Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe is an artist, writer, 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. She has had solo/duo shows at Peer Gallery, London (2024), Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (2024), MoMA PS1, New York (2023), High Line, New York (2022), Mercer Union, Toronto (2021), Jerwood Arts, London (2019) and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Her films have screened in numerous group shows and film festivals worldwide, and she is participating in the group show Nigeria Imaginary in the national pavilion of Nigeria at the upcoming 60th Venice Biennial. 

Onyeka is part of B.O.S.S., a sound system collective that brings together a community of queer, trans and non-binary people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Together with Rachael Rakes and Laura Huertas Millán, she is part of a curatorial and research initiative on alternative and anti ethnographies. 

Anti-ethnographies, critical fabulation, structural filmmaking, reparations, spatial sound, exhibition choreography, sensorial research, marginalised ways of knowing.

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

Scenes from the Archives, in Restitution and the Moving Image: On the Politics and Ethics of Global Audiovisual Archiving, 2025, Amsterdam University Press 

The Making of June Givanni’s Pan Afrcian Cinema Archive out, 2025, Lawrence Wishart.