SPAO Artist Residency
From SPAO: Photographic Arts Centre (Ottawa)
Six-month photo-based residency; self-funded, except five emerging artists whose fee TD Bank Group pays.
- Amount
- Up to $1,500
- Who can apply
- Individual artists not confirmed - check the funder's page
- Where you must live
- Not found
- Art forms
- Visual arts, Media arts
- Application fee
- Not found
- Kind
- Residency
- How to get it
- Open application “Online application”
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What is offered
Money to you
- Past participants in the residency have successfully received funding from granting bodies to help facilitate their residency.
Place to live and work
- Artists are provided access to SPAO’s photo studio, media lab as well as our fully equipped darkroom and alternative processes lab.
- Professional Memberships: Residency participants will receive a one-year membership to the National Gallery of Canada, which houses the new Canadian Institute of Photography.
Showing your work
- Upon completion, artists are offered the paid opportunity to exhibit in the SPAO Centre Gallery.
Also mentioned
- Residents can receive a 50% discount on SPAO’s Part-Time Classes if there is space available.
In the funder's words, from their page, read September 27, 2026.
Eligibility
Page: TD places for '5 emerging photo-based artists from anywhere in Canada'; 'All others, including international applicants, are encouraged to apply using the self-funded application form. not confirmed - check the funder's page
What to send
Online application
Not yet checked against the funder's page.
Key details not found yet: deadline.
Source: https://spao.ca/residency (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on October 16, 2026.
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