ISCP

ISCP is an artist residency and exhibition space in Bushwick. Founded in 1993, it hosts international artists in 35 studios and presents free public exhibitions in two galleries and a project space.

Thirty years ago, Dennis Elliott founded ISCP in lower Manhattan with a straightforward premise: bring artists to New York from everywhere, give them a private studio and professional traction, and let proximity do the work. The organization moved to a three-story former factory on Metropolitan Avenue in Bushwick in 2008, and that building (35 studios, two galleries, and a project space, all free and open to the public) is now one of the few places in New York where an artist from Oslo, Lagos, and Taipei might be down the hall from each other on the same day. A 2015 addition, the Ground Floor Program, extended that logic inward, offering subsidized residencies to New York City-based artists on the building's first floor. The Visiting Critic series, the biannual Open Studios, the ISCP Talks and offsite projects sit on top of all of it. The through-line is friction: between artists who wouldn't otherwise meet, between local and international practice, between making work and having to explain it.