NNENA KALU

b. 1966, Glasgow, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Supported by ActionSpace

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Creations of Care, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO

2024
Nnena Kalu, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2022
Infinite Drawing, Deptford X, Enclave, London, UK

2020
Studio Voltaire elsewhere, London, UK

2019
Wrapping, Humber Street Gallery, London, UK

2018
Glasgow International, Scotland, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, Barcelona, ES

2023
Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body, MK Gallery, Milton Keyes, UK

2022
Allied Editions, House of Voltaire, Frieze London, UK
To all the Kings who have no Crowns, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK

2021 
Open House, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Summer Edition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2020 
Evolving Echoing Entities, Jennifer Lauren Gallery, Manchester, UK
Fair Vanity, Summertime Gallery, New York, US

2019
Outside In: Environments, Piano Nobile Kings Place, London, UK 
TUBE LINES, Tate Exchange, London, UK

2018
Outside In: Discover, Cerno Capital, London, UK
Spectrum Arts Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Spring Syllabus, J Hammond Gallery, London, UK

2017
Voltaire Open, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2016
Paris Outsider Art Fair, Hotel du Duc, Paris, FR
Threads Contemporary Textile Open, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
Magical Offspring, Geddes Gallery, London, UK
Imagine if That Said…, Safe House II, London, UK
Voltaire Open, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Capharnaum, Theatre de Liege, Liege, BE

2015
Paris Outsider Art Fair, Hotel du Duc, Paris, FR
Open House, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2014
Parallel Lines, Area 44, London, UK
The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
Dizziness of Freedom, Bermondsey Project, London, UK

2013
Epiphanies! Secrets of Ousider Art, St Pancras Hospital Gallery, London, UK
Open House, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Side by Side International Exhibition, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Dreamcatcher. Moment in Time, Shape in the City, London, UK

2011
Uninterrupted, Shape Arts Open, London, UK

2008
Under Glass, University College Hospital Gallery, London, UK

2006
Pigs Might Fly, Pump House Gallery, London, UK

2005
18 Drivers, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2004
Big Show, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tate, London (UK) 
Arts Council, London (UK)

AWARDS AND PRIZES

2025
Shortlisted for Turner Prize
Mosaic Art Award

2021
Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists
The Mark Tanner Sculpture Development Grant
Shortlisted for The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award

2018
Shortlisted for Spectrum Art Prize