The Hnatyshyn Foundation – Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency

The Hnatyshyn Foundation – Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency provides an opportunity for a young Canadian curator to work in residence at Fogo Island Arts, a contemporary arts venue in Newfoundland, for six weeks.

Established in 2014, the Young Curator Residency program provides opportunities for emerging Canadian curators between the ages of 25 and 30 to participate in a residency with Fogo Island Arts. This opportunity offers rich cross-disciplinary dialogue and an exploratory immersion within Fogo Island’s unique physical and cultural landscape. A place-based experience, this residency provides uninterrupted time for creative experimentation, research, and reflection. Fogo Island Arts covers the selected candidate’s cost of travel to and from Fogo Island, accommodation in a heritage house and the use of a vehicle for on-island transportation. The candidate also receives a weekly honorarium for food and incidentals.

Fogo Island Arts is a residency-based contemporary art venue that supports research and production of new work for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers and thinkers from around the world. Since 2008, FIA has brought some of the most exciting, emerging and renowned artists of today to Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada to take part in residencies and to present solo exhibitions at the Fogo Island Gallery. Combining contemporary art, iconic architecture and social innovation in a singular setting, FIA is a world-class institution that is uniquely rooted in community. Fogo Island Arts is an initiative of the Shorefast Foundation, a registered charity dedicated to improving the social, cultural and economic conditions on Fogo Island and other small places around the world. For more information, visit www.fogoislandarts.ca.

• Guidelines

  Deadline: January 20, 2025

  Duration: 6 weeks

  Timeline: October/November 2025

  Location: Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

  Criteria:

  To be eligible for consideration, candidates must:

  • be between the ages of 25 and 30 inclusively at the time of the application deadline;

  • be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada;

  • hold a valid Driver’s License and be eligible to rent a car;

  • have curated a minimum of two exhibitions;

  • have published a minimum of two critical essays on contemporary art;

  • demonstrate that their work incorporates specialized training in contemporary art (not necessarily gained at an academic institution);

  • demonstrate that their work has been presented in professional contexts and has received peer recognition;

  • be proficient in English, which is the primary speaking language used on Fogo Island;

  • have knowledge of, or experience working with, Canadian institutions and/or contemporary art and artists;

  • have familiarity with remote environments and experience working in a self-directed capacity.

  Submission Requirements:

  • Letter of intention

  • CV

  • Portfolio of exhibition documentation (10 images max., or 2 video links) and/or examples of published work (10 pages max.)

  • Proof of valid driver’s license

  • Online application Form

  We look forward to receiving your applications!

  For further details on Fogo Island Arts residencies, please consult the FAQ section on Fogo Island Arts’s website, or contact:

  Marianne Brown, Executive Director, The Hnatyshyn Foundation: T +1 613 233 0108, director@rjhf.com.

  Iris Stunzi, Program Manager, Fogo Island Arts: T +1 709 266 1248, irisstunzi@fogoislandarts.ca

• Participants

  See past participants

  2025 | Camille Richard

  

  Camille Richard is an independent writer and researcher, living and working along the St. Lawrence River between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/ Montreal and Wolastokuk/Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Her research focuses on conceptual and contextual artistic, curatorial and institutional practices that redefine exhibition parameters and that develop alternative methodologies for the production and transmission of knowledge. Equipped with a master’s degree in art history from the Université du Québec à Montréal, her curatorial practice takes various forms, including exhibitions (Champ liminal at Espace parenthèses, 2022), publications (Vie des Arts, Espace art actuel) and reflective workshops. She has also had the opportunity to participate in residencies and share her research at La Chambre Blanche (2021) and DARE-DARE (2023). Since 2021, she has devoted much of her energy to the general and artistic management of Est-Nord-Est,where she reflects on ways to make institutional structures more loving and inclusive.

  “I’m deeply grateful for the incomparable opportunity to attend the Hnatyshyn Foundation-Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency program. This exceptional experience will allow me to immerse myself fully in my curatorial practice while drawing inspiration from Fogo Island’s unique cultural and ecological context. The residency will not only offer me the time and space to deepen my research into artistic practices that foster collaborative learning between art and ecology, but also provide the ideal environment to explore sustainable practices from a community-centered perspective. I’m eager to engage with both the human and more-than-human inhabitants of the island, whose relationships shape its distinctive identity, and to see how these experiences will inform and expand my curatorial vision.”

  

  Champ Liminal at Espace Parenthèses, Québec, 2022. Curated by Camille Richard. Photo: Mariane Stratis

  Find out more about Camille at @cm.richard on Instagram!

• Adjudicators

  The adjudicators for this program are Nicolaus Schafhausen, founder of KIN Brussels gallery, Reesa Greenberg, art and exhibition historian, and Zita Cobb, CEO and Founder of Shorefast.