Enam Bosokah

Enam Bosokah in 2021

Enam Bosokah is a Ghanaian artist. He is known for his ballpoint pen artwork.[1][2]

Bosokah graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where he studied sculpture. About his choice of medium, he says that "The pen is very economical; I don’t get to buy a lot of materials and I am good to go. My use of the pen is to prove that those things we underestimate [can create great things]."[3][4] Beside the pen, he has worked in other mediums like charcoal and watercolours. His art has been exhibited in and outside Africa.[1]

Bosokah has acted as a judge in the BIC Art Master Competition, a competition for African ball-point pen artists, held by Société Bic since 2017.[5][6] He has made portraits for Wiki Unseen, a Wikimedia Foundation collaboration aimed at providing depictions for BIPOC Wikipedia biographies without an image of the subject.[7][8]

As of 2022, he lives in Accra.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Wiki Unseen Focus: Enam Bosokah – ART AFRICA Magazine". ART AFRICA. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  2. ^ Barnes, Sara (8 April 2015). "Exquisite Photorealistic Portraits Created Using a Ballpoint Pen". My Modern Met. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  3. ^ Gyamfi Asiedu, Kwasi (8 August 2016). "Artist Enam Bosokah proving the might of the pen". Pulse Ghana. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  4. ^ Da Silva, Dana; Reddy, Presantie (12 February 2016). "This Ghanaian artist does incredible things with only a ballpoint pen". The Daily Vox. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ^ "For the 4TH Time, BIC Holds Competition for Ball-point Pen Artists…". This Day. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  6. ^ "BIC as brush, medium and palette: An innovation of Art Masters". Vanguard. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  7. ^ Liu, Jasmine (9 February 2022). "Wikipedia Launches "Wiki Unseen," Commissioning Artists To Paint Portraits of BIPOC Figures". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Amplifying Black and Diverse Histories the Focus of New Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration with Global Artist". ModernGhana. 10 February 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.