G.A.S. and Y.S.F. Announce New Residency Exchange Partnership with Floating Museum

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) are pleased to announce a new residency exchange partnership with the Floating Museum through The Burroughs Residency in Chicago, United States. This initiative expands both organisations' commitment to supporting alumni and nurturing transnational exchange between artists, cultural practitioners, and communities across Nigeria and the United States.

Announcing the Recipients of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026 for U.S. Based Artists

In December 2025, G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), announced the call for the fourth edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award, supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. This year, the award offered multiple fully funded residencies, including opportunities for outstanding U.S. based artists and cultural practitioners to undertake residencies at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ.

Announcing the Recipients of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026 for African-Based and Diaspora Creatives

In December 2025, G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, announced the call for the fourth edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year, the award offered multiple fully funded residencies, including two slots dedicated to outstanding emerging African artists at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise under the African-Based and Diaspora Creatives category.

March & April Residency Updates

The March and April residencies at G.A.S. Foundation extended this trajectory of inquiry through a deepened engagement with research, ecology, and the expanded field of artistic practice. Across both Lagos and Ikiṣẹ, residents approached the programme as a site for sustained investigation, moving between archival work, field-based methodologies, and collaborative exchange. These months were particularly marked by an attentiveness to systems, whether ecological, urban, spiritual, or material, and to the ways knowledge is produced through immersion, dialogue, and iterative making. From explorations of coastal urbanism and participatory design to investigations into plant knowledge, healing practices, and cosmological frameworks, the residencies foregrounded process as much as outcome. In doing so, they reflect G.A.S. Foundation’s commitment to supporting practices that operate across disciplines and temporalities, where research and experimentation unfold in relation to lived environments, local expertise, and broader global conversations.

Announcing the Pilot Cohort of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop

This March, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.), announced the call for the pilot edition of the G.A.S. Critical Writing Workshop, an initiative designed to support the professional and critical development of emerging local art writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners. This edition explores critical art writing practices while examining how writing can function as a tool for activism, encouraging readers to ask questions, challenge narratives, and engage more deeply with the social and political contexts that shape contemporary art.

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