The Akademi has been set up to encourage and promote study and research in the field of painting, sculpture architecture and the applied arts and to promote cooperation amongst artists and art associations. It supports a library, archives, conservation laboratory and offers scholarships and financial assistance to talented young artists.

Khoj International Artists Workshop is an artist led, alternative space for experimentation and international exchange based in India. KHOJ sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts. Particularly interested in media art, performance, video, environmental, public and community based art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production. They regularly hold international residencies.

Sarai is a coalition of researchers and practitioners committed to developing a model of research-practice that is public and creative, in which multiple voices express and render themselves in a variety of forms. Practices range from art practice to publication, academic research to setting up of media labs and creative practices in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of the city. Open Place section of their website invites interaction and blurs the line between artist and public. Submissions in the form of still photographs, sound works, multi media works can be sent via email. They also host a small number of residencies with international artists.

A three-month residency for practitioners of painting, sculpture, pottery and ceramics, photography, new media, design, art history, performance and crafts. The Sanskriti Awards are given in the fields of Literature, Journalism, Art, Music-Dance- Theatre, and Social and Cultural Achievements.

Chhaap: Baroda printmaking workshop was set up in 1999. Chhaap offers a residency program to printmakers in between September to March for 1 week to one month. Visiting artist can give lecture and conduct short workshop on any medium of printmaking. There is a fee payable for the residency

Tasara provides an artist in residence program for artists, for a fee of 800 Euros per month.

Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR1) is a non-profit exchange programme by artists for artists to foster the local, Indian and international mutual exchange of ideas and experiences through guest residencies in Bangalore. This residency will host four emerging Indian artists (3 from all over India and 1 from Bangalore) who work in different fields of art practice. Deadline: June 10 Application Criteria: for emerging Indian artists who work in different fields of art practice and who are based in and across India (apart from Bangalore). International artists can also have a studio but need to pay the rent, three months duration.

Arts Reverie is run as a centre for arts professionals. It fosters creative thinking and international exchanges, and offers space to work and present new ideas. Studios for residency need to be rented.

To be considered for a residency at Kashi you should send 10-15 images of your work, a current biodata and brief note of what you hope to accomplish while in residency. Residency is strictly based on merit. Stays from 1 to 3 months are the norm. Indian nationals are provided a modest stipend to cover basic expenses during your stay, International artists will need to pay monthly rent.

At the time when Delhi did not have any working facilities for the artists, the Akademi mooted the idea of establishing an Artists' Studio at Garhi where a medieval archaeological site lay in ruins was reconstructed for the purpose. Lalit Kala Akademi took over these studios and equipped them with proper technical infrastructures to be used as Community Workshops with a restaurant, auditorium, reference library, sculpture facilities. Residencies disciplines: Drawing, Painting, Media Art, Sculpture

The Promising Artist Award has been instituted by ART India, the premier art magazine in the country, in collaboration with the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The aim of the award is to encourage young artists to pursue their art practices and to develop their independent ways of addressing social issues through their works; the award also hopes to facilitate a public interface with developments in contemporary Indian art.

Linked to the Art Alive Foundation, a private trust that aims to support the creation of contemporary work in the visual arts, performing arts, new media and literature.