Dear African Artist,
The biggest mistake you’ll make in your career is to let the opinions of collectors or other artists influence your work.
Don’t listen to whoever tells you your work isn’t “African enough”. Whatever your style, let your art flow from your heart. Amen?
This is 2023. I turn 32 in a few weeks, and whenever my birthday is near I take a moment to look back:
🪩 18 years of playing around with Microsoft Word, making art.
🪩 I hawked my work for 6 years, looking for opportunities as an artist.
🪩 6 years of art on the blockchain.…
“Different Shades of Water” made in collaboration with
@154artfair
and curated by Daria Borisova. All 5 NFTs will be auctioned at
@ChristiesInc
The online auction starts on October 5 (10AM BST) through 19 (1PM BST). In addition to fiat, the works can be bought with ETH or BTC.
"The Redemption of Major Tom"
David Bowie’s (
@DavidBowieReal
) “Space Oddity” introduced us to Major Tom, the adventure-seeking astronaut who somehow got lost in space.
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When the media make it look like the NFT space is all about the money, it breaks my heart. Because it makes a lot of people enter the space for the wrong reasons.
Between 2017, 2018 and a greater part of 2019, nobody in the space was all about the money. It was about sharing.
HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!
I have totally enjoyed the journey of the past one year. I'm looking forward to an even more fulfilling journey in years to come.
Thanks to everyone out there who's supporting me.
Kudos to
@KateVassGalerie
for this wonderful print of my work.
We have a dictatorship in Nigeria.
General Buhari has been in power for 6 horrible years and he can’t take it anymore that concerned citizens take to social media to call out his govt for the bullshit that it is.
He’s banned Twitter. I’m only able to connect thanks to VPN.
The auction for Abitt: The Second Renaissance is Coming ends in less than 15 minutes on
@ChristiesInc
3.0.
The current bid is 7.7 ETH.
Regardless of what the piece finally sells for, I am super proud of making this art history alongside
@ToledoMuseum
and the person who…
We def need more people like
@artnome
and
@ProfessorJun_
who are talking about the art.
If you know someone else who’s talking about the art in the space please tag them below.
Osinachi x
@makersplace
: Africa Here
It’s my pleasure to announce Africa Here, an accelerator program for African-born artists which I will be curating in partnership with MakersPlace.
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Super stoked to be a part of “CryptOGs: The Pioneers of
#NFT
Art”, a historic auction by
@bonhams1793
x
@SuperRare
. Alongside 8 other incredible artists.
My piece is titled ‘In Touch’.
Auction runs through June 21-30. Bidding has started.
for more info.
It was awesome meeting the visionary
@co1born
in New York a few days back. Not just an early supporter of my work but someone who from the getgo moved intentionally in the space to build
@MuseumofCrypto
with his team ❤️
I have met incredibly honest and transparent people in the NFT space… From collectors hitting me up to send my royalties to others sharing a portion of the sales from a collection I was part of years ago.
You don’t see much of that in the traditional art space.
I’m in London for
@154artfair
where my series Different Shades of Water is exhibited. It feels so great to meet people and hear what they think about my practice.
Auction for the artworks is still on
@ChristiesInc
. It ends on the 19th.
Bid here
"To Kiss a Frog" now out on
@SuperRare
!
This story is about transformation. This story is about conservation.
Place your bids here
Click video to play sound.
#NFT
#Cryptoart
#Osinachi
Osinachi x Don Jazzy (
@DONJAZZY
) drops TODAY at 6:30pm ET on
@niftygateway
All 3
#NFTs
celebrate Afrobeats.
Join Don Jazzy and I today at 5pm ET on the Niftygateway Discord () as we talk about the drop.
And oh there will be a giveaway happening!
Honored to be a juror on the inaugural Visible Artist Award 2023, which seeks to drive meaningful change for emerging artists and under-represented artists in the UK.
A few days ago, I received a vision in my sleep for a series.
I have worked furiously to achieve the images exactly as I was shown, leading to the series Revelations.
The 5 works in this series will drop on
@rariblecom
tomorrow Tuesday the 6th.
