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 2023 Omuku presented her first solo institutional exhibition, The Dance of People and the Natural World at Hastings Contemporary, travelling to Arnolfini, Bristol (2024). Omuku is currently included in Join in and sing!, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria; Exchanges, a collection presentation at the Whitworth, Manchester; and The Poetics of Dimensions, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA. Later this year Omuku will take part in The 15th Dakar Biennale. In 2024 Omuku 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. Recent exhibitions include Wild Things and Perennials, Kasmin, New York, NY (2024); Soulscapes 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); 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; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.