Independent Residencies at G.A.S. 

 

This segment spotlights individuals who have independently taken the initiative to procure external funding specifically for a residency experience at G.A.S. With varying motivations such a desire to connect with the African continent, or a specific curiosity relating to Nigerian history and culture, the program has attracted individuals from the Diaspora and further afield.

Nate Agbetu

United Kingdom | May - Jun 2023

 

Nate is a Cultural Curator and Educator who highlights emergent thinking through research, art and speculative design. Their practice exists in the liminal space between culture and social innovation, manifesting in the form of everything from community gardens to films, lectures and arts programming - imagining new futures through creativity and knowledge exchange.

 

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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones

United States | Mar - Apr 2023

 

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992, London, United Kingdom) is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Adeniyi-Jones received a BFA from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, in 2014, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2017.

 

His recent solo exhibitions include Emergent Properties, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Voix Intérieures, White Cube, Paris, France (2022); That Which Binds Us, White Cube Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom (2021); Melodic Virtues, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA (2021); among others. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ (2022); Out of the Fire: The 14th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2022); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from the ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, FL (2022); All Things Bright and Beautiful, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (2022); among others.  Adeniyi-Jones’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; the Dallas Museum of Art, TX; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; among others.

 

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Elsa James

United Kingdom | Nov - Dec 2023

 

Elsa James (born in London, England) is a British African-Caribbean conceptual artist and activist living in Essex, England, since 1999. Her artistic practice is rooted in contemporary Black activism and invested in an ongoing questioning of visibility and belonging that centres Blackness as a methodology for liberation. Through an interdisciplinary, collaborative and research-based practice, she currently works across live performance, film, prints, spoken word, neon, and sound. 

 

She was a finalist for the prestigious Freelands Award with Focal Point Gallery in 2021 and, this year, a nominated recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award. Her work is held in private and public collections, including the Government Art Collection and Beecroft Art Gallery, for which she became the first Black British artist to be acquired into the gallery's collection. In 2022, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Essex.

 

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Ana Ogunsanya

United Kingdom | Aug 2024

 

Ana Ogunsanya is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work aims to express and explore her Nigerian heritage, British culture, and diasporic identity. Having trained in Fashion Design at Central St. Martins and the Royal College of Art, Ana enjoys working across a range of mediums. Ana is currently interested in finding ways to express her personal narrative by combining representation and abstraction.

 

Her work connects two personal cultures and explores the complexities of identity, heritage, and belonging, while honoring her heritage and contributing to a broader dialogue on representation.

 

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Osei Bonsu

UK | Nov - Dec 2024

 

Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator and writer based in London and Paris. He is currently a curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he is responsible for organising exhibitions, developing the museum’s collection and broadening the representation of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Through his writing, Bonsu focuses on the relationship between art and issues of migration, race and identity in contemporary society. In 2020, he was named as one of Apollo Magazine’s ‘40 under 40’ leading African voices.

 

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