REWA is a globally celebrated visual artist whose heritage-inspired art has been featured in fairs, museum, and gallery exhibitions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Her works have been part of group exhibitions at ReLe Gallery, the Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) in London, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in New York, Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans, Out Of Africa Gallery (OOAG) in Spain, the Contemporary Art Centre New Orleans (CACNO), the Nigerian National Museum, Band Of Vices Gallery in Los Angeles, DeBuck Gallery, and Urban Zen Gallery in New York, among others. She has also been featured in virtual group exhibitions with Artsy, CasildART, and the UK Government.
Her work has appeared at several renowned art fairs including Art Miami, Art Expo Chicago, Art Market San Francisco, and Art Dubai. She has collaborated with global brands such as Unilever and Nike on campaigns like the Vaseline Showcase at the 2019 Essence Festival and the 2019 Women’s World Cup Nike “Don’t Change Your Dream, Change the World” campaign. REWA also has an apparel collaboration with high-end fashion house Burnett New York for the Burnett x REWA collection. Her work has been featured in hit U.S. TV shows such as Law & Order:
Organized Crime, ABC Network’s Black-ish, and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN All The Single Ladies. Recently, six of her artworks were featured in multi-platinum Grammy award-winning global superstar Usher’s new music video Ruin ahead of his record-breaking halftime performance at Super Bowl LVIII.
Her works are held in notable collections, including those of Beth Rudin DeWoody, CCH
Pounder, and the Bentata family, and are part of corporate collections such as AXA XL.
REWA holds a BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology (Combined Honours) from University College London (UCL) and was the recipient of the Women in Management Africa (WIMA) Top 25 Women in Management Award 2024. She was also recognized by the Lagos State Governor on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022 as one of the EKO 100 Women for her commendable work in both finance and the visual arts. REWA is also the recipient of the globally prestigious Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award 2024.
In September of this year, REWA debuted her first solo institutional exhibition at The Africa Centre in London, Women of the Elephant Tusk: Ndi Otu Odu, a culturally significant project ratified by His Royal Majesty, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe, CFR, mni, Obi of Onitsha. The exhibition honours the power and resilience of African women and was attended by distinguished members of the Otu Odu society.
Most recently, REWA was invited to design the official poster for the 2025 edition of the
Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. The carnival, considered the second-largest in the world after Rio de Janeiro's, has been declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest since 1980 and has been running since 1962. With the 2025 edition themed "Secrets of Africa," REWA will be the first African artist - and the third woman artist overall - to design the event's symbolic poster, putting her amongst the ranks of César Manrique, Mel Ramos and Jiří "Georg" Dokoupil, and marking a significant moment in both her career and the carnival's rich history of artistic collaboration.
