Nigerian-American visual artist and designer, Uzo Njoku, is set to debut her home-coming exhibition in Lagos, titled: “An Owambe Exhibition by Uzo Njoku.” The exhibition, which opens to the public from November 22 to December 19, 2025, will hold in Ikoyi.

Njoku, who is internationally known for her vibrant pattern work, striking portraits, and storytelling that bridges the African diaspora, returns with a new body of work that reimagines the contemporary Nigerian experience through texture, tradition, and truth.

A powerful visual diary of nine new paintings, each, according to Njoku, will unravel a different layer of Nigerian life, from intergenerational conflict to queer identity, female beauty standards, childhood ambiguity, and spiritual resilience.

Speaking on her personal work and influence of Lagos in her life, Njoku said: “This is the most personal work, I’ve ever done. Lagos influenced me, and now I’m bringing back these paintings as a mirror, sometimes playful, sometimes painful, of the world that shaped me.”

Highlights from the exhibition include a reimagined classroom lesson satirising corruption, a tender tribute to domestic workers, and a mother-son portrait that evokes the legacy of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.

The show also plays with Yoruba spirituality, migration symbolism, and vintage Nollywood aesthetics, all with Njoku’s bold and modern twist.