Hyundai Artlab Art writers Fellowship

Hyundai Artlab is looking for two art writers for a Fellowship designed to produce a body of new contemporary art writing between May and December 2026. With guidance from Artlab’s Editors and Advisors, Fellows will write three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial in 2026 (each 800 words long).

Art writers today are compelled to attend to the range of human experiences, navigating the familiar and unfamiliar, idiosyncratic and interconnected, coherent and contradictory. Within our contemporary cultural landscape, it is imperative that critics value nuance and interpersonal understanding in equal measure with intellectual precision.

As part of the ambition to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations, Hyundai Artlab islooking to support two art writers whose texts on contemporary art exercise critical empathy. These writers should navigate the balance between care and critique, the interrogative and intuitive, the perceptive and imaginative, and engage through dialogue to deepen understanding.

Eligibility

This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world and at any career stage.

Support

The two selected Fellows will:

• receive 10,000 USD to produce three pieces of writing every other month, and
• be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Mira Dayal and Gary Zhexi Zhang, for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the programme.

2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship application guidelines

Deadline: 9 March 2026