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About This Program

Each year, Center for Book Arts awards up to five New York-based emerging 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 making book art—thus artists from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. CBA especially encourages applications from artists of culturally diverse backgrounds.

Our workspace Artists-in-Residence are selected by an independent panel of artists, curators, and professionals in the field. The 2024 cohort was selected by:

  • Alexandra Rosenberg, Executive Director at Center for Performance Research
  • Isabella Nimmo, Associate Curator at Amant
  • Yusuf Hassan, Artist Publisher and former CBA AIR

2024 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

Aarati Akkapeddi is a cross-disciplinary artist, coder, and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They often use personal and institutional archival materials, combining computational and analog techniques like machine learning & printmaking to create artwork about intergenerational/collective memory. Their creative work has been supported by institutions such as The Photographers’ Gallery, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and LES Printshop. Learn more


sadé powell is a visual and concrete poet from nyc, exploring black feminist poethics through her 1940s royal typewriter. she is interested in analog modes of meaning-making as liminal delinking from our increasingly technocratic world. her first-ish chapbook wordtomydead is currently available with ugly duckling presse. Learn more

Rujuta Rao. Born in Goa, India in 1989, she completed her MFA in interdisciplinary art from Parsons School of Design, New York, and her BFA in sculpture from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Rao’s work spans sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound art, alongside a parallel practice of conceptual and functional garments, which has grown into the company RUGA. Learn more

Former Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2023 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2022 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2021 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2020 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2019 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2018 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2017 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2016 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2015 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2014 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2013 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

2012 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

  • Stephanie Beck
  • Frances Gallardo
  • Jessica Lagunas
  • Asuka Ohsawa
  • Sarada Rauch

2011 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

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

2010 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

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

2009 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

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

2008 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

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

2007 Workspace Artists-in-Residence

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

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
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