Calabar Gallery features work that deals with the complexities of the African experience. Based in Harlem, work featured is inspired and influenced by black African culture globally with a focus on dynamic ideas about art and society. We feature artists and art projects that instigate dialogue, build communities, bolster local and global economies, and further social innovation.

Current Exhibitions
African African Artists and Processes:
P. WAMAITHA NG’ANG’A and ALEXANDRE KYUNGU MWILAMBWE curated by Atim Annette Oton
4/17/2021 to 5/16/2021
This exhibition is curated by Atim Annette Oton and introduces the work of these two emerging artists whose works in photography and collage, personal and investigative, about the body image, urban space and immigration are juxtaposed to deal with intimate thoughts and deep questions about our lives in these times.

Upcoming Exhibitions
May to June, 2021
Solo Show: Margaret Vendryes
June to July, 2021
Black Artists in their Own Realm
July to August 2021
Purpose and Intention: Pamella Allen and Donchellee Fulwood
September to October, 2021
Group Show: Zambian Artists
November to November, 2021
Solo Show: TBD
December to January, 2022
Emerging and Established Ghanaian artists
January to February, 2022

Past Exhibitions
2018
(TRANSFORMATION): A SOLO EXHIBITION BY FAUSTIN ADENIRAN
2018
Sisters, Mothers and Queens by Jimmy James Greene, A Solo Exhibition
2018
Complexities, Portraiture and Abstract Dialogues in Contemporary Nigerian Emerging and Established Artists, curated by Atim Annette Oton and Burns Effiom
2018
MECCA ALIM, A Solo Exhibition
2018
ROBERT DANIELS: SELECT WORKS
2017
Conversations in Patterns, Textiles, Figures and Portraits: JAMILLA OKUBO AND IFY CHIEJINA
2017
Contemporary African Spirituality
2017
ELEMENTIKS: A Symbolic Interpretation of the Four Elements – Water, Air, Fire and Earth by Mboolomi
2016
RED FORBIDDEN SPACE: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Tetuan, Morocco by TAEESHA MUHAMMAD
2016
DRIPPING INK: THE NIGERIAN CHAPTER BY MARCIA WILSON, PHOTOGRAPHER
2016
BISA WENDY WASHINGTON and WILHELMINA OBATOLA GRANT: Narrating the Feminine with Assemblages and Found Objects
2016
AfroGentrification of Picasso
Six (6) Questions: Global and Local Artists’ Perspectives is an Interview and Conversation Series by Atim Annette Oton, curator of Calabar Gallery in Harlem, New York with Artists, Art Curators, Thinkers, Colletors and Gallerists.