Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC) is an art facility that offers artist lodgings, production studios, and 2 gallery spaces. Numerous artists from Japan and abroad have stayed at ACAC to create and exhibit their works.

There are 3 frameworks through which artists can come to ACAC to engage in creative activities. The ‘Open-call Artist in Residence (AIR)’ programme is offered once per year, and provides full support over a maximum 3-month-long residency. The second framework is the ‘Invitation-based AIR’, in which artists are nominated by curators. Finally, we offer a ‘Paid residency’, in which artists cover their own living and production expenses and stay at ACAC for up to 1 month. And this year, on a trial basis, we are implementing the ‘Studio artist open call’ as a 4th framework.

For this open call, we are inviting artists with a connection to Aomori to stay at ACAC and engage in creative activities for a period of 6 to 9 months. This programme is not intended for short-term, intensive activities for the purpose of holding exhibitions or other presentations of finished works. Rather, by offering a space to engage with the creative process – including various trials and errors – over a longer period of time, the purpose of this framework is to give artists who already have a connection to Aomori the opportunity to further develop their artistic expression in Aomori.

Please see Application Guideline for a detail.

We look forward to receiving many applications.