Founded:
2026
Language(s):
English, Thai
Eligibility criteria:

Nomad Art Residency Bangkok welcomes applications from mid-career international artists, curators, writers, choreographers, and creative technologists. Applicants should have a minimum of five years of professional practice and a demonstrable engagement with the cycle’s thematic research question.

We are looking for practitioners at a stage in their career where sustained immersion in a new context would generate meaningful new directions — not early-career applicants building foundational skills, and not practitioners whose engagement with the residency would be purely additive to an already fully formed body of work.

Applicants must be available for the full duration of their chosen cohort period and able to fund their participation through personal resources, institutional grants, or arts council mobility funding from their home country.

Duration:
1-3 months
1 month and 3 months
Residents at once:
More than 5
Covered by host:
Accommodation, Studio
Paid by artist:
Residency fee, Travel, Insurance, Daily expenses
Residency fee:
1,450 EUR for 1 month, 6,350 EUR for 3 months
The fee covers:
For 1 month - studio, accommodation, guided tour and networking sessions, welcome and farewell dinner, public program. For 3 months, plus transportation and accommodation to field trip to Chiang Mai, curatorial mentorship, peer critique sessions
The fee is charged:
Other
Application guidelines:

Applications are submitted through the online form at nomadartresidencybangkok.com. All materials must be submitted in English.

What to prepare
A statement of intent of 500 to 800 words describing your practice, your engagement with the cycle’s thematic research question, and what you are hoping to research or develop during the residency. Tell us specifically what Bangkok and this moment in the city’s creative and ecological life offer your practice — what this place would make possible that another context could not.

A CV or biography of no more than two pages outlining your professional experience and key works, exhibitions, publications, or projects from the last five years.

Three work samples representing your practice at its strongest — images, video links, text excerpts, audio recordings, or documentation of recent projects. Work samples do not need to be your most recent work, but should give the selection panel a clear sense of your practice and its direction.

Your cohort preference, indicating which period or periods you are available for, and whether you are applying for the four-week or twelve-week track.

Early decision requests

If you require a decision before the published notification date in order to meet a funding deadline in your home country, indicate this in your application and include the date by which you need a response. They will prioritize your application wherever possible.

Application deadline:
Ongoing / apply any time
Open call:
no
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Nomad Art Residency Bangkok

Nomad Art Residency Bangkok

Description

Nomad Art Residency Bangkok supports mid-career international artists, curators, writers, choreographers, and creative technologists through an intellectually rigorous residency program rooted in the Khlong San district on the bank of the Chao Phraya river. Each cycle is anchored by a published thematic research question, bringing a small, carefully selected cohort of four to six residents into sustained dialogue with each other, with a community of over ten working Thai artists in the same building, and with Bangkok’s creative, ecological, and historical landscape.

The program operates two tracks. The four-week Nomad Track is open to self-funding mid-career practitioners through an open call. The twelve-week Lab Track offers a deeper research and production cycle including dedicated curatorial mentorship across multiple sessions, facilitated peer critique, and a four-day field research component with the Pga K’nyau community at Baan Nong Tao in Chiang Mai — a direct encounter with indigenous ecological knowledge that grounds the program’s thematic ambitions in lived experience.

All residents receive studio space, accommodation, a guided cultural orientation across Bangkok’s galleries and institutions, a heritage tour of the Khlong San district, access to the building’s Thai artist community, and grant application support — including a formal letter of invitation and itemized budget documentation for funding applications in their home country.

The residency is housed in a repurposed garment factory whose industrial character has been carefully preserved, opening onto planted courtyard spaces and a communal kitchen designed to keep the boundaries between working, eating, and gathering deliberately open.

Outcome

Residents leave Nomad Art Residency Bangkok with new work, new questions, and new relationships by having tested their practice against an unfamiliar city, a rigorous thematic framework, and the critical perspectives of an international cohort. Lab Track residents produce work developed through sustained curatorial engagement, documented professionally and presented through a public program event. All residents receive institutional credit, digital archive inclusion, and grant application documentation that supports their continued practice. Through the building’s Thai artist community and Bangkok’s wider creative network, residents leave with connections that extend well beyond the residency period.

