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. Omuku’s first solo institutional exhibition, The Dance of People and the Natural World is currently on view at Arnolfini, Bristol, having first been exhibited at Hastings Contemporary in 2023. Omuku is also currently included in Exchanges, a collection presentation at the Whitworth, Manchester. Later this year Omuku will take part in The Dakar Biennale; Come sing with us!, Raising your voice, a group exhibition at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria; and has been 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. Recent exhibitions includeSoulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2023-24); Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO (2023-24); As 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 (2023); Rites of Passage,curated by Péjú Oshin, Gagosian, London (2023); Bangkok Art Biennale (2022-2023); and What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textile, The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge (2022). Collections include Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Whitworth, Manchester; Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.