Ugoma Ebilah is an art curator, gallerist and cultural convener at the forefront of shaping contemporary discourses in African art in the broadest sense. In 2010 she founded BLOOM Art, a gallery and salon that has been instrumental in expanding the commercial appetite for contemporary African art, providing support and guidance to emerging and mid-career artists and instigating dynamic curatorial interventions and programming that has attracted a new generation of art collectors and enthusiasts. As a cultural producer she is guided by notions rooted in the Igbo ideological concept of the ‘Obi’ where pivotal socioeconomic change is best realized via the lens of the homestead, both real and imagined, and art acts as a catalyst for structural renewal, ideological innovation and societal transformation.