Salt Road Studio Artist Residency in Japan

Salt Road Studio is a New York-based artist residency organization supporting focused creative work in Akō, Hyōgo, Japan. The organization was created to give artists time, space, housing, local support, and funding for a short-term residency in Japan without charging tuition or residency fees. The programme is built around independent selection, practical support, and the value of sustained work in a quiet regional setting. Salt Road Studio offers a fully funded three-week artist residency in Akō, Japan. The programme is designed for artists who would benefit from time, space, and distance from their regular working environment. Residents receive accommodation, workspace, local support, transportation to and from Japan, and a living-cost grant. The residency is open to artists working across visual art, research-based practice, photography, installation, writing, sound, performance, digital media, and related disciplines. The programme supports both production and research. Artists may arrive with a defined project or use the residency to explore a new body of work, place-based research, or a period of focused retreat. The residency is intended for artists interested in working away from major art-market centers, with time to observe, research, make, and reflect in a slower environment. Akō’s relationship to salt, travel routes, craft, memory, and landscape gives the programme its name and conceptual foundation. Basic Japanese/local Japanese-language support is available for practical matters during the residency.