Studio Winter: A Residency with Showcase at Bushwick Gallery
Brooklyn, NY | February 1 – February 28, 2026
Final Showcase: February 26, 2026
Application Deadline: January 10 | Notification by January 17
Application Fee: $25 | No additional participation fees if accepted
Studio Winter: Bushwick Gallery Residency 2026
Artists are granted access to an open-plan studio within the gallery, available daily from 8 AM to 8 PM. While the residency does not include housing or a financial stipend, it offers something increasingly rare in New York’s art world: uninterrupted time in a professional gallery setting, with curatorial mentorship and institutional support.
Selection Panel: To be decided.
Studio Winter culminates in a one-night, non-commercial public showcase — an intimate presentation of process, where unfinished works, spontaneous studies, and visual experiments reveal the inner architecture of making.
This is a residency for artists who find meaning in the in-between — those who see potential in fragments, who honor the quiet uncertainty of creation.
In the stillness of winter, this is your time to work.
Let the world fall away.
Let the work rise.
Who Should Apply
Studio Winter welcomes artists of all backgrounds, disciplines, and stages in their practice. It is designed for makers who thrive with focused, uninterrupted time and for those who feel energized by experimentation. Artists developing a new series, returning to long-paused ideas, or exploring a shift in material or form will find the residency especially meaningful.
If you are drawn to process, open to discovery, and excited to share the inner workings of your practice in an intimate showcase, Studio Winter is the place for you.
“The process is not a prelude to the work — it is the work. Studio Winter is about staying inside that moment when ideas are still forming, when urgency gives way to intuition, and the act of making becomes its own conclusion.”
— Gina Keatley, Owner of Bushwick Gallery