Enam Bosokah

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

Enam Bosokah in 2021

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]

References
  1. "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.
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