If you need a reason to be somewhere other than your couch this month, six Ghanaian artists across Paris, Toronto, Accra, New York, Hong Kong, and Cape Town are happy to provide one.
Priscilla Kennedy — Soft Machines, Phantom Limbs
Fondation H, Paris | March 25 – May 23 2026 | Free admission
Priscilla Kennedy is a Kumasi-based textile and mixed media artist and the 2022 Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize winner. She spent her Fondation H residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris using the city’s street map as the structural base for her work, weaving its routes and boundaries into textile pieces and an immersive video installation. The central idea running through both is that technology and disease operate in the body the same way: both arrive as extensions of it, and both change what it feels like to be in your own body. If you’re in Paris before May 23rd, this is surely worth the detour.
Ekow Nimako — Building Black AMORPHIA: Spiritual Starships Harbourfront Centre, Toronto | February 1 – August 31 2026 | Free admission
Ekow Nimako is a Ghanaian-Canadian sculptor who builds entirely in black LEGO bricks. The 16 new works in this series pull from West African mask-making traditions, Afrofuturism, and interstellar imagery, with Nimako framing the sculptures as biotechnological ancestral spacecrafts whose cosmic journeys predate the sci-fi narratives the West treats as the originals. Mainstream worldbuilding has always borrowed freely from racialized cultural aesthetics while writing actual Black characters out of the universes it constructs. The show runs at Harbourfront Centre until August 31st and costs nothing to attend, which puts it on the shortlist for best reason to be in Toronto this summer.
Serge Attukwei Clottey — [Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow Gallery 1957, Accra | November 1 2025 – April 30 2026 | Free admission
Serge Attukwei Clottey takes over Gallery 1957’s 1,400 sqm Unlimited space, the largest in the building and its first ever solo exhibition, with work rooted in Jamestown. His signature Afrogallonism tapestries, cut from yellow Kuffuor gallons and stitched with copper wire, run throughout a show that also fills the space with sand, sound, and the smell of smoke and sea through fishing nets. There is a room where you are invited to whisper to the wall and write your confessions in chalk, which is free to do, in Accra, until April 30th.
Carlos Idun-Tawiah — Memories Between Earth and Sky AIPAD The Photography Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York VIP Preview: April 22 | Public: April 23–26, 2026 | Booth D8
Following his debut at Paris Photo 2025, Accra-based photographer Carlos Idun-Tawiah brings his first US solo presentation to the Park Avenue Armory this April. The series was made in collaboration with his mother, who served as the sole witness to her own love story with the artist’s late father, reconstructing it through fictionalized portraits of lovers and friends, shot in preserved clothing and family belongings. He describes the process as working the way forensic composite artists do, translating memory and testimony into images. It is a love story that was largely never photographed, which makes the photographs feel all the more real.
El Anatsui — MivEvi White Cube, Hong Kong March 25 – May 9 2026 | Free admission
El Anatsui has spent nearly three decades turning discarded bottle caps into monumental sculptures, stitching thousands of flattened liquor caps with copper wire into vast, shimmering fields of metal. The caps themselves circulated along colonial trade routes tied to the transatlantic slave trade, and that history is always present in the work. This new series introduces one change to his practice: for the first time, he places equal weight on both sides of the sculpture so the works can be installed away from the wall and viewed from both sides. MivEvi marks his Hong Kong debut and his first exhibition with White Cube, running concurrently with a second solo presentation, LuwVor, at White Cube Seoul through April 18th.
Zohra Opoku — We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town September 11 2025 – October 4 2026
Zohra Opoku is a Ghanaian-German multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves across textiles, photography, printmaking, and installation. This first museum survey at Zeitz MOCAA brings together a decade of work, with Opoku screen-printing photographs onto pre-dyed natural fabrics and transforming them through hand-stitched embroidery and collage, incorporating family heirlooms and West African brass-making symbols throughout. The exhibition title comes from the Book of the Dead, which Opoku takes as a record of passage and a declaration of where she is headed. Co-curated by Beata America and Dr Phokeng Setai, it runs until October 2026.
Written by: HQ
