REWA Nigeria, b. 1987

SHOW

2025
Solo Show « Pride Within » - OOA GALLERY – Espacio Garaje Lola – Madrid, Spain

2024
International Festival of Contemporary Art - Algiers, Algeria

Group Show "Bridges of Culture : African Art through Women’s Eyes" - MuEC (Museum of Ethnology and Cultures of the World) of Barcelona - OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain

Solo Show « Women of the Elephant Tusk: ndi otu odu » - The Africa Centre - London, UK

2023
Solo Show « All Roads Led Here » - Ferrara Showman Gallery - New Orleans, USA

Solo Show « Pink Party » - Band of Vices Gallery - Los Angeles, US

2022
Solo Show « i’je awel’le: A Beautiful Journey, A Safe Journey » - Ferrara Showman Gallery - New Orleans, USA

Duo Show « Afropolitans » - REWA & Boris Anje – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain

Duo Show « Ladies of Leisure » - REWA & Megan Gabrielle Harris – DeBuck Gallery – New York, USA

Group Show « Africa Rises in Fall » - OOA GALLERY – London, UK

2021
Solo Show « nwa abgo: Entering Adolescence »

Duo Show « Emancipation & Liberation » - REWA & Oluwole Omofemi – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain

Group Show « Mescaline – C11H17NO3 » – Band of Vices Gallery – Los Angeles, USA

Online Group Show « The Shape of the New » - CasildArt & ArtCan

Group Show « The Truth about Me » - ArtLeadHer – Urban Zen Gallery – New York, USA

Online Group Show « Addicted to Africa » – Artsy – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain

Group Show « In The Midst Of All That Is » - Band Of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2020
Group Show « Inspiration in Isolation » - Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, USA

Online exhibition « Kwetu: A Celebration of Black Art » - London.gov.uk

«Young Contemporaries Alumni Exhibition » - ReLe Gallery - Nigerian National Museum - Lagos, Nigeria

2019
Solo Show – Ferrara Showman Gallery – New Orleans, USA

2018
Group Show « No Dead Artists | inu nwunye: Bride Price » - Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, USA

2017
Group Show « Her Story: Sisterhood That Transcends » - The Gallery of African Art (GAFRA), London, UK

Group Show « ReLe Young Contemporaries 2017 Exhibition » - ReLe Gallery - Lagos, Nigeria

Group Show « Eko Art Expo » - Eko Hotel - Lagos, Nigeria

ART FAIRS

2023
Art Miami - Ferrara Showman Gallery - New Orleans, USA

Art on Paper – NY, USA

RMB Art Fair - Johannesburg, South Africa

Art Market San Francisco - Ferrara Showman Gallery - New Orleans, USA

2022
Scope Miami Art Fair - OOA GALLERY – Miami, USA

Art Miami - Ferrara Showman Gallery - New Orleans, USA

Expo Chicago - DeBuck Gallery - Chicago, USA

2018
Summer Art Fair - The Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) - London, UK

Education 

- July 2016 – Gordon Institute of Business (GIBS), South Africa – The Business of Africa module; Johannesburg, Lagos & Nairobi immersion

- March 2016 – Duke Corporate Education, Duke University – Experiential Learning; Design Innovation & Leading Change

- September 2006-2009 – University College London (UCL) – B.Sc. (Combined Honours) -
Physiology & Pharmacology

- September 2004-2006 – William Morris Academy – 3A Levels in Biology, Chemistry, English Language & Literature, AS Level in Psychology 

INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

- Aug. – Oct. 2019 - Identity Measures

Contemporary Art Centre New Orleans (CACNO), New Orleans, USA

- Jul. – Oct.2019 - Back to the Future: Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday

Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

- Nov. 2017 - Annual Masquerade Ball - Group Exhibition & Auction

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New York, U.S.A.

NOTABLE COLLECTORS

2022 - AXA-XL Insurance Company

2021 - Beth Rudin De Woody, Art Patron | The Bunker Art Space

2021 - Gina Monette, Vice President, Capital One Bank & Board Trustee, Contemporary Art Centre of New Orleans

2020 - CCH Pounder, Art Patron and Hollywood Actress

2020 - Kent Kelly, Art Patron 

ACHIEVEMENTs 

2024
Veuve Cliquot Bold Woman Award 2024 Winner

2023
Recognised by NBC Washington as one of the 50 African Women Making Leadership Strides, as part of their “Rising Woman Africa” series

2022
Recognised by the Governor of Lagos State Governor, His Excellency, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, on International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022, as one of the EKO 100 Women for commendable work across Finance and the Visual Arts.

Recognised by Business Day Nigeria as one of the leading Nigerian women “Breaking the Bias”.

Other projects 

2020
Burnett x REWA Collaboration | Burnett New York

2019
Nike Women’s World Cup | “Don’t Change Your Dream. Change The World” | Nike
Vaseline Showcase | 2019 Essence Festival | Unilever