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We are excited to announce our
2025-2026 Artists in Residence:
Germán Benincore
Aliyah Cydonia
& Francesca Fuchs
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Germán Benincore is a visual artist born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1993. His work investigates visual systems of representation used to disseminate and uphold ideas considered as “common sense”- regarding knowledge making, labor and our relation with the Earth system- through drawing. He currently lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
Benincore's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Colombia, the USA and France as well as recognized with public grants and prices like the Galbut prize 2024, the participation in the XIV Salón de Arte Joven (2021) and the residency at Maison Des Auteurs (2022). He has been recipient of academic recognitions like the MFA Thesis Award form ASU (2024) and the MFA Fellowship form the San Francisco Inspired by his pedagogical work as mediator and teacher in museum institutions and universities, he has tried to find different forms to create and circulate artwork. For that, he has been part of the independent publishing project Tormenta Ediciones since 2018, label under which he has published two artist books: Dibujos Robados (2019) and El espacio entre las cosas (2021).
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Aliyah Cydonia was born in 2002 in Dallas, TX and is a recent graduate of The University of North Texas, where she received her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Painting and Drawing. Her work experiments with the corporeal and the information stored within, provided by her ancestors. She lives and works in Dallas, TX.
Cydonia has exhibited works at Tureen, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, SP/N Gallery at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas Contemporary, and Paul Voertman's Gallery; in addition to many self/community hosted exhibitions. In 2022, Cydonia was awarded The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Funded by the Dallas Museum of Art. Cydonia, along with Hannah Baskin started a collective in 2021 called Anti Avant Garde Avant Garde. The collective has performed Cooperative Conundrum at the Dallas Contemporary.
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Francesca Fuchs was born in London and raised in Germany, and moved to the U.S. for the Core Program at the MFAH. Across her career, Fuchs’ critique of 'importance' has unfolded in rethinking the dismissal of the small, the intimate, the feminine, and the beloved, insisting that these things illuminate fundamental truths about our selves, our communities, and our histories.
Fuchs’ work has been shown in venues including Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois; and in solo presentations at the CAMH and The Menil Collection. She has attended residencies at MacDowell and La Maison Dora Maar and was awarded Art League Houston’s Texas Artist of the Year Award in 2018. Fuchs currently works in Houston, Texas, where she teaches and lives with her dog, her cat, and seven plants.
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The Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) exists to support development and awareness of art through long-term artist residencies and public programming. Our ten-month residency program is a fully funded gift of time that allows artists to dive deeply into their practice, offering opportunities for growth and artistic breakthrough that is nearly impossible to achieve within the normal boundaries of modern life.
Each year, three artists are awarded ten-month fellowships that include 24/7 access to a private studio, a furnished apartment nearby, and a monthly stipend of $1,100. The program provides artists an opportunity to step away from daily demands, immerse themselves fully in their practice, and pursue new directions in their work.
Open to visual artists working in any medium and at any career stage, recipients are chosen annually through an open call reviewed by a rotating panel of art professionals. While the residency includes studio visits and culminates in a group exhibition, its focus remains on the gift of time—supporting artists with the resources and space they need to deepen their practice and advance their work.
GAR is also committed to engaging with our community through our ambitious gallery programming that includes art exhibitions, lectures, music and performance events. Our programming is always free and open to the public. GAR argues for beauty and creativity as important and fundamental to our community and society at large.
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By making a contribution to GAR you're helping us further our mission to support artists! Donations help us to pay our resident and visiting artists & performers fair wages, and allow us to continue to offer high quality programming to our community, free of charge.
Galveston Artist Residency is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
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