Below are Revelation I & II🤞🏿
1. Excited to introduce my new piece: ‘THE ARTIST AT 2’ 🔥
It will be sold during the Season 5 of the MAD burn-auctions brought by
@Streetlab_io
&
@niftyjutsu
🧵👇
I was just tweeting about a few remaining edition of “Across the Face” only to come back and see that it’s all SOLD OUT!
I’m giddy with excitement!!!!
Thanks to all who minted an edition and big ups to the giants that are
@AsyncArt
and
@SuperRare
on this historic partnership!
If you know any Nigerian, please check on them and their families. The economy is in shambles and people and businesses are hardly getting by. Dollar to Naira value is at an all-time high and there’s no hope in sight!
Display is still a big problem in digital art. Every artist works in their own dimensions, and purposefully so. I hate to start customizing my work to a particular size and aspect ratio for exhibition. I think it takes away from the work. I hope that changes soon.
As the NFT space is getting bigger and bigger, platforms have to think diversity. It doesn’t do you any good to have almost 90% of the artists on your platform all white. What happened to BIPOC who are just as talented and have been at the door waiting to be let in?
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I'm super excited to share 'A Room of Red', a piece I did in collaboration with
@CampariNigeria
.
It captures what it means to be solitary during the lockdown while still looking forward to the social opportunity that
#camparibeer
brings.
.
In essence, it's an ode to self-love
In the spirit of Valentine, I have some love to share: I'm premiering two of my unreleased songs (I Love You & Don't Leave Me) on my Discord.
Both songs produced by
@Johnnydrille
will be on replay for the next 30 hours or so.
Here's how to tune in 👇👇
With the auction for "Abitt: The Second Renaissance is Coming" closed, I would like to thank
@ToledoMuseum
for such a huge institutional backing through the digital artist-in-residence project;
@ChristiesInc
for their partnership, particularly
@sebastianss527
and
@nicoleasales
.
Today makes it exactly one year since I made 'Nduka's Wedding Day'. With the physical prints sold out and the NFT collected, the work has gone on to become iconic. It's been shared across various social media platforms, especially Instagram. 🖤
It’s an understatement to say I’m overjoyed by
@SamSpratt
’s show The Monument Game in Venice with the Venice Biennale on. It’s important to have digital art represented and talked about at art events, no matter how big or small. Kudos to
@1OF1_art
🫶🏿
You can now buy your favorite crypto art on
@SuperRare
using $RARE token! Kudos to everyone who made this possible.
To celebrate, I've reset 'To Kiss a Frog' to a Buy-Now price of 278K $RARE. A huge opportunity to snag an Osinachi!
Artists leaving the NFT space and Web3 as a whole and announcing it has been good for the space. It has sparked fresh conversations around the space vis-à-vis the artists and their works. And, in my opinion, that is healthy.
What would even be healthier is if these same artists…
It’s always a great feeling when someone comes along and collects my work, but the feeling I’m getting right now for this sale is beyond great.
Thank you
@rudyadler
!
I’m so proud to have taken part in Grails 2, thanks to
@eli_schein
& the
@proof_xyz
team
To me, the Grails process of keeping the identities of the artists a secret only to reveal them after the mints is very helpful in driving convos around the art and not just the money.
Thank you
@artnet
for this recognition.
So sweet to be in the company of other great artists and innovators in the space whose works I’ve admired for a long time.
@TASCHEN
’s “On NFT” book launched last night and I can say that it’s such an incredibly in-depth survey of the medium/tech to date.
It comes with my piece ‘The Other Pool Day’ in signed prints of 100 editions, and digital form.
Crypto Art: My 6th Anniversary
In April 2018, my first-ever on-chain artwork was minted on
@rareartlabs
thanks to
@JohnZettler
and his team at the time.
My genesis piece was called ‘Solitary’, made in 2015, an ERC-20 token in the collection of
@Coldie
, my first-ever collector.
Now I can go to bed and join my ancestors knowing I’ve inspired at least one child.
This is all so touching. I’m going to cry! And she’s so good!
All this happening at
@154artfair
Mirror Mirror now live on
@SuperRare
Reserve auction set at 8ETH.
