Osinachi (digital artist) explained

Prince Jacon Osinachi Igwe (born in 1991 in Aba, Nigeria), commonly known as Osinachi, is a Nigerian visual and digital artist.[1] [2] [3] He is known for using Microsoft Word as his medium.[4] Described as "Africa's foremost crypto artist,"[5] Osinachi is regarded as the first African artist to have his work digitally auctioned as an NFT by Christie's in Europe."[6]

Career

Osinachi entered the crypto art scene in 2017.[7] [8] In 2020, he held his debut solo show, Osinachi: Existence as Protest, at the Kate Vasse Galerie in Zürich, Switzerland.[2] In 2021, Osinachi garnered attention for selling $75,000 worth of NFTs in 10 days.[9]

Osinachi partnered with the Mohamed Amin Foundation to release NFTs for a catalog featuring 2.5 million photographs and more than 5,000 hours of video content. The project launched $Afrofuture, an Ethereum-based social currency.[10]

Osinachi's work has been described as "engagingly political, drawing from conversations on political matters, gender, tradition and race."[11] Writing about the art market in 2020, curator Jason Bailey called Osinachi "the best of what the coming generation of artists has to offer."[12]

In 2021, 1-54 and Christie's collaborated in an online auction of Osinachi's series Different Shades of Water, making him the first African NFT artist to be featured. The series was inspired by David Hockney's 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures). The artworks were displayed at Somerset House.

On January 30, 2024, his artwork "Take the Stares", previously owned by 3AC, was auctioned at Sotheby's and sold for $20,320.[13]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Onukwe . Alexander O. . How Nigeria's leading crypto artist makes and sells NFTs . TechCabal . 19 March 2021 . 17 May 2021.
  2. Web site: Badewa . Collins . Meet Osinachi, The Crypto artist Fronting The Tokenized Artwork Movement In Africa . Morebranches . 13 February 2020 . 17 May 2021.
  3. News: Ables . Kelsey . Beeple digital art sale doesn't reflect the underground crypto community . 5 May 2021. The Washington Post. 17 May 2021.
  4. Web site: Sarlin . Jon . NFTs have completely transformed these digital artists' lives . 30 March 2021. . 17 May 2021.
  5. Web site: Ume . Lydia . How Africa's Foremost Crypto Artist Is Changing The Way We Perceive Masculinity . . 17 May 2021 . 17 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210517102523/https://anastyboy.org/home/how-nigerias-foremost-crypto-artist-is-changing-the-way-we-perceive-masculinity . dead .
  6. Web site: Ndukwe . Ijeoma . Nigerian NFT artist Osinachi: The work created by using a word processor . 13 January 2022. BBC Business. Lagos. 28 January 2022.
  7. News: 2022-01-13 . Nigerian NFT artist Osinachi: The work created by using a word processor . 2024-06-13 . en-GB.
  8. Web site: 13 January 2022 . Nigerian NFT artist Osinachi: The work created by using a word processor . 13 June 2024 . BBC.
  9. Web site: Osinachi to offer first African artist's NFT at Christie's Europe. Melanie. Gerlis. 30 September 2021. Financial Times. 4 April 2022.
  10. Web site: Africa . Forbes . Why NFTs Are Having An Arty Moment . 17 July 2021. Forbes Africa. 4 April 2022.
  11. Web site: Kwaifa . Aliyu . Nigerian Artists Bank On Crypto-Art . . 4 July 2021 . 4 April 2022.
  12. Web site: Bailey . Jason . 2020 Art Market Predictions . 27 January 2020. Artnome . May 17, 2021.
  13. Web site: Take the Stares GRAILS: Starry Night Contemporary NFT Sotheby's. Sothebys.com. en-EN.

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