Earlier this month, we welcomed New York-based writer, curator and critic Folasade Ologundudu to G.A.S. Lagos as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. Her practice spans research and curatorial work, investigating contemporary art through Black and African diasporic experiences, the universal human condition, power structures and cultural forces. 

On 28th August, 2026 G.A.S. Lagos hosted Reading New Culture, the second activation of The Reading Room, a curatorial archival project exploring archives through collective reading, conversation, and public programming. Led by curator Omenogor Udome and G.A.S. alumna Amanda Iheme, the reading focused on New Culture: A Review of Contemporary African Arts, Volume 1, the opening volume of a pioneering Nigerian art publication founded and published by artist, architect, and designer Demas Nwoko through New Culture Studios in Ibadan, Nigeria.

We are excited to welcome Alexandra Mitiku, a Korean-Ethiopian artist and poet, to G.A.S. Lagos as our first resident this September. Based in Finland, Alexandra’s practice spans painting and installation, exploring fantasy and desire as ways of transforming oppressive systems, beginning with those that are internalised. At the heart of her practice lies 한 / Han, a Korean cultural sentiment of deep unresolved grief and rage.

Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya, an interdisciplinary artist, joins us at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ for an eight-week residency as a recipient of the 2026 G.A.S. Fellowship Award. His practice spans painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and research, through which he explores the sacred, the occult and the Black experience, with a particular interest in Yoruba spirituality and the concept of Àṣẹ in the Black Atlantic.

G.A.S. Foundation is thrilled to welcome Nifemi Ogunro, a Nigerian-American designer, woodworker and sculptor, and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, to the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ for an eight-week residency. Based in New York, Nifemi’s practice draws inspiration from photography, film, movement and her lived experiences to create functional sculpture. Her work explores wood as both a material and a mode of expression, considering all that it has to offer through making.