The Starr Fellowship is a yearlong fellowship for an artist who is a U.S. national. The Fellowship provides an early career artist with the opportunity to make new work in London, to contribute to the critical discussion taking place within the RA Schools and to meet and engage more widely with art and artists within London and the UK.

The Starr Fellow receives a bursary of £26,000 and a studio at the RA Schools. There are opportunities for the artist in residence to contribute to the RA Schools Postgraduate Programme.

The ideal candidate will have an independently established practice, with a record of exhibitions and/or research practice. The artist will also wish to expand their network in the UK and use the resources at the RA Schools to further their practice. Teaching experience and an MFA or similar is desirable but not essential.

The Starr Foundation

The Starr Fellowship is made possible through the support of the Starr Foundation, which was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance entrepreneur who founded C.V. Starr & Co. and other companies. Later these companies were merged by Starr’s successor Maurice R. Greenberg into what became the American International Group Inc. Mr. Starr, a pioneer of globalisation, set up his first insurance venture in Shanghai in 1919. He died in 1968 at the age of 76, leaving his estate to The Starr Foundation.