Nengi 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. In 2025, she was selected to join the inaugural Artist Council of the Museum of West African Art, Benin City in 2025.
The artist has previously staged solo institutional exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK, and Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2023-24). She has participated in group exhibitions at the ICA San Francisco (2024), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (2024), DAK'ART, Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal (2024), Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2024), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2023-24), Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO (2023), and Bangkok Art Biennale (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's work can be found in international public and private collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Newark Museum of Art, the ICA Miami, the HSBC Art Collection, and the Loewe Art Collection, among others. Omuku's work can be found in international public and private collections including the UK Government Collection, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Newark
Museum of Art, the ICA Miami, the Norton Museum of Art, the HSBC Art Collection, and the Loewe Art Collection among others.
