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ABOUT
ART X Lagos, in partnership with Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Embassy of France in Nigeria, have co-constructed RESONANCE, an annual residency program for curators, visual artists, and designers based in Nigeria.
Initiated in 2020 by both Cité internationale des arts and the Embassy of France in Nigeria, the aim of this programme is to facilitate mobility and to support research, as well the expansion of the professional network of actors of the Nigerian art scene.
From this year onwards, in partnership with ART X Lagos, the programme will be open to curators, visual artists, and designers living in Nigeria, with the possibility to develop further collaborations with ART X Lagos in the future.
During the three-month residency, the three laureates will be in dialogue with professional practitioners from their fields, based in France and will benefit from professional networking as well as financial support.
BENEFITS
Residents will benefit from:
- Dedicated support and dialogue on artistic or curatorial practices for curators and visual artists with a France-based curator. For designers, they would receive dedicated support and dialogue with the agency, Trampoline;
- Visits and networking opportunities organized by the Cité internationale des arts;
- A live-in-studio on the Marais site of the Cité internationale des arts;
- A monthly living allowance;
- Transportation to and from Paris covered
- Possibility to collaborate with ART X Lagos on upcoming editions.
RESONANCE 2025 WINNER
OLORUNFEMI ADEWUYI - DESIGNER

Olorunfemi Adewuyi, born in Kaduna, Nigeria, , studied Architecture at Covenant University. From 2019 to 2024, he worked at Studio Contra, leading material research and design teams on local and international projects. He founded and leadsOmi Collective, a multidisciplinary research and design group exploring architecture, object design, and urbanism through memory, craft, informality, and material culture.
In 2023, he was named a laureate in the Lagos x Paris Accelerator program and has exhibited in Lagos, Paris, Stockholm, and Milan. He has been invited to speak at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Goethe- Institut Nigeria, Architecture Institute Rotterdam, and Open House Lagos. His writing has appeared in Disegno Journal, Wallpaper, and
In 2025, he was selected as a Fellow of the Prince Claus Building Beyond programme. His ongoing Lagos modernist architecture archive is supported by a Goethe-Institut grant.
RESONANCE 2025 WINNER
TONY AGBAPUONWA - CURATOR

Tony Agbapuonwu is a curator, writer and strategy consultant. He is the founder of Art Bridge Project, a community-based visual arts organization working at the intersection of artistic exchange, creative knowledge production, and curated projects with a mandate to educate artists and stretch the breadth of their practice. Through his curatorial endeavors, he explores experiential and material poetics, with commentary on social, cultural, and political history as a way to amplify the transformative power of art and champion artists working with frontier techniques and new media. For over ten years, Tony has immersed himself in the Nigerian cultural landscape and worked at global art institutions such as ART X Lagos and Art Twenty One to present art fairs, exhibitions, workshops, live music sessions and dynamic creative projects. He currently serves as the Residency and Onsite Program Manager at Kòbọmọjẹ́ Artist Residency in Ibadan, which contributes to his passion for advancing diverse artistic practices and strengthening locally led cultural spaces in Nigeria.
RESONANCE 2025 WINNER
MOBOLAJI OGUNROSOYE - VISUAL ARTIST

Mobolaji Ogunrosoye is a self-taught visual artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She works at the intersection of photography and collage, using these mediums to explore multidimensionality and perception, particularly in images of Black and Nigerian women.
Over the past three years, her artistic journey has focused on two primary bodies of work: 'Portraits' and 'Contrasts In Loveliness.' Both projects involve manipulating found and captured images with selected materials to construct abstract collages.
Between 2021 and 2023, Ogunrosoye worked on the 'Portraits' series, which redefines the traditional form of a portrait. She later expanded on the series by replacing paper with Perspex for the group exhibition 'The Becoming' at Peres Projects, Berlin, in 2023. Here, she experimented with transparency as a tool for distortion, using materials of varying weight, thickness, and color to magnify and create illusions within her images. Building on this exploration, she further incorporated fragmentation and distortion by using Perspex in installation works for exhibitions such as 'Grow It, Show It' at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, and the Jaou Tunis Biennial in Tunis, Tunisia, both in 2024.
In 2024, Ogunrosoye participated in a research residency at the GAS Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.