Nengi Omuku
b. 1987, Nigeria
Nengi Omuku (b. 1987, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She received her BA (2010) and MA (2012) from the Slade School of Art, University College London. In addition to her forthcoming solo exhibition, Parables of Joy, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Omuku is currently included in What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles, at New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and will participate in the Bangkok Art Biennale (2022-2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London and Berlin (2020-2021); Stages of Collapse, September Gray, Atlanta (2017); A State of Mind, Omenka Gallery, Lagos (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Self-Addressed, curated by Kehinde Wiley at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA (2021); The Invincible Hands, Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Lagos, Nigeria (2021); Karim Kal and Nengi Omuku, La Galerie, Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec (2021); and Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2021). Omuku is currently included in The Company She Keeps at Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, and will also be part of Dissolving Realms, curated by Katy Hessel, at Kasmin Gallery, New York, later this year. Omuku is also represented by Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.