Our Artist in Residence Program is a one month residency where 8-10 artists are granted full access to our facilities and community to develop their practice. The selected artists are given unlimited scanning, an ink stipend, a personal workstation, training and guidance by our staff, an organized public event to present their new work, and lifetime free lab access. During their month at LATITUDE residents are asked to be mentors to the community, sharing their insights and creative methods.

We encourage artists who are interested in production, education, and experimentation with our technology to apply. No prior printing experience, art education, or media specificity are required. For more details on how to apply, please email programming@latitudechicago.org. Applications open August 1st.

About Our Artist Residency

The Residency

The LATITUDE Artist in Residency was started in 2013 with the mission to better support artists and the production of their work. Our current focus is to support artists who are interested in using our printing and scanning services to expand their practice, regardless of medium or prior experience. In the past, we have accepted photographers, painters, performance artists, new media artists and sculptors to name a few.

AIR Programming

During their month-long residency, artists are asked to put on one community programming event. Residents are asked to be mentors to the community, sharing their insights and creative methods. In the past we’ve hosted panel discussions, artist talks, performances, workshops, and critiques.

ARTIST Stipend

Residents receive an $1,000 ink stipend, unlimited scanning, a personal workstation, training and guidance by our staff, an organized public event to present their new work, and lifetime free lab access. At this time, we are not able to offer a housing stipend. The LATITUDE team will help schedule studio visits during your month-long residency.

May 2024 AIR

Xi Li

xi Li Bio

Xi Li (b. 1995 Suzhou, China) is an artist who works with photography, video, installation and bookmaking to address the unreliability of image and the fallibility of memory, using methods of construction, simulation, intervention and refabrication, to consider the unstable harmony between actual and fictive recollections of the past, and to blur the lines in between. Xi has exhibited internationally in François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, AMANITA, Inna Art Space and Latitude Gallery in New York City, Aperture Gallery in London and MadeIn Gallery in Shanghai and will be included in the NAFI 2023 in the coming fall in China. Xi is the recipient of 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund. Her self-published book Traces of Invisibilities has been shortlisted for Photo 2020 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize. Xi earned a Bachelor of Design from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art. Xi currently lives and works in New York.

Read our Q&A with Xi Li

Meet Our AIR 2024 Cohort!

We can’t wait to see what gets created at the Lab!

🌟 2024 AIR 🌟
Anwulika Anigbo, Lawrence Agyei, Xi Li, Yashoda Latkar, Kean O’Brien, Cristina Velasquez, Billie Carter-Rankin, Joseph Josué Mora, Jade Williams

Learn more about our AIR 2024 (PDF)

How to Apply?

Applications Open August 1st - 31st

Thank You to everyone who has submitted for AIR 2024!

Notifications will happen in early October.

Application is Currently Closed

LATITUDE never wants finances to stand in the way of participation in our programs. Please reach out to us to discuss financial assistance.

Our application opens on August 1st. The first two weeks are free to apply, and the remaining weeks are a $20 donation. Applications are due by the last day of August. Zoom events on how to fill out our application and tips on how to write an artist statement will occur the first two weeks of August.

Application Includes:

Artist Bio (200 Word Limit)
Artist Statement (200 Word limit)
Proposal on how you make use of the lab during your residency and how the residency will be beneficial to you ( 500 word limit)
Programming Proposal on how you will engage with the Chicago arts community through your free public programming (500 Words limit)
2 references
DropBox submission of 10 Jpeg images of your work and one PDF Slide List. The 10 images should correlate to the work you're interested in creating at Latitude and does not need to be a single body of work.

International artists can apply but LATITUDE does not have a travel stipend at this time or housing a part of this residency.