Yinka Elujoba is a Nigerian writer,[1] and editor[2] who currently^[when?] works as an art critic for The New York Times.[3] He lives in Brooklyn, New York.^{[citation needed]}

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Yinka Elujoba
Nationality	Nigerian
Education	Obafemi Awolowo University School of Visual Arts
Occupation	Writer, Editor, art critic
Notable work	Collective Truth, Re-Imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation
Awards	Rabkin Prize
Website	https://www.elujoba.com/

He was awarded the Rabkin Prize in 2021.[4]

Personal life and education

Elujoba was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria to civil servant parents. He has an Engineering degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and in 2020 received an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York.[5]

Career

Elujoba has worked as a writer, editor, and art critic since 2010.[6]

Elujoba has written two chapbooks, Collective Truth (2016), which is permanently collected at the Smithsonian Institution[7] and Images of the Disconsolate (2017) as part of his work with the Invisible Borders' Trans-African Project.[8]

In 2018, Elujoba and Innocent Ekejiuba won the Apexart International Exhibition grant, with their exhibition "Re-imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation"[9] selected out of 538 eligible entries from 66 countries, their work was selected by an international panel of over 300 jurors and subsequently also selected by a nomination of over 13,000 public votes, as the best entry to receive the grant.[9]

The exhibition, which took place from February 9 - March 9, 2019, at the Old Engine Test House, Nigeria Railway Corporation Compound, Ebute-Metta, Lagos[10][11][12] was described as "explor(ing) the concept of Nigeria as a cartographic construct by colonial forces and its implications in contemporary Nigeria"[13]

His essays and art criticism have been published in Harper's Magazine,[14] ArtReview,[15] Saraba Magazine[16] The Brooklyn Rail[17] and The New York TImes,[18] where he writes art criticism.

In 2020, Elujoba co-founded A Long House with Kechi Nomu and Gbenga Adesina.[2]

Works

• 2016 Collective Truth [7][8]
• 2017 Images of the Disconsolate [19][8]
• 2017 In History to My Barest Marrows[20] conversation with Emmanuel Iduma for World Literature Today[21]
• 2019 Re-imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation[11][9]

Awards and recognition

• 2021| Rabkin Prize[4] from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation.[22]
• 2020| School of Visual Arts Faculty Award for MFA Thesis [23]
• 2018| Apexart International Exhibition Grant[9] (with Innocent Ekejiuba) for "Re-imaging Futures"[9]

References