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Since 1971

The Camargo Fellowship is the flagship program of the Camargo Foundation. Since 1971, the Camargo Foundation has awarded residencies to nearly 1,500 individuals with diverse reflections and practices as part of its mission to support advanced research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities. 

The Camargo Foundation is committed to supporting inclusiveness and a diversity, welcoming applicants from around the globe. Three main categories are available: Artists, Scholars and Thinkers. Collaborative projects and translation projects are eligible to apply.

Each year, an esteemed panel of scholars and arts professionals selects 14 individuals or teams. The selected applicants are awarded residencies in a stunning, contemplative environment where they have the space, time, and freedom to think, create, and connect. The Camargo Fellowship initiates exchanges within the group and develops a collective spirit, which is one of the program’s distinctive features.

The Camargo Fellowship consists of fellowship residencies that span a period of 10 weeks. A stipend of EUR 350 per week is provided (EUR 3500 for the entire duration of the residency), as is funding for basic transportation to and from Cassis per Fellow.

Find out more about the 2025-2026 residents below.

Since 2015

Jerome at Camargo is an invitational program which provides residencies for research, study and/or creation of new work at the Camargo Foundation to artists who have been supported by the Jerome Foundation within the last five years. This program welcomes artists from all disciplines. More information on the Jerome Foundation's website.

About the partner

The Jerome Foundation, also created by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), seeks to contribute to a dynamic and evolving culture by supporting the creation, development, and production of new works by early career/emerging artists. The Foundation makes grants to early career artists and those nonprofit arts organizations that serve them in the state of Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York City.

Since 2026 

This residency program was developed through our partnership with the Racial Imaginary Institute, a multidisciplinary platform engaging with art and scholarship to examine race's role and impact in contemporary life. Together, we share a commitment to supporting artists whose practices engage critically and creatively with questions of race, identity, and social imagination.

The program offers six artists based in the United States a six-week funded residency at Camargo in Cassis, France — a contemplative environment overlooking the Mediterranean, free from political pressures and production obligations. Working within an international context, resident artists are given the time and space to develop their practice, pursue new directions, and connect with a diverse community of artists and thinkers.

Each resident benefits from guidance and networking opportunities provided jointly by Camargo and the Racial Imaginary Institute, whose combined networks span the arts, academia, and cultural institutions across the United States and beyond.

Artists were selected through a nomination process. This program is made possible in partnership with the Swell Foundation and the Pittsburgh Opportunity Fund.

About the Partners

The Racial Imaginary Institute is a multidisciplinary platform that mobilizes art and scholarship to examine the role and impact of race. It brings together artists, academics, and organizations committed to reimagining the structures and stories that shape our world.

The Swell Foundation, the Pittsburgh Opportunity Fund and the Terra Foundation are committed to supporting artists and creative communities, fostering equity and opportunity in the cultural field.

Since 2026

Camargo and the Fondation Louis Roederer come together at the crossroads of shared concerns: support for artistic practices that interrogate the environmental history of our societies, our relationship to the living world, habitability and climate transformation.

This residency offers artists, writers and thinkers a period of work and reflection at Camargo, in Cassis, a contemplative environment overlooking the Mediterranean, away from political pressures and production obligations. In a resolutely international context, residents are given the time and space necessary to deepen their practice and explore new directions.

For this inaugural edition, we are welcoming Amitav Ghosh, an Indian novelist, leading thinker on ecology and one of the most important voices in contemporary English-language literature. He is the author of The Shadow Lines (Prix Médicis étranger, 1990) and Sea of Poppies (2010), among others. At the close of his residency, an evening of encounter and exchange around his work and ideas will be held at the Camargo Foundation.

For this first edition, we welcome Amitav Ghosh, Indian novelist, leading thinker on ecology, and one of the most important voices in contemporary English-language literature. His works include The Glass Palace (Prix Médicis étranger, 1990) and Sea of Poppies (2010). At the end of his residency, an evening of conversation and exchange around his work and thinking will be organized at the Camargo Foundation.

About the partners

Founded in 2011, the Fondation Louis Roederer, chaired by Frédéric Rouzaud, supports contemporary artistic creation and the transmission of knowledge. Through its global program Thinking Sustainability, the Foundation aims to offer tools for reflection towards a better understanding of the world and greater mutual respect, by sharing artistic perspectives, scientific research and thoughtful reflection on sustainability and the habitability of the world.

Since 2022

This program of creative and research residencies is open to Algerian visual artists, musicians and writers working and living in Algeria. It was created on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture, following the delivery of the Stora report and as part of the implementation of recommendations intended to appease Franco-Algerian memories. The aim of this residency is to promote and facilitate the mobilitý of Algerian artists, and to expand their professional and artistic network.

