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
Solo Show: A series of solo shows of African, Caribbean and African American Women artists curated by Atim Annette Oton
Upcoming Exhibitions
March 1 to March 30, 2020
Emerging and Established African Artists
April 5 to April 30, 2020
Solo Show: Shoshanna Weinberger
May 5 to June 5, 2020
Emerging and Established Ghanaian artists
June 15 to July 15, 2020
Emerging and Established Caribbean artists
July 25 to August 25, 2020
Solo Show: Margaret Vendryes
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.