Adeyinka Akingbade, a Lagos-based painter, photographer, and graphic designer, joins us for a four-week residency at G.A.S. Lagos. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, installation, research, and sculpture, and is concerned with the repurposing of materials that are often discarded or lost to reflect on migration and memory.

The Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Lagos, is an independent non-profit making visual art organisation founded in December 2007 by Bisi Silva (1962 – 2019).
The centre provides a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture. It seeks to create new audiences and to prioritise media such as photography, film and video, performance and installation art, which have been under-represented in Nigeria.

Contemporary And (C&) is a platform for international contemporary art and thought. Founded in 2013 as a bilingual online magazine, C& has since unfolded into the C& Cosmos: two online magazines (C& Magazine and C& América Latina Magazine), critical print publications, free education programs, and projects that move between digital and physical space. From reading rooms to mentoring, from artist commissions to the C& Cyclopedia, we create spaces for reflection, connection, and exchange.
 

32° East provides artists with the support, resources, and community they need to advance their craft, critically reflect our world, and imagine a new one. As part of our resources, we house an extensive Arts library that includes catalogues, books on poetry, painting, art theory, modern art, contemporary art, art history, among others

Earlier this month, we welcomed Kamael Kirkland and Maryam Muhammad to G.A.S. Lagos for an eight-week internship, delivered in partnership with Spelman College and the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective (AUC Collective). Now in its third year, this collaboration continues to support emerging arts professionals through meaningful exposure to curatorial practice, research, and cultural programming.

Nubuke Foundation is a contemporary art and cultural institution based in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to advancing African artistic practice while preserving and promoting indigenous knowledge systems. Through exhibitions, residencies, research, and public programming, the Foundation operates as both a site of artistic production and a platform for cultural memory.

Central to its work is a focus on material traditions including textiles and clay. These materials are explored as both artistic mediums and archival systems. Nubuke’s programmes engage artists, artisans, and communities in long-term processes of documentation, reinterpretation, and transmission.

In recent years, the Foundation has expanded its work into archival development, building collections that include artist records, oral histories, and material culture documentation. These efforts challenge conventional archival frameworks by prioritising embodied knowledge, community participation, and non-linear histories.

Through local and international collaborations, Nubuke contributes to critical conversations on decolonisation, knowledge production, and the future of African art. It is increasingly positioned as a key site for developing experimental approaches to archives and publishing within the continent.

U.S. based ecological researcher and farmer Monai McCullough recently concluded a six-week residency at G.A.S. Foundation, based primarily at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. During her time in residence, she focused on expanding her ongoing research project Trees of Nigeria, an archive that documents trees, explores their cultural and spiritual significance, and seeks to instil pride within their stewards. A central aspect of her research involved visiting agricultural institutions, participating in hands-on planting activities, and meeting with traditional herbalists to deepen her understanding of local plant knowledge and ecological practices.

Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) are pleased to announce a new residency exchange partnership with nonprofit art collective 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.

On 5th June 2026, G.A.S. Lagos hosted The Archive is Only the First Sentence, an open studio and presentation of residency research by Yoma Emore. The session introduced the narrative and archival frameworks shaping her practice, alongside her ongoing project The Prince Who Never Was, which examines lineage and the early sixteenth-century Lusophone–Warri encounters.

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.

Earlier this month, we welcomed Kim M. Reynolds, a U.S. writer, educator, maker and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, for an eight-week at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Her multidisciplinary practice spans research, literature, culinary arts, and food history, with a focus on pan-Africanism, ritual, social justice, and arts movements across the African continent and its diaspora. She is also the founder of Home Spice, a culinary project tracing the history of capsicum in Black cuisines through writing and cooking.