Ugoma Ebilah

Ugoma Ebilah - is a curator, designer, 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 artists, and instigating dynamic curatorial programming that has attracted a new generation of art collectors and enthusiasts.
Ugoma has successfully navigated a career in art that straddles commerce, community, and education. In 2021, she originated and executed the largest secondary market art sale and placement ($1,000,000) by an independent Nigerian curator and dealer.
Over the years, Ugoma has overseen the repatriation of significant pieces of Nigerian modernist art and spoken at conferences, symposiums, and events in Paris, Venice, Cape Town, New York, and Berlin. Her passion and expertise in the art market and her ability to. bridge the gap between art and finance have earned her recognition and made her a sought-after consultant.
Ugoma is the founder of the award-winning design brand Zebra Livingandco-foundedand ran The Life House, a pioneering multi-arts institution. She is also the founding director of Lights Camera Africa Film Festival, promoting independent and unconventional films to a discerning audience, and producer of the Woman Rising Music Concert, celebrating female creativity.

Ugoma is a trustee director of G.A.S. Foundation (founded by the celebrated Nigerian-British artist Yinka Shonibare CBE), a committee member at the Musical Society of Nigeria, an advisory board member of Art School Africa,1952 Africa, and she supports the Serpentine Galleries as a patron. She is passionate about philanthropic interventions in the arts and is presently developing her most ambitious undertaking yet, "Mbari Kola",an arts society and culture foundation set to launch in 2025.