Enigmatic and delicately rendered, Chioma Ebinama’s works on paper capture an animistic world populated by the artist’s singular iconography. She is known for collages, watercolors, and prints that combine Black figures with motifs drawn from West African cosmology and Eastern and Western folk and spiritual traditions. An MFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Ebinama first received critical recognition with her presentation at the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show in New York. Her solo exhibition of drawings and prints, made with indigo dye and kozo paper, was inspired by pre-Columbian and Ibo imagery and conveyed the artist’s origin story of an imagined goddess. For Ebinama, use of mythologies and precolonial philosophies is a means of claiming authorship over her personal narrative, and exploring themes of identity, trauma, and self-liberation in a globalized world marked by deep iniquity.