Ugonna Hosten is a multi-disciplinary visual artist working across collage, drawing and printmaking.
Born in Nigeria and migrating to the UK as a child, Hosten's work explores the notion of duality as being central to the human experience. Themes of myth as a genre of reality, and the realm of the unconscious, are prevalent in her work.
After studying criminology at university, Hosten's interest in the human mind extended into her artistic practice. Her work represents a kind of evolution, piecing fragments together and investigating experiences - historical, personal and imagined. Striving to convey the dimensions of the self and its connection to a collective unconscious, the artist's explorations build on a rich legacy and tradition of storytelling and myth making.
Selected exhibiDons include The song I once knew, Tiwani Contemporary, London (2025), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York (2024), Ed Cross; chi; Altarpieces, Liturgy & DevoDon, York Art Gallery, York (2023); InsDncDve Travels & The Paths of Rhythm, One Paved Court, London (2022); Royal Academy Summer ExhibiDon, London (2021); Ty Pawb Print InternaDonal, Wrexham, Wales (2021); Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London (2021); and Humanalia(n), One Paved Court, London (2020).
Hosten's work was recently acquired by El Espacio 23, Miami, founded by Jorge Perez. It is in several private collections interationally including Edna Dumas, Paris and Tokyo.