Welcome to Womb, an oasis in the heart of a vibrant Mexican neighborhood—a sanctuary where artists can dream, create, rest, and simply be. Our residency supports both the active and contemplative sides of creative life, offering space to develop projects, reflect, build community, and recharge. Through productive and restorative phases, residents are invited to bring ideas to life while making space for meditation, renewal, and reflection.
Curated dinners, workshops, neighborhood experiences, and connections with local artists and community members foster meaningful exchange. We welcome artists from diverse backgrounds, especially those engaged with activism and social change, and encourage thoughtful contributions to the local community. More than a space, Womb is an invitation to connect, rejuvenate, and discover what unfolds when art, environment, and community come together.
About the Residency
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Live the experience
Residents are invited to immerse themselves in the Womb experience for up to one month. While creating a public offering is not a requirement of the residency, artists are encouraged—and fully supported—to develop an exhibition, event, experience, or workshop for the Womb community during their stay, should they wish to do so.
As Womb is committed to maintaining a low-waste environment, we welcome artists who work thoughtfully with materials, prioritize recycled or reclaimed resources, and aim to minimize excess waste in their practice.
Testimonials
¡Mi estadía en Womb fue increíblemente productiva! El lugar en sí es una de las casas más únicas que he visto, ¡realmente una obra de arte! Me enorgullece decir que durante mi estancia escribí y pulí 10 canciones. Todo el personal en Womb hace un esfuerzo extraordinario para que lxs artistas en residencia se sientan cómodos y bien atendidos. Recomiendo ampliamente Womb a quien busque un espacio para crear.
Dova Lewis - Cantante y compositora
Rooms
We have two types of rooms available for your stay
Apartment
PRIVATE AND INDEPENDENT
INCLUDES:
- Double bed
- Desk
- Side table
- Living room
- Kitchenette
- Separate bathroom
- Access to common areas
(workshop, gallery, kitchen, living room & rooftop terraces).
COSTS FOR 4 WEEKS:
Individuals:
$1,950 USD or $36,000 MXN
Couples:
$2,400 USD or $45,000 MXN
Studio and Workspace:
• Shared studio designed to encourage collaboration
• Spacious worktables for standing or sitting
• Basic tools for artistic creation
• Power and welding tools for specialized projects
• Shared supplies, including paper, brushes, and paints
• Donated canvas, paper, and cardboard from other residents
• Studio lighting
• Artwork storage
• Outdoor patio for additional workspace and relaxation
Additional Resources
• Dedicated room for washing tools and brushes
• Connections with ceramic, screen-printing, and other specialized art workshops
• Guidance on sourcing materials in Mexico City
• Connections with resident artists and the wider community
RECOMMENDATION
FOR ARTISTS:
• Before arriving in Mexico, check whether the specific materials or brands you use are available. Some items may be difficult to find or expensive to source locally.
Sewing Studio
A fully equipped sewing studio stocked with:
• Sewing machine
• Serger
• Punch needle machine
• Hand-sewing tools
• Embroidery tools and supplies
• Knitting tools and supplies
• Large cutting table
Gallery
Artists can use the gallery as both a working studio and an exhibition space. This flexible area allows artists to create, display, and share their work in the same environment.
Workshop, Sewing Studio & Gallery
Amenities
INTERNET CONNECTION
Free Wi-Fi
KITCHEN
Fully equipped
LIVING AREAS
Workshop
Gallery
Garden
Roof Garden
Spiritual Retreat
Reconnect with the natural world through a guided retreat at Womb’s powerful natural property in Tepoztlán, just an hour outside Mexico City. Spend time in meditation, explore the land, and create space for reflection, inspiration, and renewal. Depending on your interests, the journey may also be medicinal.
Add-on price: $500
Includes transportation and the retreat experience.
