Opportunities → Artists-in-Residence

Each year, Center for Book Arts awards up to six New York-based emerging and mid-career artists with space, time, and financial support to explore the production and exhibition of artists’ books and related work in a year-long residency.

This program promotes experimentation in book arts — thus artists from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We especially encourage applications from artists of culturally diverse backgrounds.

Applications are currently closed

Selection Process

Applications must be submitted online through the link above. Each year submissions are reviewed by an independent panel of arts professionals from a broad range of backgrounds. Our panelists review each application blind looking for candidates that show either a demonstrated history with the book as art or an interest in engaging with the book as art in new ways.

Successful applications will demonstrate a committed artistic practice through their submitted work samples, statement, exhibition history, or other forms of public artistic engagement.

The 2025 cohort was selected by:

  • Pacifico Silano
  • Rebecca Geduk
  • Kyung Eun Yo

Previous Panelists

Golnar Adili, artist and former CBA Resident; Tauba Auerbach, artist and publisher; Nickolas Calabrese, Artist and Writer; Eva Parra, Publisher and Riso instructor; Emmett Pinsky, Store Manager at Printed Matter / St Marks; Simón Ramírez, Artist and co-founder of Miriam Gallery; Molly Taylor, cultural manager at David Kordansky Gallery.

2025 Artists-in-Residence

Maya Beverly

Maya Beverly is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, whose work is primarily centered around Sculpture and Ceramics. In 2020, she received her BFA from New York University in Studio Art. She has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Nigeria. She has held residencies at Women’s Studio Workshop, The Archie Bray Foundation and Township10. Beverly’s work is held in several collections including Apple Music, Princeton University’s Graphic Art Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library. Presently, she is interested in exploring concepts surrounding mythology and world-building. The driving force behind these interests stems from the desire to providing these objects or figures with an environment to create and exist and to terraform a world that is conducive to their desires.

Sarah Zarina Hakani

Sarah Zarina Hakani is a Shi’a Muslim multidisciplinary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. With a background in neuroscience, Islamic studies, and education, she explores how linguistic repetition impacts memory. She relies on Zikr (ritualistic chanting/prayer) to explore emergence and mutability through iteration. Recently, she has been constructing illegible scripts to create nonsensical text-based work, interrogating how people default to meaning-making even in the absence of semantic content. This has involved researching how tactile interfaces, including embossments and weavings, act as modes of intuitive and accessible transmission beyond language and sound.

Past Artists-in-Residence

2024 Book Artist-in-Residence

Valentina Améstica
Audra Wolowiec

2024 Workspace Artist-in-Residence

Sadé Powell
Rujuta Rao
Aarati Akkapeddi

2023 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2023 Book Artists-in-Residence

2022 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2022 Book Artists-in-Residence

2021 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2021 Book Artists-in-Residence

2020 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2020 Book Artists-in-Residence

2019 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2019 Scholars-in-Residence

2018 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2018 Scholars-in-Residence

2017 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2017 Scholars-in-Residence

2016 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2016 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Shana Agid
  • Wayne Kleppe
  • Elizabeth Sheehan

2015 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2015 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Aron Cohen
  • Alaska McFadden
  • Tammy Nguyen

2014 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2014 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Donald Daedalus
  • Lee Marchalonis
  • Prudence Dudan

2013 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2013 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Aurora De Armendi
  • Kyle Holland
  • Amanda Thackray

2012 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2012 Van Lier Scholars

  • Natalie Stopka
  • Celine Lombardi
  • Sara Parkel

2011 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • James Case-Leal
  • Matt Keegan
  • Liz Linden
  • Colin McMullen
  • Heidi Neilson
  • Kambui Olujimi

2011 Van Lier Scholars

  • Ben Reynaert
  • Kimberly McClure
  • Sarah McDermott

2011 Stein Scholar

  • Katie Baldwin

2010 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Tal Halpern
  • Wayne Hodge
  • Katarina Jerinic
  • Jennie C. Jones
  • Angie Waller

2010 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Emily Blair
  • Julie Schumacher

2009 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Terry Boddie
  • Gautam Kansara
  • Shani Peters
  • Ginger Brooks Takahashi
  • James Walsh

2009 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Liz Zanis
  • Taylor Reid

2008 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Sarah Meskin
  • Elysa Voshell

2008 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Cesar Cornejo
  • Hadassa Goldvicht
  • Wennie Huang
  • Ivan Monforte
  • Zoe Sheehan-Saldaña

2007 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Jeremy James Thompson
  • Corinna Zeltsman

2007 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Manuel Acevedo  
  • Yoko Inoue
  • Rajkamal Kahlon
  • Catarina Leitao 
  • Tattfoo Tan

2006 Scholars-in-Residence

  • Ana Cordeiro
  • Sarasvati Munoz

2006 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2005 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2004 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Cecilia Haegeen Kim
  • Josh Harris
  • Isabelle Lumpkin
  • Marian St. Laurent

2003 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Navin Norling
  • Frank Parga
  • Jihyun Yu

2002 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • R. Gregory Christie
  • Shimoda Emmanuel

Support

Support for Center for Book Arts’ programs is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.