program structure

Founded in 2004, Outpost for Contemporary Art exists to create a space for cross-cultural exchange and develops international artistic projects that stimulate social interaction between people and emphasize process over end result. We use multiple presentation strategies and collaborative initiatives -- both inside and outside the gallery context -- to support artist's ambitions and broaden the role art plays in society.

Outpost’s Highland Park headquarters is a hub for the organization’s international and community-based programs. Artists-in-residence are provided with a living studio at the Outpost headquarters. Artists and other visitors also have access to multiple services and resources through the Outpost community resource room.

Our programs are organized into thematic and geographic cycles to provide an extended focus on certain world regions. We recruit artists and curators to participate in our residency and exchange program, which provides a framework to support and realize public distribution of their resulting work.

Exhibitions, screenings, artist presentations, lectures, and workshops are organized both at Outpost, in public spaces, and in collaboration with other venues and institutions as vehicles to introduce resident artists to local audiences both in Los Angeles and abroad.

Through 2008, Outpost's aim is to develop artistic projects with resident artists that illuminate contemporary responses to complex socio-political transformations happening throughout Eastern Europe today and to stimulate a generative, educative, and collaborative dialog between Eastern European artists and curators and our local artistic communities. Starting in Spring 2009, Outpost's program focus will shift to South America.