In 2023, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi participated in Thinking Historically in the Present, the 15th Sharjah Biennial. Her solo exhibitions have been presented at Stevenson, Cape Town (2020; 2022); The Africa Center, New York (2019); and Seedspace Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (2017), as well as the multimedia work Equations for a Body at Rest, broadcast across various public spaces in Birmingham as part of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Group exhibitions include Fix Your Pony, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast (2023); CHAMPS, Granville Centre Art Gallery, Cumberland (2023); Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (2023), Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2020); When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town (2022); New Formations, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts (2022); How to Make a Country, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême (2021); and Mixed Company, Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2021).