Artist Residency in Oaxaca

A space to create, settle into your own process, and grow your artistic practice and career through an inclusive environment that connects artists, contemporary practices, and Oaxaca’s local traditions.

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Bestiario is an artist residency organized by Casa Bestia for creators looking for more than just a place to work: real time to develop their practice, a living context to nourish their process, and a community to engage with, produce alongside, and exhibit in Oaxaca.

Bestiario starts from a simple idea: every creator arrives with their own language and needs the right context and conversation to develop it. We are interested in hybrid, experimental, unfinished, or urgent processes—projects that need space to take shape, exchange to grow, and a thoughtful environment to support their evolution.

Here, the residency goes beyond accommodation or studio space. It becomes a platform for production, support, and visibility, in dialogue with the collective, the material, the symbolic, and the cultural force of Oaxaca.

Why Oaxaca?

Oaxaca offers more than inspiration: it offers context.

 

More than just a destination, Oaxaca is now one of the strongest settings for contemporary art production in Mexico. Its strength lies in the coexistence of local knowledge, material practices, creative community, and an active network of workshops, galleries, residencies, cultural spaces, and independent agents.

Here, creative work is shaped by the connection between material culture, experimentation, collaboration, and artistic circulation.

 

Bestiario takes that energy as a starting point to support processes seeking depth, exchange, and a closer relationship with the rhythms, people, and possibilities of the local art ecosystem.

More about Oaxaca

- choose your format

*  residency periods can be adjusted to the specific needs of your project.

Deep Residency

– 35 days

For deeper research, production, and process development

A full cycle of artistic immersion with mentorship, project development, and an exhibition at Casa Bestia’s gallery.

Intensive residency

– 10 days

For focus, structure, and forward movement on a project already in progress

A short, intensive format for researching, sketching, experimenting, or giving direction to a project already in progress. It closes with a process exhibition.

Applicants must have a project already in development.

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For artists who want to:

– Produce a series or move a research process forward.

– Work within a clear structure — and follow through on it.

– Connect with community, local craft, and Oaxaca’s cultural scene.

– Document their process and share the results through exhibition.

Production framework

inmersion in the community

Key Connections

EXHIBITION & OUTREACH

- residentes anteriores

Woody Roseland

Denver, USA

Pintura

Eva Brunner

Basel,Suiza

Serigrafía con tierras

Open Call

We welcome applications from visual artists and multidisciplinary creators whose proposals are grounded in exploration, sensitivity, and dialogue with their surroundings.

Requirements: Portfolio, statement of intent, and project proposal.

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