Ekene Ijeoma is a Nigerian-American conceptual artist who researches social, political, and environmental systems to poetically expose inequities and mutually empower communities. His multidisciplinary practice spans community-based landworks, interactive light installations, and data-driven performances that expand upon Black-American and African experiences, symbols and practices through design and technology. In recent years, environmental justice and ecological restoration have emerged as recurring themes in his work. In 2022, Ijeoma founded Black Forest, an initiative to plant over 40,000 trees for Black lives and archive Black nature across the U.S. and the diaspora. His work has been presented by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, The Kennedy Center, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.