18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts centre in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California. The mission of 18th Street Arts Center is to "provoke public dialogue through contemporary art making" and its core values are centered on its belief that art making is an essential component of a just, vibrant and healthy society. 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 50 or more American and international artists and curators a year.
18th Street Arts Center was founded by writer Linda Frye Burnham and Susanna Bixby Dakin, a visual artist and publisher of High Performance Magazine. In 1988, Dakin purchased the former production studio of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and four other adjacent buildings in Santa Monica and launched the nonprofit. In 1998 Dakin sold the buildings to the nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center.
Some of the artists who have had residencies at 18th Street Arts Center are:
Aaron Paley, USAAdam Boyd, AustraliaAla Ebtekar, USAAlex Donis, USAAlexander Knox, AustraliaAli Acerol, USAAlma Lopez, USAAnders A, SwedenAna Maria Alvarez, USAAnna Homler, USABarbara Campbell, AustraliaBarbara Drucker, USABarbara Trent, USABarry Shabaka Henley, USABassim Alansar, IraqBernadette Fox, USABill Rauch, USABlair Trethowan, AustraliaBonita Ely, AustraliaBrendan Lee, AustraliaBronia Iwanczak, AustraliaBruce Bauman, USABruce Reynolds, AustraliaBryce Ritchie, AustraliaCarole Benzaken, FranceCecilia Wendt, SwedenCharles Green, AustraliaChiung-wen Hu, TaiwanChristina David, RomaniaChristine Morla, USAChristopher Dean, AustraliaCindy DeSantis, USAClayton Campbell, USACoco Fusco, USAColin McGookin, North IrelandCrystal Nelson, USADarko Fritz, CroatiaDarryl Montana, USADavid Palmer, USADelphine Coindet, FranceDenis Brun, FranceDenise Uyehara, USADiane Meyer, USADiego Teo, MexicoDominic RedfernDominika SkutnikEric Saks, USAEva Castringius, GermanyFiona Fell, AustraliaFiona MacDonald, AustraliaFrancisca Caporali, BrazilFrancisco Letelier, USAGail Hastings, AustraliaGiuseppe DeBernardi, PeruGlen Small, USAGoddy Leye, CameroonGuillermo Gomez Pena, USAGuy Cross, AustraliaHany Armanious, AustraliaHeidi Wood, AustraliaHernan Bravo, MexicoHitman Gurung, NepalHui-yu Su, TaiwanHyun-son DongIvan Fayard, FranceJaakko HeikkilaJames LynchJan Mardian, USAJane Castillo, USAJane Polkinham, AustraliaJane Trengove, AustraliaJemima Wyman, AustraliaJenn Price-Letscher, USAJennifer Trouton, AustraliaJerry ‘Wyzard’ Seay, USAJee-un Park, South KoreaJill Burnham, USAJoan Hotchkis, USAJoanna Pawlik, PolandJoaquin Segura, MexicoJoel Talbert, USAJon Tarry, AustraliaJonathan Nichols, AustraliaJoseph Biel, USAJurek Wybraniec, AustraliaKaren Atkinson, USAKarl Doerrer, USAKate Johnson, USAKathryn Smith, AustraliaKeiko Inoh, JapanKeith Antar Mason, USAKevin Phillips, UKKieran Kinney, AustraliaKonrad Smolenski, PolandLan-ya Hwang, TaiwanAsher Hartman, USALee PetersonLeilani Chan, USALeila Tscopp, ArgentinaLesley GiovanelliLin Wei, TaiwanLinda Frye Burnham, USALisa Adams, USALong-bin Chen, TaiwanLouisa Bufardeci, AustraliaLyndell Brown, AustraliaMarcos Castro, MexicoMarcus Kuiland-Nazario, USAManuel Pina, CubaMare Millin, CroatiaMatt Silverstein, USAMatthieu Manche, FranceMichael Grochowiak, PolandMichael Massuchi, USAMichael Barnard, USAMichael Lindeman, AustraliaMin-jung Kim, TaiwanMing-sheng LeeMiwa Yanagi, JapanMlu Zondi, South AfricaNadia Reed, USANadine Christensen, South AfricaNusra Qureshi, AustraliaOfiaeli Okechukwu Okoye, NIgeriaPaulina Sahagun, USAPatricia Fernández, USAPer Hüttner, FrancePhil Collins, UKPhilippe Jacques, FranceManuel Pina, CubaPhranc, USAPopok Tri WahyudiRobbie Conal, USARobert Pulie, AustraliaRogues Gallery, JapanRoss Harley, AustraliaRuth SchnellSamon TakahashiSandy Amerio, FranceShahid Nadeem, PakistanShawn Hall, USAShiau-peng Chen, TaiwanShih-wei Lien, TaiwanShu-mei Su, TaiwanSione Francis, AustraliaStarlie Geikie, AustraliaStephen Haley, AustraliaStepanka Simlova, Czech RepublicStuart Bailey, AustraliaSuzan Woodruff, USASuzanna Bixby Dakin, USATatsuo Inagaki, JapanTellervo Kalleinen, FinlandTempestant, FranceTim Miller, USATsai-wei Chen, TaiwanTsering Norbu, Tibet, ChinaTsering Nyandak, Tibet, ChinaValere Chanceaulme de Sainte Croix, FranceVasan Sitthiket, ThailandVictor Cartagena, USAVictor Ekpuk, NigeriaVirginia Kaiser, AustraliaWei-wen Fang, TaiwanYi-fan Chen, TaiwanYuki Kimura, JapanZara Kriegstein, GermanyZelimir Kosevic, Croatia