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Villa Medici Fellows 2027–2028
Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medici · Rome, Italy
Twelve-month residency in Rome (September 2027 – August 2028) for French-speaking artists, writers, craftspeople, art historians and restorers of any nationality aged 18+ who are already professionally active.
Your eligibility
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Who can enter
- Location
- Open worldwide
- Age
- 18 and over
- Career stage
- Any
- Mediums
- Any medium
- Status
- Professional artists only
- Collectives
- Collectives and duos welcome
- Submission
- Online submission
- Also
- French-speaking; already professionally active; any nationality; former fellows ineligible; group projects permitted.
About
The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici selects fellows each year for a twelve-month residency from September to August. The programme is open to all artistic and literary creation, arts and crafts, art history and theory, and art or monument restoration.
Applicants must be over 18 on the closing date, of any nationality, already professionally active and French-speaking (Italian advised). Former fellows are ineligible. Group projects are permitted, with each member receiving a residency grant. From 2027 one art history fellow may join a post-residency programme at INHA.
Applications for the 2027–2028 cohort are made online via the concours portal by 16 October 2026 (per ArtRabbit listing).