Eastern Asia

Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo (HKPAX) provides a platform for arts practitioners and institutions in the performing arts industry worldwide to showcase their work to international peers, fostering collaboration and touring opportunities. Practitioners of all performing arts disciplines are welcome to apply.

Kyoto Art Center offers an artist-in-residence programme to support the creative activities of emerging artists and researchers in the field of arts who seek to create new artistic expression through exposure to different cultures.

The Bucheon City of Literature office has announced the launch of the four-week 2025 Bucheon Residency Programme, open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are currently engaged in creative writing.

The Design Trust Fellowship at V&A East is a one-year programme awarding a creative practitioner funding to engage in research at V&A East Storehouse, fieldwork in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and China where appropriate, and to produce a new creative work, which will be displayed at V&A East for a six-month season.

Wonju UNESCO City of Literature are offering an eight-week residency opportunity at the Toji Cultural Centre to writers connected to the cities that make up the Cities of Literature network.

The A4 Residency Art Center International Residency Programme is calling for applications from international artists from any field for the 8–10-week residency sessions in 2026–2027 in Chengdu, China.

Founded in 2004, the International Writers’ Workshop (IWW) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has hosted over 150 writers from more than 55 countries. They invite applications from interested writers to join the 2026 Writers-in-Residence Programme from 2 to 29 March 2026.

‘Hit the Wall’ is a public art programme centred on mural art, which invites renowned graffiti and mural artists from Taiwan and abroad to co-create, transforming Taipei’s city walls into dynamic stages for expression and starting points for intergenerational dialogue.

Pier-2 Artist-in-Residence Programme (PAIR) welcomes innovative, interdisciplinary, and experimental artists from Taiwan and abroad, with the aim of creating a global platform for cultural and artistic exchange through residency and collaboration with creative minds from around the world.

Nanjing is offering six residencies from 15 to 30 July 2025 to writers, poets and translators from all UNESCO Cities of Literature.

Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), operated by a division of The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, offers artist-in-residence programmes for international creators working in various creative fields to stay, engage in creation and conduct research activities in Tokyo.

Taepyung Salt Farm and Boggle Mansion seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency programme in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea.