Khoj International Artists’ Association has announced the open call for its International Residency, taking place from 3 August to 16 September 2026 at Khoj Studios in New Delhi, India.
This six-week onsite residency invites artists working across disciplines to explore the intersections of mental health, distress, and the ways pain—physical, psychological, and historical—shapes both individuals and societies. Applicants are encouraged to examine how suffering is distributed across race, caste, class, gender, and geography, and how people and communities navigate, resist, and reclaim vitality in the face of war, colonial legacies, and systemic inequality.
The residency also welcomes projects that engage with clinical and everyday experiences, myth and ritual, oral histories, ancestral knowledge, and emerging technologies. By bringing together artists and scholars from India and the United Kingdom, the program aims to expand conversations around mental health and contemporary life-worlds.
Presented in collaboration with the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) at SOAS University of London, the residency is open to Indian and international artists. One UK-based artist will be supported directly by CAMHRA.
Selected artists will receive travel to and from Delhi, a per diem, and a production budget.
