Yinka Elujoba

Yinka Elujoba is a Nigerian writer, and editor He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

He was awarded the Rabkin Prize in 2021.

Personal life and education Elujoba was born and raised in Lagos on 11 March 1991, 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.

Career Elujoba has worked as a writer, editor, and art critic since 2010.

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

In 2018, Elujoba and Innocent Ekejiuba won the Apexart International Exhibition grant, with their exhibition "Re-imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation" 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. was described as "explor(ing) the concept of Nigeria as a cartographic construct by colonial forces and its implications in contemporary Nigeria"

His essays and art criticism have been published in Harper's Magazine, ArtReview, Saraba Magazine The Brooklyn Rail and The New York Times, where he writes art criticism.

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

Works

2016 Collective Truth conversation with Emmanuel Iduma for World Literature Today 2019 Re-imaging Futures: A Trans-Nigerian Conversation from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. 2020| School of Visual Arts Faculty Award for MFA Thesis 2018| Apexart International Exhibition Grant (with Innocent Ekejiuba) for "Re-imaging Futures"