About the partners

This program is co-constructed by the Cité internationale des arts (Paris), the Camargo Foundation (Cassis) and the Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille). In collaboration with AM.I, Triangle - Astérides, contemporary art center of national interest, Fraeme and SACEM, the partners are committed to supporting the project of each winner by enabling them to benefit from privileged accompaniment́, networking and a funded three-month residency in France.

2025

In a context of acute crisis affecting harshly the Palestinian cultural scene, the French Institute of Jerusalem has partnered with Palestinian and French counterparts to design a residency program that will organize 57 residencies (24 in Palestine and 33 in France). This program is a continuation of the French Institute of Jerusalem long-standing action in the artistic residency field. It aims to support Palestinian artists with diverse profiles in terms of disciplines, generations, and geographical origins. Its goal is to accompany them in the development of a research and creation project in all sectors of contemporary creation.

2025

This residency program supports artistic and research exchanges between Türkiye and the Mediterranean region, as part of the partnership between the Camargo Foundation, the Institut français de Turquie, the Goethe-Institut Türkei, and their local and Mediterranean partners.

The residency hosts one artist or scholar engaged in an interdisciplinary approach related to Mediterranean ecological issues, providing a unique framework to explore the interactions between art and the environment, both on land and at sea.

The initiative aims to support artistic creation in relation to Mediterranean ecological challenges and to foster mobility and collaboration among artists and researchers in the region.

The Institut français de Turquie develops and supports numerous cultural and artistic projects throughout the country, fostering dialogue between local and international creative communities.

The Goethe-Institut Türkei is a key player in cultural cooperation in Türkiye, supporting contemporary creation as well as exchanges between artists, thinkers, and institutions.

Together with these partners, the Camargo Foundation is part of a shared commitment to encouraging multidisciplinary approaches to Mediterranean ecological questions, and to supporting those who—through research or creation—seek to explore the transformations shaping the region today.

Since 2016

The 3Arts program welcomes two American artists per year from the performing and visual arts fields, as well as teaching. It is open to all 3Arts awardees.

About the partner

3Arts is a nonprofit organization that advocates for Chicago’s women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities who work in the performing, teaching, and visual arts. By providing cash awards, project funding, residency fellowships, professional development, and promotion, 3Arts helps artists take risks, experiment, and build momentum in their careers.

In 2024

As part of the Résonnance à Plateforme10 program, mudac wishes to respond to the exhibition Thalassa! Thalassa! L’imaginaire de la mer, organized by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA), by commissioning a sound installation.

To do so, mudac approached the artist, musician and sound landscaper, Olga Kokcharova, born in Siberia and based in Geneva. The latter is interested in everything that is audible, regardless of the medium. She works with analog modular synthesizers and field recordings, favoring meticulous sound recording but also experimenting in circumstances where the recording equipment is put to the test. These sources are then worked on with a view to compositions, multichannel electroacoustic improvisations, soundtracks, or even sound installations in public spaces. In order to be as close as possible to the liquid element that is questioned by the MCBA exhibition, mudac has decided to send Olga Kokcharova for two months to the Camargo Foundation, an artist residency located in Cassis on the Mediterranean coast. There, she will be able to develop her project, which is conceptually based on the different interpretations of the sound of the sea inside a shell. There will be no spoken language, but an intention to make felt, by exploiting the physicality of sound and relying on psychoacoustic effects, the evolutions of the perception of the soundscape of the sea seen from the contemporary European perspective.

In 2025

La Maison Baldwin honors the locations around the world that impacted James Baldwin's life and work : the vibrant heartlands of France, the eclectic landscapes of the American South, and the urban energy of Harlem and Paris. Inspired by James Baldwin's global legacy, this 6 week residency program offered by the Camargo Foundation and La Maison Baldwin is intended to nurture creativity, foster intellectual exchanges and amplify the voices of Black writers in the world.

Since 2015

This 4- to 8-week residency is awarded to a prize-winning filmmaker from the FIDLab, the international co-production platform of FIDMarseille, the Marseille International Film Festival.

About the partner

The FIDLab is a working space for film projects selected in response to an international call for entries. Each year, around a dozen projects are selected, regardless of format, length or subject, whether fiction, documentary, animation or series, at the writing, development or post-production stage.

Find out more about the residents of 2024 below.

2023

Founded on the belief that Minnesota thrives when its artists thrive, the McKnight Foundation's arts program is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the country since its inception in 1981. The McKnight Artist Fellowships Program provides annual, unrestricted fellowships to outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists in 14 different creative disciplines. The Camargo Foundation hosted two recipients of the McKnight Artist Residencies program in 2023.

