StoreCuratorial Residency (2012–2021)
In 2022, Visual AIDS launched a new Research Fellowship program to replace our Curatorial Residency. The information below is retained for archival purposes only.
Launched in 2012, Visual AIDS and Residency Unlimited (RU) join efforts to host a one-month residency program for a curator, art historian, or arts writer interested in the intersection of visual art and HIV/AIDS. The curatorial residency encourages the development of exhibitions, programs, and scholarship about HIV/AIDS and contemporary art.
The resident curator conducts research in Visual AIDS' Archive Project & Artist+ Registry archives with access to slides, digital images, publication and other resources. The archives hold over 25,600 slides with over 18,600 images online from over 900 living artists and estates of artists lost due to AIDS-related complications. Studio visits with artists are encouraged. The resident curator is invited to create an online exhibition at www.visualAIDS.org.
RU provides the curator with customized administrative and network support, shared office space at in Brooklyn and a venue for a public program (lecture/screening/discussion) defined in conjunction with RU and Visual AIDS.
Jointly the resident curator is invited to produce a free, public event co-hosted by RU and Visual AIDS. Panel discussions, film screenings, performances, or a lecture illuminate the curator’s use of the Archive Project and/or a presentation of international cultural production around HIV/AIDS.
