Eloghosa Osunde is a Nigerian writer and multidisciplinary maker.
An alumna of the Lambda Literary Workshop (2019), New York Film Academy (2017) and the Caine Prize Workshop (2018), Eloghosa's writing has appeared in multiple publications including Paris Review (where she writes a column), Granta, Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, Guernica, Lithub, Catapult, Berlin Quarterly and her visual art in Vogue, The New York Times and Paper Magazine. She is a 2020 MacDowell Colony Fellow and the 2021 prose judge of Fugue Journal's annual writing contest. Recently profiled by Coveteur for their Class of 2021 issue, Eloghosa has also been featured by Elle, Them, Creative Review and Shondaland.
In creating book covers for authors and art prints for fashion collections or writing monologues for theatre festivals and building immersive mixed-media exhibitions, Eloghosa's work honors medium as an integral part of artmaking. She situates her visual art in the overlap between fiction, photography and painting. Her work tests the limits of reality (who defines it? is it singular? does it matter?) by locating protagonists in intangible, alternate realms where the granular details of time and setting melt to a blur. Eloghosa worked on Orange Culture's SS20 collection, creating art prints for the label which showed at Lagos and New York Fashion Weeks. Her visual art has been exhibited across four continents so far —twice solo; selected for the New York Portfolio Review; for Photoville's EmergiCubes (2017) and was most recently at the National Museum in Lagos, Nigeria.
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