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.

A defining gesture of In Minor Keys — the central exhibition of the 61st Biennale di Venezia curated by the late Koyo Kouoh — is the integration of six artist-led organisations who form its Schools. They function simultaneously as subject, methodology, and forms of knowledge production that resist market imperatives and national categorisation, privileging shared learning and collective sustainability. "Schools" is one of several loose compositional motifs Kouoh devised to structure the exhibition, alongside Shrines, Procession, and Rest. These motifs operate as tonal registers rather than categories, shaping the visitor's experience through shifts in rhythm, density, and attention.

G.A.S. Foundation is pleased to welcome Moses Hamborg, a Los Angeles-based painter and recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, for an eight-week at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikiṣẹ. Working at the intersection of figurative painting and material research, Moses’ practice explores how identity, environment, and perception are shaped through both image-making and the substances that constitute it. His recent work extends beyond representation into an inquiry into pigment itself, positioning material as both medium and subject.

Join us on 29th May 2026 at G.A.S. Lagos for Herbal Music, a live musical performance by Okwei Odili exploring organic Nigerian sounds. As part of her six-week residency at the G.A.S. Farm House in Ikise, Okwei immersed herself in medicinal plant cultivation while exploring the relationship between music and agriculture. During this time, she recorded ambient farm sounds, experimented with plant-based instruments and natural resonators, and learned traditional Yoruba healing songs and chants.

Join us on 22nd May 2026 at G.A.S. Lagos for Șé òrûn jé ârâ – is the sky skin?, a presentation of residency research and monoprinting workshop led by current resident Oluwasemilore Delano. The premise of this event stems from the title Șé òrûn jé ârâ, which operates as a statement rather than a question. It invites us to consider how we understand our bodies beyond ourselves, reflecting on what practices of touch and intimacy with skin might mean within a world shaped by difference.