A professional development residency for artists, with a focus on NYC’s LatinX community.
New York’s art world is dense, competitive, and notoriously hard to break into — harder still without an existing network. Hello New York! was built to close that gap, with a particular focus on supporting LatinX artists and other underrepresented groups working on the environment, equality, migration, displacement, decolonization, and indigenous knowledge. The program is tuition-free, and since 2025 each participant has also received a $400 stipend. It isn’t structured to produce new work — no studio time, no exhibition — but to build the relationships, knowledge, and visibility that make a career in New York possible.
Held annually at different partner locations across the city’s galleries, studios, and institutions, Hello New York! is CPR’s professional development and networking workshop for artists, distinct from our core research residency. Over two intensive weeks, a cohort of up to 20 local and international artists who’ve recently moved or plan to move to New York works through the practical realities of sustaining a practice here: lectures and panels on grant writing (with guests from Brooklyn Arts Council and NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs), gallery representation (PROXYCO, Instituto de Visión, P·P·O·W), the finances of freelance life, and visits to residency programs like Triangle, ISCP, and Smack Mellon. Each cohort meets close to thirty curators, gallerists, and fellow artists along the way — introductions that, through studio visits and informal gatherings, tend to outlast the program itself.