ROMULO & REMO
permanent residents
Mentors
JOUI TURANDOT
Director & Founder
San Francisco. Multidisciplinary artist with over a decade of experience as a fashion designer,
filmmaker, photographer, stylist and personal development and experience design coaching in USA, Chile and Mexico.
With a deeply personal creative process as an artist and as a woman. She plays with identity from the art she creates, to the social climate she has cultivated in the social climate she has cultivated at Casa Womb. The hope of her art is that it can serve to inspire others who feel silenced, ignored, unheard or misrepresented by culture or society to speak their poetry.
Joui created Womb as a space to bridge the gap between worlds: between art and ecology; spectacle and ritual; heart and mind.
For her, Womb is a way to offer a wide range of immersive experiences through art and beauty that spark the imagination of the general public to act for the conservation of our natural world.
Plastic Arts Coordinator
DAN SILVA
Mexico City. Active in the graffiti and urban art scene since 2006, pioneer in the production of independent and self in the production of independent and self-managed monumental Street Art since 2011 in Indeleble Mx.
He has gone through different pictorial stages and directed community artistic experiences applying methodologies of Latin American School of Muralism, developing in rural and urban areas. Influenced by graffiti and street art, crossed by Mexican muralism, he allows himself to explore a visual language based on the development of the mystical-social metaphor, in order to find the uniqueness that gives purpose to Raza de Polvo, a pseudonym that confers the new creative stage in which he is currently.
Manager
INGRID NAVA
Mexico City. Actress, singer, host and cultural manager for the Government in Mexico. She has participated in theater projects in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
Founder of the performance company “Transformers”. Founder of the project “De Teatro y Juerga” which seeks to bring theater to the most to the most vulnerable communities.
Conductor of the International Horror Film Festival International Horror Film Festival. Co-founder, vocalist and author of the musical projects Noche de Quiz and Da Colors, as well as backing vocalist in the group “Los Ángeles Negros” and collaborator of the applied theater for business security with the project “Recrea”.
ÓSCAR CASANOVA
Producer
Mexico City. Graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NY and the University of Guadalajara.
He has worked in different theater, television and film projects such as Nada Personal, La taxista, Cita Ciegas, Un pañuelo el mundo es, etc. In 2020 he created the theater company CAOS for the diffusion and creation of art. With which she has worked with multiple artists such as John Pielmeier, Luciana Villegas, Sandra Paloma, Fátima Torres, Gilda Salinas among others.
She directed and translated The Broken Woman by Simone de Beauvoir and Agnes de Dios by John Pielmeier. She directed and wrote the one-woman show Ay, Cariño, part of the Casa Abierta Oaxaca festival. In addition to
that project she wrote a book of poetry called Lo que sentí.
Location
Located in the center of Mexico City,
Casa Womb is 2 km from cultural attractions such as the Frida Kahlo Museum.
•Cineteca Nacional
•Frida Kahlo Museum
•Watercolor Museum
•National Museum of
Popular Cultures
•National Arts Center
•Metro
•Ecological Bicycles
•Taxi stand
•Local market
•Gym
•Banks
•Parks / Forests
•Pharmacy
•Close Roma and Condesa
Meet our Ambassador
Residency Ambassador
MANI MARTIN
Mani Martin brings to Womb a practice rooted in creation, care, and exploration. With a background in operations, project implementation, and building new structures across technology, services, and construction, he has worked with AT&T, Uber, SpotOn, and TSR, coordinating teams, developing processes, and turning ideas into functioning projects.
He studied Naval Engineering at Universidad Veracruzana and Architecture at UNITEC Mexico City—an interdisciplinary foundation that informs his interest in designing, building, and transforming spaces and systems.
At Womb, Mani supports artists and helps create the conditions for ideas to take shape. He enjoys working with his hands, experimenting with materials, geometry, nature, and unconventional ways of making. Guided by curiosity, honesty, and collaboration, he is drawn to Womb as a place for learning, exchange, and meaningful experiences across art, cooking, adventure, and the environment.