Hyundai Artlab is pleased to announce Olamiju Fajemisin and Kira Xonorika as the recipients of the 2024 Artlab Editorial Fellowship. Now in its second year, the Artlab Editorial Fellowship invites two art writers whose forward-thinking insights and intimate ties to their communities and geographic regions offer a critical lens through which to view art as a bellwether for change. The program extends Artlab Editorial’s mission to foster writing about today’s most compelling artists, celebrate connectivity in all its forms, and envision the future.
Each 2024 Artlab Editorial Fellow will receive 10,000 USD to produce three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial. Additionally, each Fellow is paired with an advisor for ongoing mentorship. Olamiju Fajemisin will collaborate with Andrew Russeth; Kira Xonorika with Charlotte Kent.
The Fellowship received an overwhelming response to its 2024 Open Call, attracting nearly 500 exceptional applicants from over 400 cities around the world.
2024 Artlab Editorial Fellows
Olamiju Fajemisin
Olamiju Fajemisin (she/her) is an art critic. Her writing has been published by outlets including Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, and Mousse Magazine. She has also produced exhibition texts and catalog essays for a number of international galleries and institutions such as Gladstone Gallery and Haus der Kunst. She has been an editor at Zurich-based publication PROVENCE since 2018. She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, where she won the Holland Scholarship.
Kira Xonorika
Kira Xonorika (she/her; they/them) is an artist, author and futurist whose work explores connections between technoscience, sovereignty, temporality, world-building, and magic. She’s received awards, residencies and fellowships by Dreaming Beyond AI, Momus and Eyebeam, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and Ars Electronica. Her work has been exhibited at the Ford Foundation Gallery, Vellum Los Angeles, and arebyte Gallery London, among others. Her writing has been published by e-flux, Momus, the GenderIT journal, and Cambridge University. In 2024 she will spearhead the first GenAI art residency based in South America, the Future Memory Lab, supported by Pro Helvetia.
2024 Artlab Editorial Fellowship Advisors
Charlotte Kent, PhD
Charlotte Kent (she/her) is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (2024, Intellect Books) and an Editor at Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology, contributing to many popular magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture. In 2022, Kent wrote “Embodied Broadcast,” a review of Nancy Baker Cahill’s “Slipstream Times Square” for Artlab Editorial. A recipient of Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence grant, the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum, and former member of the Board of Governors for the National Arts Club, where she founded the Artist Fellowship, she is committed to service across the field.
Andrew Russeth
Andrew Russeth (he/him) is an art critic and editor at Artnet News who has contributed to a variety of international publications, including Artforum, the Financial Times, Bijutsu Techo, Blau, and ArtReview. Until recently, he was based in South Korea, where he wrote about artists MOON & JEON as well as BTS leader RM’s support of contemporary art and artists for The New York Times. Ahead of the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul, Russeth penned “The Artlab Guide To Seoul” for Artlab Editorial’s readers. In 2019, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism.
About Artlab Editorial
Launched in 2022, Artlab Editorial is a destination for critical engagement with contemporary art. With interviews, reviews, essays, and profiles, Artlab Editorial publishes writing that offers opportunities to better understand the past, reconsider the contemporary, and envision the future. Artlab Editorial has published writers from around the world, including the inaugural 2023 fellows—Laurie Rojas and Skye Arundhati Thomas—in addition to Rahel Aima, Melissa Baksh, Shumon Basar, Julie Baumgardner, Allie Biswas, Hunter Braithwaite, Nancy Baker Cahill, Dawn Chan, Scarlet Cheng, Minji Chun, Samantha Culp, Travis Diehl, Aindrea Emelife, Claire L. Evans, Orit Gat, Charlotte Kent, Dean Kissick, Shannon Lee, Michelle Lhooq, Christina Catherine Martinez, Manuela Moscoso, Lee Pivnik, Syaura Qotrunadha, Andrew Russeth, Kenny Schachter, Barry Schwabsky, Elizaveta Shneyderman, Monica Uszerowicz, Wendy Vogel, Claire Voon, and Linda Yablonsky.
About Hyundai Artlab
For over a decade, Hyundai Motor has deepened its partnerships with global museums and cultural organizations, including MMCA, Tate, LACMA, and the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Most recently, Hyundai Motor announced a new 10-year partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art to support the Whitney Biennial and the museum’s newly launched Hyundai Terrace Commission. Hyundai Motor’s own art initiatives include Artlab Editorial, a digital platform dedicated to art writing by international voices and open call programs like the VH AWARD and the Hyundai Blue Prize. Our ongoing collaborations and programs embrace the complexities of the cultural landscape by exploring new ideas and perspectives with individuals and organizations within and beyond the art ecosystem. The team steering these partnerships and initiatives is Hyundai Artlab. Our goal is to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations that connect across boundaries by supporting art that inspires us all.
