Current

• history is a living weapon in yr hand | Peer, London, UK |September 28 2024 - December 14 2024
  
• Conversations |Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  | October 19 2024 - March 5 2025
  
  

Solo and Duo Exhibitions

• History is a living weapon in yr hand |Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK | January 13 2024 - March 2 2024
  
• A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver) |MoMA PS1, New York, USA | March 16–August 21, 2023
  
• The Miracle on George Green | The High Line, New York, USA | 11 May - 6 July 2022
• The real story is what’s in that room | Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada | 6 November 2021- 26 February 2022
  
• a so-called archuve | LUX | 8 September - 17 October 2021
• 8 yams,  small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel | FORMA |  9 August - 14 August 2021
  
• KW Production Series | KW Institute for Contemporary Art | 12 December - 29 December 2020 
• There Were Two Brothers | Jerwood Arts | London, UK | 2020
  
• No Dance, No Palaver, | Alchemy Film and Arts/Unit 4 | Hawick, UK | 2018
  
• Corrections, (with Aliya Pabani) | Trinity Square Video | Toronto, Canada | 2018
  

Group Exhibitions

• NIGERIA IMAGINARY | Nigerian Pavillion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy | April 20 2024 - November 24 2024
  
• A Stage for Rebellion | Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery  Montreal, Canada | November 18 2023 – January 27 2024
  
• Refuge: Lagos Biennial |Nigeria | February 3-10 2024
  
• Echoes | Haus der Kunst | 3 March - 13 March 2022
• Archives of Resistance | Neue Galerie | 4 November 2021 - 15 January 2022
  
• Reconfigured | Timothy Taylor New York | USA, 29 April - 12 June 2021
  
• [POST] Colonial Bodies 1 & 2 | MUNTREF and CC Matienzo | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 2019
  
• World Cup! | Articule | Montreal, Canada | 2018
  
• there’s something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title) | The Showroom | London, UK | 2018
  
• Arguments | Cordova Gallery | Vienna, Austria | 2017
  
• Multiplex | Nuit Blanche 2016 | Toronto, Canada | 2016

Selected Screenings and Film Festivals

• Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, 2022 
• Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK, 2021 and 2022
  
• Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, USA, 2021

• Competition program, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 2020.
  
• the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2020.
  
• No Archive Can Restore You, Artists in Cinema Commission, Various, UK, 2020.
  
• Experimenta program, London Film Festival, London, UK, 2020.
  
• Berwick New Cinema Competition, Berwick Film Festival, UK, 2019. 
  
• Remnants of a Dream, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA, 2019.
  
• Not Sorry #1: Heritage, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA, 2019. 
  
• Notes on Being, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2019.
  
• No Dance, No Palaver, Essay Film Festival, London, UK, 2019.
  
• Speaking Nearby: Projections, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK, 2019.
  
• Smithsonian African American film festival, Washington, USA, 2018.
  
• Not Sorry: Feminist Experimental Film from the 1970s to Today, NW Film Center, Portland, OR, USA, 2018.
  
• I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not meets Speisekino, ZK/U, Berlin Biennale, Germany, 2018
  
• Black British Shorts II, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK, 2018.
  
• Black Lens, Khiasma, Paris, France, 2018.
  
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

(Cont.) Selected Screenings and Film Festivals

• Now Showing, The Showroom, London, UK, 2017.
• Black Shorts, ICA, London, UK, 2017.
• Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Fest, Malaysia, 2017
  
• Black Radical Imagination, GSA & ICA, Glasgow and London, UK, 2017.
  
• Hamburg International ShortFilmFestival, Germany, 2016.
  
• Festival Des Cinemas Differents des Paris, France, 2016.
  
• November Film Festival, London, UK, 2016.
  
• Edinburgh Artist Moving Image Festival, UK, 2016.
• Internationale Kurtzfilmtage Wintherthur, Switzerland, 2015.
  

Selected Critical Writing and Reviews

• AnOther Magazine | Onyeka Igwe, the Artist Exploring England’s Social Histories | Text by Kate Wong | 2022
• Art Monthly | Onyeka Igwe | Profile by Amy Budd | 2020
  
• Millenium Film Journal | Onyeka Igwe's the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered | Review by Joshua Van Biema | 2020
  
• LUX | Onyeka Igwe’s Archival Interventions | New Artist Focus by Victoria Adukwei Bulley | 2020
  
• this is tomorrow | Jerwood Staging Series | Review by Harriet Smith Hughes | 2019
  
• A_N | A Q&A with…Onyeka Igwe, artist filmmaker exploring resistance to colonialism | Interview by Sonya Dyer | 2018
  
• Art Agenda | International Film Festival Rotterdam January 24–February 4, 2018 | Review by Matt Turner | 2018

Residencies and Associate Programs

• Politics of Heritage residency program: The School for Sonic Memory | Athens, Alexandria & Marseille | 2021-22
  
• MAN Museum/Sardinia Film Commission Artists Residency | Nuoro, Sardinia | 2019
  
• British School at Athens Residency | Athens, Greece | 2019
  
• FLAMIN Fellowship |  London, UK | 2017- 2018
  
• Holding Space - The Showroom | London, UK | 2017- 2018
  
• Versus - Roundtable Residency | Toronto,Canada | 2015
  
• Oberhausen Seminar -  Oberhausen Film Festival | Germany | 2014
  

Publications

• Being Close To, With or Amongst, The Feminist Review, Summer, 2020
• Hiraeth, or Queering Time in Archives Otherwise (with JD Stokely), Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, Winter, 2019
• Feature Interview with June Givanni, MIRAJ Vol.6, Spring 2018
  
• Migrating Bodies, NON Periodical Vol. 1, Spring 2016
  
• Rearviews, C Magazine, June 2015

Awards and Prizes

• Artist Prize | Foundwork | 2021 
• Fellowship in Experimental Film | Arts Foundation | 2020
• New Cinema Award | Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival | 2019

Collections

• Museum Abteiberg
  
• Julia Stoschek

CV (PDF)