Nengi Omuku
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BiographyBorn in Warri, Nigeria, 1987
Lives and Works In Lagos, Nigeria and London, UK -
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Omuku lives and works between Lagos, Nigeria and London, United Kingdom. In September 2024, Kasmin will mount Omuku’s first solo exhibition in New York, Wild Things and Perennials, opening concurrently with her ongoing solo museum exhibition, The Dance of the People and the Natural World, at Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom, for which she was awarded the ACBMT and Arnolfini International Artist Residency Award. 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. 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 also 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, the ICA Miami, the HSBC Art Collection, and the Loewe Art Collection, among others.
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WorksExhibitions
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Nengi Omuku: Wild Things and Perennials
September 4 – October 24, 2024 509 West 27th Street, New YorkNengi Omuku’s first solo exhibition in New York features a new body of eight oil paintings, each uniquely realized on the traditional Nigerian textile sanyan, developing Omuku’s vision of painting as a constant and sustaining force in a perpetually changing world. Nengi Omuku: Wild Things and Perennials coincides with the artist’s ongoing solo museum exhibition, The Dance of the People and the Natural World, at Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom.View More -
Dissolving Realms
Curated by Katy Hessel June 10 – August 12, 2022 509 West 27th Street, New YorkDissolving Realms, curated by Katy Hessel, brings together works spanning over 70 years in a focused survey of painterly investigations into the limits of representation. The paintings on view incorporate fantastical and cosmological themes to conjure realms that either flicker on the precipice of abstraction or dissolve completely into pure color and form. With an international eye, Dissolving Realms draws widely from both art historical and contemporary practices to reflect on the legacies and impact that 20th century artists—namely those associated with Abstract Expressionism, color field painting and Surrealism—have had on young painters of today.View More
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