I am a Chicago-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. My work has screened internationally and appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and many other publications.

I developed a multimedia project examining identity, aging, and labor among veteran drag performers in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood entitled Beautiful By Night. It included a documentary that I directed, produced, and edited. I had a multi-year collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco that included screenings, public programming, and a solo photo exhibit of this work. The project was included in the 2020 group show Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was the focus of a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities gallery during January and February of 2022.

I was a 2022-2023 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. HATCH is a juried program that offers the opportunity to develop new work and produce collaborative exhibitions. My two-person show with fiber artist María Villaseñor-Marchal, Raveling, was on view from April to June 2023. It was partially supported by an Individual Artist Support grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. I presented a new series of collages made from LGBTQ+ archival material and inspired by the text of found personals. In the Chicago Reader, critic Annette LePique wrote: “Hosking’s work is an act of mediumship; it is a way for the past and present to meet and for the desires and lived experiences of those often denied the light to feel the glow of day once more.”

I was also recently a 2022-2023 CPS Lives artist. CPS Lives is a nonprofit that pairs Chicago based artists with a public school during the academic year to collaborate on a project. I photographed LGBTQ+ members of a local high school’s Pride Club. The work was exhibited at Chicago’s Jude and Heaven galleries in 2023.

I’m the recipient of a 2023 Individual Artists Program grant from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). The grant will support the ongoing development of my archival LGBTQ+ collage series. Pieces from the series were selected for Once: 2023 Emerging Artists Exhibit at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. New selections from the series are currently on view in Art from the Archives, at Gerber/Hart Library & Archives in Chicago, until March 31, 2024.