About the partner

The Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) is the international organization that supports artist residency programs and host organizations. ACA's mission is to advocate for and support artist residency programs in order to advance creative work and research around the world. Founded in 1991, ACA currently has more than 250 members in 50 U.S. states and 20 countries and works on behalf of 1,500 residency programs worldwide.

2021-2022

The aim of this residency was to contribute to a contemporary conversation on Darwish’s legacy as well as to support scholars and artists from the Arab world. The four grantees of this program were selected with this consideration and furthermore in view of the multidisciplinary nature of their proposal, its positioning at the intersection of art and research, its ability to bridge the personal and the universal and to question history as well as contemporary national and international politics. The committee expected from the laureates to unveil future spaces and at the same time to dig in the past and its legacies.

About the partners

This program was launched by the Mahmoud Darwish Chair and the Camargo Foundation together with BOZAR, A.M. Qattan Foundation and Mucem.

The purpose of the Mahmoud Darwich Chair is to disseminate the work and thought of the Palestinian poet, who is considered as one of the greatest contemporary authors. His poetry, with its recurring concepts such as exile, memory and love, leads to a reflection on human fragility. The Chair wishes to present contemporary art from the Middle-East and Maghreb. It wants to promote the work of film-makers, directors, choreographers and writers from the region.

2021 - 2022

In the context of an acute crisis that has hit the Lebanese cultural scene, the Institut Français, the Association des Centres culturels de rencontre and the Institut Français of Lebanon have joined forces to invite 100 Lebanese artists in residence in France, through an emergency program "NAFAS", co-financed by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture. The objective of this program is to allow 100 Lebanese artists, hard hit in the exercise of their profession, to maintain a creative activity in the framework of cultural exchanges with France. This program aims to support Lebanese artists, creators and cultural professionals by hosting them on the French metropolitan territory for artistic residencies.

About the partner

The Institut français promotes French culture internationally, in dialogue with foreign cultures. It promotes initiatives related to various artistic fields, intellectual engagement, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic cooperation. It promotes the French language around the world, as well as the mobility of works of art, artists and ideas.

2017 - 2021

In 2017, the Fondation Royaumont and the Camargo Foundation have launched a joint-residency program for composers. 

About the partner

The Fondation Royaumont, located in an abbey near Paris, is a transdisciplinary institution which seeks to dismiss the barriers between the arts and other realms of thought. First opened in the late 30s, it is only after the 2nd World War that the Foundation truly started to be functional and to welcome artists and thinkers within its walls. It offers, amongst others, short residencies focused on contemporary dance, performing arts and contemporary music.

2020

This partnership program with the Cipm (centre international de poésie de Marseille) was developed in 2020, during the covid-19 sanitary crisis. These unpredecented times made us realize even more the importance to develop programs specifically dedicated to poetry at a regional scale.

About the partner

As a place for the creation and dissemination of contemporary poetry, the Cipm sets up an annual programme of public readings, meetings and exhibitions around French and foreign contemporary poets, as well as magazines and publishers that expose their creations. Thematic symposia, awareness raising activities, writer residencies, interventions abroad, translation workshops are also organized regularly throughout the year.  Since its creation in 1990, the Cipm has welcomed more than 2000 authors.
This activity is complemented by the work of the specialized library, freely open to the public, with nearly forty thousand documents available to the public.

2019 - 2020

Led by the Institut français de Turquie, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, the Goethe-Institut and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the project Be Mobile-Create Together! seeks to promote artistic and cultural exchanges between Europe and Turkey through the establishment of a multi-national and multi-disciplinary network of artist residencies. Whilst stimulating young talent, the project aims to foster the development of durable ties between art scenes in Turkey and Europe.

About the partner

Be Mobile – Create Together! is realised within the framework of the EU-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue project. The EU-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue project is designed within the scope of the Civil Society Sector funds constructed under the leadership of the Directorate for European Union Affairs (DEUA) and implemented by the Yunus Emre Institute (YEI). Be Mobile-Create Together! is led by the French Institute in Turkey, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, the Goethe-Institut and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), and is co-funded by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey.

2015 - 2019

This residency program aimed to host up to two artists or scholars per year as part of the Fondation Camargo's partnership with the Mucem.

About the partner

The Mucem based in Marseille is a museum dedicated to European and Mediterrenean civilizations, which opened in 2013. Its approach is multidimensional as it not only attempts to offer a pluridisciplinary outlook on Europe and the Mediterrenean Basin, but it also looks into how the histories of the different populations of the region can explain the struggles and issues its present inhabitants are enduring.