Nengi Omuku lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria and London, UK. She received her BA in 2010 and MA in 2012 from the Slade School of Art, University College London. Omuku’s first solo institutional exhibition, ‘The Dance of People and the Natural World’ was first mounted at Hastings Contemporary, UK (2024), before travelling to Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2024). Following this, she was awarded the ACBMT and Arnolfini International Artist Residency Award. In 2026, Omuku will have her first solo institutional exhibition in the US at de Young Museum, San Francisco CA.
In 2023, Omuku was awarded the Civitella Ranieri Residency in Italy (2024), which followed her residency at Black Rock in Senegal (2022 – 2023). Collections include: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD; The Whitworth, Manchester, UK; Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL; Government Art Collection, UK; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami FL.
Omuku’s recent solo and group exhibitions include: ‘The Poetics of Dimensions,’ curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco CA (2024 – 2025); ‘Exchanges,’ The Whitworth, Manchester, UK (2023 – 2024); ‘15th Dakar Biennale,’ Dakar, Senegal (2024); ‘Wild Things and Perennials,’ Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); ‘Soulscapes,’ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK (2023 – 2024); ‘Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria,’ Saint Louis Art Museum MO (2023 – 2024); ‘A’s Water Never Touched,’ Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach FL, (2023); ‘Free The Wind, The Spirit, and The Sun,’ curated by Yinka Shonibare,’ Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2023); ‘Rites of Passage,’ curated by Péjú Oshin, Gagosian, London, UK (2023); and Bangkok Art Biennale (2022 – 2023).