2024 Artlab Editorial Fellowship Open Call

The open call is now closed. The Fellows will be announced once all the applicants have been reviewed. We thank everyone who submitted an application.

Since its inception in 2022, Artlab Editorial, under the auspices of Hyundai Artlab, has witnessed first hand how providing a platform for critical art writing is essential to a thriving global art ecosystem. As part of our goal to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations that connect across boundaries, we’re thrilled to announce the second year of the Artlab Editorial Fellowship. The application is open now through March 31, 2024, 11:59pm EST. Apply here [object Object] . Eligibility requirements and FAQs can be found here [object Object] .

We are looking for two art writers whose forward-thinking insights and intimate ties to their communities and geographic regions offer a critical lens through which to view art as a bellwether for change.

This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world, and at any stage of their career. The two selected Fellows will be provided $10,000 each to produce three pieces of writing for Artlab Editorial in 2024. Additionally, each Fellow will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program. 

Inspired by Artlab’s spirit of connectivity, artist Cynthia Alfonso created Vimbio, a digital commission created specifically for the Artlab Editorial Fellowship. Named after a type of willow tree found in Alfonso’s native Galicia, Spain, the work draws parallels between the use of vimbio as a traditional weaving material with the Fellowship’s mission to bring together and strengthen artistic communities around the world. 

Fellowship Structure

The Fellowship is designed to produce a vibrant body of new art writing and connect writers, readers, and artists around the world. With guidance from Artlab’s Editors and Advisors, Fellows will write three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial.

Fellows will be committing to writing one 700-word article in English every other month, for publication on Artlab Editorial from July through December of 2024. They will be expected to develop each article over the course of eight weeks, meeting with their advisor for in-depth development sessions, and working closely with Artlab Editorial’s editor via monthly touch-bases.

Fellowship Advisors

To enrich the experience of the Fellows and strengthen Artlab’s community of writers, Fellows will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship advisors, Charlotte Kent and Andrew Russeth, to receive regular mentorship and guidance on the production of their articles during the course of the program. They will also work closely with Artlab Editorial’s editor, Shannon Lee, via monthly check-ins for additional guidance and to ensure timely publication.

• Charlotte Kent, PhD (she/her) is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (2024, Intellect Books) and an Editor at Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology, contributing to many popular magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture. In 2022, Kent wrote “Embodied Broadcast,” “Embodied Broadcast,” a review of Nancy Baker Cahill’s “Slipstream Times Square” for Artlab Editorial. A recipient of Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence grant, the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum, and former member of the Board of Governors for the National Arts Club, where she founded the Artist Fellowship, she is committed to service across the field.

• Andrew Russeth (he/him) is an art critic and editor at Artnet News who has contributed to a variety of international publications, including Artforum, the Financial Times, Bijutsu Techo, Blau, and ArtReview. Until recently, he was based in South Korea, where he wrote about artists MOON & JEON as well as BTS leader RM's support of contemporary art and artists for the New York Times. Ahead of the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul, Russeth penned “The Artlab Guide To Seoul” “The Artlab Guide To Seoul” for Artlab Editorial’s readers. In 2019, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism.

• Shannon Lee (she/they) is a writer and editor covering art, culture, the environment, and Asian diaspora. They are the current editor of Artlab Editorial in addition to The Amp at Asian American Arts Alliance. Previously, she was an Associate Editor at Artsy and Editor and a Senior Producer at Silica Mag. For their first piece for us, Lee reflected upon Choe U-Ram’s “Little Ark” Choe U-Ram’s “Little Ark” at MMCA Seoul, questioning how we define progress—both cultural and personal.

Past Artlab Editorial Fellows

In the first year of the Artlab Editorial Fellowship, inaugural Fellows Skye Arundhati Thomas and Laurie Rojas zeroed in on how their local artistic communities are addressing issues specific to their respective geographic regions. Through their thoughtful, expert observations, we were able to see how these issues resonate beyond their points of origin and into the greater global community.

Nawal Ali, The Line of (State) Control: Untitled, 2021—ongoing.

Courtesy of the artist. From “A Rift in the Sublime: Kashmir’s Living Landscapes” by Skye Arundhati Thomas, 2023 Artlab Editorial Fellow. November 22, 2023.

Writing from Goa, India and Paris, France, Thomas introduced us to South Asian artists whose practices assemble social and political commentary with history. Her essay on Kashmiri photographer Nawal Ali Her essay on Kashmiri photographer Nawal Ali ’s work brought the stark contrast between Kashmir’s breathtaking landscapes and its ongoing geopolitical struggle into sharp focus. “The Himalayas are still growing…firmly thrusting the peaks further up into the sky,” she writes. “But this scenery blisters as soon as you look closer: the kilometers-long coils of electric wire, the threat of landmines.”

NE 2nd Av, Little River, Miami (2023).

Photo by Anastasia Samoylova. Commissioned by Hyundai Artlab for Artlab Editorial. From “A Tenuous Balance: The Miami Arts Community In Flux” by Laurie Rojas, 2023 Artlab Editorial Fellow. August 22, 2023.

Meanwhile, Rojas brought us to the sunny shores of Miami Rojas brought us to the sunny shores of Miami , evaluating the tenuous balance and entropic flux of its rapidly evolving culture. “On the one hand, Miami’s risk-friendly, entrepreneurial spirit creates an environment where artistic freedom can flourish,” observes Rojas. “Those same factors are what has enabled sweeping gentrification, endangering diverse local communities.”

Apply to the Fellowship here [object Object] by March 31, 2024 at 11:59PM EST.