Canada

The Image Centre offers a variety of fellowships for research related to photography. Research fellows have the opportunity to study select areas of The Image Centre’s photography collections first-hand.

The Emerging Curator Residency Program offers the opportunity to propose and curate a project at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) related to contemporary debates in architecture, urban issues, landscape design, and cultural and social dynamics while completing a residency at the CCA.

The Delegation of the European Union to Canada (EUD) and OCAD University invite emerging youth artists (ages 18–29) from Canada and the European Union (EU) to apply for an opportunity to participate in the DemocracyXChange Summit (DXC), taking place 16–18 April 2026 in Toronto, Canada.

The Scotia Place project team is working with LeuWebb Projects and Heavy to curate and commission four outdoor public art pieces for Scotia Place, Calgary, Alberta Canada’s newest premier sports and entertainment venue.

The Delegation of the European Union to Canada and the Global Centre for Climate Action at OCAD University have partnered to support artists, designers and scholars across Canada and the EU to develop a site-specific projection artwork for the Canada Malting Silos, located on Toronto’s waterfront, to present at Nuit Blanche on 4 October 2025.

The National Gallery of Canada’s General Idea Fellowship encourages and supports advanced research in contemporary art.

Est-Nord-Est residency programme is open to professional visual artists, whether established or emerging, from Québec, Canada, and other countries. The eight-week residencies host four artists per season.

The Structurist Creative Research Fellowship (SCRF), organised by the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries and Collections in Canada, is open to both Canadian and international applicants at any stage in their career and the project must be completed by September 2026.

Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology – in partnership with Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society – seeks applications for the inaugural Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence.

The National Gallery of Canada’s General Idea Fellowship encourages and supports advanced research in contemporary art. Research will relate to any aspect of contemporary art, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, artist’s books and multiples, video, installation and other media, and emphasise the use and investigation of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, including the Art Metropole Collection, the General Idea fonds, the AA Bronson collection, and related materials in the Gallery’s collections.

The CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Programme seeks practitioners and researchers working across landscape architecture and allied practices to participate in a multi-day online seminar in November 2023. Some participants will be invited to continue with the research project with in-person meetings and independent research over 18 months.