Nengi Omuku at Frieze London

Omuku lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and London, United Kingdom. In 2023–24, Omuku's first institutional solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, The Dance of the People and the Natural World, was staged at Hastings Contemporary. In 2023–24 she was included in Aso oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, and in 2023 she was included in Rites of Passage, curated by Péjú Oshin at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. In 2022, Omuku was included in Dissolving Realms, curated by Katy Hessel, marking her first presentation with Kasmin. Her work was presented as part of the Bangkok Art Biennale in 2022–23. In 2023, she was awarded the Civitella Ranieri Residency in Italy (2024) to follow a 2022–23 residency at Black Rock Senegal.

Omuku has earned numerous scholarships and awards, including the British Council CHOGM art award presented by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Commissions include a 2018 mural in an intensive care psychiatric ward at the Maudsley Hospital, London, from the Arts Council England. In 2021, she received a World Trade Organization Residency organized by African Art Foundation in Geneva. Omuku's work can be found in international public and private collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; HSBC Art Collection, London, UK; The Whitworth, Manchester, UK; and the Loewe Art Collection, among others.