The Inlaks Residency at NIROX, South Africa

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The Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, in collaboration with NIROX Foundation and the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, offers a residency in South Africa to support an Indian artist. The residency provides a comfortable, enabling, stimulating environment – for residents to research, imagine, experience and produce diverse ideas and works, to grow personal and creative practice.

Residency date: 20th October to 8th December 2025

Duration and Value:

  1. The Residency is for six to seven weeks and covers travel and production costs. 
  2. Living arrangements are provided by the Residency.

Eligibility Criteria:

  1. The applicant must be an Indian citizen currently residing in India.
  2. The applicant must be born on or after 1st January 1990. 
  3. The applicant may be an emerging and mid-career Indian artist. 
  4. An applicant with a practice in contemporary visual art working in all disciplines may apply. 
  5. The applicant must be proficient in English

Exclusion:

The applicant should not have received any prior grant from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation for any other overseas project.

Application Process:

Complete the duly filled application form on the our online application system. For any queries, contact gladys@inlaksfoundation.org. For technical queries, write to submissions@inlaksfoundation.org 

Selection Process:

The selection process consists of two stages - desk-review of applications followed by an online interview of the shortlisted applicants.


Application Instruction & Process

The applicant must submit a duly filled application form on the online application system. 

 

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 30th June 2025, 11:59pm (IST)


Candidates shortlisted for the interviews will be informed by 21st July 

Final results will be released by 31st July 2025. 

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