Artist Postcard: Portals, Gateways & Hesitations

Ogheneofegor Obuwoma (she/they) is a Nigerian artist, writer, and arts worker based in Vancouver on the unceded Coast Salish lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Obuwoma’s lens-based practice is grounded in traditions of care and reimagination. Utilizing concepts of Afro-diasporic futurism, their work emerges from an investigation of questions of the body and the spiritual as they relate to a nuanced state of contemporary Nigerian society and culture. Obuwoma’s work has been shown at galleries and film festivals, and their writing has been published on Akimbo. She graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film and Communications and is currently pursuing an independent curatorial practice.