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 2026, Omuku will have her first institutional solo exhibition in the US at de Young Museum, San Francisco.Later this year she will be included in Roots in The Sky at HOME, Manchester, curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, and The Clearing at Space UN, Tokyo, curated by Ekow Eshun. In 2023, the artist’s first institutional exhibition in the UK, The Dance of People and the Natural World, opened at Hastings Contemporary, before travelling to the Arnolfini, Bristol in 2024. In 2024 she was nominated by artist Yinka Shonibare for a solo presentation in the Artist-to-Artist section of Frieze London. In 2022, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, presented Parables of Joy, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Other recent exhibitions include An Uncommon Thread, Hauser & Wirth, Bruton, UK (2025); The Poetics of Dimensions, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA (2024-5); The 15th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2024-5); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2024-5); the Whitworth, Manchester (2023-4); Kasmin, New York, NY (2024); Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2023-24); Saint Louis Art Museum, MO (2023-24); Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL, (2023);Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Gagosian, London (2023); and Bangkok Art Biennale (2022-2023). Collections include Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Government Art Collection, UK; The Norton Museum of Art, FL; The Whitworth, Manchester; Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; The Newark Museum of Art; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.