occupants,’ a new film exploring the overlooked history of one of New York’s best-known cultural landmarks. The fifth installment of the High Line Originals series and the second film produced in partnership with Chanel’s arts initiative, Prior Occupants will premiere on September 8 and screen daily through early November at the High Line Channel, the park’s public video space at 14th Street.

📌 2025 resident Clio Van Aerde () and 2024 resident Esben Weile Kjaer () are featured in PERFORMISSIMA 3 in Paris, the third edition of the performance festival organized by the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris. Dedicated to exploring performative semantics in an “undisciplined” way, seeks to provoke surprise and break down barriers between artistic disciplines by dissolving their boundaries. The third edition will take place on Friday, October 23, 2026.

Cover image: Alison Nguyen, ‘my favorite software is being here,’ 2020-2021, single channel video, stereo sound, 19 min.

08/27/2026

Inside studio 203: Saemundur Thor

Saemundur Thor is an Icelandic artist based between Reykjavik and Amsterdam. He works across a broad spectrum of visual culture, including film, finance, fashion and mass media. Turning the contemporary onto itself, his work seeks to intervene in the public imagination and operate as an active agent in society. In 2025 he established the ‘Social Bank’ in Amsterdam providing interest-free loans.

Thor has exhibited work at de Appel; Amsterdam, Reykjavik Art Museum; Reykjavik, and Living Art Museum; Reykjavik, among others.

08/26/2026

Inside studio 215: Stacey de Voe (@/re___voe)

Swedish artist Stacey de Voe uses site-specificity and the archive to investigate broader issues concerning textile histories, collective memory, feminized labor, and friendship. Not bound to a specific medium, she utilizes installation, moving image, performance, printmaking, and publication. Through an assemblage of artisanal and mass-produced objects, de Voe allows divergent historical residues to connect and disconnect, opening up new relations and meanings.

She has exhibited work at Simian, Denmark; Oslo Kunstforening, Norway; and skēnē – Room for Contemporary Art, Sweden, among others.

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