Since 2015, CPR has been building that home with fully-funded research programs and continuous elevating platforms — a socially-conscious network of underrepresented and underserved artists and curators connected with art scenes around the globe.
Since 2015, CPR has been building a home for artists and curators who don’t always get an easy way in. With fully-funded research programs and continuous elevating platforms, we create a socially-conscious network of underrepresented and underserved artists and curators that connects with art scenes around the globe. We offer fellowships, residencies, and programs in many places around the world, responding to urgent needs in the art ecosystem — because we believe that access to opportunity, knowledge, and community should never depend on where you come from or what you can afford.
Our Core Program, established in 2015, is a fully-funded curatorial residency that has been implemented globally, bringing curators together for a shared journey of research and discovery across cities, cultures, and art communities. In 2019, we further expanded our initiatives by establishing Hello New York!, a fully-funded artist residency program specifically designed for artists who have recently relocated or are planning to relocate to New York City. Hello New York! serves as a hub that connects participating artists with local art professionals, providing them with the resources, relationships, and support they need to accelerate their careers in the arts.
Every program we run is free of charge to participants, selected through an open call, and built around the people who take part — not just for the duration of a residency, but as the beginning of something lasting.
An artist elevates a particular place at a particular time — and it is those artists that we elevate in turn. Every CPR program is tailored to the specifics of its people, their culture, and their locality: from Scandinavia to the Global South, from the perfectly paved highways of Europe to the dirt roads of South America.
What endures across all of it are the human connections — friendships made over shared meals, ideas exchanged in studio visits, collaborations born from a single conversation in an unfamiliar city.
We believe talent should be what determines who gets a seat in the art world — not privilege, not connections, not where you happen to come from. That belief is why every CPR program is fully funded, open to all, free of charge, and selected through an open call: so that underrepresented and underserved artists and curators can step into the people, institutions, and conversations shaping contemporary art internationally, on equal footing. Since 2015, we’ve had the privilege of welcoming over 150 fellows into that work, through our Core Program, a nomadic curatorial research residency, and Hello New York!, a professional development residency for artists building careers in New York City.
We’re working toward a future where opportunity in the art world is shared by everyone who’s earned it — not just those with the geography, wealth, or connections to access it easily. We imagine an international art ecosystem built on equal access: where underserved artists and curators have the knowledge, the resources, and each other, to research, network, and collaborate across borders, and where every artist’s work finds its way to the audience it deserves.
Independent curator and art producer based in Brooklyn, with an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia (2013) and a BA in Art History and French (2010). She lectures on gender, politics, and Latin American art at SVA and Bronx Community College. Previous roles include Special Projects Coordinator for the Armory Show, Director of Special Programs for Bienal de las Fronteras, and Director of UNTITLED. Art Fair; she has also served as acquisition advisor and research consultant for institutions including the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and El Museo del Barrio.
Curator and artistic researcher pursuing a PhD at HDK Valand focused on forgotten ancestral knowledge among Forest Sámi communities and colonial memory erasure. She holds an MRes in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths and an MA in Curating from Stockholm University, and has curated at Bonniers konsthall, Tensta Konsthall, and Norrköping Art Museum. A CPR alumna since 2016, she has since collaborated on exhibitions at CPR².
Natalia Viera Salgado is a Puerto Rican curator and curatorial consultant based in New York City, and founder of :Pública Espacio Cultural, an independent art space in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Her research focuses on contemporary art concerning decolonial practices, architecture, and social and environmental justice. She has worked at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, El Museo del Barrio, Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Americas Society, holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, and is currently Associate Curator at the National Academy of Design and a curatorial resident at the Abrons Arts Center.
Our ongoing and previous projects and programs have been realized with support from the following sponsors:
Every program we run is free to participants and funded entirely by people who believe in this work. If you’d like to help CPR keep opening doors, consider making a gift.
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