Accommodation Information

Residents are accommodated in private rooms located a seven to eight minute walk from the studio building, through the streets of Khlong San. Each room has air conditioning, an en-suite bathroom with walk-in shower and stone basin, a work desk, wardrobe with safe, mini refrigerator, coffee service, and flat-screen television. Rooms are furnished with a combination of dark wood, pale oak flooring, encaustic tile, and louvered hardwood shutters. A washing machine and dryer are available on the premises. A selection of local breakfast dishes is available each morning at additional cost. The walk between accommodation and studios passes through the daily life of Khlong San, embedding residents in the district rather than isolating them within the program space.

Studio Information

The residency occupies a repurposed garment factory whose industrial character has been preserved throughout the renovation. Three studio spaces are available to residents. Studio A is a 21.5 sqm private studio with direct access to a planted outdoor courtyard and an original factory window retained from the building’s previous life. Studio B is a 30 sqm shared studio opening on two sides onto the courtyard, with the original factory elevator door and traces of the building’s working history visible in the plaster. Studio C is a 116 sqm multipurpose hall used for shared working, critique sessions, public program events, and cohort gatherings, with track lighting throughout and direct adjacency to the communal kitchen. All studios are air-conditioned with electrical points and standard studio lighting. A planted courtyard extends the working area outdoors, suited to practices involving assembly or open-air working conditions.

Working facilities
A/V equipment
Exhibition space
Outdoor areas
Other
Other working facility
Kitchen, off-site rehearsal space for dance
Technical assistance
No
Do you host groups?
Yes
Group size
up to 6 people
Non-artist companions allowed
Yes
Companion types
Partner
Support for artists with disability
Wheelchair accessible
Other disability support
Welcome and farewell dinner, transportation and accommodation during field trip, guided tour and networking session with local art institutions, guided tour to the cultural sites in the neighborhood
Location specifics

Nomad Art Residency Bangkok is located in the Klong San district on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river - one of Bangkok’s most historically layered neighborhoods, home to a vibrant street food scene, local cafés, and daily market life. BTS Charoen Nakhon station provides direct access to the city’s skytrain network. The Chao Phraya river offers boat connections to Bangkok’s old town, riverside temples, and the Charoen Krung creative district. Icon Siam, one of Bangkok’s major cultural and retail destinations, is within walking distance. EV tuk-tuks provide street-level exploration of the surrounding neighborhood.

Past residents

N/A

International networks

N/A

Anything else

Nomad Art Residency Bangkok is grounded in ecology, environmental discourse, and the urgent questions surrounding land, water, and indigenous knowledge in Southeast Asia. Our 12-week Lab Track includes a field research component with the Pga K’nyau community at Baan Nong Tao in Chiang Mai — a living encounter with indigenous ecological knowledge, structured as genuine exchange rather than observation.

The program is designed for practitioners ready to be productively unsettled by an unfamiliar context. Bangkok is not a backdrop — it is an active ingredient in the work. Through curatorial mentorship, peer critique, and sustained community engagement, residents leave with practice that has been genuinely tested and sharpened by place.

Residents whose work develops meaningfully from the residency experience are considered on a priority basis for future exhibition and representation by Warin Lab Contemporary, their partner gallery with an internationally recognized program rooted in ecology and interdisciplinary practice. This connection is not guaranteed but is a real and ongoing relationship — one that extends the residency’s value well beyond the program period itself.

Contact information

Ground floor, 69/1 Charoen Rat Road soi 30
Khlong Ton Sai
Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San
Bangkok 10600
Thailand

Email
contact [at] warinlabnomad.org
Phone
+66830952028
Website
https://www.warinlabnomad.org/nomad-art-residency-bangkok/
Social media links
https://www.instagram.com/nomad_art_residency_bangkok/
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