The collector of this
#NFT
gets 100k $OSINA
Quite this tweet to stand a chance of receiving 10k $OSINA. Selecting 10 persons randomly by 12pm WAT tomorrow.
#Osinachi
For This Is My Body (2022).
This is 2022 and it still beats me that the highest court of the land is basically policing women’s bodies, saying a woman shouldn’t have control over her own body.
Each conversation I have with
@artnome
(whether it's about art, personal life, etc.) leaves me feeling as though I just stepped out of a therapist's office. Thank you so much, my friend, for the insights you bring into the NFT space and how we can collectively shape its future.
Congrats ATFers! You will soon receive your own 'Room for Everyone'.
372 in total will be distributed, and the remaining 294 will go to the public sale -- which has just started!
If you don't hold an ATF, you can mint a Roomie on
@AsyncArt
for 0.2ETH
When it comes to interviews, I have moved on from talking about how I got started in art, when and why I entered the crypto art space and explaining how the blockchain adds value to my work through NFTs.
I want to focus on talking about my artworks as really what they are — Art!
Look who’s on
@CNN
talking about his journey in NFT, alongside the amazing
@artnome
and
@carlosmarcialt
“NFTs have completely transformed these digital artists' lives” - CNN Video
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Excited to share that 25 pieces from the Across the Face
@AsyncArt
blueprints will be exhibited in
@SuperRare
SoHo space using
@infiniteobjects
display!
Each ATF collector is invited to enter for a chance to have their piece animated and become a part of this show. How 👇🏿
Okay, I haven't used a filter in years, because I want my work to appear as they really are when I post them.
.
But I had to give in to the temptation in this one because I like this very filter 😉
.
How do you like my trousers?
#Osinachi
Quite surreal to see three of my works in the new
@PrimeVideo
series "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (
@smithsonprime
) starring Donald Glover & Maya Erskine.
You need to hear what Jane
#2
says to Jane
#1
as she admires 'No Coffee This Morning' hanging on the wall!
More info on the works
These guys stealing people’s work to mint will continue to do so even after they’re found out and their accounts closed.
All it takes is a new wallet address, a new name and another victim to steal from.
We need to find more effective ways of stopping this.
When you consider that you're creating something that will last way into the future, you just have to go way deep into your soul and make the best art.
Unless your intention is to sell quickly and pocket the money, then shallowness it is.
We’ve teamed up with SuperRare (
@SuperRare
), the leading marketplace for NFTs to present “Reloading…”, an exhibition with exciting African digital artists at ART X LAGOS from 4 - 7 November at The Federal Palace, Lagos, and online till 21 November on .
Do you remember ‘Red’ by
@muratpak
, sold for about 29ETH in 2020 on
@SuperRare
?
In about 15 days, it’ll be 1000 days since this controversial piece was minted.
Now live on
@AsyncArt
‘Choose the Man You Will Become II’
Bidders on any layer will receive the teaser for the drop while successful collectors will receive the trailer. Master collector gets both!
Bid here
See reserve price and auction details👇🏿
Excited to be showing ‘Man in the Window’ at
@artdubai
, courtesy of
@ChristiesInc
.
The exhibition BLOCK PARTY (March 7-29) is curated by Daria Borisova and features some of my faves like
@thesarahshow
&
@trevorjonesart
.
NB: This piece is not yet released on any marketplace.
I’ve thought long and hard about it.
While I respect the artists who have done this, THERE WILL BE NO OPEN EDITIONS FROM ME — unless it’s a commission, in which case the client involved can sell the piece however they want.
Keeping
#Osinachi
limited ✌🏿.
Gm! I went to see "A Digital Transcendence - The Intersection of Art and Tech" exhibition in person at 0x17 Gallery in New York, courtesy of
@SuperRare
I'm delighted to be showing alongside other amazing artists, thanks to the curator
@PalomarRo
Art has always been mankind’s way of offering answers for life’s many questions. From my experience, a successful work of art does this, but an even more successful work of art brings up more questions!
Osinachi x
@ChristiesInc
presented by
@154artfair
still showing!
@fireboydml
You deserve every bit of hype and every good thing coming to you because of this album. This was more than an album. It was a GIFT and I still cherish it.