Wura-Natasha Ogunji holds a B.A. in anthropology from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in photography from San Jose State University. In 2012, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to create a series of performance videos about the presence of women in public space in Lagos. Ogunji's works are in the collections of the Smithsonian African Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, University of Texas Austin, and Kadist Foundation. She participated in the 2022 Sydney Biennial, the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennale, the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, and the 2017 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and other institutions.

Ogunji's durational performance video 'Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman?' is on view in the exhibition A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography until January, 2024 at Tate Modern in London.  She is currently an artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.