Yolanda Hoskey is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography and film. Her work explores the space between visibility and understanding, centering Black life in quiet, intimate moments—domestic interiors, everyday rituals, and private gestures—where meaning exists beyond spectacle.
Born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn, Hoskey’s practice is shaped by an acute awareness of power, class, and representation. She approaches her subjects as collaborators, creating images that prioritize trust, care, and shared authorship while holding contradiction—tenderness alongside grief, joy alongside restraint.
Through her work, Hoskey challenges narrow frameworks of Black identity, creating space for reflection and recognition. Her images resist explanation or performance, allowing Black life to exist as lived, ongoing, and deeply human.
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theGrio
Fujifilm
Walmart
Dove x Getty Images
Opi x NYFW
JP Morgan Chase
Meta
Snipes USA
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2025 | Tapestry of Aliveness, Magnum Foundation, New York, NY
2024 | Body Freedom for Every(Body), Project for Empty Space, National
2024 | Vote for Democracy, SaveArtSpace. Milwaukee, WI
2024 | Sula Playing in the Dark, The Bishop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Tigueras, SaveArtSpace, New York, NY
2023 | Our Black Experience: Stories from Black Women Photographers, Photoville, New York, NY
2023 | Our Black Experience: Stories from Black Women Photographers, Galerie Kitsune, New York, NY
2022 | Fujikina, Fujifilm, New York, NY
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2025/26 - BRIClab: Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2025 – Shortlisted, PhotoVogue Women by Women.
2025 - International Photographic Council “Rising Star” Photographer Award, United Nations
2024 - Magnum Foundation: New York City Fellowship, Fellow — New York, NY
2023 - Getty Images Creator Accelerator Program
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2025 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, MFA Photography Program
2023-24 | Photography Instructor, DREAM! Studio
2023 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Sadie Nash Leadership Project