tsf research residency fellowship

The Tony Smith Archive is the most comprehensive collection of items related to the artist’s life, work, and exhibitions. It encompasses a wealth of holdings from unpublished writings, interviews, correspondence, drawings, and models to printed and audiovisual materials associated with Smith’s wide-ranging work in architecture, drawing, painting, and sculpture. The archive is an unparalleled resource for studying the work of Tony Smith.

The newly inaugurated TSF Research Residency Fellowship seeks to make this resource accessible as part of the Foundation’s mission to place Smith’s legacy in dialogue with the contemporary arts and design. The fellowship supports and encourages innovative scholarly, creative, and interdisciplinary inquiries into Smith’s practice. It supports and encourages new perspectives and readings of his legacy, not only artworks but his interests in science and mysticism and commitment to teaching, as well as the modernist era in which he worked.

Eligibility Artists, art historians, curators, designers, and writers who have a persuasive need to use the archival materials housed at the Tony Smith Foundation in New York City.

Spring Research Timeframe April 15 to June 15, 2022