The Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL) at the University of Toronto invites all qualified applicants to apply be our artist-in-residence for the 2023-24 school year. The QTRL residency will provide financial and other material support for artists working in any medium (photography, sculpture, visual art, media arts, theatre, poetry, playwriting, fiction, etc.), whose work centres on LGBTQ2S+ lives, communities, histories, and cultures. The residency will culminate in a funded exhibition, reading, screening, or performance of the resident’s work-in-progress. The successful applicant is expected to be in residence in the Greater Toronto Area during the period of their award and will join the faculty and students who make up our intellectual community and participate in activities at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. These may include guest lectures, a public artist talk, office hours with our students, and a general presence at the Centre. They will be given office space and access to the vast faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at the University of Toronto and the Bonham Centre. The successful candidate will receive a stipend of $20,000. To get a sense of the wide disciplinary range and diversity of the Bonham Centre’s community and academic offerings visit our website at sds.utoronto.ca.
To apply, please submit a short 1-page cover letter and curriculum vitae to qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca. The letter should discuss your work in general and the project you plan to undertake while in residence. Please also include an example of your work in the form of an on-line link, PDF, jpeg. or other format.
Applications due: April 14th, 2023
University College, University of Toronto
15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H7
T: 416-978-6276
F: 416-971-2027
E: qtrl.sds@utoronto.ca
