Onyeka Igwe (born 1996), is a British-Nigerian artist, mostly working in film based media.
The work received critical review as it told The Aba Women's Riots of 1929[7] and the "visual trauma of the colonial archive" and attempted "to transform the way in which we know the people it contains".
In 2023, The Museum of West African Art headed Nigeria Pavilion which was curated at the 2024 Venice Biennale where Onyeka participated alongside Yinka Shonibare, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Fatimah Tuggar, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Precious Okoyomon and Abraham Oghobase.
[29] In 2021, she won the Foundwork Artist Prize[30] and the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film.
Alongside Seán Elder, Rebecca Moss and AJ Stockwell, She was listed by The Guardian as Also showing Exhibition of the week for Jerwood staging series.