Mame-Diarra Niang and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi will feature in the 15th Sharjah Biennale. This highly anticipated edition, including over 150 artists, was conceived by Okwui Enwezor and is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi under the title Thinking Historically in the Present.

Neo Matloga and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi are among the artists included in When We See Us at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Featuring works from the 1920s to the present, the exhibition explores Black self-representation through portraiture and figuration in painting. 

An exhibition of Pieter Hugo's 1994 works takes place at the Sorbonne Art Gallery as part of Photo-Days Photography festival. The series comprises images of children from the post-conflict societies of South Africa and Rwanda. 

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi features in THE GYM at Soho Studios, a project that combines exhibits, performance, lectures and training sessions. It proposes alternatives to 'stereotypical body cultures and neoliberal-based self-optimization'.

Zanele Muholi's retrospective exhibition, first shown at Tate Modern, travels to the National Gallery of Iceland. The activist's first institutional show in the country features 100 photographs, together with video works which provide insight into marginalised communities. 

Odili Donald Odita features in Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now at the Green Family Art Foundation. Featuring multiple generations of artists the exhibition aims to reflect how the 'history of Black artists working in abstraction is inseparable from the history of modern and contemporary art'.  

Simphiwe Ndzube features in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. Titled Pacific Gold, this edition focuses on the state's place in the 'popular American imagination by revisiting mythical stories and reimagining California as a changing land'. 

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi exhibits in New Formations at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Featuring artworks that focus on athletics and collective procession, the show 'explores modes of kinship, alliance, and competition'.

Frida Orupabo presents a selection of newly commissioned works at The Machine is Us, the inaugural Munch Triennale, taking place at Munchmuseet. Her new collages, featuring archival photos with visible watermarks, investigate 'copyright and the way profits continue to be made from colonialism and other peoples’ histories'.

Odili Donald Odita presents Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts, a new installation at the Moody Center for Arts at Rice University. The commission functions to 'heighten our awareness of physical space to illuminate our relationship to the broader world'.

Odili Donald Odita is among the 2022 recipients of a fellowship by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. The award recognizes how Odita 'uses color and pattern in abstract paintings, murals, and other public artworks that place African art and culture in dialogue with Western aesthetics'. 

Penny Siopis is among three artists in Enduring Circumstances at the Peltz Gallery of Birkbeck, University of London. The exhibition brings together artworks responding to the social effects of the pandemic, questioning 'the interaction between human health and habitat'.

Jo Ractliffe exhibits in Regards de Femmes at Fondation A Stichting. Drawing on the the collection of Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall, the show highlights how the selected artists share a desire to 'denounce, break the codes and push back the boundaries on the issues of social justice, femininity and the environment'. 

Barthélémy Toguo presents a solo exhibition at Museu Picasso. Comprising early and recent works, the show marks his first institutional exhibition in Spain. 

Orlando, in which Viviane Sassen features, travels to C/O Berlin. The exhibition curated by Tilda Swinton forms part of three complementary exhibitions, taking place concurrently at the museum, that focus on queerness in photography. 

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, featuring works by Pieter Hugo, travels to Musei San Domenico. The exhibition centers on over 100 photographers who, 'depict, reveal, examine, critique and otherwise reflect upon our hyper- modern, technologically complex human ‘hive’'.

Zanele Muholi features in From South Africa, an exhibition juxtaposing their work with David Goldblatt's at Espace Louis Vuitton München. The show highlights how both photographers 'share the activist aim of challenging their country’s past and present history by tackling issues of personal and societal identity'.

Zanele Muholi features in Looking Forward, the second of two consecutive exhibitions celebrating Pier24 Photography's tenth anniversary. Using single-artist galleries, the show spotlights the nuances of individual practices, with Muholi's work bringing focus to contemporary identity politics. 

Sahel Gris, At the Wall and Metropolis by Mame-Diarra Niang are brought together by Mack Publishers as The Citadel: a trilogy, a three-volume edition which articulates the artist's 'personal but analytic relationship with place'. 

Frida Orupabo is among the artists selected for Afterimage at MAXXI L'Aquila. Spanning historic works and new, site-specific installations, the exhibition aims to provide 'a meditation upon memory and metamorphosis'. 

The Africa Center launches its new permanent collection with an exhibition featuring works by Serge Alain Nitegeka, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Barthélémy Toguo. The collection aims to stand 'against reducing contemporary African art to a single story'.

Paulo Nazareth is among the artists featuring in Scenorama at Javett-UP. Curated by Gabi Ngcobo, the evolving curatorial project and experimental platform presents 'networks of experiences, belief and knowledge systems'.

along came your eyes, a solo exhibition by Neo Matloga takes place at the Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam as part of his winning of the 10th ABN AMRO Art Award. He received the prize recognition of his 'compositional acuity and his vibrant, powerful and spirited work'.

Portia Zvahahera shows in the international exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Titled The Milk of Dreams, the exhibition spotlights 'symbiosis, solidarity and sisterhood'. Zvavahera showed in the Zimbabwean Pavilion in 2013.

Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi and Serge Alain Nitegeka feature in Labor&Materials at 21c Museums, Kansas City. The exhibition aims to 'explore the evolution of industry in the 21st century, presenting a precarious balance between promise and peril'. 

Aziz Hazara has been awarded the sixth Future Generation Art Prize for Bow Echo. The jury has stated the video piece 'shows how artists continue to imagine complex independent ways of existence even amidst conflicts that seem never-ending'. He presents a solo exhibition at Stevenson in 2022.

Zanele Muholi exhibits as part of Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection at the V&A Museum. 'The display highlights the diversity of a medium that, through its malleability, enables many different perspectives to be captured'.