In Person:
Onyeka Igwe
May 29, 2026
Onyeka Igwe is a London born and based, moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: How do we live together? Not to provide a rigid answer as such, but to pull apart the nuances of mutuality, co-existence, and multiplicity. Onyeka's practice figures sensorial, spatial, and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. For her, the body, archives, and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. The work comprises untying strands and threads anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection, and amplification that occurs between image and sound.
She has had solo/duo shows at Tate Britain (2025), MoMA PS1, New York (2023), High Line, New York (2022), Mercer Union, Toronto (2021), Jerwood Arts, London (2019), and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (all 2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery (2023). She was jointly awarded the Film London Jarman Award in 2025, the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film and was the recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019.
In collaboration with VIENNA SHORTS
Onyeka Igwe is a London born and based, moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: How do we live together? Not to provide a rigid answer as such, but to pull apart the nuances of mutuality, co-existence, and multiplicity. Onyeka's practice figures sensorial, spatial, and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. For her, the body, archives, and narratives both oral and textual act as a mode of enquiry that makes possible the exposition of overlooked histories. The work comprises untying strands and threads anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection, and amplification that occurs between image and sound.
She has had solo/duo shows at Tate Britain (2025), MoMA PS1, New York (2023), High Line, New York (2022), Mercer Union, Toronto (2021), Jerwood Arts, London (2019), and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (all 2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery (2023). She was jointly awarded the Film London Jarman Award in 2025, the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film and was the recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019.
In collaboration with VIENNA SHORTS
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